Is it better to travel and live a fulfilled life of adventure, or is better to sit and home and save money for retirement?

Travel, like you said you cannot take it with you. I am actually getting ready to do this. Sell my home I have enough equity its worth it, plus my small savings on ya its travel time. I have a travel trailer for when the travel fun is over and land to park it on. have fun enjoy your one life.

Life is a summation of experience... the more you experience the entire planet... the more you have lived...

Age and years mean nothing, everyone lives one life-time.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! ADVENTURE! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Yeah, I'm going to do it. I've been trying to keep up with the Jone's for a long time and I am not a happy person for it. The things that seem to make most people happy, do not make me happy.

I'm going to go out on a limb and take a risk and see where it leads me.

adventure love and life.

I will continue to work as long as I can remember how to get there. The day I have to retire, is the day I "off" myself. I say, spend it now! If you Waite on this corrupt system we are slaves to, it may not be there for you even tomorrow!

i am a traveller, ask me a question. :)

Whatever suits you best. I've pretty much done as I wanted and gone where I wanted to, but now I'm looking at retirement without much in the bank. On the one hand, I have faith I'll get by, but on the other hand I'm envious of my sister who has lived fairly frugally and saved for a very comfortable retirement. It's just a choice.

Fortunately, you can choose again! Find something that thrills you so you'll have a reason to hang on.

Yup. It's called priorities. Your friend would rather travel than inhabit status symbols. Can't say I blame him!

did you really go to Detroit? How is it?

It's hard choice. I love to travel. But I ALWAYS get pissed when I'm travelling because I feel like I'm being ripped off. I recently spent the night in Sydney with my children, because I wanted to take them to the museums. I stayed at the Westin. Because my kids are young I ordered room service. I didn't realise to order them hot chocolate was $9 per cup (for just cocoa), and then a $8 delivery fee. It's a small thing, but it pissed me off. All up, the accommodation cost about $1000 for one night. And it was a shitty little room.

The last time I spent about that much was at the Four Seasons at the Rocks. Better hotel, better location, better view. And they gave the kids a present on arrival.

Both!
Get a trade.
Live below your means.
Save/invest for retirement.
Travel the world while you're young.

Do as I say.
Do as I do/did.

I traveled the world in my youth. The only place left to go is Easter Island which I'm doing this August.
I'm retiring this October with a whole bunch o' money & gold to keep me going until the end.

Not necessary. I travel a lot, because I fly for free.

I used to work for Pan Am World Services which allowed me to travel sublow.
Now I travel business class using miles earned on my credit card. I buy everything on that card.

And to the putz talking about traveling to brag. Speak for yourself and your shallow friends.

Its an awesome perk. It also makes business and first class travel affordable. Like you mentioned, there are ways of travelling cheaply. It's about working smarter, not harder.

do it now, whatever it is you want to do.

becasue 2013 is gonna be their shitty new power grab police state NWO garbage that aint special.

live for today, tomorrow? who knows.
The absolutely WORST thing is dieing with too much money in the bank.

Last Edited by Intergalactic Diplomat on 07/07/2012 10:22 PM

nawwwww
think of it this way, traveling young means you get to think about it more before your dead, in case you live.

Last Edited by Intergalactic Diplomat on 07/07/2012 10:25 PM

i did not go to detroit, but i really want to!

GOOD LORD.

ever hear of pitching a tent on the beach? forever memories.

not everybody even at 40yo can travel over the world and play golf.

he was surely in the 1%.

richt4rd

An affordable balance is likely best, but for me it is travel. I was ziplining over a rainforest in Antigua a week ago -- will be a fond memory when I am on my death bed; if I had not ziplined the rainforest, it would be a regret.

That was sweet of you, FS.

No they don't. I'd love to travel to Estonia and Russia, just to see it (and the women). Nobody except the closest people know where I've been.

if you're not living, your dying. when you "say sit at home and save up" do you mean literally doing nothing more than going to work and watching tv? cause thats a pretty pointless life

You are correct. I'm retired now, and mostly broke, but I have a few memories.
A guy I worked with, a miser, drove an old car, wore shirts with holes in the elbows and ate a can of corn or tuna for lunch and has at least 3/4 million in walmart stock, but he won't spend a penny. He lives alone in an old delapidated house by himself and watches football. He won't retire until they make him.

Some do it so they can manipulate all their relatives and keep then close doing favors for them by frequently altering their will.

Me I'd go with adventure.

I had zero desire to travel when I was in my 20s. History and other places bored me. I was busy exploring myself and my place ... traveling around the U.S. by car and having adventures right here at home. Learning guitar, playing with other people, learning carpentry and building things, gardening, trying to build brick barbeque in the back yard (major failure), enjoying my cats. I also slouched off for most of my 20s -- series of odd jobs, living cheap.

Then at about 28 I'd had enough f'ing around and decided to go to grad school. Found my path and have been working like a crazed person ever since. As a working person my job has sent me to England, Austria, Holland. I could go to asia if I wanted to but it doesn't interest me. And I've earned enough to pay for family trips to Mexico, Italy, and back to England.

I have absolutely NO regrets about how I've lived my life. I've taken care of myself so when I return at 66 I fully expect to still enjoy traveling as much or more than I would've in my 20s.

Balance. Everything in balance.