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TexasGypsy · TexasGypsy

Hello! We are in the process of renting out our home and moving fulltime into our 31' travel trailer. Partly because of the need to be closer to work - the hour+ drive everday in North Texas traffic is awful! Also, we hope to be fulltime in the next couple of years and think this is a good way to start off....

coal · coal

Greetings everyone. Been fulltime living in our fiver for 12 years up here in the cold north. Worked our way up from a small fifth wheel to a large one over the years. I still work and also have a 14 year old at home, so for the most part we park at my business during the winter months and then have a seasona...

foxriverguy · foxriverguy

We are not new to this forum, but I did not know where else to post this: We are back from our trip to Texas to pick up our new-to-us motorhome.Safely with no damage except to my ego.Parking a 40-foot motorhome is not easy.Nor is driving one for the first few days. We left Barrington early on Saturday, Marc...

janemaati · janemaati

Hi Y'all! I don't have a trailer yet, but probably will in 2 years or less, and plan on full timing. My online business is taking off very strong, and as people say, you can live anywhere with an online business, so I say, why not live everywhere? I have been eeking by in the SF Bay area on a 'mere' 40 gran...

Ellie Mae · Ellie Mae

Lets see if I can make this short. We just received an RV at a VERY low price. We were on the lucky end of a nasty divorce and bought our 2001 31' fifth wheel for a steal. We had been looking into buying one for years, but just kept putting it off. We have rented some bumper pulls and had a pop up too. Anyhow. We ha...

monkey islanders · monkey islanders

Hello! We are new to the forum and new to RVing. My husband Paul and I have decided that the full time RV lifestyle is for us! We are in the planning stages now and would like to leave by this fall. So what is the PROBLEM? Our youngest daughter will be starting college in the fall, and our older married dau...

Dog Folks · Dog Folks

My wife of 36 years and I have been full timing now since June 2006. We were avid campers in Florida, for over 30 years. When we were married in 1973, and some of last remaining cash we had received at the wedding was used to buy our first tent! Been camping ever since. When weekend and vacation campin...

Jbbar · Jbbar

We are living the dream or at least our version of it. Brenda and I travel south from our farm, NW of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in the winters to places where the climate is more hospitable. These southern expeditions are being made in our motorhome but we are fortunate to call home a pretty beautiful pa...

monkey islanders · monkey islanders

Hello all! For everyone who replied to my original post with all the great advice I thank you. Because of this (and other) wonderful websites we found the support we needed to follow our hearts and move our plan forward. We have now talked to two of our children about our plans, as expected our oldest d...

Sushidog · Sushidog

Greetings everyone! My DW (Cindy) and I (Chip) have listed our S&B last Nov. and are in the process of researching a FT rigs. Right now we are leaning towards a TT/pick-up set-up. We will be living in our TT in a fixed location for a few years before we quit our jobs and retire, so we can build up som...

KerouacisKing · KerouacisKing

My name is Katy, it’s great to finally be able to introduce myself, (I have been lurking unregistered for some time). Right something about me. I am twenty four, I live on the Isle of Wight (the teeny island at the very bottom of the UK) where I work for my dad selling Land Rovers and trailers etc. I joined t...

TrailsEnd · TrailsEnd

We are Joe and Nikki in our early 60’s and started full timing in June 2008.We have been following RV-Dreams for a couple of years which has kept us vicariously involved in our own dream of full timing. In 1998 we purchased a 26’ trailer (which we called TrailsEnd) pulled by a 96 Jeep Grand Cherokee and st...

Asawang · Asawang

We are Ken (the big ugly one), Vilma (the little cute one) and the Grandpups (the furry ones without thumbs). The Grandpups are 2 English Springer Spaniels. I was raised in the country close to small towns all over the South. We did a lot of moving around and tent camping. Vilma was raised in a Nipa hut in a...

taniax · taniax

Hello everyone Im Shane, its nice to be part of this community. I hope to learn and share ideas that would help everyone.

She-Nist · She-Nist

Hello Everyone! Just wanted to say hi! I've been researching RVing for awhile now and am getting closer to my goal of becoming a full-timer. I purchased a 2001 F350 CrewCab Dually last summer...I chose the Triton V10...what an amazing motor. I've been looking at NewMar and Nu-Wa fifth wheels. Any t...

