Thank you @dreemit! I certainly didn't feel brave while I was doing it. But I did have a lot of people around me, including my wife, that really encouraged me to do it and that was what pushed me over the edge, I think.

That is so true. These next couple of decades will be all about experiences for me and spending time with those people I care about. It's too bad money is so needed in this physical world to survive, we spend so much of our lives chasing it so we can live the life of our dreams but yet such a huge swath of those years are lost to "the grind". It's just such a bizarre paradox.