Navigating Retirement https://navigatingretirement.com/ Plan with confidence your journey in retirement.™ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:29:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://navigatingretirement.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cropped-android-chrome-512x512-1-32x32.png Navigating Retirement https://navigatingretirement.com/ 32 32 Avoid at all costs being a swimmer while rafting https://navigatingretirement.com/2025/07/01/avoid-at-all-costs-being-a-swimmer-while-rafting/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 08:00:11 +0000 https://navigatingretirement.com/?p=489 A river is like an avalanche: its current is unstoppable, immensely powerful, often very cold, and carries hidden and dangerous debris. If a rapid’s hydraulics are turbulent enough to throw you out of a raft—or worse, flip the raft—you can be in serious trouble. If you find yourself “swimming” while rafting, you might be gasping […]

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]]> Consider using “financial coolers” https://navigatingretirement.com/2025/06/20/consider-using-financial-coolers/ Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:25:04 +0000 https://navigatingretirement.com/?p=475 One of the advantages of enjoying the “great outdoors” when traveling by raft versus hiking is the ability to carry hundreds of pounds of gear to make the experience conspicuously posh: tents, cots, chairs, tables, stoves, kitchen equipment, and food. Rafters do not carry mounds of camping gear only to eat a backpacker’s meal of […]

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]]> Navigating through a financial “Rock Garden” https://navigatingretirement.com/2025/05/01/navigating-through-a-financial-rock-garden/ Thu, 01 May 2025 03:16:17 +0000 https://navigatingretirement.com/?p=454 Drop a ball on to the top of a “peg maze” and the ball randomly bounces left or right off the pegs in route to the boom, its path impossible to predict. Many rivers have a peg maze of sorts: a boulder-strewn field blocking your raft’s path down the river. Nicknamed a “rock garden”, this […]

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]]> Are the financial markets making you anxious? https://navigatingretirement.com/2025/04/01/are-the-financial-markets-making-you-anxious/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 02:59:06 +0000 https://navigatingretirement.com/?p=442 The stretches of whitewater rivers I usually drift are characterized as “pool and drop”: alternating sections of calm, deep water and steeper, turbulent descents. The drop in the river may have a waterfall of many feet with water at the boom flowing back upstream creating a “hole” that can trap your raft, bucking it as […]

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]]> Your phone is lost, but are you losing it? https://navigatingretirement.com/2025/03/01/your-phone-is-lost-but-are-you-losing-it/ Sat, 01 Mar 2025 01:00:19 +0000 http://navigatingretire.wwwmi3-sr100.supercp.com/?p=386 Launching a raft for a multi-day float trip can be a frenzied experience. There is the anticipation of being on the river, and the pressure to launch quickly: a queue of rafters are waiting for their turn on the ramp to launch their rafts. For a 4 to 5 day float on the river, my […]

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