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And I guess that ’ s the key . Use the opportunity of having time on your hands to try out something that you ’ ve always been interested in but never had the time to do before . If you need ideas , talk to other travellers to see what they do to entertain themselves .
TESTING YOUR RELATIONSHIP
Of all the issues that you may face when travelling full time , the strain on your relationship is the one that is probably the most overlooked .
Consider for a moment , when living at home , you don ’ t normally spend 24 hours a day , seven days a week with your partner or family in the one room . Living together in a caravan is like living in a 21ft box . There literally is no escape from each other . Relationship issues will be magnified tenfold simply because you have to live very closely with each other .
Kylie and I both dreamed of this lifestyle so we were always on the same page from the moment we left .
I can highly recommend taking your dogs with you on your travels . They won ’ t let you get bored anytime soon .
What ’ s worse , when an argument breaks out , and trust me , there will be times when one of you will lose your patience , everyone around you will know about it , especially if you ’ re staying in a crowded caravan park . There is very little privacy unless you ’ re camped in the middle of nowhere .
Relationship issues are probably the most difficult to overcome while living on the road . In fact , many people see this as the reason they wouldn ’ t embark on a travelling lifestyle in the first place . The reality is , for many people , their relationship with their partner or their family dynamic just won ’ t survive living full time on the road .
I can ’ t speak for anyone else as every relationship is different , but when it comes to Kylie and I , we found that we had a better relationship living on the road than we did before we left . Why that is , I can only speculate . We had done a lot of travelling before , much of it in camper trailers and caravans so we had a pretty good idea of what the experience was like .
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