I do see some people (especially some of those that are willing to make the leap into what you do) reach a level of frustration with their daily lives and choose that as an alternative. Also during my life, I completely changed careers(yes, started over) when a job became too boring and dissatisfied. I even lived full-time in a larger class A for last 5 years of my working life, while maintaining a full time job. Further I did camp many times in a larger RV while maintaining a full time job and still kept building a pension(I am 70 years young now and retired). (It will happen, sooner than you think) Are you going to live off government subsidies? There appears to be no planning on the part of anyone doing this, as to what happens in later life. As I expressed on your YT channel, this living in the moment, I believe to be somewhat short sighted with no concern or preparedness for what will happen in the near future when you do grow older and when you can no longer live like that. Well Bob, I certainly do not begrudge you at all, if your lifestyle brings you happiness and content. (For me, your pooping in a bucket video, was enough for me to know I could never live like that) At least you do show some of the downsides. I see you have been inspirational to some, I would bet, there are others(maybe many) that naively jumped into that lifestyle perhaps from your inspiration or others, not realizing all the downsides, and later regretting it. At least being settled in one area, I know where to get good service, where everything is in the grocery store isle, and where on the internet I can look, if I want to see nice videos of pretty scenery without having the hassle of moving and/or having to be concerned about finding a spot to park and sleep every night. But the sacrifices of being without convenience of plumbing, gas/electric readily available without effort, dealing with incredibly tight spaces, no comfortable chair, always on internet, and most importantly, not having to live through breaking down in the middle of no where, or on a highway, waiting for 3/6 hours for a tow, while speeding cars and trucks whizz by at 70 mph, and wondering how much the small mechanic in the next town is going to screw me because I have no other place to go, for his shoddy service that has to be redone later. Sure I would love to be there and experience it too, in the moment. I guess one can fixate on the good and/or bad in any lifestyle. In fact where I camped this time had a good 4g signal but we had to be careful to look for it–it was spotty, many places had no signal. The only difference as that when I was here before there was no Verizon signal down the valley but now there was. At 10,400 feet it’s slightly higher than our camp at Steamboat Springs but the weather forecast called for it to remain warm for the next 10 days so we decided to risk a stop-over there.īecause I had spent a summer there I knew exactly where I wanted to camp, but we stopped by the National Forest office anyway to see if anything had changed, it had not. I had spent a summer there (May through September) as a campground host in 2008 so I was quite familiar with the camping in the area. Leadville is one of my favorite towns in Colorado because its surrounded by beautiful mountains and has everything you could reasonably need in it. After a summer of constant travel I had enjoyed staying in one place for so long, but even I was starting to get itchy feet, so it was time to move on. We’d been at Steamboat Springs, Colorado for about a month and really enjoyed it, but because it was at 9600 feet we could already feel a chill in the air as fall crept up on the high-country. This is going to be the last of my posts about my summer travels in 2015–it’s a good thing too because next week I start my spring travels of 2016!! I have more photos than I want to put in one post so it will be a two-part post, the second will be mostly scenery photos. As soon as you enter the forest you’ll start seeing campsites–you can camp in any of them. This picture was taken from County Road 11 on the way to my camp. Elbert, the highest mountain in Colorado and second highest in the Lower 48.
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