Trying Something New

I've been retired for a little over a year now and have exhausted the pent up wanderlust created by years of constrained working enough to settle down to a bit of self-created constraining. Creativity thrives, so I've heard, within a set of constraining parameters. With too much freedom, the mind wastes time and energy just trying to figure out where it is and what it wants to do. So, I evolved this project in order to put some control on my wandering mind.

It may seem silly and simple on the onset, but I think it has all the makings of something that will satisfy many of my requirements. The musts are at this time:

1. Be fun
2. Have some usefulness to it
3. Provide learning opportunities
4. Be shareable
5. Be relatively inexpensive
6. Provide value

The project is to design and build a cargo tricycle with a refrigerator on the front for selling cold treats.

There is so much mind candy here! It's a fairly complex building project. I'll have to learn Sketchup to design it, learn how to weld to build it, and work with the city to figure out how to get the business operational. I feel if that I can document the process well enough, it will be shareable and useful to others trying to create a small business that doesn't need a huge amount of capital to get going. And, what's not fun about an ice cream cart?

Italian Cargo Bike Manufacturer Site