I quit my job at the AIC back in sept 2018, and going 18 months on savings completes the plan/goal of having time to live life on my own terms and conditions. Now I must begin looking for another job and begin the process again. Now that I am past 50 I no longer am so confident in my luck, fate, destiny, etc, perhaps because I feel I have already approached it, tagged it in passing, and now am floating into the distant void of an uncertain future.
I am reading Traveler of the Century and on page 246 found this gem which points to my own personal facts of existence -
"I'm embarrassed to tell you this, Hans admitted, but the fact is I'm running out of money. Up until now I always did things in the same way - I worked, saved, and traveled until I ran out of funds, then I started all over again."