Wilsons Sandbox

Posted: **Wed Dec 22, 2010 8:31 am**

OK, I got lucky; I recently got a settlement for 34K! I kid you not, $34,300! So, I am thinking, invest in gold, put it in CD's, buy property, risk it in the Stock Market.......... but noooo, what I really want to do is put my stuff in storage, pack up "la poderosa" (my KLR) and take off for Ushuaia, and return via Brazil. Then, if I have any funds when I get back, tour the US. Tour till' the 34K runs out............ The only catch is that I am in nursing school, and I do not want to quit for a year or more. In college, (the first time around in the mid 80's) I had a BMW and I used to "drift" in the summers while out of school. By drift I mean that I would ride around the US and do day labor for a few days for cash, then hit the road again. Invest or ride........ what would you do? Eddie

Posted: **Wed Dec 22, 2010 8:45 am**

Wow, what a cool dilemma! Invest or ride? I'd try to do both. How much time left in nursing school? I'd factor in finishing school, and not being in debt. Invest the settlement money short-term now, in something guaranteed like CDs (Certificates of Deposit - don't earn much now, but no risk). Finish school then use half the money for your trip. The other half is to help you integrate when you return, or is a nest egg if you find something great on your travels. While you're finishing school you can be planning what you want to see and do, which of course is part of the fun! With a medical background, it seems you could pick up work as needed, so you might make your travelling self-fundiing. Good luck and let us know what you decide to do, Chris

On 12/22/2010 9:13 AM, eddiebmauri wrote: OK, I got lucky; I recently got a settlement for 34K! I kid you not, $34,300! So, I am thinking, invest in gold, put it in CD's, buy property, risk it in the Stock Market.......... but noooo, what I really want to do is put my stuff in storage, pack up "la poderosa" (my KLR) and take off for Ushuaia, and return via Brazil. Then, if I have any funds when I get back, tour the US. Tour till' the 34K runs out............ The only catch is that I am in nursing school, and I do not want to quit for a year or more. In college, (the first time around in the mid 80's) I had a BMW and I used to "drift" in the summers while out of school. By drift I mean that I would ride around the US and do day labor for a few days for cash, then hit the road again. Invest or ride........ what would you do? Eddie

Posted: **Wed Dec 22, 2010 9:12 am**

Share it with the poor and unwashed (like me). Criswell

On Dec 22, 2010, at 8:13 AM, eddiebmauri wrote: OK, I got lucky; I recently got a settlement for 34K! I kid you not, $34,300! So, I am thinking, invest in gold, put it in CD's, buy property, risk it in the Stock Market.......... but noooo, what I really want to do is put my stuff in storage, pack up "la poderosa" (my KLR) and take off for Ushuaia, and return via Brazil. Then, if I have any funds when I get back, tour the US. Tour till' the 34K runs out............ The only catch is that I am in nursing school, and I do not want to quit for a year or more. In college, (the first time around in the mid 80's) I had a BMW and I used to "drift" in the summers while out of school. By drift I mean that I would ride around the US and do day labor for a few days for cash, then hit the road again. Invest or ride........ what would you do? Eddie

Posted: **Wed Dec 22, 2010 9:43 am**

Re: [DSN_KLR650] This Is Killing Me....................NKL I was at Costco one day and all of a sudden, nature called. Yelled is more like it. So I high-tailed into the John and there's some sensitive guy changing his little boy's diaper on one of them baby ironin' boards, and don't you know, I slipped on pee-pee and broke two vertebrae which had to be fused together. I'm in constant pain, but by God I got me a settlement and the rest is history. I won't have to do a day of work for the rest of my life. That's why they call me Lucky." Mark

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At 2:13 PM +0000 12/22/10, eddiebmauri wrote: OK, I got lucky; I recently got a settlement for 34K! I kid you not, $34,300!

Posted: **Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:54 am**

Re: [DSN_KLR650] This Is Killing Me....................NKLWhat a Redneck! When did you move to Rainey Street?

