Six Years & Counting

[KEITH_]

Hello Everyone,

Have been checking out the site and thought I might as well jump in. I've been doing the go it alone thing since I was seventeen. So now that retirement is on the horizon, let's start traveling. Stateside that is/been round the world and driven cross country twice (once by myself) but never saw anything (Navy military on a timeline). Now I want to take my time and see/do things. Grew up camping every summer without running water, no electricity, and a outhouse. Living on a Navy ship for ten years I now know how to survive in a small space. And I was a Navy cook. Six years and counting and making plans to purchase the van and get it ready. See you all out there!

KEITH

 

[PastTense]

Welcome!

Any thoughts of doing it part-time now on weekends and vacations instead of waiting 6 years?

 

[KEITH_]

You have no idea how much that would be pleasurable. Well I have to much time invested in the retirement plan.

 

[blkjak]

welcome....blkjak

 

[Patrick46]

You have no idea how much that would be pleasurable. Well I have to much time invested in the retirement plan.

you mean, you don't get your weekends free, and you don't take vacations either??

I don't understand what needs to be given up??




....are you incarcerated????


Welcome from Oregon!!

 

[akrvbob]

I understand your position. I had to stay at a job until I was old enough to retire plus I had to wait until my youngest was old enough to be on his own. The year he turned 18, I was on the road!

If you are in one posting long enough, could you get a van and start traveling in it now on your leave time? If so, that's a good way to ease into it.
Bob

 

[Vic.]

Yep, that's a lot of prep time.

 

[SoulRaven]

Being a Navy guy what about a sailboat?

They are pretty much giving them away in Florida.

If you go with a 25’ Venture with a swing keel with a trailer you can live on land or water.

You can trailer to Lake Ontario in the summer and be in SW Florida using a marina in Goodland to park your truck and trailer.

 

[KEITH_]

Thanks for the welcome.

Bob, you are correct while I did retire from the Navy (nine of those years on carriers, never a sailboat). I've been at this job since 1996 and need twenty to get the retirement and then social at 62. The plan is to use the 401K to buy and outfit a high top van. But can't get that until 59 1/2. So in the mean time I've been pricing equipment and reading different options from the experts. You all. So unless an inheritance drops out of the sky I'm stuck with this plan. The old saying "money talks bs walks". Daughter getting married, need to finish mortgage and truck payments. So there is the six years. it is a lot of prep time but mostly dreaming. Oh, and for Patrick, never incarcerated.

 

[Patrick46]

sorry Keith....I was just being cheeky!

 

[KEITH_]

No harm, no foul Patrick. I realize six years is rather extreme but I just wanted to get into the game. There is a lot of areas to cover to do a conversion the right way. I would not be good to be unprepared.