I now live in Santa Cruz, California (20 years) with my husband, Joe. We have been together for 50 years and married for 49 of those. I retired from Intel in 2000, after a successful 27 year career in Manufacturing Management and Human Resources.  Joe was Owner/Contractor of Showcase Kitchens for 20 years before he sold it in 

2000 and both Joe and I started on our Adventures. At least that's what we call our daily living the Adventure, believing retirement "is a state of mind" we keep an 

active and healthy lifestyle.

 

We have one son, Graham, 2 grand-kids and a 2-year old Great Grandson. Our son received his PHD in Anthropology from the University of Washington this year,

his son is a talented Glass Blower while his daughter is starting Western Washington University. Graham is married to a lady we love and lives in Snohomish. My mother moved (from Des Moines, Wa) into an apartment in our new duplex-plus about a year ago. Joe's mother lives about 45 miles away in a board and care home close to his brother Lou. 

 

In 2004 after putting finishing touches on our Santa Cruz house remodel, we bought property in a Beach-side Community in Costa Rica. We built a Spanish Colonial 

styled home and spent a total of 11 years 1/2 time in Costa Rica and Santa Cruz. We learned basic Spanish played a lot of golf, poorly, and made a lot of new friends. 

We sold our house and left Costa Rica in 2015.

 

We are fortunate to have a lot of great walks in and around Santa Cruz and Joe and I started to do regular walks. We watched the movie "The Way" and it inspired us 

to walk the Camino de Santiago in Spain. In May of 2016 we walked 200 miles of the Camino and then rented a car and explored much of Spain. Then in October 2016

a friend was getting married in London and we added on walking the "Source of the Thames River Walk" for 90 miles, ending in Goring. Walking along the Thames, 

through villages, across fields, observing old hand operated locks in action and staying in pubs near the river was great fun !

 

The end of 2016 our neighbor who built and had owned the duplex next door since 1963 passed and her son offered it for sale to us. We bought it in March of 2017 

and did a complete 10 month remodel. So now we have 2 duplexes (4 units) and a little business of keeping the whole property maintained and improved. This year we

have a large community organic garden - with all of the renters and us having our own places to grow vegetables.

 

We continue eat healthy and continue to enjoy walks and traveling in general, we have lots of destinations in our future. We are in the planning stages for an extended 

trip to Asia in January of 2020.

 

Most recently our favorite band The Rolling Stones  came around and we were able to see them twice!