Ohio Rolling Stone

secondwynd

I have spent most of my life in Northeast Ohio, having grown up, returned after college, and raised my son in a southwest community outside the city. I retired from a large regional bank in 2016, shortly after my father died, and around my 65th birthday.

I don't have a bucket list, but I try to snag opportunities as they present themselves. For example, I decided at the last minute to accompany a friend on a drive back to northern Minnesota in January 2017, allowing us to catch up on about 30 years of our lives. It also turned into an opportunity to see her beautiful house on Lake Shagawa, snowmobile across the ice on the lake, snowshoe, and drive a dogsled team. What a fun trip - one that I couldn't have even considered at the last minute, while I was still working.

In the first year after I retired, I visited family in Charlotte, NC, visited my mother's childhood home in southern Ohio, guest crewed for about a week on the Tallship Pride of Baltimore II (we raced other Tall Ships up Lake Huron to Mackinac), watched the Louis Vuitton America's Cup qualifying races from the Navy Pier in Chicago, completed a solo, 7-week, 9,000 mile road trip across the US, and visited Ely, MN, in January. Then (outside the "12-months after I retired) in the following few months, I chartered a 41-foot sailboat with my brother and niece in the British Virgin Islands, visited Alaska with a cousin I had reconnected with on my road trip, and completed my 3rd Bayview to Mackinac race on a 35' sailboat.

This Rolling Stone is gathering no moss, and looking forward to more adventures!