Semi-Retirement at Last!!

[M. Henley Class President Find all posts View Profile Close M. Henley]

You Got It!!

Correct. I was stationed at Norton AFB, now closed for several decades.

Well done! Congratulations!

On a side note, I was surprised to read you attended Valley College in San Bernardino. Were you stationed here at the time? Wow..small world. That's my neck of the woods

[brucecz Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close brucecz]

Perhaps quasi- would have been a better choice.
With business holdings I find that it is somewhat similar to having a bear by the tail; no where to turn loose.

Your immense amount of graf tmoney should tide you over any rough spots with your business holdings.

Bruce

[M. Henley Class President Find all posts View Profile Close M. Henley]

Hmmm....

Life in the fast lane....
...livin' large?

Your immense amount of graf tmoney should tide you over any rough spots with your business holdings.

Bruce

[GrayFal Silver Contributor and supermoderator Find all posts View Profile Close GrayFal]

Good for you - and thanks for your service to our country in more then a few ways.

Will there be more travel in your future?

[Larry Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Larry]

Congratulations and welcome to the club. I have been retired for two years now and loving it!!!!

I still hava a small travel and timeshare business that is home based and is solely through recommendations, as I don't want it to interfere with my travel time and time with my family, especially my five grandkids aged two to seven.

I used to take about 4 to 5 weeks vacation per year when I was working but now it's more like 10-12 weeks per year.

Enjoy the good life!!!!

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

retiring your semi?

congrats

let me find you a little canal home down the street

[M. Henley Class President Find all posts View Profile Close M. Henley]

Already There

We purchased an ocean front condo at Starboardlight Condominiums, 2006 Ocean Shore Blvd, Ormond Beach, FL (actually outside the city limits 3 miles at Ormond by the Sea) a couple of years ago in anticipation of the event.

Not a huge condo, just 1260 sq ft, 2-BR, 2-BA townhouse style, but the ocean view is 180 degrees. Sitting on the patio or the upstairs balcony with a bourbon and water, watching the surf come in off the Atlantic is a dream come true for a country kid who grew up without electricity or indoor plumbing, plowing mules, beginning work at a local sawmill at the age of 10, and generally being on my own as a teenager. What more could life offer?

[M. Henley Class President Find all posts View Profile Close M. Henley]

Oh Yes!!

Still have my Australian TSs for trade (159,000 annual RCI points), and an EOY 2-BR at Carlsbad, CA Seapointe.

I will have another year in office, including the grueling budget session (with reapportionment thrown in) that begins in January, as well as interim meetings from June through December of the 6 committees on which I serve, as well as the State Capitol Projects Board that I co-chair with a a Senator, a board that meets monthly. 2012 will be a year of hard work, but with light at the end of the tunnel.

Good for you - and thanks for your service to our country in more then a few ways.

Will there be more travel in your future?

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Well, if ya wanna come over to the left coast, let me know.

83 and nothing but sun right now.

[shaggy Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close shaggy]

Congrats Melvin. YOu have done a remarkable job. If more were like you America wouldn't be in the shape that it is in. shaggy

[M. Henley Class President Find all posts View Profile Close M. Henley]

Well...

Left coast sounds interesting, but an entire year of nose-to-the-grindstone remains.
I would like to get out to the real left coast (CA) in March when we have the ten day recess prior to the veto override day that occurs just before adjournment.

There is little doubt in my mind that we will have a special session aafter the regular session to pass the budget. In all my time in the legislature we have never been able to pass a budget in regular session, and I do not expect 2012 to be an exception.

[Ryne08 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ryne08]

Retirement is great until you starting playing golf four out seven days per week and until you are only averaging six weeks of vacations per week.

Enjoy you have earn this privilege.

[JWC Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close JWC]

...I would like to get out to the real left coast (CA) in March when we have the ten day recess prior to the veto override day that occurs just before adjournment...

March is not a very good month for visiting the California Coast. The weather is not very reliable at that time of the year.

[taffy19 Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close taffy19]

Melvin, thank you for your service to us, citizens of the USA. You have to be crazy today to go into this profession (politics). JMHO. Enjoy your semi retirement pretty soon.

Head to our local desert and the weather should be fine, almost guaranteed but never 100% and I hope that it will stay that way without human intervention, I hope.

We own at a little timeshare in Laguna Beach and have often stayed there during March for my birthday (early March) or for our anniversary (late in March) and we always had good days but, when it rains in California, it may rain several days on a row but never a whole week as far as we remember. You can't predict the weather anywhere anymore so you may as well take a chance and hope for the best. JMHO.

I can almost guarantee you that the coast of Oregon has storms but what a nice time to spend a week on the ocean and see it from a nice warm place inside. The ocean is beautiful no matter what weather it is outside so long there is no fog on the coast and you see nothing. That is more in the warmer months, we found out over the years. Give me the winter months any time!

[taffy19 Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close taffy19]

We purchased an ocean front condo at Starboardlight Condominiums, 2006 Ocean Shore Blvd, Ormond Beach, FL (actually outside the city limits 3 miles at Ormond by the Sea) a couple of years ago in anticipation of the event.

Not a huge condo, just 1260 sq ft, 2-BR, 2-BA townhouse style, but the ocean view is 180 degrees. Sitting on the patio or the upstairs balcony with a bourbon and water, watching the surf come in off the Atlantic is a dream come true for a country kid who grew up without electricity or indoor plumbing, plowing mules, beginning work at a local sawmill at the age of 10, and generally being on my own as a teenager. What more could life offer?

I love to read a story like this. You have so deserved it, Melvin. Enjoy it in good health with your wife and family. This is the American Dream come true! I wish it for everyone who works so hard in this country.