Guess since I started this thread, I should contribute.
My passion is organic gardening. We raise and sell strawberries and veggies in season.
I play harmonica for myself mostly but, I will get up on stage with a band if they ask and they do ask.
I love being with the grandkids. Gives me a chance to get the things right that I did'nt with their parents.
I have been working my tail off the last 10-12 years to save enough to retire in 3and a half more years. (at 591/2 I hope)
I read a lot and listen to a lot of music.
I had a TC several years ago and let it go. Now I have another and just love to use it and lurk around on this forum. So much to learn and so many neat people to learn it from.
When I am not dreaming up things to customize my LANCE Truck Camper, I enjoy anything outdoors. I am retired and travel where ever there is a museum, Forest, Lake or Dirt Road to Discover where it goes. One of the things I enjoy is reading and chasing history. I enjoy stopping in small towns and going through their libraries, asking whomever might be interested in sharing their town or locale’s history.
I refer to these trips as; Chasing the Movie’. I followed the movie, The Misfitsand enjoyed visiting the locations of the filming and writing of this movie. While back for my dad’s long cancer fight, I Chased the Movie’ Picnicand enjoyed visiting the locations and the Halstead Public Library.
When I was in college at Kansas State University, I was in my Composition Class during a lecture series when we had an author enter the amphitheater lecture hall with a flourish of his black caped robe. A very diminutive man, pulling off his black Edgar Allan Poe style hat, setting it upturned onto the lectern and began speaking in a voice I had never expected or heard from a man before, a high pitch woman’s like voice. This was the first time I had seen such a flamboyant and expressive man in my young farm boy life, especially on the plains of Kansas, Truman Capote. I had read many of his works, in my then 18 years but the one at that time that captured my attention was; “In Cold Blood.” I had visited the murder location a few years before in Holcomb, Kansas and this weekend marks the Fiftieth Anniversary of this sad episode in Kansas and Literary history. It is interesting to chase the movie here too; In Cold Blood.” As the Local News revisits some of the original newspaper writings and new information,
Right now the wife & I are making room for our 28 yr old daughter & her 2 boys 5 & 9yrs of age. You just can't imagine how much stuff (junk) you can acumulate after 34 yrs 26 of which have been in the same place.Then it's onto cleaning out my shop, for I know the daughter will have things that need storing. All this while DW & I are putting in our 40 hrs at work. We look forward to long weekend getaways in our 5vr in the winter & summers in the TC.Retirement hopefully in 4.5 yrs so we can travel.
I'll take a crack at it (not in any particular priority order):
-Amassing millions of electronic mapping files (9 terabytes of it) showing every conceivable mapping layer known to man covering 3 continents; from scales of 1:10,000 to 1:2,000,000;
-collecting historically-significant original paper maps, from WW-II tank battles fought on the African Continent, to hand-made silk Tibetan terrain maps over 6 feet long, to ancient Chinese coastal maps;
-consulting (forensic cartography) work for professional historians, TV documentarists, etc on the trail of anything from "lost cities", to lost galleons, to ancient roadways, and much, much more;
(as you can see, my passion is the study of cartography and spatial analytics )
-breaking rock (by hand) in a quarry...hundreds of thousands of custom cut rocks, primarily for my hardscaping of the property (lots of stone patios, walkways, walls and other structures); keeps the mind sharp and the body lean & mean, and more than several fingers broken;
-incessant renovating of the homestead;
-tinkering with the TC & truck;
-planning a fiction novel of international intrigue (a bit out of my realm, as I am really a published non-fiction writer);
-stick-handling RV.net's Trip Reports;
-if we survive long enough, perhaps a 25,000 mile multi-Continent expedition with the "rig".
That's about it...this is my "post work" life,
Silver-
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I play a lot of music with friends. I play banjo and guitar with a small group for cookouts or whatever were asked to do. We don't charge money. Just food and drink. The wife and I along with our two sons took scuba diving lessons this year and became certified divers. Now we go diving for fun. The DW and I are getting ready to take our ground school for flying in January so we are looking forward to that. We try to do something new that we wanted to do when we were young but didn't have the time or money. We're making up for lost time. We're not getting any younger!
Feed the sheep all winter,
Shear the sheep in the spring,
Lamb out the ewes and
Watch the lambs run through the pastures all summer as they grow bigger,
Have a very nice BBQ in the fall.
Repeat
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SheepCamp wrote: Feed the sheep all winter,
Shear the sheep in the spring,
Lamb out the ewes and
Watch the lambs run through the pastures all summer as they grow bigger,
Have a very nice BBQ in the fall.
Repeat
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The wife and I along with our two sons took scuba diving lessons this year and became certified divers. Now we go diving for fun. The DW and I are getting ready to take our ground school for flying in January so we are looking forward to that. We try to do something new that we wanted to do when we were young but didn't have the time or money. We're making up for lost time. 
