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CincyGus
Mar 08, 2014Explorer II
I'm in the planning stages as my wife and I are 7 years from retiring. We plan on selling the house and using the proceeds to buy the RV we will FT in. After 40 years of working 50-60 hours a week, I am blessed to have kept a great job that will give me a comfortable monthly pension we can live on along with having enough in a 401K to save as an exit strategy fund if or when it becomes necessary or desirable (if ever) to come off the road. This may be renting somewhere, buying a condo or park model trailer or just parking the RV in a park somewhere and putting the battery on a charger.
I guess about the only thing I have to add to this discussion is that you don't have to have an exit plan and we won't. We are looking forward to discovering what we want to do as we enter this next phase of life. We plan on traveling heavily the first year, seeing the great sights in the US that we have never visited. Work camping some while we are still able when the right opportunities come along that wont cramp our desires for too long. Through our visits to different places, we may find someplace that we decide would be perfect to settle down once we or if we decide to do that. Or we may find that chasing the perfect temp or visiting events and music festivals and BBQ cook offs or whatever else catches our eye or mind is too much fun to ever stop.
If I know anything for sure, it's that the best laid plans often never get used because something significant changes that makes them useless. That may be our desires, our health or some other factor that I can't even imagine right now or even in 7 years when we take the first step.
What is important is that you set aside an "EXIT FUND" so you have options when that moment comes that something changes. What everyone fears is being stuck with no choices and only their current situation when it is no longer working for them.
Hope this helps. Best of luck in your choices and travels!
I guess about the only thing I have to add to this discussion is that you don't have to have an exit plan and we won't. We are looking forward to discovering what we want to do as we enter this next phase of life. We plan on traveling heavily the first year, seeing the great sights in the US that we have never visited. Work camping some while we are still able when the right opportunities come along that wont cramp our desires for too long. Through our visits to different places, we may find someplace that we decide would be perfect to settle down once we or if we decide to do that. Or we may find that chasing the perfect temp or visiting events and music festivals and BBQ cook offs or whatever else catches our eye or mind is too much fun to ever stop.
If I know anything for sure, it's that the best laid plans often never get used because something significant changes that makes them useless. That may be our desires, our health or some other factor that I can't even imagine right now or even in 7 years when we take the first step.
What is important is that you set aside an "EXIT FUND" so you have options when that moment comes that something changes. What everyone fears is being stuck with no choices and only their current situation when it is no longer working for them.
Hope this helps. Best of luck in your choices and travels!
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