oooh I 1000% feel her on the crouchedlyfe. haha I couldn't do that for long either without getting stir crazy. The nice thing about getting a Truck + RV combo instead of something that is all combined is that you can drop the trailer off at the campspot and then go cruise around town and explore.
The model we are currently looking at is the Lance 1685 - https://www.lancecamper.com/travel-trailers/1685/
We think in a few years we can get a used model and probably keep the total cost of a used truck and trailer to about $40-45k. Seems like a lot and one could definitely do it cheaper - but to me a trailer like this actually feels live-able for a long period of time! Plus... there is a bathroom. haha
That cost is about two years of rent for us - and so what we may do is save up for part of it, and then buy a cheap 10-15k piece of land here in Bellingham and actually live in it for at least another year while working our regular jobs. This should help us pay down even more and so by the time we hit the road, our expenses should be pretty cheap. And after living in it for 2-2.5 years.... we should have the entire thing paid off, including the land and can park there and live totally rent free anytime we want.
It's all hypothetical at this point and there are a lot of different ways this could go... but it sure is fun to dream about it!
As for the gym thing... i hear ya. That is actually something I'm a little worried about. I'm a YMCA member (which is fairly cheap) and so i'd probably try to find their locations around the country and workout when I can, but will probably pack some heavier dumbells and figure out a workout routine I like that i can do on the road. But yeah... that's a trickier piece of things.
$10-15k plot of land?!? That's so amazing to me... even the crappiest bit of land in Australia was like $150k easy.
That's an amazing plan! There would definitely be hardships along the way (weather, etc) but the financial independence would be so worth it. You'll definitely have to check out zoning laws though... we were looking for a bit of land to build on, and there are so many things like the installation of wells, septic tanks, electricity, phone before you're allowed to reside there... wells can be like $75,000 to install... so it might be worth getting your head around all that stuff sooner rather than later so that if a magical bit of land pops up you can grab it and sit on it until you're ready to work on the rest of the plan.
It's all so intelligent and not part of the general life-script that everyone else follows. I love it so much! You are the smarts!
There are definitely cheap little lots of land to be had! They are just either pretty small - or out in the county a little more. We wouldn’t be looking to develop the land and get power/water/sewer etc. We would just do solar for power and fill the water tanks when needed etc. Basically treat it like we are on the road - but be tucked into the woods on a piece of land.
Lots more to research, but I think it should all work out fairly easily! We may get a small metal shed to put on the land for extra storage. We would just have to keep it small enough to not trigger any laws or codes about it being a building.