Walt

[b]From:[/b] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com] [b]On Behalf Of [/b]Tengai Mark Van Horn [b]Sent:[/b] Wednesday, December 22, 2010 10:42 [b]To:[/b] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [b]Subject:[/b] Re: [DSN_KLR650] This Is Killing Me....................NKLRish

I was at Costco one day and all of a sudden, nature called. Yelled is more like it. So I high-tailed into the John and there's some sensitive guy changing his little boy's diaper on one of them baby ironin' boards, and don't you know, I slipped on pee-pee and broke two vertebrae which had to be fused together. I'm in constant pain, but by God I got me a settlement and the rest is history.

I won't have to do a day of work for the rest of my life.

That's why they call me Lucky."

Mark

Posted: **Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:54 am**

Eddie, I vote that you complete the year at school, then saddle-up and head South! Cheers, Fast Eddie

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "eddiebmauri" wrote: > > OK, I got lucky; I recently got a settlement for 34K! I kid you not, $34,300! So, I am thinking, invest in gold, put it in CD's, buy property, risk it in the Stock Market.......... but noooo, what I really want to do is put my stuff in storage, pack up "la poderosa" (my KLR) and take off for Ushuaia, and return via Brazil. Then, if I have any funds when I get back, tour the US. Tour till' the 34K runs out............ The only catch is that I am in nursing school, and I do not want to quit for a year or more. > > In college, (the first time around in the mid 80's) I had a BMW and I used to "drift" in the summers while out of school. By drift I mean that I would ride around the US and do day labor for a few days for cash, then hit the road again. > > Invest or ride........ what would you do? > > Eddie >

Posted: **Wed Dec 22, 2010 11:21 am**

FINISH SCHOOL, (An investment Like Money in the bank when this money is gone.) I thought about the world travel or atleast, south of the border, then as I was planning a puru trip I realized there is MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! of American I have never seen. While the Rockies and Smokies are GRAND, I realy loved crossing canada from michigan to bar harbor, Vermont, And Bar harbor it's self, plan on going back and taking more time next summer. AND NEVER beyond the Rockies, or even MOAB, So WASHINTON is penciled in for next Spring summer also. I would like to start at the top northern part of the Adirondacks, and ride ALL the way south into the blueridge. BUT!!! the one thing I was taught that I still VALUE, If you even SLIGHTY have to wonder SHOULD I? SLEEP ON IT A WEEK! (At 51 3/4, I have No tatoos, YET, But over the years picked about 30 THATS ME, At 16, I was lucky, and OLD OLD GUY....about 50, see me looking at a book at a tatoo stand when I worked full time as a carney, He said sleep on it 1 month, the tatoo is forever, and 1 month out of a lifetime, at bad. SLEEP ON IT! THAT GREAT FEELING, that you can Buy ANYTHING! OR FEEL SECURE! is gone the day after you spend it. BUT MAN WALKING AROUND KNOWING YOU CAN FEELS GREAT. And when you applie for a job or when you lose it, KNOWING IT'S THERE IS GREAT!!!!

--- On [b]Wed, 12/22/10, fasteddiecopeman [i][/i][/b] wrote:

From: fasteddiecopeman Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Re: This Is Killing Me....................NKLRish To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, December 22, 2010, 4:54 PM Eddie, I vote that you complete the year at school, then saddle-up and head South! Cheers, Fast Eddie --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "eddiebmauri" wrote: > > OK, I got lucky; I recently got a settlement for 34K! I kid you not, $34,300! So, I am thinking, invest in gold, put it in CD's, buy property, risk it in the Stock Market.......... but noooo, what I really want to do is put my stuff in storage, pack up "la poderosa" (my KLR) and take off for Ushuaia, and return via Brazil. Then, if I have any funds when I get back, tour the US. Tour till' the 34K runs out............ The only catch is that I am in nursing school, and I do not want to quit for a year or more. > > In college, (the first time around in the mid 80's) I had a BMW and I used to "drift" in the summers while out of school. By drift I mean that I would ride around the US and do day labor for a few days for cash, then hit the road again. > > Invest or ride........ what would you do? > > Eddie >

