My 4,000 Post

dex

dex

Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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What do you want to know?
 
Be my friend?
 
That's an average of 50 a month (despite your recent sabbatical). Quite impressive.

(After further consideration... I have averaged 80. It must be the quality that has made all the difference.)
 
Martha said:
How much time are you spending at home base as compared to traveling?
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I don't have any firm numbers but I would estimate - 5 months traveling and 7 at home. The again I broke my collar bone twice. since 2006.

I did not know when I retired how much I would like the RV lifestyle. I never did it before.

Knowing what I know now, I would have bought a slightly larger RV (for my equipent) and rented an apartment. Or I may have stored my stuff for awhile. AND, I would have bought the winning Lotto ticket.

If, the housing market was still increasing I would be happy with my decision to buy a town home.

I think the lesson is for those thinking about ER is not to commit yourself for awhile.

Fortunately, the buy/rent issue is not a deal breaker for me. I'm happy with where and what I have.
 
CuppaJoe said:
What took you so long?:cool:
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Read the 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" There is a discussion about a dialogue of Socrates. There is discussion about if a key word should be interrpertated as 'Quality' or 'Beauty'. I try for Quality - in many cases, what is needed, not what is wanted.

Sometimes, we need to focus on not what is presented but what is not presented.
 
audreyh1 said:
When are you going to change your scary avatar? :)

Audrey
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I still like it. It is said that when a man grows or takes off a beard he is going through a significant change of some sort. Maybe that same thing applies to avatars.
 
dex said:
I still like it. It is said that when a man grows or takes off a beard he is going through a significant change of some sort. Maybe that same thing applies to avatars.
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Maybe.

It is also said that an avatar is an expression of one's attitude toward the world.

Perhaps you should think seriously about growing a beard... :)
 
dex said:
Read the 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" There is a discussion about a dialogue of Socrates. There is discussion about if a key word should be interrpertated as 'Quality' or 'Beauty'. I try for Quality - in many cases, what is needed, not what is wanted.

Sometimes, we need to focus on not what is presented but what is not presented.
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Now if you could elaborate on the concepts of Shibui vs Shibumi. For those that never heard of the them. :) Food for thought.
 
Open ended question for you: Tell us more about the full-timing lifestyle... do you stay in campgrounds... boondocking... stay in one place a while... I'd like to know more.
 
nvestysly said:
Open ended question for you: Tell us more about the full-timing lifestyle... do you stay in campgrounds... boondocking... stay in one place a while... I'd like to know more.
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This is my 5th (really?) year doing it and I never did it before I retired. So I got a 17' Casita since I could pull it with the pick up I had. I don't boondock (unless I'm traveling a long distance and I'll sleep overnight in a WalMart or Truck Stop); I don't have a generator and I like some comforts. How long I stay depends upon what I want to do. If I get bored I move on.

I've hit upon a route that works for me that goes something like this.

March - sometime - Santa Fe - sight see, maybe a hike - a few days
March - Moab - a couple of weeks
March/April/May/June - Colorado - 14er cold weather hiking/biking
June - Tetons/Jackson -
July/August - TBD - possible route - California/Nevada/Arizona

People talk about taking the RV to Alaska but I'd rather do that on a cruse.

I really haven't planned past the Tetons. I feel like traveling someplace on a tour where everything is taken care of for you. Maybe a walking tour of Italy??
 
I can't believe we are both in our 4000s of posts, and I never realized you were a fellow full-timer (or maybe I just forgot). Also completed my 5th year fulltiming a couple of months ago.

Of course my full-timer days are now numbered - any day now we'll have an anchor.

Audrey
 
As a 6500+ poster, of mostly information-free content...

One of the charms of this board is living [-]precariously[/-] vicariously through others' adventures. I doubt I'll ever have the means to buy a big, honkin' RV, but may very well do a pull-behind, perhaps like RIT's former pop-up, which I could easily pull behind a 1/2-ton pickup. As big RV would require me to sell my house, which would probably preclude ever owning a house again...

Would like to be a part-time road warrior, though, at least in the early years.
 
HFWR said:
I doubt I'll ever have the means to buy a big, honkin' RV, but may very well do a pull-behind, perhaps like RIT's former pop-up, which I could easily pull behind a 1/2-ton pickup. As big RV would require me to sell my house, which would probably preclude ever owning a house again...

Would like to be a part-time road warrior, though, at least in the early years.
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(Yeah, I know... a stuck record.) A used Class B RV should be within your means (depending upon how used) and would let you you be free as a bird... not even worrying about dragging a trailer around.

In any event, here is a web site (a Trailer guy) that may get you even more motivated... particularly today's edition:

Mobile Kodgers: FREE TO DO WHAT?
 
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