An update to my introduction

[michael hagerty]

Somewhere back in 2022, I posted an introduction that included a quick rundown of my career. I don't know where else to put this (and David, feel free to move it if there's a better place):

I'm retiring from broadcasting on January 31, 2024. The grandkids are 2,500 miles away, my wife and I want to travel and there's not a vacation policy I know that can accommodate it all.

Hopefully nobody thinks I'm a slacker for bailing after a shade under 53 years.

I'll be around on this board---but probably less as we get out more.

 

[exdjted]

Somewhere back in 2022, I posted an introduction that included a quick rundown of my career. I don't know where else to put this, so (and David, feel free to move it if there's a better place):

I'm retiring from broadcasting on January 31, 2024. The grandkids are 2,500 miles away, my wife and I want to travel and there's not a vacation policy I know that can accommodate it all.

Hopefully nobody thinks I'm a slacker for bailing after a shade under 53 years.

I'll be around on this board---but probably less as we get out more.

Happy retirement! Safe travels and remember, spoiling grandchildren is a right, not a privilege!

 

[xkxrx]

Somewhere back in 2022, I posted an introduction that included a quick rundown of my career. I don't know where else to put this, so (and David, feel free to move it if there's a better place):

I'm retiring from broadcasting on January 31, 2024. The grandkids are 2,500 miles away, my wife and I want to travel and there's not a vacation policy I know that can accommodate it all.

Hopefully nobody thinks I'm a slacker for bailing after a shade under 53 years.

I'll be around on this board---but probably less as we get out more.

Congratulations on your retirement Mike. Your long life in broadcasting has proven you're one of the best. Are you still going to be doing your car reviews?

 

[CTListener]

Happy retirement to one of this board's superstars!

 

[michael hagerty]

Congratulations on your retirement Mike. Your long life in broadcasting has proven you're one of the best. Are you still going to be doing your car reviews?

Thank you! And yes---I'll continue to write about cars. That can work anywhere I have keys and an internet connection.

 

[radiofan2023]

Congrats on your retirement! Hope you ask the car companies to let you do a long term test of their cars to go see your grandkids.....

 

[CTListener]

Thank you! And yes---I'll continue to write about cars. That can work anywhere I have keys and an internet connection.

I can't remember his name, but the Boston Globe used to have an excellent auto writer whose articles I'd read every Sunday. Pretty sure he's not writing anymore. Do you know him or know of him?

 

[michael hagerty]

Congrats on your retirement! Hope you ask the car companies to let you do a long term test of their cars to go see your grandkids.....

Thanks! We'll fly, but there's a robust press fleet in Atlanta. In fact, when I flew back for four days (my wife stayed longer) in April for the birth of our third grandchild, it ended up producing a review:

Down South Deja Vu: The 2023 Kia Telluride SX-Prestige X-Line V6

An unexpected return engagement.

www.mikehagertycars.com

The funny part will be our next European trip. In France (outside Paris), I rent a car and drive, but our upcoming trip to Italy will (after we fly over) all be done by rail.

I haven't gone six weeks without driving a car since I got my learner's permit in the fall of 1971. This is gonna be weird.

 

[michael hagerty]

I can't remember his name, but the Boston Globe used to have an excellent auto writer whose articles I'd read every Sunday. Pretty sure he's not writing anymore. Do you know him or know of him?

I don't. It looks like they stopped doing their own and picked up syndicated stuff from Cars.com after 2014. There's a landing page, but no byline and the links are broken:

New car reviews from The Boston Globe

We drive dozens of new cars every year, from fuel-sipping compacts to red-blooded sports cars. And being in New England, we get to test them in the most extreme conditions […]

www.boston.com

 

[radiofan2023]

Thanks! We'll fly, but there's a robust press fleet in Atlanta. In fact, when I flew back for four days (my wife stayed longer) in April for the birth of our third grandchild, it ended up producing a review:

Down South Deja Vu: The 2023 Kia Telluride SX-Prestige X-Line V6

An unexpected return engagement.

www.mikehagertycars.com

The funny part will be our next European trip. In France (outside Paris), I rent a car and drive, but our upcoming trip to Italy will (after we fly over) all be done by rail.

I haven't gone six weeks without driving a car since I got my learner's permit in the fall of 1971. This is gonna be weird.

That sounds like a fun trip! The only time I've gone without driving a car is when I lived in SF, I just walked everywhere or took public transit.

 

[michael hagerty]

That sounds like a fun trip! The only time I've gone without driving a car is when I lived in SF, I just walked everywhere or took public transit.

That's what we do in Paris, but that's been two four-day visits. Six weeks is going to be wild. And we'll fly back to San Francisco, so it'll be like shock therapy---not driving for six weeks and then trying to remember how to do it on 101 near SFO.

