About the Endless Weekend

This is the story of our Endless Weekend. 

For a combined five-ish decades we dealt with the usual high tech rat race: alarms, cubicles/hobbit holes, TPS reports, productivity indicators/red lab coats.  It was a good run (though Dilbert is more accurate than not), but it was all … Work Days, Week Days vs. Week Ends.

No more Week Days.

In the summer of 2019, we, husband and wife in our 40s, decided to embark on an Endless Weekend (read: early retirement). 

Come share our journey, it starts here.

23 thoughts on “About the Endless Weekend”

    1. Thank you! We were thinking infinity would be a great symbol for our Endless Weekend 🙂

      It’s funny how the word “retirement” has mostly (almost entirely) negative connotation in the English language. So funny we actually blogged about it, and are continuing to ponder, why is it that “retirement” isn’t a happy term, like “The Endless Weekend”? It’s a time to follow your passion, like writing. Glad you are able to make the most out of your Endless Weekend, and welcome to THE club!

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    1. Thank you, Frank! It is by no means a simple decision to make, and in a way, it’s much easier to just keep-on-chugging at work. It’s certainly seems like the safe-and-secure option. But then that old quote about regretting more of the things you have not done than the things you have done seems to be true more often than not.

      I like the metaphor in what you said about when your Endless Weekend will begin: it’ll be springtime of summertime whenever it happens 🙂

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  5. Ally Bean sent me, and I enjoyed your comments on my blog, so I wanted to reciprocate the love.
    Congratulations on your retirement, although three years late. HA! I really like the name. I hope it’s felt like an endless weekend. 🙂

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    1. It lives up to its name a couple of years in, it’s an Endless Weekend that we’re both relishing with new discoveries every day! One of our first ones was that “wake up” and “get up” are not synonymous at all… During the Endless Weekend, they’re separated by a delightful period when one slowly and leisurely stirs into wakefulness 😋

      Ally is a gem. The love is very much appreciated, especially since we find your writing funny, insightful, and full of life.

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  8. Hey EW, fantastic site and I love your approach to life! Like you, James and I retired at 40 and haven’t looked back. Now nearly 3 decades later we can say that it’s THE best decision we’ve ever made. Since that day we’ve been wandering the world and loving it. Congrats on your endless weekend … and continue to enjoy! ~Terri

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    1. Thank you so much, Terri! I’ve been a long time follower of your blog, including the lifestyle suggestions about “living light”, and noticed your pause in posting for a while prior to my unplanned break from blogging.

      I think, so far, our biggest regret is not starting our Endless Weekend… EARLIER 😀 But we do understand the uncertainty in taking a plunge from the corporate world (The Endless Week) to the Endless Weekend. Was your transition less of a “jump off a cliff” since you traveled so much before, while working?

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      1. Thanks so much for being a long-term follower. It’s amazing the great relationships you develop through blogging.
        Yes, we did jump off a cliff in our 30s to leave our corporate jobs in London to return to the States, start our own business, and simplify our lives with the goal of FIRE. We accomplished that at 40 – woohoo! – and love it!
        On a personal note, how do you two like to be addressed?
        So glad we’ve connected. ~Terri

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        1. The pleasure is truly mine. And, yes, it’s the community that I find to be the biggest attraction of the blogosphere, and I’m looking forward to developing these relationships.

          I’m curious (still) : often a jump off a cliff is prompted by some catalyst—may I ask what was yours? FIRE FTW!

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          1. We started thinking and planning for FI when we moved to Sudan – that was the first jump off the cliff where we were humbled by our experiences and realized that life could be lived very differently. Then in London we were the consummate corporate animals – James managing international oil exploration, and me joining 3 British partners in a start-up management consultancy. We were able to bank some serious savings. We had both accomplished what we wanted in our careers and we had saved enough to jump … so we did! ~Terri

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          2. What a great journey you’ve had, I love it! What would you say helped you make the jump, when so many people who have saved enough to make the jump only end up jumping the career ladder?

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          3. Each of us had experienced all the good … and bad that the corporate world had to offer and decided it was time for something completely different. Luckily, it’s just the two of us, and we had lots of flexibility at the time. It was a complicated and difficult decision, but ultimately we were willing to take the risk. So moving around and renovating houses seemed the perfect fit. ~ Terri

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