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Excuse #9: Logistics
Mail. Bills. Taxes. Banking. Voting. How does one handle all of these logistical things when you don’t have a physical fixed home address? It’s amazing how many mundane details in life are dependent upon having an address. When contemplating becoming intentionally homeless and embarking on a life of travel, trying to muddle through all of these [...]
Continue reading...Answers to Common Excuses not to Travel Full-Time
26 January 2010
Oftentimes when folks hear what we’re up to – we get the response of ‘You’re living my dream!’. To which we of course reply ‘Then why aren’t you doing it too?’. We are in process of compiling our responses to the common excuses that folks give us to that question, some very valid. We aim to share [...]
Continue reading...Excuses #8: Romance/Companionship
25 January 2010
Relationships. Romance. Partnership. Marriage. Sex. Companionship. To many, those things are just as essential to life as water or oxygen. What sort of impact will living a nomadic life have on your current relationships? Or on your prospects for finding one? Today I am returning to fleshing out my ‘Answers to Common Excuses Not to Travel‘ series of [...]
Continue reading...Excuses #7: Community
19 August 2009
Us humans are social creatures, and we tend form and value communities of like minded people. Whether it be via hobbies, spirituality, family, friends, special interests, sports, school, work, volunteerism, or what not – when you live in a stationary place, you tend to form connections with people around you that become important to you, and [...]
Continue reading...Excuses #6: Pets
6 July 2009
I’m a cat person, and always have been. When Chris and I set out for our first seven month trial run of traveling together in 2007, we decided that my cat Alma was not meant to be a traveling cat. Alma never enjoyed car trips (or Hurricane evacuations!), and it just didn’t seem right to try [...]
Continue reading...Excuses #5: Environmental Impact
18 May 2009
This part of our growing series of our answers to the common excuses that folks give us for not getting out there and living the full time traveling lifestyle they want. You can catch the full series, which currently includes Jobs & Careers, Affording It, Stuff and Family. An ever increasing number of people are growing [...]
Continue reading...Excuses #4: Family
30 April 2009
Family, biological or intentional, are a mighty important part of life - whether you are focused on staying connected to them, or sometimes trying to stay as far from them as possible. And we often hear that placing a focus on family is a reason that people don't travel as much as they would otherwise like.
Continue reading...Excuses #3: Stuff
21 April 2009
We’re conditioned in our society to acquire stuff. Our culture and economy often seems to revolve around this quest. And no matter how large a space we have, we can easily fill that space with stuff. It seems to be a universal law – the amount of “stuff” you have expands to fill all available [...]
Continue reading...Excuses #2: Affording It
6 April 2009
People often associate a high price tag with traveling. I think they often take the typical cost of a weeklong vacation and use that as a basis as what it might cost to travel full time.
Continue reading...Excuses #1: Jobs & Career
27 March 2009
In America, traveling full time is something that seems to be by default left for retirement after a career – when life savings, pension and social security can pay for the base expenses. Full Time RVing is a lifestyle that generations ahead of ours have been exploring for sometime, and have thankfully paved many of [...]
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