Who We Be
We Be Robert & Robin Charlton
In December 2006, at the age of 43, we retired from our  jobs -- Robin as a registered
nurse, Robert as a proposal manager at an aerospace firm -- so we could travel the
world and live life more fully. We saved hard to make this happen (see
Early
Retirement for details) and consider it one of the best decisions of our lives.

We prefer to travel slowly
and on foot when possible, staying in a country for weeks
at a time -- so we chose time over money, saving up "just enough," and took off for
parts unknown (to us, anyway). Most of our trips involve hiking in some form or
other, and we usually choose natural scenery, small towns, and wildlife over big
cities. We think of travel as a lifetime project, one that will keep us happily busy for
the rest of our days. Talk of travel, future or past, always puts a smile on our faces.

When we're not traveling, we like to hike the trails in our home town of Boulder,
Colorado, go kayaking at the family home near Acadia National Park, Maine, and take
long beach walks at Panama City Beach, Florida during the snowbird season. Robin
enjoys doing genealogy in her spare time, and Robert likes to write and take photos.
In addition to
How to Retire Early, he has written a sci-fi trilogy called Occupy Earth
(soon to be published) and has had a Saturday crossword puzzle (dated 9/23/23)
published in
The New York Times.
Photo taken shortly before retiring early in 2006