HeyJaredBenthall Adventures — A Slow Travel Journal
A life designed by seasons — weekly essays for people navigating change, belonging, and what comes after a life that worked.
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My Friend Kat’s Retirement Plan Is Me (opens the original)
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Our Friends Moved to Southwest France. I Wasn’t Prepared for What I Found. (opens the original)
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I’m Only 54. That’s a Long Way to Go Wearing a Kimono. (opens the original)
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From the archive: I wrote this short story in Cassis, France last year, when I was still figuring out what retirement actually required of me. I’m back in France now, and apparently I still believe in outside clothes. When Nigel and I retired and set off to slow travel the world, I was ready to do absolutely nothing for a while. After more than 30 years of deadlines, meetings and alarms, the idea of waking up with nowhere I had to be felt almost embarrassingly luxurious. <a class="image-link ima
I Think I’ve Been Sightseeing All Wrong (opens the original)
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On our first night in Minehead, Nigel’s sister Claire and her partner David took us to the Kildare Lodge, which they described as “an old person’s pub.” It’s a set meet-up on Friday nights, rain or shine. Sometimes two friends show up, sometimes it’s twenty.This time, despite the rain, there was an excellent showing. But there was no food. No sports on television. No music playing.The building looked as though it had once been rather grand. Someone had gotten married there. There were chandelier
Two Years Ago, We Walked Out the Door (opens the original)
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Two years ago, Nigel and I arrived at his mother’s house in Blandford Forum, England, jet-lagged, newly retired and about to start the life we’d spent years planning.Last week, we arrived here again, and it is almost unnerving how little has changed.Every afternoon at three, Gloria makes tea and puts out biscuits. Cocktail hour still involves crisps. We set the table properly for lunch and dinner, even when it’s just the three of us, and there are pub lunches, evening walks and afternoons in the
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