What Road Trips Reveal About Who You Are Now | Shaping Your Retirement

Road trips have a way of stripping away routine, role, and expectation.

In this short commentary episode, Leslie Mizerak explores how time on the open road can reveal something important about who you are now, especially in retirement. When the usual schedule disappears, what you choose, how you respond, and what you notice can become clues to what matters most in this chapter.

• Even in retirement, people often recreate routine quickly because structure feels familiar and safe.
• A road trip interrupts that structure and creates space to notice who you are when no one is expecting anything from you.
• Travel delays, missed exits, bad weather, and closed restaurants can reveal how you respond when life does not go according to plan.
• Retirement is not only about having more time. It is about learning to trust what your own choices are trying to tell you.

Remember, This is not your grandparents' retirement!

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