We planned to spend our retirement traveling. Now, it feels way too financially risky.

Although we planned to spend our retirement traveling, that dream now feels out of reach.

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• My husband and I retired early at 55 with modest plans to travel around the US and Canada.
• Our lower retirement income has not gone far, and bad luck in the past year cut into our savings.
• Given how quickly our savings have dwindled in just a year, we have nixed our plans to travel.

I'd always dreamed of traveling during retirement, and my husband and I had made modest plans to do so.