Posted: **Wed Dec 22, 2010 6:29 pm**

Someone wisely and correctly suggested via private email... "invest it wisely. get a financial adviser. in a few years you'll have enough to take the trip and still have the original pile of cash." My response......... "OK, I looked up Financial Planners in the Yellow Pages, let's see, there is one named Bernie Madoff, and another who brags that they are Nichols Cage's adviser............ am not sure which one to go with? All kidding aside, I know that you are right. I do not know where I am going to invest it, but I know that I am going to invest it, and forget that I even have that money......... just let it sit. I am leaning towards Annuities. But, still, pay for storage for a year, then pack-up and go................. tempting. If it were not for school, I would be half-way through Mexico by now............... heading South........ Eddie

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, mark ward wrote: > > FINISH SCHOOL, (An investment Like Money in the bank when this money is gone.) > > I thought about the world travel or atleast, south of the border, then as I was planning a puru trip I realized there is MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! of American I have never seen. > > While the Rockies and Smokies are GRAND, I realy loved crossing canada from michigan to bar harbor, Vermont, And Bar harbor it's self, plan on going back and taking more time next summer. AND NEVER beyond the Rockies, or even MOAB, So WASHINTON is penciled in for next Spring summer also. > > I would like to start at the top northern part of the Adirondacks, and ride ALL the way south into the blueridge. > > BUT!!! the one thing I was taught that I still VALUE, If you even SLIGHTY have to wonder SHOULD I? SLEEP ON IT A WEEK! (At 51 3/4, I have No tatoos, YET, But over the years picked about 30 THATS ME, At 16, I was lucky, and OLD OLD GUY....about 50, see me looking at a book at a tatoo stand when I worked full time as a carney, He said sleep on it 1 month, the tatoo is forever, and 1 month out of a lifetime, at bad. > > SLEEP ON IT! > > THAT GREAT FEELING, that you can Buy ANYTHING! OR FEEL SECURE! is gone the day after you spend it. BUT MAN WALKING AROUND KNOWING YOU CAN FEELS GREAT. And when you applie for a job or when you lose it, KNOWING IT'S THERE IS GREAT!!!! > > --- On Wed, 12/22/10, fasteddiecopeman wrote: > > > From: fasteddiecopeman > Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Re: This Is Killing Me....................NKLRish > To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com > Date: Wednesday, December 22, 2010, 4:54 PM > > > > > > > Eddie, > I vote that you complete the year at school, then saddle-up and head South! > Cheers, > Fast Eddie > > --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "eddiebmauri" wrote: > > > > OK, I got lucky; I recently got a settlement for 34K! I kid you not, $34,300! So, I am thinking, invest in gold, put it in CD's, buy property, risk it in the Stock Market.......... but noooo, what I really want to do is put my stuff in storage, pack up "la poderosa" (my KLR) and take off for Ushuaia, and return via Brazil. Then, if I have any funds when I get back, tour the US. Tour till' the 34K runs out............ The only catch is that I am in nursing school, and I do not want to quit for a year or more. > > > > In college, (the first time around in the mid 80's) I had a BMW and I used to "drift" in the summers while out of school. By drift I mean that I would ride around the US and do day labor for a few days for cash, then hit the road again. > > > > Invest or ride........ what would you do? > > > > Eddie > > >

Posted: **Wed Dec 22, 2010 9:48 pm**

Don't call my X......financial advisor. Its best you keep close tabs on yer own money. Lotta snakes out there. Criswell

