Transition to Retirement

To try and contain this:
To try and Define this,
To make a list of all it's parts,
How does "the Bridge" work/function??
WHAT does it require to "Be All It Can Be"?? [a Goal , but not have to be attained]

This has always contained "Challenge - Success", Always had an important "Social" component, need to always have a healthy respect for "Control" , "Balance" is important,Adventure, Curiosity

Took for Granite (or took for Granted??) Enabling/Entitlement ="Look forward to doing This"

Making a Profit, making Money, are not very important , [>4 headed for >6.by 2012]
"Meaningful Challenge" vs "meaningful amount of money" "to be Spent, not ever growing
savings ("just enough to have Economic Freedom")
USES - second Home/Apt/, 2nd SUV/Pickup, Build 3 car Garage, Decks/windows


This should make 'Life worth living', 'makes my heart sing', on the simple level, 'be fun', look forward to 'plans', 'goals', challenges

What are the req for "Eccentricities"?? Success (financial, achievement, strength...)
What is the "Glue" that holds all the parts of a satisfying Retirement together??
What's to be avoided or minimized? Boredom, empty routines, just getting through time, meaningless 'Fluff', ....... taking inventory now and then and adjusting the "Good and Bad".

Rent a Place to spoke out of (Italy)

St Remy has small Apartments at a small price -but by the year -- CDG/TGV/Avignon/Husquvarna
St R has greatest "Spoke-out" use - even 25 lbs loss rides ,Orange, Chatenuef de Pape, Vaison de la Romaine, Mt Ventoux, Roussillin, Gordes, Apt , Forcalquier, Aix en Provence, Maussane, Les Baux, Arles, Aigues Morte, Uzes,

Second idea - rent for a couple of months, a two bedroom house in Umbria, Tuscany, ..... something "central" and cozy to live in. BIKE, HIKE, PAINT, then maybe longer and be "set-up" (bike, paints, car...) at that rental.

Research 3+ years ago article in Natl Geographic about annual, week-long, bike festival in Mountains/valley of Italy, north. - Corvara, Martona dles Dolomites , July

Use the un-allocated monies of Stock/Def Comp (500k@2011), not my "defined Benefit monies" Could be "shared-costs" - (allows me to rent St Remy & Tuscany simultaneously)

Goals, Dreams, Challenges - Bike, Hike, Paint. Business

Focus on 2011 - - {If I BIKE 9 -12 days have always lost ~25 lbs}

BIKE Berlin to Prague to Vienna to Buda pest, BIKE Mosel (Koblenz thru Trier into France), BIKE Alsace BIKE Tuscany/Umbria, BIKE Pyrenees, BIKE Corsica/Sardinia
BIKE Amalfi coast BIKE Le Bourg d'Oisans, BIKE col d'Madone, Menton BIKE Mt Ventoux

HIKE Cinque Terre, HIKE Bernaise Oberland, HIKE Hut to Hut in Austria and/or Switzerland and/or Italy

PAINT -most anywhere, Van Gogh scenes, Arles, St Remy, Cezzanne, Mount Sainte-Victoire