Full-time

[Billiebob]

Anyone here live full time Overlanding?

Me and my wife will be transitioning to that life style next week. We will periodically get a hotel room for a night or two,but mainly we will live on the road.

Any input will be great.

Thanks
Jess

Wish I had the balls to sell it all and go overland full time but family, wife, kids, always overcame that wish.

Kudos to you and enjoy.

Work and security were likely the biggest obstacles for me.
The mental challenge.

 

[JAM420]

Anyone here live full time Overlanding?

Me and my wife will be transitioning to that life style next week. We will periodically get a hotel room for a night or two,but mainly we will live on the road.

Any input will be great.

Thanks
Jess

Wish I had the balls to sell it all and go overland full time but family, wife, kids, always overcame that wish.

Kudos to you and enjoy.

Work and security were likely the biggest obstacles for me.
The mental

Thanks.

 

[JAM420]

Sounds like you have a planned layer out. Good luck with your adventures.

Yes, after the past 3 years working retail for no money, putting up with crap from customers, and bosses.....I am offically done. I will figure out how to make that amount of money doing my own thing. Not like I was getting rich or anything anyways. Making 400 bucks a week then having taxes taken out of that, I think I can do that no problem doing my own thing! That leaves me with family time when I want where I want. No answering to anyone, Having to get docked pay for taking an hour to do something for my sons. Or, getting reamed over calling in well before work in the morning when we had a snow storm, my wife was starting a new job and could not stay home with my son because school was closed and my parents live 30 mins away at our cottage so they are not driving down from there to look after him. I got so much shit for staying home that morning. It was a freaking snow storm and they had like three customers at work. That day after I came out of the managers office, I made my mind up then that I was done working for someone else and I would make it on my own. Which is what I will do!

The hardest part of any of this journey has been taking the 1st step and just doing it.

 

[Murphy Slaw]

I couldn't imagine not having a "home". Meaning a house with some land. I've owned land since I was old enough (18) to sign a contract. I always pay it off quickly so it's really mine.

Well, except for the property taxes, which is actually like "rent"........

 

[El-Dracho]

We moved into an RV 4 years ago and although we don’t travel full time we do stay for long stretches of time in a lot of different places. It takes away all of the monotony of staying put but maintains some stability. This is a much less expensive way to live which enables us to do fun things when we want. There is still that corporate feeling to my job while my wife home schools the kids but that’s the trade off. We don’t frivolously buy things due to the space constraints which is also a benefit. Once we get a few things in order and my work contract ends our plan is to spend a few years traveling as a family before our kids go off to college or whatever they choose. After that who knows. That is our American dream.

Wonderful! Enjoy it!

 

[Hourless Life]

Thanks for the mention Mike Rose. We have been fulltime traveling since February 2014. We are preparing to overland the globe as we speak. We will be doing an Ask Me Anything tonight. If you are interested, you can follow us on IG at @hourlesslife or on Facebook. Also if you'd rather not do that, I'm happy to answer any questions about the lifestyle that I can for you.

Respectfully,

Eric Highland
Hourless Life (Formerly Jeepsies)

 

[MMc]

I know a number of people that are or have been on the road. Each has their own story and are interesting people. I just meet the couple at Tiny Home Adventure, they produce a YouTube series. They live on the road in a homemade earth roamer.
I also meet a couple that live in a Moho for the last 5 years heading to a beach to kite for the season.
I am planing to drive the southern side of The Pan American in a few years. 6 to 7 years down and back. I’ll be using a pop top camper for ease if I can figure out my kayak and surfboards.

 

[Lil Bear]

What do you do for work?

Operations manager for a cooperate housing and furniture company.

 

[Autism Family Travels]

Operations manager for a cooperate housing and furniture company.

figure out how to parlay that into remote or self employment.

 

[NVHoonigan]

We moved into an RV 4 years ago and although we don’t travel full time we do stay for long stretches of time in a lot of different places. It takes away all of the monotony of staying put but maintains some stability. This is a much less expensive way to live which enables us to do fun things when we want. There is still that corporate feeling to my job while my wife home schools the kids but that’s the trade off. We don’t frivolously buy things due to the space constraints which is also a benefit. Once we get a few things in order and my work contract ends our plan is to spend a few years traveling as a family before our kids go off to college or whatever they choose. After that who knows. That is our American dream.

This is slowly becoming my wife and I's American dream also. Due to covid my job has transitioned from a desk in an office to a work from home setup and she is a manager for a restaurant chain and can transfer anywhere in the country. We already have a 21' trailer we take camping as often as possible but the idea of being able to change your surroundings whenever you like is very enticing!

 

[GordyP]

This is slowly becoming my wife and I's American dream also. Due to covid my job has transitioned from a desk in an office to a work from home setup and she is a manager for a restaurant chain and can transfer anywhere in the country. We already have a 21' trailer we take camping as often as possible but the idea of being able to change your surroundings whenever you like is very enticing!

As I said, 4 years in and it’s hard for us to imagine living any other way. Our 40’ fifth wheel is a huge space for us now and we couldn’t imagine a massive amount of space that a conventional house brings. We do almost all of our cooking outside and most nights we sit by the fire. We don’t have cable and enjoy our Netflix movie night! One thing that sticks out the most is how little maintenance is required by living this way in comparison to when we had a house so we get a lot more time to enjoy our hobbies.

