In the middle of our summer renting a house in Madison we took a 1-month “shakedown” trip, but from early September to early October has marked one month being truly on the road full time. There have been a few ups & downs, but overall the experience has been wonderful. We couldn’t be happier we are taking this path and we hope to be on the road for years to come.
How has retirement been?
Honestly, it’s been kind of amazing. I wasn’t sure if I would feel like I was constantly forgetting to do something or whether I’d miss aspects of working. But the transition has been extremely smooth and at this point I feel like it would be really difficult to get used to working again.
And living in the RV?
Again, really, really good. I feel like I have room to do my own thing if I want and on rainy days we’re not on top of each other.
The kitchen has been comfortable, with everything in easy reach. We’ve slept well in the bed. Football Saturdays are amazing from the captains chairs on the big TV screen.
And the campgrounds?
Most of the time they’ve been lovely. We had one instance of folks whose “front yard” was set up to face us and they were loud, with several kids plus two cats and two pitbulls they left caged almost constantly inside their tent. That wasn’t my favorite, but I don’t expect it’ll be the norm.
The hiking and general atmosphere has been just what we wanted.
So you want to keep doing this? Does it feel like the “new normal?”
We do want to keep traveling this way, hopefully for years to come. But on some level this still feels like a very long trip to me, kind of like it is vacation. It doesn’t quite feel like the new normal yet. I assume that’ll come with time. And thankfully I’ve got all the time I could want.