Tom and Louise,
Our travel patterns are not what we had planned prior to going fulltime two years ago either. We started out with six months of travel going from Iowa to Michigan to the Florida Keys and eventually back north to the Outer Banks of NC. We thought we might be able to travel six months of the year and work or volunteer the other six months. Unfortunately, our bank account didn't agree with us. With diesel around $5 per gallon the summer of 2008 and the cost of campsites being much higher than we planned, we did not make the trip back to the midwest and farther west. We decided to stay on the east coast and volunteer. And, volunteer we have! We started volunteering in the spring of 2008 and by November 2008, we had volunteer (and one pay) positions booked all the way through Labor Day 2010. We have found we really enjoy volunteering, mostly on the state park level. It gives two people who don't have hobbies a purpose. By staying in one place for two to three months, we also get to explore an area to our hearts content. Our volunteering earns us a full hookup campsite while there, and sometimes other perks. We get to meet a lot of interesting people, some with whom we are still in contact. At this point neither one of us can imagine doing anything else. We do plan take a month off periodically though. And, next spring we head back through the midwest on our way to a job somewhat west.
