As above really. This weeks daydream subject.
I always wonder how people fund these extended tours they go on. Apart from the people who have a house to rent out while they're away.
I've always saved in advance. I'd really like to pack my van and drive away and stay away for as long as possible.
What kind of stuff is out there? I'm thinking Portugal, Spain, south of France.
If I could move one of my previous jobs to somewhere hot and sunny with local trails I'd be quite happy spannering bikes and listening to music and eating ham and cheese sarnies.
Looking for real life stories positive and negative. What have you got?
In Spain there's English teaching/camp monitoring. For example...
http://www.tefl.com/job-seeker/jobpage.html?jobId=66834&countryId=196
They dont always expect qualifications.
http://enjoyenglishmonitors.info/
I've always done it with savings and then living cheap. I think I'd much rather work in a proper job for a while then go somewhere very cheap than spend my days somewhere nice but scrabbling round for money.
I did a few seasons working for a camping holiday company in France when I was younger, that was fantastic fun, some of the best times I ever had. Putting the tents up and taking them down is long, hard graft ( I loved it - hard work but a great group of folks and no punters around to have to behave for) but once the season starts you work (or worked - might have changed in the intervening fifteen years or so) six days out of seven, outside of high season, you'll normally have a good few hours a day to go do something else. Pay is poor but but you get to live for six months in a holiday destination and the social life is fantastic (unless you end up on a site on your own with no other companies).
When the mortgage is done and retirement beckons, that's what Mrs Pondo and I are going to do to fill the days. 🙂
That sounds pretty good actually. I don't mind a bit of hard graft and it's better when you're in pleasant surroundings. Can't find anything worth doing here.
1800 miles from my house to Lagos in Portugal. That seems like a nice starting point to spend a few months working my way home. If only my current van would run on vegetable oil like my Tranny did.