I want to buy a house so if I do travel, I have a home base. My fear is travelling to the end of my monetary resources and having nothing in the end. If I buy a house first, at least there is always that fall back position.
Hrmmm- that’s part of the problem, isn’t it? I have always played it safe. Always having a backup plan.
As I read the blogs of various vandwellers and RV’ers, I’ve noticed they tend to either get off the road after a year or two, or at least quit blogging about it. That’s the fear part for me. What about the end of the road trip? How would I get back into society with a job, housing, insurance, etc..
Not following your dreams would be sinful, wouldn’t it?
Personally, (I haven't gotten further up in your blog yet, maybe a decision has already been made?) I wouldn't worry about a Home Base that you own. When I was in my van last year, I had a home base at a friends house. In the church parking lot across the back alley. When you live in an RV, you are already home, and here's the best part: You don't have all those pesky bills, and the gov't doesn't own you.
ReplyDeleteA house costs money. More than an RV, and there's the chance of say you don't find a decent paying job, and the bank comes looking for the late mortgage payments, and decides, as they have for so many others, to take the house?
If you want to travel, don't worry about a home base in that sense. Friends (in all cases I have read, and my own experience) are willing to let you park on the driveway if you need to. You can also work where ever you travel, in parks, some simple job somewhere in the town, heck, depending on your profession, you may even be able to work for someone through the net.
"My fear is travelling to the end of my monetary resources and having nothing in the end."
ReplyDeleteAgreed.
My husband died 18 months ago (yesterday). This past spring I went to Europe for the first time to visit family. One cousin (also newly widowed) offered to travel Europe with me, and another cousin offered to let me live in their idyllic Swiss property in the mountains with them. For a few months I struggled with the idea of quitting my job, selling my house and living there for a year.
The problem was knowing that I'd eventually have to come back.
"What about the end of the road trip? How would I get back into society with a job, housing, insurance, etc..
Not following your dreams would be sinful, wouldn’t it?"
It's a painful struggle and here I am. In a lovely home that is ridiculously too large for me, in a good job that I no longer want.
At some point I need to muster the strength to walk away and be free.