My Teenage Dream Was to Live on a Boat. Now I’m Doing Just That — and Will Make Money in Retirement by Elizabeth O'Brien Gary Baker was sorting through memorabilia in the basement of his Ann Arbor, Mich., home about two years ago when he stumbled upon a bucket-list he wrote when he was a young teen. Now 64, Baker didn’t recall making the list a half-century earlier, and he and couldn’t believe what he wrote first: “Living on a boat.