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Ready for the off outside our house.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I can still feel the jangle of nerves blended with excitement, and a slightly sick feeling of ‘what have we done?’, as we sat outside our house and fired up Dave the motorhome’s ancient engine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’d both quit work and as we locked the front door for the last time, that was it, we were homeless. The house keys went straight to the letting agent, who already had someone lined up to move in, while we headed south for a year-long trip of a lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I can’t believe is that day was ten years ago today. A whole decade has passed, yet it in some ways it still feels like yesterday. That year-long adventure (which ended up being two years) completely changed our lives, our view of the world and of ourselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year, on the anniversary of the start of this blog, Jay wrote a round up of ten years of OurTour Blog<\/a>. If you’re new to this blog and want to read it from the start, this is the first post of our motorhome adventures<\/a> (don’t worry the quality of the photos and writing does improve!), or you can read the first year of blog posts all in one ebook called OurTour Downloaded<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave the motorhome’s successor, Zagan hasn’t been very busy this year. After three months in Spain at the start of the year, he’s had a couple of trips to Wales so Jay could train for the Snowdon Ultra Marathon<\/a>, and a mini tour of the Lake District<\/a>, as well as the occasional weekend away. Our plans for the end of this year were to stay home and prepare the house we left a decade ago to sell it, before heading abroad for some winter sun at the start of 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However we’ve just found out that even though they’ve had six months notice, our tenants haven’t found anywhere to move to. Unfortunately they didn’t say anything until the week before the were due to move out, so we’re now having a bit of a rethink of what we’re going to do – it’s just a good job we hadn’t booked anything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we’d the value of the house invested in shares we could have sold it in a day, but by having it invested in property (which most of our money is) ties it up for much longer. It may be a year or more between our decision to sell and the actual sale. I guess that’s one thing that has changed over the decade, the previous us were accidental investors<\/a>. Only in the last six years have we invested our money with purpose, and only in the last couple of years have I felt comfortable enough investing in shares to sell our house and move the money to shares<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right now we have no idea what we’ll be doing over the next few months, let alone the next year or decade. Foreign travel to most countries is now reopening and it feels like the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic is behind us. It’s time to dust off those plans and see where our wheels (or wings) will take us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cheers Ju x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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