Would you give up everything to be a Grey Nomad?

[envee]

I'm retiring in just over a year ( 408 days but who's counting  ) I'll be 62 and my wife will be 54.  We presently live in WA and we are selling our house here and are retiring to Potato Point on the far south coast of NSW ( google it ) where we bought a house 8 years ago and plan to take at least 12 months to get over there.  Don't think I could sell everything to go on the road.  Maybe if we were a lot younger and had time to re-establish ourselves but not at this stage of life.  But then we wouldn't have been grey nomads although the hair did lighten considerably fairly early in life!!   

[Throbbinhood]

I only work 150 days a year,  skippering a 10m charter boat.

Living the dream! All I ever think about is fishing and boating haha

[Craig Tomkinson]

Hi Throbbinhood. Its a fantastic job love every day I work, its not hard work but mentally draining some days,  I have met some fantastic people and a few backsides but you get that in any Job, The boat is 10m long, 3,4m wide Cougar Cat with twin new 300hp 4/ Yamaha's on the back I work out of Noosa, I have Done the same all my life too just dream of fishing, And on my holidays I go fishing for a month or 6 weeks up Cape York or up to Inskip piont in winter, Craig

[Nomad]

So your the bastard that get to drive that beautiful thing over the bar everyday. I'll give you the V next time I see you go past the sandbags at dog beach with the kids...give em a toot they'll love it. 

[alnjan]

In 2015 was pensioned off "Medically Retired" after 33yrs at just over 50 yrs old.  Thankfully on a good scheme when I started.  The plan was to go hit the road touring, but of course nothing ever goes that easy.  Still as home still trying to get my body and health sorted.  Still plenty of time to go, hopefully. 

[Craig Tomkinson]

Hi Nomad, I am one of the bastards, I skipper Trekka 2, My mate Paul skippers Wild thing 2, and Theo skippers Cougar 1, three in the fleet,  Craig

[LB]

I'm retiring in just over a year ( 408 days but who's counting  ) I'll be 62 and my wife will be 54.  We presently live in WA and we are selling our house here and are retiring to Potato Point on the far south coast of NSW ( google it ) where we bought a house 8 years ago and plan to take at least 12 months to get over there.  Don't think I could sell everything to go on the road.  Maybe if we were a lot younger and had time to re-establish ourselves but not at this stage of life.  But then we wouldn't have been grey nomads although the hair did lighten considerably fairly early in life!!   

Love your plan...sort of similar to our plan we may just be down sizing ,but we would love to buy a fixer upper in the lower blue mountains about 5 years before retirement but that will depend on how things roll. If we could then we would sell our current house and use the money to live and travel for 60-67 year mark or till our super becomes available.

[Fizzie]

use the money to live and travel for 60-67 year mark

Hey LB

Great plan, but aren't you being just a little bit ambitious

I mean, planning on travelling for 60 - 67 years after you've retired is pushing it a bit, isn't it?

Good on you for planning it though!

[LB]

Hey LB

Great plan, but aren't you being just a little bit ambitious

I mean, planning on travelling for 60 - 67 years after you've retired is pushing it a bit, isn't it?

Good on you for planning it though!

With Medical advancements just maybe

[Roo]

We packed up and p1$$3d off in 2013. 41 and 40 with mortgage.  House rented out covered costs so we left with our 14ft boat and a Queen size swag. Approx 12mths of circling the bottom half of Qld and doing a few short term jobs we took a 1yr commitment to work and live in Nth Qld.  Moved on with some new financial security due to working hard and selling house. We've set a financial plan in place where the funds from the house are invested to provide an income for future fulltime retirement. For the next 15 yrs we only need to work probably 15 weeks a year to pay our bills, travel this country self funded (no centrelink thanks), add some cash to investments/super and continue to upgrade van and tow vehicle.
Once you let go of the shackles and pull off the blinkers, it's easier than many think. But....each to their own.

My parents travelled for 5 or 6 yrs in their early 50's after selling their small business. Best time of their lives. They came home new people. After 5 yrs home they wanted to escape the retirement rut again but dad got sick. They pressed on with plans but dad never got to go very far. Dead at 63. I'm not planning to follow those footsteps.

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[envee]

With Medical advancements just maybe

"We have the technology......................we can rebuild it" 

[Wortho]

Well a lot has happened for us in the last couple of months after resigning from work (age 53) and then selling our Sydney home and moving into the investment property on the Mid North coast. We are now in Europe for 4 months after buying a campervan in Germany. I certainly don't feel  retired yet as it's been pretty full on with the move etc so hopefully this will change. My wife retired a couple of years ago and has been pushing me to do the same ever since so I finally gave in. Looking forward to seeing Europe after spending 1 month in France last year travelling around the French countryside, we were blown away by the history and beauty of the place. The campervan we bought is similar to the Aussie trakka vans but much cheaper over here, especially in Germany.

[LB]

Well a lot has happened for us in the last couple of months after resigning from work (age 53) and then selling our Sydney home and moving into the investment property on the Mid North coast. We are now in Europe for 4 months after buying a campervan in Germany. I certainly don't feel  retired yet as it's been pretty full on with the move etc so hopefully this will change. My wife retired a couple of years ago and has been pushing me to do the same ever since so I finally gave in. Looking forward to seeing Europe after spending 1 month in France last year travelling around the French countryside, we were blown away by the history and beauty of the place. The campervan we bought is similar to the Aussie trakka vans but much cheaper over here, especially in Germany.