roadjunkie wrote:
Old-Biscuit wrote:
When we 'announced' we were going to hit the road FT, sell the S&B and EVERYTHING our family/friends were pro/con.
Her brothers were divided.....1 is a avid camper/backpacker/hiker and he was jealous. The others were home bodies and just couldn't comprehend the idea of no Home.
My brother was like that also, my sister was envious---she had spent many years traveling working/living in motels so she got it.
Friends were confused....sell your house and live in a 5th wheel. Then they saw the 5th wheel after we brought it home and after a couple of conversations about WHAT we were planning on doing (traveling the back roads...seeing the USA) they wished us well and a couple of them began checking out FT RVng, but they were several years out from retirement.
Even some campers we have visited with across the USA didn't get it.
I don't get the fascination with video games or tweeting/snapchat or any of those other things that keep folks faces glued to their phones :H :S
Good for you, Old-Biscuit. I just bought a small TT last week and am heading back to Texas with it in tow for a change of pace now. After spending a couple of weeks in Big Bend National Park, and the ghost town of Terlingua, I knew I would be going back to spend more time there. Being originally from Arizona, I love the desert mountains and canyons of the southwest and had no idea that west Texas could provide that. Now I have a place to stay when I decide to head west.
As for me full timing it, I sold my home last November and bought a sailboat to live aboard on the Gulf of Mexico (Aransas Bay). That'll really slow your life down when you travel at walking speed and, when the wind is brisk, there's nothing like the feel of that vessel heeling over about 15 degrees and she accelerates across the water with silence except for the sound of the wind in the sails.
I have learned how to appreciate life more since giving up my material life in exchange for simplicity and getting rid of useless, material things, or "Stuff" as George Carlin used to say. I can now haul everything that I own and I love that freedom.
I do love the sail boat experience!