Nbulken · Nbulken

Hi folks, I'm both an ex full-timer and a wannabe at the same time. A long time ago, I had an f150 and a Shadow Cruiser 27' 5th wheel, which I used to travel for work as a photographer. I hit most of the continental USA for nearly three years in the early 90's. I'm envious of all of the new gadgets and the rigs...

catlinye_maker · catlinye_maker

Introduction of a new member: I've read the RV-Dreams blog regularly for quite a while, and surfed these forums off and on. We bought our first RV in Feb of '08, a perfect-for-us fifthwheel, a Hitchhiker II 32.5 LKSBG. Last year due to family issues we weren't able to get out on the road until May, and o...

phyllen · phyllen

Dear friends. Many times I have come on here couting down to fulltime RVing. My husband Len and I planned to retire 1/30 and be on the road by 2/15. We have planned, preparerd and look forward to be new life. Two months ago Len became moody and withdrawn. He no longer participated in the reparation...

Hembree · Hembree

In 1974 my Dad came home...dragging a thing...he called it a camper...I'm not sure what we called it...but the next thing I knew...we were at Mogadore Park in Kent...camping. A couple of years later, we were in a Krown fold-down. In 1976 we moved up to a 25ft Corsair travel trailer. We camped from th...

DreamerBob · DreamerBob

So I just learned what a lurker is and worse, I realized that I was one - until now, so here goes. Carrie & I plan to fulltime within the next 12 months. We now live in the Florida Keys & love it but miss mountains, the smell of pine forrests, & different seasons (its always summer here). We lo...

TK · TK

Hi everyone, I have spent the past few months reading through all of Howard and Linda's journal entries. It has been great the follow them and learn along the way as they have. I really appreciate them sharing so much of their life with us. It has reaffirmed my dream to hit the road myself. I am still a ways...

Camper_Boy · Camper_Boy

We are moving forward toward our full-timing dream, and have created a blog to keep track of our progress. Check it out and tell us what you think! http://roamingfree2010.blogspot.com/

Ridgerunner · Ridgerunner

Howard, reference your comment on Quartzite, my wife reminded me of what I said the first time about 1982. " Well, that is twice for me, the first and last" How wrong I was, at least 10 visits in the next 20 years. You may have to kick me off this site because after 25 years we had to return to ful...

Spearjack · Spearjack

It has always been a secret dream of mine to travel in an RV the beautiful sites and destinations America has to offer. However, money always seemed to be an obstical as did my significant other (at the time). Now that one of those problems are not any longer, I have a new sence of freedom and thought, why n...

CherylK · CherylK

Are we nuts?! My husband and I are buying our new rig tomorrow (36' Class A) and will be heading out on March 1st. We're both in our 50's, 3 grown kids, 2 grandkids. Hubby will be keeping his job, working out of the rv. We'll be hopping around SoCal, beach to beach, until summer, and then we'll have to fi...

jgraham121 · jgraham121

Hi, everyone: I am 42 and my husband is 48. We are both professionals and have no children. My husband has opportunities for contract work 3-6 months in various areas of the US. I teach college classes online and work as a consultant. We currently own a small condo in Florida on the Gulf Coast. We have bee...

faerie · faerie

hi! i have a 2006 national tropical. has anyone added or taken anything away. we changed the euro chair for a lazyboy and are trying figure out a place for a small book case. we only part time for now , but once the kids get older we hope to full time. thanks

Tom-NC · Tom-NC

Hi Everyone, Allow me to introduce my wife and myself, Lee & Tom. We have been RVing since 1989 and have had 3 Winnebago motorhomes. Our first one was a 1987 24' Minnie Winnie on a Ford which we bought used and thoroughly enjoyed it. From that one we went to a 1996 31' Minnie Winnie on a Ford which had a...

Loralie · Loralie

Hi! We're not exactly new here, having posted several times over the past year. However today is a big day...in exactly 4 weeks we will be spending our first night as fulltimers! We've been planning for this for about 5 years and now it is really here! We appreciate all we have learned from everyone's bl...

NorCal Dan · NorCal Dan

Just a quick note to say Hi. Jan and I have been fulltiming in our '08 Monaco Diplomat since December 2007, our toad is a 2007 Jeep Wrangler. We workamped in Oregon for the summer of 2008 and are heading to Branson MO. to work for summer 2009. We travel with Oscar our dog.

