When I was 39 and single with no debt I got the opportunity to take off 14 weeks during the summer. The day that started, I got a windfall of $10,000 and I spent the summer driving from the Midwest to Vegas via Mexico and to Niagara Falls via Canada.
A black friend of mine told me that when I got back to work she saw me across the room and thought “Now, who’s that new brother?” lol I was thin and dark haired then, and had spent my time in the West in shorts and tennies.
It was really the first and only ‘footloose and fancy free’ period of my life.