Published on 12, July, 2020
I'm in a dreamy mood, idk what that means but I know that I would like to read what you have in your bucket list? Dreams? Doesn't have to be achievable.
I want to see every place in the world, taste each food, hear every language.
I want to live for a while in a jungle with tribal community, like real tribe that doesn't eat human meat. They could give me a tattoo in their very old tools and teach me something about nature.
I want to live near the coast, have a garden and few animals.
I want to visit Mars.
I want to write a book that influences people and make positive change in the world.
Can't remember the rest of my dreams at the moment, please tell me yours
I have just realised that the discussion exists before. Sorry for the repetition. I'll just go there and read the bucket lists
What a lovely post. I love the sound of your bucket list. I’ve had a bad day and it’s nice to think of these wonderful things. I’ve always dreamed of travelling and having an adventure in really wild places. I always wanted to visit the Himalayas and Tibet, and go and meet the Dalai Lama in India. I’d like to have a small campervan and travel all about for months and months without having to return home at all, just to be really free to go anywhere when I want. live also always dreamed of having a cosy cottage in Cornwall with an open fire and a view of the sea.
I have the campervan there too!. I was checking them earlier today
I know someone who loves their Mazda Bongo campervan. It seems you can get one for between £3-5K.
Small car fits in the back with a bit of ingenuity, which is why I look at race transporters. When teh car is out you have a large space in which to set your table or what have you.
Quite the opposite actually, I like using my van not looking at it (or particularly) maintaining it.
It's moved so far, (in no particular order) a generator, a concrete garage, some engines and hydrauilic power packs, a compressor, a 1200 litre tank on a trailer (trailer wasn't towable so we put it on the back with the crane and a bit of muscle augmentation as it was on the limit... An anvil (twice) and a lot of rubbish, and raw material for my fuel briquettes making excercise..
There is a special sort of person who can live in a very small space like the back of a van, but really, you need to be able to MOVE about a bit sometimes. Then there is the cost. Insurance and FIXED running costs are a big part of the deal with a vehicle, and high fuel consumption is often cited as a big no-no, but the insurance cost for a horsebox is about 250 quid a year, and I got a similar cost estimate for private use on a 7.5 tonne box body. You can actually LIVE in such a thing rather than exist.
But I get your drift. There are many ways to think, and mine is no better than any one else's.
But I've dipped into narrowboat life, done a fair bit of improv sleeping/brief periods of living outside of regular housing, and I want a comfy large sleeping area, and a decent washing facility and a cooking area and a sitting down reading /entertaining (gasp!) area, and I want it to be cleanable, and that requires "area"..
That's why an RV is the size it is...
With a horse box or ex race truck owned by half decent people you get most of an RV worth of facilities for the cost of a used car, with cheap insurance, and large car running costs, if you don't go bonkers.