When Daniel Walsh left a 20-year career as an English teacher and administrator for the New York Education Department, he was looking for the same thing many people are: a little excitement.

“I knew I wanted to do some travel, and a life on the road in the U.S. full-time was an option,” said Dr. Walsh, 55. “But doing something abroad was also an avenue.”

Before he left New York in 2021, he began researching the first option: a nomadic life traveling around the continental United States in a travel trailer.