Would you do this ....

[Straight Arrow]

The thought of selling and buying it all is. Tbh the traveling sounds nice but not having home plate to go back to doesn't. That's just me.

I read about a couple with home base condo in Arizona, which they could leave for indefinite lengths of time. They traveled to South America, tropical isles, Alaska and many places, where they usually got a parttime job for months, getting to know the area, and recreating at their leisure.
My cousin and her husband owned a large RV which they moved from park to park, south in winter, north in summer, and sold various goods in a vagabond lifestyle which they really enjoyed. The total independence and freedom is appealing, but we also like our "home plate".

 

[noharleyyet]

I've always been enamored with the concept of portability and wanderlust, admittedly moreso during our paycheck to paycheck days. Nowadays we're ok with knowing we could do it but choose not to. As others have mentioned, accumulated stuff, better creature comforts, and more importantly for us...adult children and grandchildren.

 

[Mallardsx2]

I lived in a camper for 2.5 years. Never again. EVER.

 

[Nick87]

I read about a couple with home base condo in Arizona, which they could leave for indefinite lengths of time. They traveled to South America, tropical isles, Alaska and many places, where they usually got a parttime job for months, getting to know the area, and recreating at their leisure.
My cousin and her husband owned a large RV which they moved from park to park, south in winter, north in summer, and sold various goods in a vagabond lifestyle which they really enjoyed. The total independence and freedom is appealing, but we also like our "home plate".

I'd imagine by the time I'm able to retire there'll be grandkids or close anyhow. Can't imagine not being around to help.

 

[BigHornRam]

After spending the past fall working on the new "home base" living in a travel trailer, here are a couple things I learned. Light travel trailers are nice for towing, but they lack insulation. They heat up quickly, and get cold quickly. Temps this fall ranged from 95 to 10 degrees. Both extremes were not fun, but having to shut down the water system when it got too cold was the most difficult. Wife will not like this at all!

I am really looking forward to landscaping the property, growing a garden, and doing camping trips closer to the home base than further away.

The sunrises, and sunsets from this spot are going to be hard to beat anywhere else in the world, that is for sure.

 

[Straight Arrow]

I'd imagine by the time I'm able to retire there'll be grandkids or close anyhow. Can't imagine not being around to help.

During initial Bozeman growth spurt we put our place up for sale as a golf course and huge residential development was proposed right past our place with only one road for all traffic ... right in front of our place! Development proposal was denied, then four grandkids came along, all close by. I retired and became a grandpa daycare and hiking, biking, hunting, fishing, river splashing guide and fun-master. Grandkids have been the light of life! I can't imagine not having been around for that.

 

[noharleyyet]

During initial Bozeman growth spurt we put our place up for sale as a golf course and huge residential development was proposed right past our place with only one road for all traffic ... right in front of our place! Development proposal was denied, then four grandkids came along, all close by. I retired and became a grandpa daycare and hiking, biking, hunting, fishing, river splashing guide and fun-master. Grandkids have been the light of life! I can't imagine not having been around for that.View attachment 350165

4 papaw biographies right there....

 

[WildWill]

I could do a year or two in Alaska winter and all. A nice cozy cabin or other dwelling with a good wood burning stove but not in a camper especially with the wife.

 

[Moserkr]

Go to Alaska, enjoy the short good months up there. Then follow the migration of birds South, hunting them as they go. That was my Grandpa's dream at least which he never did, but starting in Canada. No sense in torturing yourself through an AK winter when you can leave.

 

[Straight Arrow]

4 papaw biographies right there....

You have no idea of the absurd pridefulness! Oldest one was Big Sky Region No. 1 All-Around College Rodeo Cowboy 2023 ... and the bios go on and on! You'd get tired of hearing me blather on and on for sure.

 

[noharleyyet]

I could probably spend a year in AK with my ex...in one week.

 

[Hunting Wife]

As far as living through a northern winter in a trailer in AK, if can be done. Lots of people did it here in the Bakken during the boom, albeit it looked miserable and they were mostly single guys. -40 in a trailer though poses lots of logistical challenges. But what I think might be harder would be living in a trailer with so many hours of dark. I mean, days here get pretty short in winter, but I have a garage and extra space to have ongoing projects and hobbies to occupy the dark hours. Not having the space for such, I would be stir crazy in short order.

 

[shrapnel]

Absolutely not...

 

[Bowhuntrben]

If serious, I would consider a tiny house instead. Much better insulation. I lived in one for a bit while we were looking for a house in the dead of winter in Minnesota. It is now at the hunting land and is our hunting shack. We got ours basically for the cost of materials because an area high school built it as a project, and we were the only bidders on it.

 

[Brittany Chukarman]

Not only no, but hell no. I spent years working towards what I have now. I hope to be buried right here on my place.

 

[CRJR45]

No kids for me , the wife has two and two GK's but they're 1200 miles away now . Even still , I've never been one to live vicariously through my stepkids or grandkids . Never understood that .

OK , I'll revise it to spend the summer in Ak and winter south .

 

[noharleyyet]

No kids for me , the wife has two and two GK's but they're 1200 miles away now . Even still , I've never been one to live vicariously through my stepkids or grandkids . Never understood that .

OK , I'll revise it to spend the summer in Ak and winter south .

It's not vicarious...trust me.

 

[CRJR45]

It's not vicarious...trust me.

Well I should've worded that better , never had the family experience so I'm hardly the one to say , sorry if it was insultive ?

 

[noharleyyet]

Well I should've worded that better , never had the family experience so I'm hardly the one to say , sorry if it was insultive ?

Not at all insulted CRJR...it's not a one size fits all thing.