How we survive without planning our holidays

We’re nomads. We travel full time and we don’t plan anything. Here’s why and how.

Before we retired we would get depressed whenever a holiday ended. One day in Bali we promised ourselves that the time would come when our holiday would have no known ending.

With that in mind, when we retired we sold everything … I mean EVERYTHING. We took off in our caravan and the holiday began.

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That was seven years ago and we are still going strong.

I dread the question we are often asked, “Where are you going from here?”

I dread it because we don’t often know and people think we’re nuts. They can’t understand that it’s possible to live a life almost devoid of planning.

It’s hard for most people to understand how we can think planning is restrictive. We feel that if you are focused on the end of a journey or on the next place, you aren’t focusing on this one and you miss what’s here; now.

When we go overseas we do the same. We book a flight, say into Rome, and another six weeks later out of somewhere like Frankfurt, then we wing it.

With the help of technology this life is easy to achieve. With Apps like Wiki Camps and TripAdviser, Trivago, and so on, you can view what’s available, its cost and importantly, the comments.

When we do know our destination for the night, we base our bookings for travel and accommodation on app comments and we have never been let down, be it in Woop Woop or Venice.

You always get one or two detrimental comments, even on the best accommodation and services, but if most are good, book it.

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In Australia, we only book in peak season and the rest of the time we just turn up. We have only once been without a place to stay and as we’re fully self contained it wasn’t an issue.

I can’t explain how easy technology has made the art of NOT PLANNING … the liberation of having no THINGS to weigh you down … of not wasting your money on THINGS that don’t fulfil you, like the brand-name saucepans and the newest barbeque, the subsequent buying of more when they don’t fulfil you. We relish in the not stressing about getting somewhere on time … the lack of stress if you’re held up somewhere. Why? Because it doesn’t matter.

Thank-you technology for freeing us and for enabling us to live without planning our next move.