Choices after coming off the road ...

When we decided we wanted to spend our time on the road, we sold our mountain top home but kept our Adirondack lakeside vacation cottage that's been in the family since 1947. Over the years since retiring, as our travels permit, we've worked on remodeling it for year round living with an eye towards living there full time when the time comes to hang up the keys. Both of our daughters live nearby and help keep an eye on the place, as well seeing that the lawn gets mowed or the snow plowed as needed. Our annual costs for taxes, insurance, heat, electric, etc, only amount to a few thousand dollars per year, and most of that is covered by the interest and dividends from investing most of the house sale proceeds. The work is far enough along now that we could move in any time, but we still prefer living in our motorhome when we're there. We only sleep in the cottage when we're doing some interior work in the motorhome or taking it to a shop for maintenance of some sort. We added a full hookup RV site as one of our first projects after selling the house. It's not the sort of setup that appeals to everyone of course, but having a place we know we can call home when needed does give us peace of mind as we grow older.