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My wife and I have two homes and will spend time at both homes throughout our retirement. My wife also has a bit of gypsy in her and loves to travel. I'm Ok with travel but I find great satisfaction from the simpler things like hunting and fishing/boating and privacy that some land affords. Living in TN and FL I have all I'll ever need... but my wife needs more. I enjoy places like this as an example; Costa Rica Fishing Costa Rica Fishing at Crocodile Bay Resort
We are already "Diamond" cruisers and I'm just about over cruising but for a few destinations like New Zealand, long Pacific Cruise, Straights of Magellan, etc. My cruising bucket list is about empty. I'm more into adventure travel now and my wife is more tourist travel.
For those about to retire how much time and percentage of retirement funds did you budget for travel?
For those retired tell me about your travel portfolio and where did you travel?
How did y'all reconcile where to "go"?
Location: Scott County, Tennessee/by way of Detroit
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Since Sept...when we retired to Tennessee we have gone to Gulf Shores, Alabama....West Virginia...Cherokee NC twice..love it there..a Caribbean cruise...going back to Cherokee in August...for us even going to visit friends is considered traveling....we have NEVER gone to these many places...going to Nashville In July...never been there... we are having fun...we just go with the flow!!!Do things when we want...
Go to Florida for Spring Training in March. One or two baseball weekend road trips during the year. Pittsburgh is next (such a beautiful stadium). Otherwise most travel is to Nats Park in SE DC. We have season tickets there. And pre-paid parking. Life is good.
I spent most of my adult life traveling/ vacationing in this great U. S. and Canada. Sometimes with my horses in tow, sometimes not.
It was not idle talk when I Told everyone my retirement would consist of sitting on this hill and watching my horses eat grass all day long.
I bought my Saturn brand new in 2002 and it just turned 52,000 miles --- I was not kidding.
I am perfectly content to make my biggest adventure being the Red Tail Hawk expressing his displeasure at me scaring away the fat field mouse when I was bush hogging the pasture
I thoroughly enjoy hearing others recount their adventures but, I am happy to on this quiet hill, on an even more quiet one lane road
Want to see the whole east coast including NE, Savannah, Maine, DC, Charleston. But I won't fly so have to live closer to those areas than I do now. Hope to make it happen. Sooner than later.
Expanding on my earlier answer. I have been to 48 states including HI. MX, CA and some Caribbean islands are the extent of my foreign travel but I have no interest in further trips. Anyway, I can afford to live pretty well at a US beach, which is where I prefer to get away to. I plan to keep the travel budget small by living where I enjoy being most. I will still be near family.
I do not think a form will help. It is an individual preference. I would lean toward zero non family travel, but and exception can always be made.
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