Free and Clear

Free and Clear: The Retiree's Complete Guide to Full-Time RV and Van Life on a Fixed Income is the comprehensive, heartfelt, and deeply practical guide for retirees and near-retirees who dream of full-time RV living, van life, or vandwelling but worry about doing it safely on a fixed Social Security or pension income.

Written specifically for retirees on a budget, this book walks readers through every major decision in full-time RV and van life for seniors: how to build a realistic fixed-income RV budget, how to choose the right rig for an aging body, the honest tradeoffs of DIY van conversion versus buying a turnkey RV, how to choose a domicile state and set up mail forwarding for full-time travelers, how Medicare and VA healthcare actually work while traveling across state lines, how to find the right RV insurance and avoid the full-timer coverage gap, safety strategies for solo RV travel and solo women van life, workamping and seasonal income ideas for retirees, boondocking and campground budgeting, how to fight loneliness and build community on the road, how to build a realistic RV repair fund and maintenance schedule, and how to plan an honest exit strategy for aging in an RV.

Following nine real-feeling composite characters through every chapter, this is the retiree-specific, fixed-income-specific operating manual that young, healthy van-life influencers never wrote, because they never needed to.