September 2020 - Route to Retire

To Truly Reach for the Stars, Challenge Herd Mentality

24 Comments / Motivation, General Thoughts, Kids / Jim @ Route To Retire / September 29, 2020

I had a little bit of a strange realization the other day. We tell our kids, friends, and other family members that we support their dreams. We tell them to reach for the stars and they can be or do anything they want to in life. But guess what – those are just some empty words. Even though we say to reach for the stars, those words can be meaningless due to our actions. We push our kids to chase […]

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Here’s Why I’m Liking… RV Parky

8 Comments / Here's Why I'm Liking..., Product and Service Reviews, Road Trip, Travel and Vacation / Jim @ Route To Retire / September 25, 2020

I recently started a new series called “Here’s Why I’m Liking…” to help showcase awesome products, services, and apps I come across. Today I’m going to tell you about a cool website/app I started using called RV Parky. For those of you following along, we recently completed a big ol’ road trip. When done, it ended up covering 5,863 miles over 40 days. It was a wonderful time and we’re blessed to be able to just pick up and go

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An Overnight at Cracker Barrel and 5,863 Miles Logged

14 Comments / Travel and Vacation, Life in Early Retirement, Road Trip, Spending / Jim @ Route To Retire / September 22, 2020

It’s hard to believe that our road trip is now over and we’re back in Ohio. It’s crazier to think that our first night of the last leg of our trip involved sleeping in a Cracker Barrel parking lot! We’ve been across a large part of this country on this journey and have had a ton of fun in the process. It’s been a good way to end the summer and have some fun while waiting and hoping we can

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El Paso, Tucson, Viva Las Vegas!! – Road Trip Leg 2

23 Comments / Travel and Vacation, Life in Early Retirement, Road Trip / Jim @ Route To Retire / September 15, 2020

The second leg of our road trip was an absolute blast and ended with some time in Sin City… viva Las Vegas! Ok, there wasn’t much gambling and drinking since we have our ten-year-old with us, but we had one of our most fun times there regardless. We didn’t spend a ton of money but it was still just a great time all around. And before we got to Vegas, we spent a night in the desert trying to make

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Three Weeks in Texas – A Big Stop on the Road Trip

12 Comments / Travel and Vacation, Life in Early Retirement, Road Trip / Jim @ Route To Retire / September 8, 2020

I’m typing this in the car while back on the road and heading out of Texas. Don’t worry, I’m not the one driving! We spent three weeks in the state and now it’s time for us to move on. For those of you following along, we started our road trip out of Ohio on August 10 and made our way to Texas on August 14. My brother and sister-in-law live just outside of Austin and we spent the past few

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Well… We Booked a Flight Back to Panama!

26 Comments / Panama, Life in Early Retirement, Travel and Vacation / Jim @ Route To Retire / September 1, 2020

And just like that, everything changed in an instant. That glimmer of hope is now sparkling so… we booked a flight to Panama! Booked a flight??? What the heck are you talking about, Jim?! Just last week you talked about what it’s looking like to move back to the U.S. for the long-term. 100% true. And it was looking like it would be inevitable that we’d be putting that plan into motion over the next month or so. I ended

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