Anyone else finding it hard to be on the road?

Dang man ! Way to keep them wheels turning . I have actually been running 7 to 10 days home 3-4 days . Just scored my first Contract loads for the end of the month and gonna make for a good summer .

 

I will never figure out people who get bored being retired.

Though sleeping in and making a nice breakfast and taking my time waking up gets soo old.


Than a ride down to the beach and spending a few hours there pondering what I should make for dinner also drags on as I read my book.

Later a casual stroll through the grocery store picking up ingredients for the evening while having casual conversation with all the non believers.)

Walk through the door just in time to watch The Five while I snack on some fresh Your Dirves

Prepare my dream dinner for the day while enjoying some good music.

Take a ride back down to the beach and watch the sunset for an hour.

Return and jump in the pool and watch some documentary on YouTube on my phone.

Head back and dish out some Heavenly Hash with bananas.

Hit the sack late.


Rinse and repeat.


Don’t get me wrong. This Is Getting Old.

Either I am going sailing or going full Blown on my semi project or boat rebuild.

If I kept up this pace and sold all my stuff I don’t use and didn’t need to store I could make it another 15 years without going back to work.


I am either Full Blown work or FullBlown Bum.

I can’t Take This Anymore






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I owned an insurance agency for 30 years and retired from it in 2006. Sat home for 5 years, sold stuff online and made more doing that than I did in my 30 years of insurance. Got bored with that and wrote a couple books. Didn't make much from that, but it was fun. Started putting weight on and told myself I need a new career, so I decided on trucking and been loving it ever since. Sat home 3 weeks in April when the spot market died and I hated it. For the last couple months I've been getting the best paying loads since becoming an O/O. I'm 60 now and will retire eventually, but for now I like being out on the road. When my elderly parents are gone, I'm getting out of CA and will buy a place probably in Oregon near the coast and spend my retirement fishing with my wife.

 

There’s definitely more to life than Working. I’ve always worked more than average, to provide a decent living for my family. Priorities change, time becomes more important than money. Being able to pick and choose what I do is important. Big difference between doing what you have to do, and doing what you want to do. Just having the choice, gives me a sense of freedom. No choice, No freedom. After 40+ yrs of working as much as possible, along with other projects at home, and on Vehicles, it gets old. I’m ready to be one of those, who pays others to do things. Enjoy more free time.

 

I am getting so Lazy about doing mechanical work these days.

I had to beg myself to install a new fan and change the tranny fluid and oil in my van before I got out of Florida.

I don’t think I will mind working on my semi this fall because it’s all new to me.

And working on a semi beats working in the bilge of a boat any day which I have to do in the fall when I get back down to Florida.

My best buddy down here cracked a piston on one of his 454s in his 40 foot cruiser last time we were out on it.

The Extraction process to get it out of the bilge and than cover up the bilge so I can skid the motor over to the hatch where I will have to remove the rear bulkhead of the cabin to squeeze the bare block through the door with a 40 foot long forklift fork poking in from the stern.

It’s going to be a joy.

But he’s my 70 yo buddy and I don’t trust anyone else to do the job not to mention it would run around $10 thousand just for labor if he did.

Pretty sure I’ll get a Steak dinner or a pizza night out of him along with free boat rides for life.

 

I've owned 2 boats with inboards and they were both a nightmare. Even simple maintenance on the engine or out drive was a PITA. Now days they make huge sport fishing boats with multiple outboard engines and that's the only way to go. If one fails, you have a backup to get home with. My last boat with an inboard was 30 years ago. Took my then fiancee (now wife) fishing on the ocean and the engine died. It was getting late and the wind was kicking up. Had to drift closer to shore until it was shallow enough to drop anchor. Couldn't raise the coast guard on the radio and finally reached an oil tanker who radioed them for me so we could get a tow back to shore. Turned out it was a bad coil. They say the happiest days in the life of a boat owner is the day they buy it, and the day they sell it.

 

The last couple of posts are pretty funny cause the same thing is happening to me these days. My wife has been going through a ton of photo albums to put the pics on one of those electronic rotating picture screen things. She’s been pulling out hundreds of pics of our past auto projects. Engine pulls, swaps, and overhauls. Paint and body and other fun stuff like cutting and stretching frames. The last major project I did was back in 2016 and the last one we did together was in ‘11.
She’s showing me all these pics asking why I’m not chomping at the bit to do another one? I don’t have an answer. Lol!

 

Just looking at your recent posts, I see you are very skilled. Way more than average. And a Wife that’s supportive to boot. That’s great!!

 

yeah im kinda in the same boat. i normally take it pretty easy in the winter as it is but right about when it normally would have started picking up is when the virus first hit and things were real quiet at first. now its been steady. lost a couple of what would have been my big jobs for the year to other people willing to work a lot cheaper than me, i keep expecting work to dry up and about the time im running out of stuff to haul something else seems to come up so iv actually been running quite a bit harder than normal. because i feel like have to take everything that comes my way that pays good expecting to run out of work...lol

 

I've Loved boats and boating all my life. Best boats are friends who own boats.