Full timing in an RV, Retirement or working for the rest of your life....read on

Just what exactly is retirement? I never gave it a thought when I was younger. Had I thought about it I would have tried to put a few bucks away every week and tried to create a nest egg of sorts. But instead I worked and I worked and tried to do the best I could. Never had enough money to do everything we wanted, but we did have enough to see us through. Sometimes I even worked three and four jobs a week, leaving one job and pulling into the next jobs parking lot and sleeping in my car for an hour or so until they opened up and it was time to go to work.

Time went fast, I wasn't a teenager any more, hell I wasn't even an adult worker I was rapidly approaching retirement age and realized that I had no money, no savings just big dreams. A huge change in my life resulted in me being alone and then suddenly meeting one of the nicest people I had ever met in my life. Her name was Jan and after a year of talking about our plans and dreams we realized that we shared the very same dream, getting into an RV and traveling around the country. We were willing to work our way around the country, with no bankroll behind us that's what it was going to take, working some more.

We moved a couple of times and finally wound up in Naples, Florida where we bought a house with a yard big enough to house our bus conversion that I was working on and restoring myself. We bought the house new and at a good price we watched as the prices went up and up and up and all of a sudden it looked as though when we sold our house we could come away with over $250 K in hand. More than enough to retire with and to travel as we had dreamed. But then in an instant it was gone, the housing market fell apart, jobs were lost everywhere we were struggling to stay alive again. Worst of all we were now Upside down in our house, meaning that we owed more on the house than we ever could sell the place for. The word was "The market will come back in a year or so, don't worry". Well three or four years later it is worse than ever here now, with no hope so ever of selling this house, this beautiful house that once was appraised for $425,000 couldn't even be sold for $90,000.

Our dreams are not completely dashed, by sticking together Jan and I have managed to bond even tighter than ever. We have a new resolve to travel in our bus, even though fuel prices have exceeded the $4 per gallon mark and the bus only gets 8 1/2 miles to the gallon. We will be on the road, we will find a way to follow to our dreams.