As you may have guessed from the name of this blog, I am retired. I retired about 5 years ago and moved from Georgia to Pennsylvania. In my last working years, my wife and I knew we were ready to leave Atlanta after 30 years and we frequently visited family in New York, Maryland, and New Jersey.

So on each visit we would drive around and think about our retirement home. We finally decided on West Chester, PA which is about 25 miles west of Philadelphia and maybe 20 miles north of Wilmington, Delaware.

We like taking drives so we had been looking at library books and found one we like a lot so we bought our own copy. The advantages of buying are that you are not dependent on the book being in the library whenever you want it and you don’t have to worry about damaging the library copy. Books can get a little beat-up in the car.

So enough about us and building suspense. Were you really wondering what we bought?

We bought “National Geographic Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways: The 300 Best Drives in the U.S” from Amazon. So far we have done 2 of the 300 trips and have a few more in the planning stage so I suspect that we’ll get much more pleasure than the book cost. So if you click on the picture next to this, you’ll be able to see the book, read comments, and buy if you so decide.

We have no regrets about this purchase. I’ll be writing about those trips eventually, so stay tuned. And since I will be writing more, I’ll start a new travel category.