By Mark McNease

The Go-Go Years: Doing, Going, Seeing While We Can

My husband Frank talks a lot these days about our ‘Go-Go’ years, that time of life we’re in when it’s probably a good idea to do the travel we want to, go to the places we’d like to see, and do the things our bodies still permit us to do. We love to cruise, and sail away on at least two a year. But we also like to take short, two-night trips here and there, and even a long one coming up in April – my first road trip since I was a child. Eight nights, with stops in Roanoke, Savannah, Wilmington, and Baltimore. That’s a lot of travelogues!

Financial advisors use the term to describe this window of time — early retirement, roughly — when we’re healthy enough to move about unaided. I’m exaggerating, but that’s the basic premise. I also have to say I don’t refer to myself as retired, since I teach workshops, write scary novels, and create the kind of content you’re reading now. This time precedes the Slow-Go years, and finally the No-Go years, which seem self-defining.