"Scott Vernon" wrote in message ...
"R Whellum" wrote in message
...
why risk all
the material assets you have accumulated by heading over the horizon
into
the unknown?


If you have to ask....................

I appreciate everybody's perspective on this and have heard some I had
not really considered. One most often cited is summed up as:
"Leaving the rat race". Somehow by either extreme luck or major
personality defect, I have avoided conventional employment all my life
so had not personally considered this one. This also explains the
popularity of magazines such as Crusing World. This just goes to show
that ones own experience and motivations cannot be easily generalized
to others.