IRL Retirement and learn where Villavu comes from!

**WT-Fakawi** · 02-27-2023, 01:06 PM

Hey there!

I hope your life is developing as it should. I'm popping in here for two reasons:

1. My life. It is developing as it should. Today I officially retired from my job, at age 59. I sold my company (Sound Design for Commercials, Movies and Television) and my wive and I are about to undertake the adventure of a lifetime. We are going to step in our RV and search for a piece of land in a warm Southern European country. Hopefully Greece, but Italy and Croatia are also candidates.

So that is worthy of a post in the Celebrations forum, i'd say! Am I the first one to retire here?

2. As we embark on this journey, we decided to document our travels on a Youtube channel: Livinginabirdhouse.
Now this is not really very interesting, BUT, our first film will for sure give you a big smile! It tells the story where the name Villavu originates from. So it is worth watching... if you have 12 minutes to spare. It is English spoken too (by me and my wife)

You can also see who WT_Fakawi is, as I spoke my final words as Sound Designer to my network. In Dutch. Because that is my native language.

Thats all for now. Hope you can spare the time to watch and maybe even subscribe as this will also help develop our channel. We could really use this as we just started this crazy journey two day ago

Thanks!!!!

WT.

**Ashaman88** · 02-27-2023, 08:15 PM

This is awesome. And a well deserved congrats on retirement! One day far from now I too hope to retire and do some RV living!

**Black Hat** · 03-01-2023, 01:09 AM

I remember the early days, it's been so long. Congratulations on your retirement!

**Olly** · 03-04-2023, 12:55 AM

Looks like Wizzup has been talking about Croatia to you... !

**Taylor** · 03-04-2023, 06:06 AM

Congratulations on the next big step in your life, and thank you for everything you've done. I attribute my choice in career and success in it to the foundational knowledge and experience I gained on villavu, mitb, and a small handful of similar sites. To me and I'm sure many others, your contributions resulted in more than flax spinners and ess miners.