I just checked to see when the last blog post was and can’t
believe it was in January!
I sit here at 4:30 in the morning, “sleepless in New Jersey”.
I haven’t been sleeping very well lately, as our pending departure date is coming
nearer and nearer, we have a tentative date of September or sooner that we want
to be on the road fulltime, but there seems to be so many things to do before
then.
We still have a house full of things even though we have
gotten rid of quite a lot. But there are many items too good to throw away and
very few have taken me up on my freebies. I still have several vehicles, cars,
boat, scooters, bikes and more to sell.
I/we are having a
difficult time deciding on what we want to bring with us and the reality of
what we can fit in our Motorhome. Do we go with a car for a “toad” or for now, keep
my scooter and buy a trailer to tow it and other items? Unfortunately we can’t
have both and won’t know for certain until we’re out in the real world of
Fulltiming. There are so many things to consider when you decide to make your
“camper” into your fulltime home, like how to stay connected on the road, your
mail, your Domiciled “home state”, auto & health Insurance, banking, etc.
Today, I was watching a “Ramblings Tales from Nomads” video named
“Co-Bear”, produced by one of our favorite Fulltiming couples Cherie and Chris
of “Technomadia” (see link below) In where the husband of the couple being
interviewed says…. “Anything, anything you want to do you can do, all you have
to do is want to do it bad enough to do it”. Our sentiments exactly!
Yes we are seriously determined and will get there. So keep
checking back to see our progress as we continue to get closer and closer to
living our dream.
I sympathize completely. When we retired in October of '11 we had a 6500 sq ft 1923 former school to sell. We lived there and I had a business there (photographer with studio and props) and we were moving into a 200 sq ft Winnebago Journey -- figure it out, we had to downsize to less than -5% of our original size and we sweated bullets for months. We ended up doing an estate sale (one of my models was a professional estate sale agent) and by the time we got the house sold (18 months later) we were small enough to fit everything we owned into our RV plus one small closet worth of belongings that 'live' with our daughter.
ReplyDeleteYou CAN do anything you want, if you want it enough -- well, maybe except for towing too many items down the road from a single tow vehicle! There are rules about that stuff. :-)
The only word of advice I would give is to be brutally honest with yourself about what you want and need. Living in the RV full time will be a lot different than living in it over the weekend. Over weekends you can put up with the absence of some of those 'wants' that we all think we can live without when we downsize. We realized that our original purchase had been right for what we THOUGHT we were going to do in retirement -- the problem being that after we got on the road our intended lifestyle changed and we ended up doing very different things than we anticipated -- and ended up trading RV's after 2 1/2 years.
Don't fool yourself. Don't look at what works for others. Figure out what you plan to do and have the guts and discipline to execute to get yourself there.
It's really simple -- you just have to want it enough -- meaning you have to KNOW what you want first. At that point the sacrifices are easy.
Cheers,
Ppazucha
Ppazucha, Thanks for the supportive comments and advise, being brutally honest about what we actually need as apposed to want is the most difficult thing, Parting with items we've had for years, saying we'll find a spot for this or that, when in reality there just isn't enough room for everything. But we're getting there, it's just taking longer than we expected. Greg
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