It's official. We've retired, Heinz from a total of 28 years in the USAF and Teresa from 34 years of nursing. We immediately flew to New Hampshire for Heinz's daughter's wedding. We spent around 10 days up there playing around. It was a new place for the two of us and we had a blast enjoying the changing leaves and New England coastline.

The colors were somewhat subtle down in southern New Hampshire/Massachusetts and quite brilliant up in the Green Mountains in the northern end of the state. Before the wedding, we took in the Franconia Notch and the flume, the Shaker Village in Canterbury and Strawberry Banke in Portsmouth among other sights.

It rained most of the week, but the day of Jess and Pete's wedding dawned clear and sunny, which was great since the ceremony was outdoors. Following the ceremony we enjoyed drinks on the patio followed by dinner and dancing until close to midnight, then a firepit and bar-b-que at the home of the groom's sister. The partying finally broke up around 3 am. Now that's a wedding celebration.

We had family in for the ceremonies from Kansas and Colorado also, so it turned into a mini-family reunion in addition to the wedding.

Following the festivities we drifted down to Boston and did the tourist thing: followed the freedom trail and spent some time in Salem.

Following our return home, we promptly went into self-imposed isolation with horrendous colds, so no work got done on the trailer for at least 3 weeks straight.

But now we're better and we've made some major progress in the past 3-4 days: end caps re-installed, air conditioner installation completed, and side walls replaced. Heinz is spending today working on installation of the 120 Volt/12 Volt converter, while I start going through some of the house separating out Goodwill vs. storage vs. going on the road items.

We're adjusting nicely to the concept of retirement so far. I really can't say that either of us is missing work even a tiny bit so far.