Basically my life was this...grew up in Iowa, family never had money to travel, didn't fly until I was 16 (Galveston, Texas and we stayed in my grandfather's time share). We did road trips but only to the surrounding states. I'm the oldest of 4 children. All siblings have moved out and my parents are making decent money now.

I tried college, not for me. Left when I was 20 and took a job doing what I love in Florida and lived there for 5 years. Moved to Hawaii (age 25-31), California (age 32-33) and back to Hawaii (34 now, 35 in August). The cool part is my job travels me (US only, so far). I've been to 38 states and 4 countries.

I'm now 34, I quit my job in January and been free lancing. I travel for work pretty much now taking jobs when I can get them. I technically don't have an address so I guess I'll be using my parents address until I decide to "settle down" again. But for now I'm enjoying it. My year so far has been:

January- Maui

February- Big Island, Maui, Oahu

March- Maui, Vegas, Norman, Dallas, Oahu

April- Big Island, Oahu

May- Portland (just about to leave tomorrow), and going to Des Moines/Dubuque.

June 1......As of now I have a one way ticket to Baltimore. Plan on seeing DC and NY since I haven't been up in that direction (checking off more states!) After that I was thinking of going to Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland (not in that order for 3 weeks).

July- fly back to Hawaii for work, summer is a good money making time.

August- have to be in LA for a camp then my friend invited me to Thailand in late August so figured I can just work until then.

No plans after that, I did get a job offer in NZ but will have to turn it down due to health issues.

Anyway, are there any older solo travelers who are just living it up?