[at-l] Financing trips

[mathews at uga.edu (Doug Mathews)]

David,
I'm fortunate enough to be retired and have and understanding  wife who is 
also retired and who stays at home to mind the fort.  Thats the plus, on 
the other hand the price I pay to being retired is being old enough  to be 
retired:-)

Mainframe

At 03:43 AM 12/28/2004, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've wondered, as a matter of curiosity, how people go about financing
>their trips? Certainly there is the normal job approach: have the trip
>in mind a long time before going and then save little by little. What
>about people who do trip after trip? Are these people who work six
>months out of the year or are doing their trips on retirement funds or
>what? What are some good ways to make money for trips? Since I came
>back to the States in September, I worked at a miserable data entry
>position here in New York and barely was making enough to finance my
>upcoming Florida Trail trip. I also have worked as a freelance
>translator on the side and was very fortunate that a few 1st rate jobs
>came through in Nov-Dec and this allowed me to quite my horrid job and
>work on those, while securing enough funds for this upcoming
>adventure. I feel really blessed about that. At the same time, I
>wonder what employment options there are for people who want to be on
>the trails as much as possible but need to finance their trips? Any
>thoughts on this? Just a matter of curiosity....
>
>David
>http://www.trailjournals.com/djessop
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