Reading this article really made me smile! I retired a little over two years ago from flying for a major airline, bought an old Piper Cherokee, a hangar located on a private grass strip and loving every minute of it. Many of my days are spent restoring and flying the old bird as well as socializing with fellow pilots in my home town. I am already beginning to research a new project once I’m done with this one that will involve backcountry STOL flying. The first few months of my retirement were a difficult adjustment but I wouldn’t go back now other than to just fly big airliners and fly with close friends that I still stay in contact with.