We had talked quite a bit about me retiring early next year, since Heather has been semi-retired for about a year and a half. The soonest I was eligible for full retirement was March 1st. As luck would have it, a voluntary layoff came thru for my organization. It sounds weird, but it's a way for big companies to help folks out the door without getting sued as much.
Since they were willing to give me 6 months pay to leave 4 months sooner than I had planned, I bit. The date the company established for me is two weeks from today, the 21st of October. Three weeks after that will be the longest I've been without a job since I was 13. This really works out for the best, because it's going to take us more time than I thought to get the boat to Florida. It's a big step, but this is as good a time and way as we were going to get. I'm sure there will be some bumps, but the thought of not going now, while we're both still pretty healthy, scares me more.
The adventures of Dan and Heather as they travel on their sailboat, "Hiatus".
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