Personal milestones 2025

[2cv]

No more milestones for us but good to look back at 38 years married with 60 touring trips to the USA, 10 years narrowboating and 12 years motorhoming. So glad that I retired at 55 before health took its toll. Personal goal is just to keep mobile enough to remain independent, sad that motorhoming is no longer possible but at least I’m still going.

 

[maingate]

I suppose one looks at milestones as targets to aim for. If that is true then I have none.

I am quite happy with the way my life turned out, I have been to a lot of places, seen a lot of things (good and bad) and consequently have lots of memories. That is probably why I enjoyed retiring at 62 and have enjoyed the change from a sometimes hectic (and downright dodgy) lifestyle to one at a slow pace. My Dad died aged 62 and never saw retirement after 48 year down the Pit, so that age is symbolic to me and I have had 16 happy years doing next to bugger all.

 

[jeanette]

We’ve been married for 45 years hubby is 75 (76 in a couple of weeks) not been able to get away in the MH as Malcolm’s having his eyes sorted out (cataracts) then there’s me I was 70 eek in January, and my RA has been playing up. Plus other stuff that’s going on. But we’re still here for which we’re grateful, we try and get away as much as possible in the MH plus other ways to get away. My second marriage is better than the first!!

 

[Drover]

Well done you Paul and your better half jenny, you picked a good warm place to live rather than wet damp england, or worse Ireland.

Ireland....been here a week now waiting for the sun to come out.....
Sky keeps leaking

 

[UFO]

Our goals are more of the same.
- Keep on campervanning - Europe and UK
- Winters in Hong Kong and Sydney

Slightly off topic but looking at these messages related. A friend's parents are still campervanning at 90, after around 45 years of caravans and canpervans. It takes them two days to get to Devon from Guildford and when they get to the campsite they have been going to for 40 years they don't do much. But I would be happy with that. Only 19 years to go and not sure whether the van, now 16 years old, will last that long.

Who is the most 'senior' wildcamping.co.uk member? It will give the rest of us something to aim for

 

[kensowerby]

88 and still enjoying travels with the box on wheels

 

[marchie]

As Max Boyce said, 'My grandad was still going for runs with the Rugby Club at 70, which is a hell of a speed for an old man to run ...'

Steve