Plenty of mid life or past it, with assets, trying to decide what next, how best to go about it. There's also plenty of posts on how much one needs to live comfortably and it varies greatly on what, where and how you ride live and eat, insurance, maintenance ect ect, it all boils down to personal choices. Renting the house didn't work for me, being screwed royally once was enough thanks! Selling up and throwing caution to the wind is risqué also. Finding a happy medium, passive income to afford the "lifestyle" is the key. Once said key is found (give me a shout will ya) is coming back home really a must? For me not, well not for the foreseeable future anyway! Again a very personal choice. As far as the dog goes, now that's a tough one, a decision only you can make, try ask the dog, but I guess we all know the answer to that one :-)

Mate, you might find this kind of life gets old.....what you are really talking about is being a motorcycle tramp.

OK when you are at a certain point in life, either young or retired, but it gets to be very hard work after a certain point.

Also, one has to do something; being a permanent tourist, living a peripatetic life, not for me. But that's just me. I like to do a finite trip and come back. I really thought of liquidating everything and just going, but I don't think that is for me at this point in time. Maybe in a year or two I will think differently....

Probably :innocent:



Motorcycle Tramp..... I like that haha.

I think we all dream of escaping reality and living a care free life. But the reality is quite different once you're out there doing it. Once the novelty wears off, it gets quite annoying living out of a leaky tent, getting showers in rest stops, never having clean clothes and never really having friends because you're always moving. It can get a bit pointless unless you have a destination or a real motivation. Drifting is just drifting.

I get home sick after about 5-6 months. Travelling can be quite a cliche these days. What I really miss is familiarity and being able to turn off my brain and feel comfortable in my own place. That's hard to do when you're always moving and in new strange places.

What also gets really tiring for me whilst away is going through the routine and meeting new people EVERYDAY.

"Hi, what's your name, where do you come from, where did you come from and where are you going"

As much as I love meeting people from different walks of life, you know that you will say goodbye a day or two later and probably never see them again. It's shallow and not good for the soul It becomes draining. I think that's why I like travelling with people that I know I already like instead of being forced to be polite even if I'm tired and in a shitty mood etc.


However, it doesn't have to be that way... I suppose if I was going to live a hobo life on the road then I would seek out communties and communes. Work or volunteer on long projects etc. HelpX is something I still want to do. Maybe I will...

With your set of skills, manual labour, farming, construction, ground maintenance, plumbing, I think you could find accommodation/food forever by using Workaway.info the site for free work exchange. Gap year volunteer for food and accommodation whilst travelling abroad.. Honest.

I now have a cabin in Chile. I'm trying the six months on, six months off gig for a few years. Pluses and minuses. The big minus is the 'flow' is missing. You always have to return to take care of stuff. Traditional nomads do a circular route, just like American/English snow-birds, heading different places at different times of the year. You can't keep doing new, new, new all the time, too exhausting.

I lived on the road (in a van with two dogs) for about six years-happiest years of my life! If you want info on traveling with your dog, join the fb group I set up called Animal Travelers. Free books, lots of free advice. Over 200 members.

Yup I did
 

Quit my job this year sold my bike collection and the kitchen sink put a few bits in storage and set off to the USA with my partner for 6 months, we are getting ready to go back to the UK to wait for my bike te return and then I will head off around Europe on my own for as long as it takes, not sure where after that trying to go to as many places as possible. Want to go back to usa again and also hope to do South America Canada and Alaska.

Don't SELL up just RENT it out my friend. Been there and regretted it big time..!!! Not sure if the rental money would fully fund your travels but it would certainly sustain you for the majority....

Hold on, wait a minute..... This thread is 5 years old, WTF...????

Some questions never end.