 

[Autism Family Travels]

As I said, 4 years in and it’s hard for us to imagine living any other way. Our 40’ fifth wheel is a huge space for us now and we couldn’t imagine a massive amount of space that a conventional house brings. We do almost all of our cooking outside and most nights we sit by the fire. We don’t have cable and enjoy our Netflix movie night! One thing that sticks out the most is how little maintenance is required by living this way in comparison to when we had a house so we get a lot more time to enjoy our hobbies.

We cut the cord as well. We do have internet obviously, but no cable, no land line phone etc. We saved over 100 bucks a month alone on doing that. We were paying for all the subscriptions anyways so why not ditch cable we never used. We have a thing on Amazon prime called stack TV. It gives us all the live tv channels we wanted. I get to watch Oak Island every week, and Colin gets to watch YTV. win win. We go on the road now, we can take our small tv, and a roku and have our home tv setup anywhere.

Love the scout btw. Dad bought one new in 79.

We were looking at 40 ft motorhomes the other night. What an idea, take that around and tow the JK behind it. Just have your home on wheels.

 

[Lil Bear]

figure out how to parlay that into remote or self employment.

I would love to be able to do that but for my job there really isn't a remote work option. I have to put my hands on items and look at them. I wish though!

 

[Lanlubber In Remembrance]

We've had all of those things and that's the point to cut away from what's holding us in place. We started this adventure a year ago living in 160sqft of space in an RV. We feel that its holding us back in our goals because it's comfortable. We're going to find out how this journey will go.

What are those goals ? You can be free without giving up your freedoms. How will you earn a living ? How will you handle medical emergencies ? Are you independently rich ?

We would do it in a heartbeat if Colin was out of school. that's the only thing holding us back. Right now, we have a house that has over 6000 sq ft on 3 levels, over an acre of land with two big garages where I do my work etc. My wife works from home full time now (thank god), and Colin is in school. I don't know if I am just getting old, or if society has changed in the past 20 plus years, but I am getting sick of "people" if you know what I mean, or sick of the people in my town. I dunno, sounds like a great time to me. Goto a place enjoy what it has to offer, experience some new local things, people and places....then move on, rinse and repeat. We probably will never do it full time, but after this shitshow is over there will be alot more travelling in our future for longer periods now that my wife is remote enabled at her work. We will see. Right now, I have 3 snowmobiles to work on!

Okay, sounds like you are in somewhat of a rat race yourself. I've been there as most all humans have. I would hate to have 6000 sq. ft. of house to look after, maintain and pay for, especially in these days of over inflation. I'm sick over the fact that my youngest son (51 y.o.) just bought a house in Colorado city co. and paid (indebted himself) for $600,000.00. The house is around 2500 s.f. living area.

I am a retired Architectural building designer and always prided myself for being able to design comfortable small homes for low income people. Even with six children I never lived in a house with more than 2000 sq. ft. ... I'm not a status person, intentionally.

I like to watch all the TV shows about Alaska where people survive by their skills, not money. They are still in a rat race for survival. That is something you can't escape.

If one has money one can run from the responsibility of a job if they wish. Great if you can get away with it.

Having six kids forced me to be responsible for their welfare. So it is hard for me to understand how people can throw it all to the wind without considering the consequences of their actions or just pain ignore it to satisfy their lust for selfness.

Personally I would be bored to death if I couldnt be doing something constructive with my life. (kinds that way now but not by choice) What's constructive about jumping from one fire into another ? You cant just open a gate to let the cows out. They still have to be milked or they will die. We all live the burden of life, which it is.

You all can just mark this post as some crazy old koot's opinion, and it is. Go in peace my friends of the trail.

 

[Lanlubber In Remembrance]

Thank you.

Over the course of a few years. Once our oldest daughter went to college we went from a 5 bed 3bath 9 acre home to a small 3bd in a neighborhood. Then my younger daughter left for the military and we went to a small rental while we remodeled our RV.
It's amazing the "CRAP" you collect over time.
It feels good to strip down the crap.

This is a different story now. You have served your time in the hell'ish working world.

Go and enjoy your self for the rest of your short life that is left. I was headed on that course before I fell ill recently. I plan to use the rest of my time here on earth doing as much OB'ding as I'm capable of. 25 years late I am I am !!

 

[Autism Family Travels]

I would love to be able to do that but for my job there really isn't a remote work option. I have to put my hands on items and look at them. I wish though!

Maybe not with your current employment. But if you think about it and do some research, you could flip your skills to remote work. It's all out there.

 

[M Rose]

We moved into an RV 4 years ago and although we don’t travel full time we do stay for long stretches of time in a lot of different places. It takes away all of the monotony of staying put but maintains some stability. This is a much less expensive way to live which enables us to do fun things when we want. There is still that corporate feeling to my job while my wife home schools the kids but that’s the trade off. We don’t frivolously buy things due to the space constraints which is also a benefit. Once we get a few things in order and my work contract ends our plan is to spend a few years traveling as a family before our kids go off to college or whatever they choose. After that who knows. That is our American dream.

I’ve been living full time in an RV for about the same amount of time... although I’m 90% stationary... I have moved to several different RV parks over the years.

 

[JAM420]

I’ve been living full time in an RV for about the same amount of time... although I’m 90% stationary... I have moved to several different RV parks over the years.

We have managed to make it from Missouri to Florida over the last year with a pandemic and a several month stint camp hosting at a state park in GA.