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[jannted]

Ok we are looking at this lifestyle and so much to commend it.
However 
What happens when you get to 80 and have to have your drivers license reviewed and renewed...
this happens in Ontario Canada...not sure where else it happens...
So what happens if they decide your eye sight or whatever is not up to par..and your are on your own or your partner is in the same  boat..You are in an RV or car and trailer, or camper...no permanent home...
Has this happened to anyone out there?

 

[rvpopeye]

Welcome aboard the good ship CRVL.

That's a bridge that I'll only cross when (and if) I get there.
Not losing any sleep worrying........

 

[highdesertranger]

Welcome jannted to the CRVL forums! To help you learn the ins and outs of these forums, this "Tips & Tricks" post lists some helpful information to get you started. We look forward to hearing more from you. I really don't have an answer to your question but I am sure others will chime in. highdesertranger

 

[BobBski]

I've thought about that phase of my life. I'll hopefully realize myself that I'm no longer in any shape to drive and pull myself off the road for the welfare of others...time to get an apartment or assisted living. My hopes are that I go to sleep one night while boondocking and never wake up. Life is good, but it's going to end someday sooo...I'm not gonna dwell on such things and enjoy the moment.

 

[ArtW]

Welcome to CRVL
That is something most of us probably don't consider, and i sure don't have an answer
I guess we either got back to S&B or find another path to freedom

 

[BobBski]

Oops., just noticed this was your first post.... Welcome and enjoy. May you create and enjoy many great memories.

 

[Steph]

I'd suggest a permanent park
Steph

 

[cyndi]

Join escapees. they have an residential living park in TX. Just pull your RV in.

http://www.escapeescare.org/benefit.php

Welcome to CRVL!

 

[Almost There]

Welcome to the forum from another Ontario resident! Darn near enough of us here now for our own little RTR...

I've always figured that when I get to the point where I can no longer drive freely all over the continent that I'll have to settle down in 2 spots - one in Canada for my six months and one in the US.

If I'm ever to the point where I cannot drive myself then I can either fly back and forth or have someone drive me each way. Hell would be Greyhound bus trips but if it ever came to that, so be it.

When the day comes that I cannot even manage that..well then it's either a nursing home or a long walk in the bush!

However, even with those plans conceived, I'm also doing everything in my power to stay active, healthy and fit so that it's all just Plan B, C and D and may never need to be implemented.

Don't let a fear of what might happen sometime in the future get in the way of living well today!

 

[jannted]

Join escapees. they have an residential living park in TX. Just pull your RV in.

http://www.escapeescare.org/benefit.php

Welcome to CRVL!

We are Canadian and have a home there. Have a place in Florida. But can only stay 6 months. 
No RV yet.

 

[jannted]

Welcome to the forum from another Ontario resident! Darn near enough of us here now for our own little RTR...

I've always figured that when I get to the point where I can no longer drive freely all over the continent that I'll have to settle down in 2 spots - one in Canada for my six months and one in the US.

If I'm ever to the point where I cannot drive myself then I can either fly back and forth or have someone drive me each way. Hell would be Greyhound bus trips but if it ever came to that, so be it.

When the day comes that I cannot even manage that..well then it's either a nursing home or a long walk in the bush!

However, even with those plans conceived, I'm also doing everything in my power to stay active, healthy and fit so that it's all just Plan B, C and D and may never need to be implemented.

Don't let a fear of what might happen sometime in the future get in the way of living well today!

We have that now. Home in Canada, home in Florida. 
Im interested in hearing more about where you go in Canada.

 

[Almost There]

Because of family responsibilities that are now over, I came back to where I'd been living in the near north of Ontario and booked in to a no frills campground for the six months I have to be here. It's simply a place to park my van and myself when I'm not somplace else...

Next spring when I return to Ontario it will only be for long enough to say goodbye to my friends and hook up the cargo trailer before heading west to move to BC.

I get restless so I've taken a couple of little roadtrips this summer but truthfully with the price of gas and having lived here in Ontario all my life, there was little sightseeing to be done. I escaped the black fiy season this spring by doing a slow crawl along the shore of Lake Erie, up around Lake St. Clair and up the coastline to Goderich before heading back to the Near North.

This past week I took off and went up the Bruce Peninsula to Tobermory, took the ferry to Manitoulin Island and then explored it for a couple of days before heading back home.

When I leave out of here in a couple of weeks I'm headed east to see Ottawa since I haven't been there in 40 years, then will head eastward out the Gaspe Pennisula as far as I get until November 8th when I can cross the border and head south. I'm doing the Appalachian mountains on my way southbound before heading west/southwest for the winter.