Sitting here reading all these posts of you snow birds heading south for the winter is so depressing. I'm only 41 with quite a few years of work still ahead and the wife has a few more than me at 36 yrs of age. We get to camp quite a bit during the spring, summer, and fall months and absolutely love every day of every trip. I hope the Good Lord sees fit for us to someday be able to do this and travel around at least on a semi full time basis. I'd love to someday just be able to load and hook up with no timetable or specific destination in mind and just return when we are good and dang ready. We live in West Central GA though and we probably wouldn't have to snow bird though as our winters are generally mild. But it would be great to just head down to the gulf somewhere and spend the winter just cause we can! Lol. Anyways, all of you fortune enough to do this, have some fun for us! Hopefully someday we will see some of you out there and stay with you till were good and ready to go whenever and wherever we want! In the mean time, we're just gonna have to settle with living vicariously through you all!Safe travels to you all!

I trade you if we can figure out how. I will become 41 years old and go back to work you will become 65 and retire. You will be getting the short end of it very literally.

The real trick is to figure out how to retire at 41. I watch the big Rv pusher clubs come through some of the campgrounds we stay at and think I sure hope I have the energy they do when I retire.

Greene728 wrote:Sitting here reading all these posts of you snow birds heading south for the winter is so depressing. I'm only 41 with quite a few years of work still ahead and the wife has a few more than me at 36 yrs of age. We get to camp quite a bit during the spring, summer, and fall months and absolutely love every day of every trip. I hope the Good Lord sees fit for us to someday be able to do this and travel around at least on a semi full time basis. I'd love to someday just be able to load and hook up with no timetable or specific destination in mind and just return when we are good and dang ready. We live in West Central GA though and we probably wouldn't have to snow bird though as our winters are generally mild. But it would be great to just head down to the gulf somewhere and spend the winter just cause we can! Lol. Anyways, all of you fortune enough to do this, have some fun for us! Hopefully someday we will see some of you out there and stay with you till were good and ready to go whenever and wherever we want! In the mean time, we're just gonna have to settle with living vicariously through you all!Safe travels to you all!U may not have to snow bird in the winter but being at elevation in the summer can be very comfortable - FT means u can chase spring!

I'm in the middle, and I think it's even worse. I retired about a year ago, my wife has less then 1 to go. Almost had her convinced yesterday to take a month off and head south, but here we sit.

My situation is even more different than above. I have three more work days till I retire, but DW is A LOT younger than me. She is only 48. We're trying to eventually see if she can get a job where she can work from a computer and we'll do extended stays in various parts of the country.

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valhalla360
Navigator
Dec 27, 2014
I strongly suggest you lay out a plan and start working on it.
- 1. Set up a budget and track where everything goes today.
- 2. Determine what lifestyle you want.
- 3. Determine what that lifestyle will cost.
- 4. Compare where you are and what it will take to make steps 2 & 3 work at the same time.
- 5. Go back and refine steps 2 & 3 until you are comfortable with the results of step 4. (in other words balance how much time and effort are you willing to put in to get the lifestyle you expect)
- 6. Based on the results, start working towards that goal (but reassess periodically)

We went into semi-retirement (work part time for insurance) at age 37 (7yrs ago). We split time between our boat and our 5th wheel. Currently writing this from an apartment in Mexico and heading to Rome for a couple months in late January.
Splashers3
Explorer
Dec 27, 2014
Green728 - what a very nice post, for a lot of reasons...you've gotten some nice replies back.

I have 3-4 years until retirement, unless something changes and I need to keep working....wife, has a few more than I. I can't wait to put the miles on the rig also.

Enjoy what you have, and as was previously stated, it will come.

Mike
Pipeman
Explorer
Dec 27, 2014
I've been retired for going on 13 years now. I was one of the lucky ones who loved my job from the start to the finish, so I miss the people I worked with and the adrenalin rush of doing what I loved.I was able to retire at 56. That said, I will say don't push the retirement thing unless you are ready in your head and hopefully financially. Then there is the reality of looking forward to the golden years which aren't always golden. You'll be older and have aches and pains that you don't have now. Time will pass by really fast. Take what you have and live because you could look and feel like some of us do. What darsben said.......
LynnandCarol
Explorer
Dec 27, 2014
Been retired for 4 years and sometimes take the wonderful winters on the Gulf for granted! It is a wonderful post like yours that reminds us of how truly blessed we really our! Stay focused and you will be here sooner than you think...lol
Executive45
Explorer III
Dec 27, 2014
Retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be !!!

The biggest issue we've found since retiring and going full time is:

WE NEVER GET A DAY OFF !!...:B:B:B

Dennis
greende
Explorer II
Dec 27, 2014
My situation is even more different than above. I have three more work days till I retire, but DW is A LOT younger than me. She is only 48. We're trying to eventually see if she can get a job where she can work from a computer and we'll do extended stays in various parts of the country.
Padlin
Explorer
Dec 27, 2014
I'm in the middle, and I think it's even worse. I retired about a year ago, my wife has less then 1 to go. Almost had her convinced yesterday to take a month off and head south, but here we sit.
rmalik1
Explorer
Dec 27, 2014
Greene728 wrote:
Sitting here reading all these posts of you snow birds heading south for the winter is so depressing. I'm only 41 with quite a few years of work still ahead and the wife has a few more than me at 36 yrs of age. We get to camp quite a bit during the spring, summer, and fall months and absolutely love every day of every trip. I hope the Good Lord sees fit for us to someday be able to do this and travel around at least on a semi full time basis. I'd love to someday just be able to load and hook up with no timetable or specific destination in mind and just return when we are good and dang ready. We live in West Central GA though and we probably wouldn't have to snow bird though as our winters are generally mild. But it would be great to just head down to the gulf somewhere and spend the winter just cause we can! Lol.
Anyways, all of you fortune enough to do this, have some fun for us! Hopefully someday we will see some of you out there and stay with you till were good and ready to go whenever and wherever we want! In the mean time, we're just gonna have to settle with living vicariously through you all!

Safe travels to you all!

U may not have to snow bird in the winter but being at elevation in the summer can be very comfortable - FT means u can chase spring!
Paul_Clancy
Explorer
Dec 27, 2014
The real trick is to figure out how to retire at 41. I watch the big Rv pusher clubs come through some of the campgrounds we stay at and think I sure hope I have the energy they do when I retire.
darsben
Explorer II
Dec 27, 2014
I trade you if we can figure out how. I will become 41 years old and go back to work you will become 65 and retire.

You will be getting the short end of it very literally.

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