Things To-Do Together in Retirement
- Lie on our backs on the deck and look at the stars with the new constellation app.
- See Yellowstone in winter.
- Spend one Christmas at the cabin.
- Take a train through the western part of Canada.
- Do a holiday season in New York and maybe take in the Radio City Music Hall show.
- See many a sunrise and sunset on the cabin deck.
- Explore more parts of the West and Northwest and maybe get to Alaska, perhaps on a ferry.
- Drive across Texas on many back roads.
- Use memories books like “The Book of Us” to answer questions and record memories of our past
- Dance more.
- See a performing art we have never experienced before and some famous painting or statue we have never seen before.
- Drive much of the River Road along the Mississippi.
- Do a surprise romantic thing every so often (if we said how often, that would kill some of the surprise).
- Hike up to Sioux Charley and do other hikes in our book.
- Show the other one a special place from our past
- Make up games we can play together, both mental and physical.
- Hold each other for a long time in a slow, warm rain.
- Have a snowball fight in an unlikely place.
- Share something special with someone who is less privileged than we.
- Take turns writing a serial about some fictional character, maybe a superhero.
- Explore some of New England and French Canada.
- Do other overseas trips and record the experiences.
- See how many famous scenic drives we can do.
- Continue to sit, kneel, sing, and pray together in church and elsewhere.
- See a sunrise both atop a mountain and along the ocean shore.
- Learn some new skill together or teach the other one something we know but they don’t.
- Ride atop some animal we have never been on before.
- Visit historic Grand Hotels; maybe even stay in one if we can afford it
- Do dress up and dress down occasions every so often.
- Do one trip as all history, one as all art, one as all physical activity, one as all food, and think of other categories.
- Make a video of us acting a scene together and one of us being ourselves.
- Visit a location where a miracle happened, one where a movie was filmed, and one where a love affair began.
- Drive an old-fashioned vehicle, a modem, exotic one, and a fantasy one.
- Remember “the best is yet to be.”
- Serve together, learn together, cheer together, relax together, care together, be one together.
