One thing we are trying to do is travel with our kids. We have scheduled hiking in the Canadian Rockies with them. Were also are traveling ourselves – had a couple of weeks in Italy last month.
One interesting milestone. I was in San Francisco to visit a prospective client and work with the company I co-founded this year (a good thing to do with an empty nest). The company my son co-founder had just done their next round of funding and the money had hit the bank so I joined the team for a celebratory beer. But, it was my birthday and my son took me out for dinner. The milestone: this marks the first time either of the kids has actually paid for my dinner.
I have been advocating pro bono or volunteer work for empty nesters, but my startup has a social mission and so I’m combining social mission and for profit enterprise. So far so good.
Per the Huffpost article, we are thinking of having Thanksgiving in the Bay Area since both kids will be there. We have rented a houseboat for a few winters and will see if they will rent to us for Thanksgiving.