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Post 1902, Day 209 of 2017
- 2,401 days since I started this blog -
- 2,401 days since I started this blog -
I think I'm getting further and further away from my Plan 'B' living plan, which is to move to another country when things get too hard, or less rewarding, here in Syracuse.
I got my latest edition of Overseas Living and Investing's Best Places to Retire Index.
On my personal list of top places to retire, only one place makes the top places list (Chiang Mai, Thailand).
My checkboxes/deal-breakers are few and simple: Low-cost of living; relatively good climate (by which I mean, no extremes of cold or heat); walkable/no car ownership required; low barrier to residency; good available healthcare.
That should be enough, I think. Those out of the way, my plan is to start at the top of my list (currently Chiang Mai), stay for two to three months, then, if I"m enraptured, make my plans to stay longer. If less than enraptured, go to the 2nd place on my list. Process my list the same way (rinse, repeat). If I stay, I stay until I find that I don't want to stay in that place any more. Then, I go back to the list.
That's my plan B. Thing is, It was once my plan A, until I decided life was too good for me in Syracuse. Nothing going on in my life now is any different, or less, that when I decided that I would not cut and run when I retired, and what was my plan became my fall-back plan. Three years in, I find it hard to see what will move me to plan B.
I know that things change, and I know that things will. Right now, all the changes are making me feel more attached to my current life and lifestyle. I'll just have to let what comes determine my actions. I have been talking about moving out of the States since the early nineties - keeping my 'top five' destinations list for twenty-five years.
I believe that you keep your dreams, pursue them, even, but be prepared for different dreams. I tell people who ask how I'm doing that I'm living the dream. This current dream is a newer dream - and it is about being grateful for what I have, and doesn't look so far into the future as the last dream did, which is why that old dream was so easily displaced. I'm grateful to be able to live my current dream and keep my other dreams alive.
I got my latest edition of Overseas Living and Investing's Best Places to Retire Index.
On my personal list of top places to retire, only one place makes the top places list (Chiang Mai, Thailand).
My checkboxes/deal-breakers are few and simple: Low-cost of living; relatively good climate (by which I mean, no extremes of cold or heat); walkable/no car ownership required; low barrier to residency; good available healthcare.
That should be enough, I think. Those out of the way, my plan is to start at the top of my list (currently Chiang Mai), stay for two to three months, then, if I"m enraptured, make my plans to stay longer. If less than enraptured, go to the 2nd place on my list. Process my list the same way (rinse, repeat). If I stay, I stay until I find that I don't want to stay in that place any more. Then, I go back to the list.
That's my plan B. Thing is, It was once my plan A, until I decided life was too good for me in Syracuse. Nothing going on in my life now is any different, or less, that when I decided that I would not cut and run when I retired, and what was my plan became my fall-back plan. Three years in, I find it hard to see what will move me to plan B.
I know that things change, and I know that things will. Right now, all the changes are making me feel more attached to my current life and lifestyle. I'll just have to let what comes determine my actions. I have been talking about moving out of the States since the early nineties - keeping my 'top five' destinations list for twenty-five years.
I believe that you keep your dreams, pursue them, even, but be prepared for different dreams. I tell people who ask how I'm doing that I'm living the dream. This current dream is a newer dream - and it is about being grateful for what I have, and doesn't look so far into the future as the last dream did, which is why that old dream was so easily displaced. I'm grateful to be able to live my current dream and keep my other dreams alive.
Food and Diet
Today's Weight: 203.2 lbs.
Today's Weight: 203.2 lbs.
Previous Weight (7/27/17): 203.2 lbs.
Net Loss/Gain: - 0.0 lbs.
Diet Comment
Maintaining...
Food Log
Breakfast
5:30pm: Green and blue protein smoothie with coconut-almond milk, kefir, large organic egg, chia gel, kale, spinach, blueberries, whey powder (36g protein), coconut oil, hemp seeds, hemp protein (7g protein), raw organic cacao powder, moringa leaf powder, cinnamon, turmeric and stevia-inulin blend.
Lunch
8:30pm: A Quest bar.
Dinner
11:55pm: Sliced London broil with Philippe's Famous Hot Mustad, cole slaw, and a Quest bar.
Liquid Intake
5:30pm: Green and blue protein smoothie with coconut-almond milk, kefir, large organic egg, chia gel, kale, spinach, blueberries, whey powder (36g protein), coconut oil, hemp seeds, hemp protein (7g protein), raw organic cacao powder, moringa leaf powder, cinnamon, turmeric and stevia-inulin blend.
Lunch
8:30pm: A Quest bar.
Dinner
11:55pm: Sliced London broil with Philippe's Famous Hot Mustad, cole slaw, and a Quest bar.
Liquid Intake
Espressos: 1; Coffee: 22 oz.; Tea: 0 oz.; Water: 75+ oz.;
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