Hi everyone
Over the past month or so I have been making plans to take to the road in a camper van and I'm getting more and more excited at the prospect as the days go by.
I'm 54, single, no mortgage and a grown-up daughter who lives away from home. I love Britain, particularly the coast, and travelling around it in a camper is something I've wanted to do since I was a small child. I actually once bought an on VW camper van when I was about 20 and had the intention of travelling with it but I got into a relationship with someone who wasn't into the idea and, well, I made a choice.
I feel now is the time to do what I've always dreamt of doing. I'm ready to leave my job and could easily afford a couple of years travelling around the country before I had to even start to think about earning again. Everything is just pointing to this moment in my life.
I'm quite good at living a minimalist life and actually relish the idea of being compact and neat in a camper van. My current plan is to spend six months researching things, buying a van and getting used to driving it before setting off in Spring 2022. I'm going to keep my house just as it is so that I can come back to it as and when I need to but the intention is to spend long periods away (three months at a time minimum, but probably more like six).
I don't have a fixed budget for the van and it seems that every time I look at different options, I get tempted by something more and more expensive! I want quality and ease-of-life features as much as possible. I just watched a video about the new Pilote V600G Fiat conversion which looks absolutely stunning but has a price to match. I need to come up with some kind of budget but I'm assuming that vans can hold their value pretty well after maybe three or four years.
I'll be travelling solo. I'm happy and content with my own company. I'm into photography and have such a long list of books that I want to read that they alone will keep me occupied for a very long time. I noticed there's a subforum for solo travellers but it's not much used. I'd certainly be interested in meet-ups and being part of a community.
Really looking forward to reading through these forums and reading experiences etc.
Over the past month or so I have been making plans to take to the road in a camper van and I'm getting more and more excited at the prospect as the days go by.
I'm 54, single, no mortgage and a grown-up daughter who lives away from home. I love Britain, particularly the coast, and travelling around it in a camper is something I've wanted to do since I was a small child. I actually once bought an on VW camper van when I was about 20 and had the intention of travelling with it but I got into a relationship with someone who wasn't into the idea and, well, I made a choice.
I feel now is the time to do what I've always dreamt of doing. I'm ready to leave my job and could easily afford a couple of years travelling around the country before I had to even start to think about earning again. Everything is just pointing to this moment in my life.
I'm quite good at living a minimalist life and actually relish the idea of being compact and neat in a camper van. My current plan is to spend six months researching things, buying a van and getting used to driving it before setting off in Spring 2022. I'm going to keep my house just as it is so that I can come back to it as and when I need to but the intention is to spend long periods away (three months at a time minimum, but probably more like six).
I don't have a fixed budget for the van and it seems that every time I look at different options, I get tempted by something more and more expensive! I want quality and ease-of-life features as much as possible. I just watched a video about the new Pilote V600G Fiat conversion which looks absolutely stunning but has a price to match. I need to come up with some kind of budget but I'm assuming that vans can hold their value pretty well after maybe three or four years.
I'll be travelling solo. I'm happy and content with my own company. I'm into photography and have such a long list of books that I want to read that they alone will keep me occupied for a very long time. I noticed there's a subforum for solo travellers but it's not much used. I'd certainly be interested in meet-ups and being part of a community.
Really looking forward to reading through these forums and reading experiences etc.