airborne_spoon
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I'll be living in my trailer full time in a few months an i have a few places i plan to go but nothing after that? How do y'all determine where to travel to, and how long to stay there?
Yeah my plan is for about 200-300 miles a day. I'll be retiring in April so free time is the only time I'll have. In CA the winter winds are intense at least in So-Cal where I am, so be aware of that whenever y'all come this way.I’m still working so we can only roll out when I have vacation. Living in southwest Florida, it takes a couple days to get anywhere. That limits our trips to about New Mexico west and Pennsylvania north for the typical 10 day vacation trip. I don’t like to exceed 250 miles a day (might miss Happy Hour).
So far it’s just a few days in each location, or maybe just one night.
When I retire in 3 years, look out! Wife and I plan on California (winter), Idaho and New England (summer), with weeks-long stays.
To answer your question, we like to eat regional food and plan our stops/stays accordingly.
I like nice weather in the middle of winter, so I go just about anywhere that has warm weather this time of year. I am not picky about where I go. I will stay here for a week and then to Anza Borrego Desert State Park.I'll be living in my trailer full time in a few months an i have a few places i plan to go but nothing after that? How do y'all determine where to travel to, and how long to stay there?
I took an early retirement at 57 and part of the process was attending a preretirement seminar. One of the things that we were taught was that one needs to have at least a few plans and goals in order to measure the success of our time. I suggest that you first consider what things you enjoy and and what your hobbies are. One of the things that I have always enjoyed is wildlife related activities so we spent a lot of our time as resident volunteers at national wildlife refuges around the country. We would visit the USFWS volunteer site and look for refuges in areas that we had never been and contact them. You may also want to consider signing up for information from Volunteer.Gov to get information on a long list of possible places to volunteer. If that sort of thing isn't of interest to you, you might want to play golf in each state, visit major league baseball parks, state capitals, or maybe see how many of our national parks and monuments you can visit. We also mixed parks, national monuments, and historic sites into our planning. We usually planned to spend at least a month in any major targeted area and often as much as 3 months. We would try to visit everything of interest within 100 or 200 miles of each of our stops. We always planned to travel into the north in the summers and somewhere south for winters. There are so many opportunities to volunteer, or to just visit new areas. You must have had dreams in your younger days of places you wanted to see and things that you dreamed of doing that you can now use to develop your plans?How do y'all determine where to travel to, and how long to stay there?
Such as here, 200 feet below sea level. Very nice sunny day here with a light wind. 67F here right now, 72F for tomorrow with a real feel of 73F. As shown here.then you have to check the elevation.
I will be retired at 38 so I'll have quite a bit of wandering around time before i get around to settling down. I've thought about volunteering for Spartan races to get a crapload of free races then see how many trifectas i can do in 1 year. My goal for 2022 was to do 2 trifectas which i was successful and even did an extra 2x 15k tough mudders too.I took an early retirement at 57 and part of the process was attending a preretirement seminar. One of the things that we were taught was that one needs to have at least a few plans and goals in order to measure the success of our time. I suggest that you first consider what things you enjoy and and what your hobbies are. One of the things that I have always enjoyed is wildlife related activities so we spent a lot of our time as resident volunteers at national wildlife refuges around the country. We would visit the USFWS volunteer site and look for refuges in areas that we had never been and contact them. You may also want to consider signing up for information from Volunteer.Gov to get information on a long list of possible places to volunteer. If that sort of thing isn't of interest to you, you might want to play golf in each state, visit major league baseball parks, state capitals, or maybe see how many of our national parks and monuments you can visit. We also mixed parks, national monuments, and historic sites into our planning. We usually planned to spend at least a month in any major targeted area and often as much as 3 months. We would try to visit everything of interest within 100 or 200 miles of each of our stops. We always planned to travel into the north in the summers and somewhere south for winters. There are so many opportunities to volunteer, or to just visit new areas. You must have had dreams in your younger days of places you wanted to see and things that you dreamed of doing that you can now use to develop your plans?
We spent 12 years on the road fulltime and in those years we spent 1 month or more in 39 states and spent a week or more in 49. We visited 34 national parks and 36 national monuments, and many state, county and assorted other parks and historic sites. I only wish that we were still on the road but age and health issues got in the way.
I have the free lifetime national parks pass (America the beautiful or whatever its called) so I'll prob use that a few times, i just wish it gave a discount on camping not just free entry. But the NV pass is nice as it gives free entry and camping and its only $30/year.I suggest seeing some of the National Parks and Monuments. Get a yearly pass or a one off seniors pass if you're eligible.
That would be a good start to a plan. If you were to route to a few of those locations, you could then fill that in with things like brewery visits and maybe a race or two. As to brewing beer on the road, Mark Nemeth of the Escapees organization used to brew beer in his fifth wheel when he was fulltime. Just find a spot that you could enjoy for 6 weeks or so and move once it has been bottled.I was thinking of hiking the tallest peak in each state even though places like Florida 350 ft is the highest point lol.
Yeah if i had something large like a truck and a 5th wheel i could see easily brewing. but my space is a bit more condensed so i have to use it efficiently. Just sitting at home looking at my brewing stuff it takes up a good bit of space. So I'm done brewing till i get around to buying a house somewhere.That would be a good start to a plan. If you were to route to a few of those locations, you could then fill that in with things like brewery visits and maybe a race or two. As to brewing beer on the road, Mark Nemeth of the Escapees organization used to brew beer in his fifth wheel when he was fulltime. Just find a spot that you could enjoy for 6 weeks or so and move once it has been bottled.
Surly at 38 years old you still have a few things that you haven't yet done which you would enjoy?
Would that include Alaska? That will be above 20,000 feet!I was thinking of hiking the tallest peak in each state even though places like Florida 350 ft is the highest point lol.
Have they fixed the problems with the river/creek water there yet?-like Zion,