For more than a decade, Pat and John Martin have spent four or five months of every year travelling the world.
And the Queensland couple say it is an affordable option for retirees wanting to spend their golden years expanding their horizons.
Ms Martin said traversing the globe was economical after your working years, provided you plan for it.
"Make a draft or a loose plan about getting to retirement and the big thing that I say to most people is to make sure you have absolutely no debts," she said.
She said travelling by motor home also cut costs.
"We're 'superannuets', so we're not pensioners, we're not tied to government rules and regulations, so we can do what we want to do," she said.
"It really doesn't cost a lot … we either go to America or Europe and for the pair of us return is less than $3,000, which is pocket money for the value that you get from being overseas.
"When you are home, you are still eating and doing things and we really say the cost of our holidaying overseas for these three and a half to five months that we do per year, is fuel and food and we've got a little bit left over for entertainment."
Mr Martin said being frugal on the road was also key.
"We're not big spenders on the road — we don't go out for coffee and we don't go to restaurants a lot," he said.
"We take on a special here or there but generally speaking, Pat does all the food preparation on board.
"We know how to cut costs because we convert the money that we would normally spend on entertainment etcetera, into fuel because we like putting lots of kilometres behind us."
Mr Martin said after his wife's breast cancer diagnosis, it was an easy decision to begin their retirement a little earlier than planned.
"We actually quit work a year or two earlier than our standard retirement ages just to get on the road while we were still healthy enough to do it," he said.
"It doesn't take very long to develop a desire to travel — one bout of breast cancer and you think your life might end or change quite significantly," Ms Martin said.
"And you start to think 'what am I going to do with what time I have left because I have so much more to do?'"
And being young is important as well.
The couple say they met another grey nomad in Agnes Water when they first started discussing travel plans, who convinced them to head overseas.
"She convinced us to tackle Europe first because — people, congestion, narrow roads — she said when you're 75 or more, you won't be able to cope with that but you can cope with that now," Ms Martin said.
The couple are currently planning their next big adventure to South America sometime next year.
Mr Martin began his working life as a fitter with the Australian Airforce and said while he is no mechanic, he has enough skills to keep them on the road.
He is in the process of overhauling an old motor home for the trip which they plan to ship to Uruguay.
"The electrics are going to be 12 volt supplied by a couple of batteries and big solar panels on top, so we're hoping to be self-sufficient for out of the way places," Mr Martin said.
They plan to have it on the road and registered next month before a test drive to parts of Australia.
Ms Martin said her top travel tip is to put a big sticker of a kangaroo on your car. "It gets you out of all kinds of trouble," she said.
"They love having Australians and we particularly found in America, 'oh we love your accent'."