As happens wherever we travel in the world, we see and hear of many different ways that other people live their lives – some we might love and others we might give a miss. For instance, just talking to the taxi drivers in Key West gives a flavour of he melting pot that exists there – one was from Trinidad and one escaped from Zimbabwe 9 years ago – both black.
The other was a white English guy who had travelled the world (whilst we were all wishing we could do the same, instead of doing mortgages and jobs), ended up in Thailand, found a wife (or more likely the wife found him!!), now got a 4 year old kid and straddling between Key West and Thailand. (+ still avidly watching England football, so some roots there too, but impossible to go back) Reckon he will be still driving taxis into his late 70’s before his son has left school. A lot of the travellers we met back in the 70’s must now be in similar constrained circumstances, in their mid sixties and no assets behind them. Perhaps the mortgages and jobs were worth the sacrifice.
Discuss.
A HOUSE ON WHEELS or ON THE SEA
Previously blogged about the retirees who give up their houses to roam the country, or stay in trailer parks, with their enormous RVs or coaches. The sizes of such homes have grown substantially in the campgrounds since we last camped around the Rockies about 12 years ago – then there would be 1 or 2 such monsters to gawp at – now they are all over the place. Some are taken around like a truck with a huge cab – and most tow at least a car, if not a 4WD or trailer containing motorbikes – bit like the rock bands coaches you see. This is a line of them where once there would have been tents and small campervans.
This is one way to double up! Dave and Carole – ditch the campervan and just covert your boat to be a trailer tent on land (this was in the middle of a campsite) and a boat on the sea!!
Alternatively, just buy yourselves one of these at the next Boat Show – the Norwegian Queen is No.77 out of 100 Super Yachts in America. I looked it up on Google and its pretty amazing how much privacy you actually have – within 5 minutes I had full details of the design, building details, interior decoration and details of its whereabouts and itineraries. The owner is the President of an Insurance Company (married into it) – full personal details obtained, plus on a Celebrity House Owners site there is a complete aerial picture of her house and grounds (palatial!). Bit creepy really.
No comments:
Post a Comment