MHarryE
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- Joined
- Feb 15, 2009
- Messages
- 2,946
- Location
- Northeastern Minnesota
- Tractor
- Kubota M7-171, M5-111, SVL75-2, RTV900XT & GR2120; CaseIH 1680 combine
Took an early retirement in 2009. Plan had been to do a considerable amount of traveling. Now, 4 years later, I have not set foot on a plane since returning from my last business trip although I have around 1,000,000 frequent flier miles banked. When I took overseas assignments my wife and I took advantage of our locations. Since we haven't traveled the money we budgeted keeps growing. I keep getting more involved with my limited partnerships in 2 relative's farms but instead of driving farm owned tractors I am thinking of buying my own medium ag tractor, use it for much of the farm work where I now drive, then pick up some additional acreage and use farm owned implements. Have in mind a M135GX with most of the options with which it can be loaded. Des this make any sense or should I trade my pickup for an Escalade, buy an expensive fishing boat, and go sit on the lake for days at a time? The price of the Escalade plus boat is about equal to the tractor. Funny thing is my wife says okay to the tractor thinking I know what I am doing, this after being married over 40 years so she should know better by now. What do y'all think? Do I have Alzheimer's or des this sound rational? By the way, I have had beer for $40 a glass in Oslo, got so sick from drinking tap water in Johannesburg that I spent most of a 22 hour flight Joburg to Atlanta in a business class crapper, have taken off on a runway with vehicles armed with machine guns escorting us down the taxiway and to insure against people rushing the plane, have been in Moscow during a government overthrow, have been threatened by a US Army colonel to fix his fleet of machines right or I'm going to Iraq with them, and with the help of a 70 year old Orlando taxi driver bet up 3 Paris street punks. So is the quieter life of circling fields in order? Does anyone else look at this as fun?