Retire To Something

San Luis Obispo has one of the cutest downtowns in California. A must try there if you are ever around is a Turkish pastry shop called Lokum. So, so good. On a stroll to one of the many beaches there, I happened to come across a long-retired couple, likely in their seventies, voluntarily cleaning upContinue reading “Retire To Something”

Shirtsleeves To Shirtsleeves In Three Generations

Cornelius ‘Commodore’ Vanderbilt, the American railroad and shipping tycoon, died in 1877 and left behind a $95 million fortune to his eldest son, William H. Vanderbilt as inheritence. $95 million might not put you anywhere near the Forbes 400 list today but in 1877, that was more money than was held in the United States Treasury. What happenedContinue reading “Shirtsleeves To Shirtsleeves In Three Generations”