claybird: of all the above, including mine, the caution of greener pastures should come first in your assessment of reality, the why of your thoughts of moving on. It's just you and your dog and a personal issue of perhaps not being able to get around as before. You've a double-barrel problem: abrupt change as a result of retirement and the more significant struggle of making the best of your declining years.
I'm still in the wage economy at 80 and will work till I drop as a freelancer so I'm fortunate there. Declining years you must be brave. It means drawing heavily on inner resources: curiosity, enthusiasm, books, a wide range of interests. Family and community support are dividends. Changing locales ordinarily won't do it if you're carting around old emotions or grievances. Life at the end aren't golden years.
A good example is a discussion this week with my wife about how to get more juice out of a flying carpet to local hunting and fishing spots and camp. This lion has become a kitten, great arms and legs now sticks. Our friends are young and old. Using lessons of bush flying on floats as bait, I'll have no trouble attracting young women and men to do the heavy work; their presence always makes me feel younger again.
PM me if you think I may help. As for the guns, no problem bringing them into Canada. Overall, from 10 years on this board, comparing US and Canadian protocols around guns and hunting, I believe our system---notwithstanding the long-gun registry blip which will be gone this month---is simpler without all your state-to-state encumbrances. As for enforcement, I've never met a game warden or conservation officer anywhere in Canada. On the street and in their homes, yes, but never on streams or in the woods.
Last edited by King Brown; 03/14/12 09:35 AM.
