I recently received the following email from a Boger: "I was wondering what people do after life with a BT. Now that you are SELLING UP! We still use our van, but are considering the options as we get older."
My response which I am sharing as I receive this question very often!
"As our email address indicates, we Love To Travel!
I gave up the concept of ROOTS [not the Aussie version!] in 1987 when I moved onto a sailboat as my home in Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles. In 1992 I literally sold everything – some would say including the kids though today I have restored a great relationship with both daughters – and sailed across the Pacific never looking back.
I met my wife Jackie through the internet in 2003 and we have been together ever since.
It took two years before Jackie was comfortable enough as a Nomad to sell her home in Melbourne. We were then living in our first
Bushtracker caravan.
Now, Jackie is finally ready to cut all material roots with Australia, her daughter and grandchild live in Melbourne, and we are going out into the big World to see as much as possible.
While Jackie will return to Australia once or twice a year to visit reles, they are always welcome to visit us at our expense. You quickly learn that when you do not live very close to your relatives you are not part of their lives. When you choose at times convenient to you to visit, you cannot help but upset their daily routines. Fact of life: they want you to visit; they go “whew” when you leave.
We will travel using various modes and rent units at various quality levels around the World.
Today until July 2013: we are already booked for six months in San Diego over two periods, we will also do two months each in Mexico and Canada. Mid-2013 to mid-2014 we are going to be in South America; the balance of the year will be in Europe. We are chatting about 2015 being a year in Africa.
Someday, I am 70/Jak is 60, when we can no longer travel – be on the move with only stopping for several weeks to months in a place, and we feel we want to spend perhaps six months in a place, we will probably rent for six months in San Diego and then six months somewhere in the World. Once you get to a place the costs of living anywhere are similar.
The biggest problem for most travelers are the ties to relatives. A vast number of travelers we know quit the day their first grandchild is born; not us!"
If you have any questions about full-time life on the road, write me at:
luvntravln at gmail dot com
