Are you attracted to the lifestyle of a wanderer?

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I'd like to live as a traveller, in a camper-van going through Africa and stopping wherever I feel like. But not on my own though, I want to be with a group of people, either close friends or a family.

Wanderer by plane, boat, train, bus or car but not necessarily homeless on feet carrying a huge saddle sack on my back. I like to keep moving.

No, I want luxury and riches.

You can travel in style with luxuries and riches. The Wealthy do it all the time.

I have always been drawn to the idea of purposeful wandering and journeying. However, in reality I plan out my trips down to the second! I do take wandering hikes or excursions once in a while, where I free myself from plans. On my trips I have purposefully gone to cities on my own and explored,but the language and cultural barriers made it difficult for me to meet and/or feel comfortable with people.
Yes I do dream of journeying in Nepal and Bhutan,and I will hold myself to that.

That kind of defeats the purpose. It's not really traveling part that I want, it's the idea of not being attached to anyone or anything and being able to stay and leave whenever you want.

This is not something the Wealthy can do--they have a Reputation to protect.

In that respect yes, but the wealthy do travel in luxury and riches all the time. It doesn't make it right or wrong it makes it a different experience than what we would have by slinging a backpack on our backs and holding our thumb out to catch a ride.

rich people travel with luxury and riches. that is old hat for them.

throughout junior high and highschool I would tell everybody I wanted to be homeless when I grew up. Then I grew up and got an apartment. and then I grew up more and realized that having an apartment sucks. Its not my home so Im pretty much homeless anyways. Id rather get a van and not have to pay $___ a month to live in a cage.

I figure I can eat on a minimum of 10 dollars a week. waters free (for now). Thats pretty much all you need survival wise. But you gotta pay rent. Gotta have a job to pay rent

What do you eat, dandelions?

i am not sure what you mean by "wanderer". do you mean the life of a "nomad", or the life of an "explorer"?

i definitely do not want to be a nomad. i must have a permanent home that is mine where i live and am based. i do not want to go on holidays much because my pets are wild animals that i can not take with me or get anyone else to look after (at this time).

i feel a tome building in my head, and i must struggle to be concise in my reply....

up until 8 months ago, i lived in an idyllic location in virgin bushland with no neighbors, and i had possums and kookaburras and a menagerie of wild birds and bush mice etc that all visited me every day and they were my surrogate pets. i was in a kind of paradise and i only went out to go to the shops. it was so quiet and peaceful and i used to go and sit on my back veranda every day at dusk, and my animals all came to me and i fed them and i was in my version of heaven.

when i had to travel away for a few days, i felt very homesick, and i could only think about my animals coming to my house and finding it vacant, and i wanted badly to return to them as soon as possible.

then the local government (council) planned a road to be built right through my house, and they reclaimed the land and payed me market value for my house and i had to go.

i was devastated. i also have another large house, but it is in an area with no wild animals, and there are houses and highways all around it, and i did not want to go back there, so i continued to let my niece live there.

i found a place to rent (temporarily) that is a few minutes drive from my animals, and i go out every night back to the land beside my old house to see them and feed them. i know it sounds insane, but i can not abandon them for any reason at all.

i had to relinquish my relationship with the kookaburras and other wild birds because they do not come out at night, but the possums and mice are nocturnal, and they have learned where i always go at night now, and they come and see me there and i pet them and love them and feed them.

when the possums and mice die, i will have no gripping reason to stay in this area, and i will buy another house outside of sydney on about 20 acres of land that is in virgin bushland where no roads will ever be planned to be built.

then i will live there until i die, and i will have a new set of animal friends (i will always miss the animals i had until 8 months ago at my then house though).

i have a friend called sonia who i will ask to live at my house and care for my animals while i go and explore the world in short bursts.

i would very much like to explore the bushland in all the countries of the world, and i am slightly adventurous in that i find it mesmerizing to walk through the wilderness of different lands and sit and contemplate the nature of the places that i discover.

anyway, i am adventurous to a mild degree, and i find it exhilarating to sit and absorb the smells and life of exotic places, but i always need to know i will return home to my primal base.

i think the longest i could spend away from my home is about 2 months.

eventually, when i get old and rickety, i will stay in my house that i am secure in the knowledge that will never be taken away from me, and i will know that there is no place like home.


to be a nomad with no home is something i fear.

tonight i am almost incapable of communication so this is all i have to feebly say

two 4-pack cans of tuna fish which are about 3 dollars each. 1 can being enough for two sandwiches makes 16 meals for under 7 dollars. a 10 serving can of campbells vegetable soup is like 2 dollars. Thats enough and healthier than my current diet

My undiagnosed ex told me he wanted to wander the earth like Kaine in the TV series "Kung Fu". (He wasn't a martial artist or anything.) I assured him that homelessness was probably not the heroic fantasy he was envisioning.

how can you "assure" someone based upon your concept of probability?
probability is not certainty.

lol, I had a grandmother who cooked dandelions all the time for us to eat. Peanut butter and a loaf of bread are less than $10.00. I imagine there are a number of things you could find to eat under $10.00 a week if you really looked for them.

Franisco have you thought about living in a travel trailer or is that still too much?

I wouldn't say that's the same as being a "wanderer" as depicted in the OP, though.