To-do list

But this post isn’t about that. It is to answer the most common question I get from people when they hear I am retiring so young – what on earth are you going to do when you retire? Personally, I think this question is hilarious and my snarky answer is usually “what am I not going to do?”

Putting snark aside for a moment, since I am so close now and it is fun, I’ve decided to document a list and share it with all of you:

• Travel

• Explore remote Baja without a time limit

• Learn Spanish fluently

• Then learn conversational Italian and Thai

• Help out in our community – I need fluent Spanish for this, but I’m excited to serve

• Do a through hike to the other side of the Baja peninsula

• Art – I have a fine arts degree but haven’t practiced regularly since I started working

• Get a regular yoga practice going

• Learn to dive

• Perfect some form of pastry

• Create a local, wild sourdough starter and make bread out of it

• Learn more about ancient Mayan culture

• Oodles of house projects – this is truly neverending

• Master (or some level of mastery) of the ukulele

• Finish that song I’ve been writing for several years

• Learn salsa (the dance not the food)

• Post in my blog every week

• Learn to format bullets properly in WordPress (haha)

• Go fishing more

• Finally go see the whales during breeding season

• Throw an annual event at our house

• Learn more about the historical food of Mexico

• Learn the difference between the different agaves in Mezcal so I can ID them by flavor

• Take a day each week to do whatever the fuck I want and not feel bad about it

This list isn’t exhaustive, but you get the picture… boredom will not be a problem for me!