I didn't buy an RV

Grit dog wrote:
Sounds awesome ghost rider!
There's a solid chance a liveaboard boat could enter our future if time and finances allow it down the road, after retirement.
18+ RVs in your past? No wonder you tired of them. Either you spent ALOT of time in them or spent a lot trading up every other year.
Either way, sounds like you're doing what you love. However I don't understand your subliminal dig on RVers...

We were rv'ers decades ago - about the time Airstream was bigger then than now. We bought and sold lots of them - moving from cramped to luxurious models to class A's and 5ers to schoolies. We converted several old schoolies.

Today an rv is a luxury item we can't afford to operate anymore. The last one in Mexico was worth $300k - it was broken into twice, finally stolen and burned by the cartel.

Where we lived last (Guyana) the price of fuel was USD$4.00/gal. Not many roads there so you couldn't get into the back country without lowering the tire pressure and crawling thru the swampy jungle for hours to reach a river site. The same site I might add that boaters could reach in less than an hour without traversing downed trees and jungle. In my mind that was just stupid.

We decided to sell the unit and get a boat. The offers came in from all over the area - we got for the first time in our history a cash deal $2k over asking. We settled and bought an old workboat. Fuel is less - around USD$3.19/gal and pure alcohol is about a dollar/gallon if we wanted to convert to it.

So we have given up the expense of the rv and a 100 gals/day use for an old work boat that will soon have a mast and sail and use 100 gals/week instead of per day. There's so much to see here it blows the mind.

I'm fielding questions now about the Amazon forest fires. They happen every year around this time and are no more than normal. Not as bad as the fires in Montana and along the Rockies. Whatever oxygen is produced there, is used there according to the locals.