 

[radiofan2023]

That's what we do in Paris, but that's been two four-day visits. Six weeks is going to be wild. And we'll fly back to San Francisco, so it'll be like shock therapy---not driving for six weeks and then trying to remember how to do it on 101 near SFO.

Very slowly if it's rush hour

 

[michael hagerty]

Very slowly if it's rush hour

Except there’s always some joker coming up the shoulder at 75.

 

[radiofan2023]

Or lane splitting motorcycles

 

[gr8oldies]

Somewhere back in 2022, I posted an introduction that included a quick rundown of my career. I don't know where else to put this (and David, feel free to move it if there's a better place):

I'm retiring from broadcasting on January 31, 2024. The grandkids are 2,500 miles away, my wife and I want to travel and there's not a vacation policy I know that can accommodate it all.

Hopefully nobody thinks I'm a slacker for bailing after a shade under 53 years.

I'll be around on this board---but probably less as we get out more.

Somewhere back in 2022, I posted an introduction that included a quick rundown of my career. I don't know where else to put this (and David, feel free to move it if there's a better place):

I'm retiring from broadcasting on January 31, 2024. The grandkids are 2,500 miles away, my wife and I want to travel and there's not a vacation policy I know that can accommodate it all.

Hopefully nobody thinks I'm a slacker for bailing after a shade under 53 years.

I'll be around on this board---but probably less as we get out more.

Happy retirement Mike!

 

[Mark Roberts]

I'm retiring from broadcasting on January 31, 2024. The grandkids are 2,500 miles away, my wife and I want to travel and there's not a vacation policy I know that can accommodate it all.

Hopefully nobody thinks I'm a slacker for bailing after a shade under 53 years.

I'll be around on this board---but probably less as we get out more.

Congratulations! No slacker accusations here - you'll know when the time is right to retire. I didn't want to in 2020 but still wanted some flexibility so I went to part-time consulting until I stopped last year. Then it did feel right and I haven't looked back. Even deleted my LinkedIn account.

 

[Mark Roberts]

That's what we do in Paris, but that's been two four-day visits. Six weeks is going to be wild. And we'll fly back to San Francisco, so it'll be like shock therapy---not driving for six weeks and then trying to remember how to do it on 101 near SFO.

As slow as traffic is on the Bay Bridge, you'll get plenty of time to adjust.

I wouldn't want to drive in Paris. The Métro is so good, you don't have to.

 

[michael hagerty]

As slow as traffic is on the Bay Bridge, you'll get plenty of time to adjust.

The trouble is once that breaks free, people drive like maniacs from Richmond to Fairfield.

I wouldn't want to drive in Paris. The Métro is so good, you don't have to.

Totally agree.

 

[Weiserguy]

That's what we do in Paris, but that's been two four-day visits. Six weeks is going to be wild. And we'll fly back to San Francisco, so it'll be like shock therapy---not driving for six weeks and then trying to remember how to do it on 101 near SFO.

Better there than *in* San Francisco. On Nob Hill, let's say.

Sorry I won't get to hear your dulcet tones anymore through the sideband hash of the nearby jazz station. Will there be anyone left at CapRadio to be live-on-air? Seems like you might be the guy who turns off all the lights and leaves the place to the computer.

My horror story was arriving at 4 am into Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv with my wife of one day, getting into a crackerbox-sized Fiat and driving up to Jerusalem, having never been in Israel until that moment. (It would "only" have been #2 on my hit parade, but I absolutely refused to rent a car in England and learn to drive on the wrong side of the road in London. And I'm a native New Yorker!)

Best wishes for a pleasant retirement.

 

[michael hagerty]

Better there than *in* San Francisco. On Nob Hill, let's say.

I'm actually fine on SF surface streets.

With a decent clutch anyway.

Sorry I won't get to hear your dulcet tones anymore through the sideband hash of the nearby jazz station. Will there be anyone left at CapRadio to be live-on-air? Seems like you might be the guy who turns off all the lights and leaves the place to the computer.

Not even close. Staff size is around 75 now. There are plenty of talented broadcasters still here.

My horror story was arriving at 4 am into Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv with my wife of one day, getting into a crackerbox-sized Fiat and driving up to Jerusalem, having never been in Israel until that moment. (It would "only" have been #2 on my hit parade, but I absolutely refused to rent a car in England and learn to drive on the wrong side of the road in London. And I'm a native New Yorker!)

Yeah---I'm wondering how England will be when we go. One thing for sure---that rental car will have an automatic. No way I'm driving on the wrong side and shifting with my left hand.

Best wishes for a pleasant retirement.

Thanks, Weiserguy!