Is flying remote controlled airplanes a great retirement activity? To find out I attended a Fly-In at the Pontiac Miniature Airplane Club which is about 30 minutes from my house. I didn’t quite know what to expect at the RC Airplane club. My friend Jeff, whom I do volunteer work with, is the past President […]
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Getting Your Money’s Worth at the Buffet
I feel like retired people really like to get their money’s worth at the buffet, so I figured I would try that. After all, this project is about me, Retireman, trying all sorts of retirement activities and rating them. For this activity I took some friends, my best friends, my family. They were pretty exctied […]
Pickleball Reviewed
Here is my pickleball review. Here at Retireman.org I review as many different retirement activities as possible. I do this because I like trying new things and I am retiring fairly young, so I figured I could experiment a little bit and share with other people what activities are great and what might not be. […]
Teaching A Class – Wilderness Survival Part 1
Recently I have joined something akin to The Boy Scouts but for adults. It is called The Adventureman’s Guild and the Adventuremen plan a lot of cool stuff. I joined specifically for an event called the Great American Monkey 1000, which is a 1000Km ride on Monkey Bikes. Monkey bikes are little motorcycles that sort […]
Monkey Bikes
My friends and I bought “Monkey Bikes” which are somewhere between the minibike you had as a kid and a regular motorcycle. Honda makes one called the Monkey and we have those. They are inexpensive and fun as heck. They are also slow and silly. I think that Honda sells quite a few Monkeys but […]