RV Lifestyle: Why More Persons are Hitting the Road After 70 – RVBusiness

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an excerpt of an article by Mike Wendland, creator of the RV Lifestyle website, podcast and YouTube channel, through which he discusses “The Great RV Aging Revolution: Why More Americans Are Hitting the Road After 70.”

A number of years in the past, at one in all our RV Lifestyle rallies, I met a person named Loren.

At the time, Loren was already in his 80s. He had pushed himself to the rally in a well-worn Roadtrek Class B motorhome that was already sufficiently old to qualify as a basic. Taped on the dashboard was a framed {photograph} of his spouse, who had handed away a couple of years earlier. Her image traveled in all places with him.

Loren wasn’t there as a result of he was making an attempt to relive the previous. He wasn’t there as a result of he was lonely. He was there as a result of he was nonetheless actively residing his life.

Over the years, we’ve stayed in contact. Last week, after sharing publicly in a submit that I had turned 80, I reached out to him once more. I needed to see how he was doing. And to get somewhat perspective. He turns 95 subsequent month.

The reply was basic Loren. He’s nonetheless touring. In truth, he’s getting ready for an additional journey to Alaska. It will probably be his fourth journey there and can final two months. This time he’ll be touring together with his 62-year-old daughter as they make the lengthy drive throughout Canada and into America’s Last Frontier.

His 1994 Roadtrek now has practically 393,000 miles on it. Last summer time, he changed the engine and transmission. Think about that for a second. A person nicely into his 90s plans to maintain touring.

That check-in with Loren stayed with me as a result of Loren isn’t some remoted exception. In some ways, he represents one thing I’ve been seeing an increasing number of usually all through the RV group.

For years, social media has offered a really particular picture of RV journey. Scroll by Instagram and also you’ll usually discover younger influencers posing in entrance of mountain sunsets, flying drones over desert campsites, and posting fastidiously staged images from unique locations. Good for them. They are having adventures and sharing them with the world. But that isn’t the entire story.

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