66 too old to full time

An open ended subjective question, a lot depends on the person their general health and mindset (some folks are born old!). I'm 67, I have peers that were over the hill at 55, of course they'd spent 55 years abusing their bodies and some are just plainly unlucky. As for me, I'm expecting to keep going until I'm in my mid-80's assuming that my luck holds out. So far the only problems I've had is with skin cancer and that's from enjoying an active outdoors life all my life (nothing we do in life goes unpunished LOL).
I'm happy to say that I can still outhike several friends who are 20 years younger than me.

Steve

FWIW my late wife was a Cougar, our birthdays were August 12 & 13, she was exactly one year older than me. Lets here it for older women, YEEEHAAA!

Ed - we too plan to have a lot in a small southern Iowa town with a garage and parking pad for our rv that will be home base for the summer. It is large enough we could build a small house if need be. It is close to family so we can go to the grandkids ballgames. We will spend winters down south. Right now we go to southern Alabama.

I certainly hope 66 isn't too old since I am 66 now or at least for the next couple of weeks. I started full time a little over 4 years ago and wish I had done it years earlier. I have a home base site that I pay for on an annual basis even if I'm not on it, but it gives me someplace to go if I'm not off somewhere else. It is a residential lot in a small town with no zoning issues and belongs to my brother in law so the annual rent is cheap. While being parked on it isn't a s&b, it is "Home".

trop-a-cal wrote:
Full Timing is expensive, so much that it can eat through a fixed income. I wouldn't like you to get in a financial pinch at your age, so do the numbers, and remember as stick house increase in value RV's don't, they also get real small after being in a nice sized home. This is from a been there done that who saw the light after going full time and now am back to a home that is 6 times the size of an RV and increasing in value every day.

It does not have to be expensive. We full time, in our 60's, living on a budget and very happy not to have the work and expense of owning a home.

We go where we want and when we want. We do travel on a budget but haven't seemed to miss anything. The proceeds from the sale of the S&B are invested making us a nice bit of extra income and can be used for an escape plan if something goes squirrely.

Go ... Have fun ... Either way you won't have to go Should have, could have, wish we had later. JMHO :h

By the way did anyone notice the OP is a Cougar. She has a younger husband. You go girl. :W

Like many, we sold everything and bought our current rig when I retired at 65. Now coming up on 6 yrs full timing and hope to go for another 20. We take our oldest grandchildren with us for their summer vacations. They're now 14/15 and have been to 42 States. Gives us 'oldies' a chance to bond with them and they get to see a lot of this great country...our kids also keep track of where we are and fly to visit us whenever they can.....enjoy life.....Dennis

I was talking to a cousin, and he thought he was old and rich, until he joined a country club! Then he met a lot of older and richer people!

Go for it!

Living in a RV, you can travel to the warmer sections of the country in the winter, and cooler locations (out west for sure where it is less humid) in the summer! Your gas, electric and property tax bill combined will go down.

Check out Escapees.com They did not wait to retire to full time, rather he was a electrician, and full timed while home schooling the kids, and then started a RV camping club, that now owns several RV resorts! You can get lots of full timing advice there, and they can set up mail forwarding (unless your kids can do it for you) and other things.

Fred.

What? You are youngsters. Look about, pull up your trousers and get on with it!
Age is just a state of mind , to be conquered, not resigned to.

I met a fulltiming couple in their upper 80s about a year ago in Yosemite. They moved very slowly but they were still out there enjoying the good life, towing a Scamp with a short Sprinter.

I'm 67 and feel like I'm just this side of prime time.

I know up front that I'm not cut out for fulltiming, however, I will be retiring on Dec 31, 2014, and heading out to parts unknown, for months, maybe longer, at a time.

I will be keeping my home as a homebase, and just in case some unanticipated circumstance requires that I remain stationary for a while.

If, however, I decide in the future to full time, I'd still keep my home. It's a townhome in metro San Diego, so the HOA takes care of the maintenance, etc. I also like appreciating assets.

I say: GO FOR IT!