We have been thinking of doing the following in the first few years of retirement. (starting Jan 2012 if we can sell the house next summer) We don't want to commit buying a place My husband may want to go back to work, contract for six months to a year after the initial break.
The Plan.
Drive leisurely across the country seeing the sites and ending up in TV with our car and our most loved possessions. (I.e. my good knives and my stain glass art stuff) Looking at our closets I think we could take half and still leave enough clothing in my son’s attic to never need to bring any with us when we visit.)
Jan Feb March - Rent a condo in Hawaii (Hubby is from Honolulu) as we can rent in Waikiki for less than TV for those months. Hawaii is also warmer in the mid 70’s and it looks like TV is in the low to mid 60’s those months, and you guys all say it is crowded, hard to get T times ect. (
I find Hawaii boring)
July and Aug - Stay with son in Seattle area.
The other 7 months rent in TV.
Storing a car in TV would cost about $100 a month.
Obviously we would have to rent a car in Honolulu for the three months. (Will cost us between $600 and $700) a month. And store our second car in Seattle ($1000) or rent for the two months ($1400)
The only problem is we would have no address. I mean we could use my Son’s or rent a postal box. But what about Car insurance et all. We would have to store my husbands comic book collection and our art at my sons, but reading this board you guys have convinced me that all the rest of the accumulated stuff should be gotten rid of.
Is this just a weird idea?
Trudy