Seven Days Personals - Introducing: Vermonters

76 going on 60? Biological age is more important than chronological age.

Are you as alive as I am? I want is to meet you, fall in love, and spend the rest of our lives together.

At our ages our lives are full… and complicated. Friends, friends with benefits is OK, but I want, and am capable of, an extraordinary, committed relationship. A relationship of, “Yes”. Mutually supportive. Deeply communicative in all the ways humans can communicate with each other.

I don’t need or use Viagra. I ski and MNT bike with fit men and women 10 and 20 years younger. There is some road and gravel biking that interests me to do with a partner. Lift access MNT biking, I am a blue to black trails rider. (started at 68). No jumps or drops. Skiing: DBL Black, perhaps still Extreme. “Powderhound”. I also do Backcountry and XC. I am not as fit nor as capable as I was at 72 when my physicality peaked. Until then I was getting ever more physically capable. At 72 I started aging.

I used to be a sailor. I designed and built an ocean worthy sailboat which hasn’t been out of my yard since I took up MNT biking. I am happy to day hike, kayak, snorkel and perhaps SCUBA. Though I went ice skating at Thanksgiving, I haven’t rollerbladed since getting Babesiosis (a severe tick born illness similar to malaria) summer 2024. I have overcome most lingering consequences.

Comfortably, modestly retired and able to live the life I wish to continue living for the next 30 years.

I have done a good deal of personal growth work over many years. Good communication skills matter. My advice has helped my children create and maintain healthy, fulfilling marriages. I want to do the same for myself. I have an open invitation by both my children’s families to live with them. I am living an increasing amount of time in the multi-generational family living situation my younger daughter’s family and I are creating.

My life is geographically challenging for the foreseeable future. My time and life are split between Ithaca, NY and E. Burke, VT. My other daughter’s family lives in Dubai, and with me in Ithaca the month of July. My closest friends live an hour east and hour west of me in NYS. I am beginning to make friends near Burke,VT.

World travel still interests me, but I want to share the experiences with my lover, if world travel interests her. I want to share life with my lover... at least frequently ... possibly 24-7-365. I can do whatever serves the relationship. I want to be in the right relationship with the right woman.

What sort of relationship are you looking for?
What sort of relationship are you capable of being part of, being part of creating?

Friends is fine. Perhaps starting there we can create an exceptional relationship.

In any case humans need intimate relationships. I certainly do. And I need and want physical intimacy. Besides, “use it or lose it may have a basis in reality”.

Activity Partner might be fine. I have more female friends than male friends.