My brother worked for thirty years as a dispatcher then computer technician for the Pinellas County Sheriffs office. his wife ran off with a Lutheran preacher years ago and his house is paid off. He has a very nice retirement check and a good sized SS check. He has been driving all over the country and Canada going to country and bluegrass and folk art festivals and seeing all the things he used to look at in National Geographic. He has now a cabin in western North Carolina and returns to his “home” in Tampa for a couple of weeks every year. There is a woman he travels with for four months of the year and she gets him to places he never thought of. He is disgustingly healthy and will do this for years to come. He would never get on an airplane.
It is a great country we have. I like seeing it from the ground level! I envy your brother except for the wife-running-off thing.