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Originally Posted by anotherbiker
I'm just interested really. Maybe it just comes down to having the balls to put all the middle aged worries about savings, pensions and mortgages to one side and just doing it. Maybe I'll never be adventurous enough to actually do that, but I'm still interested in how people made the transition from a normal 9-5 life to a life traveling.
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Its really a difficult question and there is no real simple answer.
Being financially secure into retirement is very important given our life expectancy is well into the eighties now. What my partner and I decided is that we would build our super up and pay off the house so we can retire early with a transition to retirement from age 55. We have a food van that we do every second weekend to bring in some extra $$
By 60 we should be retired from full time work and will keep doing our food van in the holidays to bring in some more $$.
We will then rent the house out for six months and head OS which will help pay for our trips.
In the meantime we keep an eye out for cheap airfares and head OS for a few weeks every year to somewhere different. Our soft panniers are our travel luggage and we hire a bike for a week or so when we are OS. It scratches the itch.
Barring a serious illness like cancer I would hope a good 15yrs of active travel together seeing the rest of the world.
Just my 2c and of course not everyones cup of tea.
cheers and have fun
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