Get Busy Living with Randi
- Randi Jones
- Apr 23, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Jul 7, 2024
Embracing Life's Adventures
Welcome to my blog.
I’m Randi.
Wife.
Mother and Grandmother.
Sister. Daughter. Aunt. Friend.
Teacher.
Gardener and Cook.
Traveler.
Reader and Writer.
Retiree 🙂.
Pat Conroy, one of my favorite authors, describes my current status perfectly: “I am at the beginning of the world as I don’t quite know it. But I trust I will begin to know it soon.”
My husband, Spencer, and I have been sweethearts since high school. He has given me what Lewis Carroll calls the best gift: a lifetime of memorable adventures. And those adventures run the gamut from exciting to exasperating, to frustrating, to exhilarating, to spectacular, to downright dirty.
I plan to use Get Busy Living with Randi to chronicle our latest adventure - retirement.
But we NEVER do only one thing at a time. As we pave our road to retirement, we are retiring from our jobs and setting out filled with hope, faith and eager for adventure.
I’m a planner. Here is my plan:
Start a blog - Get Busy Living with Randi - to chronicle our adventures.
Finish out a tiny but already income-producing RV park, On the Rocks Rentals. Play with grandbabies.
Build a tiny house/barn to serve as a home-base. Play with grandbabies.
Set up our new-to-us RV. Play with grandbabies.
Set out to visit state and national parks throughout the United States and beyond. Play with grandbabies.
Spencer is not a planner.
But his unplanned version of my idea is usually better. And it’s always more fun.
He loves the quote: “Man plans and God laughs.” Spencer is also not a reader. But he is a music and food junkie. He was a fan of Anthony Bourdain, who said, “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering on the unknown.”
The idea of retirement - and of our next steps after June - feels exactly like that:
Gorgeous. Teetering on the unknown.
It’s going to be a wild ride. Welcome to the journey. I hope you visit often.
Read the posts. Enjoy the photos. Try the recipes. Watch the videos. Meet the people.
I welcome your insights, your suggestions, and your contributions.
Congratulations! We are both officially re-retiring at the end of May!! No more working at school! Play with grand babies is absolutely the best! Good luck and I can't wait to read more!
I’m so excited for your new adventures and lease on life! Retirement is amazing and I know you two will enjoy making many new memories together. We love you! Look forward to following your journey! We will see at an RV park somewhere down the road.
Congratulations, Randi and Spencer! I am so excited for you all to see the wonderful adventures. U2 continue to take.
Oh!! my beautiful wonderful friends/neighbors. We will miss everything, including the impromptu dinners & our cosy winter nights on the front patio. We wish the very best for you. We have been family for the past 5 years & will continue to be no matter where life takes us. We love you guys 🥰
I can’t wait to continue to follow your journey! And I know it will be so much fun and everything you dreamed of and more.