On Dec 22, 2010, at 6:29 PM, eddiebmauri wrote: Someone wisely and correctly suggested via private email... "invest it wisely. get a financial adviser. in a few years you'll have enough to take the trip and still have the original pile of cash." My response......... "OK, I looked up Financial Planners in the Yellow Pages, let's see, there is one named Bernie Madoff, and another who brags that they are Nichols Cage's adviser............ am not sure which one to go with? All kidding aside, I know that you are right. I do not know where I am going to invest it, but I know that I am going to invest it, and forget that I even have that money......... just let it sit. I am leaning towards Annuities. But, still, pay for storage for a year, then pack-up and go................. tempting. If it were not for school, I would be half-way through Mexico by now............... heading South........ Eddie --- In DSN_KLR650%40yahoogroups.com, mark ward wrote: > > FINISH SCHOOL, (An investment Like Money in the bank when this money is gone.) > > I thought about the world travel or atleast, south of the border, then as I was planning a puru trip I realized there is MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! of American I have never seen. > > While the Rockies and Smokies are GRAND, I realy loved crossing canada from michigan to bar harbor, Vermont, And Bar harbor it's self, plan on going back and taking more time next summer. AND NEVER beyond the Rockies, or even MOAB, So WASHINTON is penciled in for next Spring summer also. > > I would like to start at the top northern part of the Adirondacks, and ride ALL the way south into the blueridge. > > BUT!!! the one thing I was taught that I still VALUE, If you even SLIGHTY have to wonder SHOULD I? SLEEP ON IT A WEEK! (At 51 3/4, I have No tatoos, YET, But over the years picked about 30 THATS ME, At 16, I was lucky, and OLD OLD GUY....about 50, see me looking at a book at a tatoo stand when I worked full time as a carney, He said sleep on it 1 month, the tatoo is forever, and 1 month out of a lifetime, at bad. > > SLEEP ON IT! > > THAT GREAT FEELING, that you can Buy ANYTHING! OR FEEL SECURE! is gone the day after you spend it. BUT MAN WALKING AROUND KNOWING YOU CAN FEELS GREAT. And when you applie for a job or when you lose it, KNOWING IT'S THERE IS GREAT!!!! > > --- On Wed, 12/22/10, fasteddiecopeman wrote: > > > From: fasteddiecopeman > Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Re: This Is Killing Me....................NKLRish > To: DSN_KLR650%40yahoogroups.com > Date: Wednesday, December 22, 2010, 4:54 PM > > > > > > > Eddie, > I vote that you complete the year at school, then saddle-up and head South! > Cheers, > Fast Eddie > > --- In DSN_KLR650%40yahoogroups.com, "eddiebmauri" wrote: > > > > OK, I got lucky; I recently got a settlement for 34K! I kid you not, $34,300! So, I am thinking, invest in gold, put it in CD's, buy property, risk it in the Stock Market.......... but noooo, what I really want to do is put my stuff in storage, pack up "la poderosa" (my KLR) and take off for Ushuaia, and return via Brazil. Then, if I have any funds when I get back, tour the US. Tour till' the 34K runs out............ The only catch is that I am in nursing school, and I do not want to quit for a year or more. > > > > In college, (the first time around in the mid 80's) I had a BMW and I used to "drift" in the summers while out of school. By drift I mean that I would ride around the US and do day labor for a few days for cash, then hit the road again. > > > > Invest or ride........ what would you do? > > > > Eddie > > >

Posted: **Thu Dec 23, 2010 6:15 am**

RIDE like the wind my good man!! How often in our lives do we have the chance to do such a thing, your in school now, so what is one more year or so without a real job when ya think about it??. Your only young a few times, take the trip, I would if single.. Sent from my iPod

On Dec 22, 2010, at 8:13 AM, "eddiebmauri" wrote:

OK, I got lucky; I recently got a settlement for 34K! I kid you not, $34,300! So, I am thinking, invest in gold, put it in CD's, buy property, risk it in the Stock Market.......... but noooo, what I really want to do is put my stuff in storage, pack up "la poderosa" (my KLR) and take off for Ushuaia, and return via Brazil. Then, if I have any funds when I get back, tour the US. Tour till' the 34K runs out............ The only catch is that I am in nursing school, and I do not want to quit for a year or more. In college, (the first time around in the mid 80's) I had a BMW and I used to "drift" in the summers while out of school. By drift I mean that I would ride around the US and do day labor for a few days for cash, then hit the road again. Invest or ride........ what would you do? Eddie

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