"Retirement? What an absurd idea! Why spend the best part of your life earning enough money so that you can enjoy a questionable liberty during the the least valuable part of it? Why work like a dog so you can pant for a moment or two before you die?"

~ Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee, "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail" (New York, Bantam, 1970, p. 57).

We agree entirely with the sentiments expressed in this quote. That's why we're doing what we're doing. People can't understand how we can just up and off. So I've taken to telling everyone it's a mid-life crisis, and then they all say "Ahhh!" understandingly and congratulate us on our decision ...


The idiot also known as Capfka ...