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	Getting Ready to go Fulltime (Preview) Hello! We are in the process of renting out our home and moving fulltime into our 31' travel trailer. Partly because of the need to be closer to work - the hour+ drive everday in North Texas traffic is awful! Also, we hope to be fulltime in the next couple of years and think this is a good way to start off....	TexasGypsy	5	1136	07:35 PM Apr 20, 2009 by TexasGypsy
	Hello from Canada (Preview) Greetings everyone. Been fulltime living in our fiver for 12 years up here in the cold north. Worked our way up from a small fifth wheel to a large one over the years. I still work and also have a 14 year old at home, so for the most part we park at my business during the winter months and then have a seasona...	coal	6	959	08:14 PM Apr 9, 2009 by coal
	We finally have our motorhome (Preview) We are not new to this forum, but I did not know where else to post this: We are back from our trip to Texas to pick up our new-to-us motorhome.Safely with no damage except to my ego.Parking a 40-foot motorhome is not easy.Nor is driving one for the first few days. We left Barrington early on Saturday, Marc...	foxriverguy	10	1735	05:23 PM Apr 8, 2009 by 2 4 d hwy
	Working It Up To Jump! (Preview) Hi Y'all! I don't have a trailer yet, but probably will in 2 years or less, and plan on full timing. My online business is taking off very strong, and as people say, you can live anywhere with an online business, so I say, why not live everywhere? I have been eeking by in the SF Bay area on a 'mere' 40 gran...	janemaati	4	1138	07:57 PM Mar 31, 2009 by Speedhitch
	Newbie Gonnabe here (Preview) Lets see if I can make this short. We just received an RV at a VERY low price. We were on the lucky end of a nasty divorce and bought our 2001 31' fifth wheel for a steal. We had been looking into buying one for years, but just kept putting it off. We have rented some bumper pulls and had a pop up too. Anyhow. We ha...	Ellie Mae	5	1367	10:48 AM Mar 26, 2009 by Speedhitch
	How to tell the family we are leaving???? (Preview) Hello! We are new to the forum and new to RVing. My husband Paul and I have decided that the full time RV lifestyle is for us! We are in the planning stages now and would like to leave by this fall. So what is the PROBLEM? Our youngest daughter will be starting college in the fall, and our older married dau...	monkey islanders	23	2065	07:14 PM Mar 25, 2009 by monkey islanders
	Greetings (Preview) My wife of 36 years and I have been full timing now since June 2006. We were avid campers in Florida, for over 30 years. When we were married in 1973, and some of last remaining cash we had received at the wedding was used to buy our first tent! Been camping ever since. When weekend and vacation campin...	Dog Folks	12	1960	02:40 AM Mar 24, 2009 by rwarner22
	John and Brenda (Preview) We are living the dream or at least our version of it. Brenda and I travel south from our farm, NW of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in the winters to places where the climate is more hospitable. These southern expeditions are being made in our motorhome but we are fortunate to call home a pretty beautiful pa...	Jbbar	6	934	01:48 PM Mar 12, 2009 by gypsy97
	Update on How to tell the family we are leaving! (Preview) Hello all! For everyone who replied to my original post with all the great advice I thank you. Because of this (and other) wonderful websites we found the support we needed to follow our hearts and move our plan forward. We have now talked to two of our children about our plans, as expected our oldest d...	monkey islanders	3	973	06:27 PM Mar 10, 2009 by monkey islanders
	Gonnabe when house sells. (Preview) Greetings everyone! My DW (Cindy) and I (Chip) have listed our S&B last Nov. and are in the process of researching a FT rigs. Right now we are leaning towards a TT/pick-up set-up. We will be living in our TT in a fixed location for a few years before we quit our jobs and retire, so we can build up som...	Sushidog	15	1590	06:22 PM Mar 4, 2009 by Sushidog
	Hi (Preview) My name is Katy, it’s great to finally be able to introduce myself, (I have been lurking unregistered for some time). Right something about me. I am twenty four, I live on the Isle of Wight (the teeny island at the very bottom of the UK) where I work for my dad selling Land Rovers and trailers etc. I joined t...	KerouacisKing	14	1599	12:37 PM Mar 2, 2009 by Sushidog
	Joe and Nikki (Preview) We are Joe and Nikki in our early 60’s and started full timing in June 2008.We have been following RV-Dreams for a couple of years which has kept us vicariously involved in our own dream of full timing. In 1998 we purchased a 26’ trailer (which we called TrailsEnd) pulled by a 96 Jeep Grand Cherokee and st...	TrailsEnd	5	1499	08:53 PM Feb 17, 2009 by Terry and Jo
	Hello to everyone... (Preview) We are Ken (the big ugly one), Vilma (the little cute one) and the Grandpups (the furry ones without thumbs). The Grandpups are 2 English Springer Spaniels. I was raised in the country close to small towns all over the South. We did a lot of moving around and tent camping. Vilma was raised in a Nipa hut in a...	Asawang	4	1371	08:49 PM Feb 17, 2009 by Terry and Jo
	Hello (Preview) Hello everyone Im Shane, its nice to be part of this community. I hope to learn and share ideas that would help everyone.	taniax	5	900	02:52 PM Feb 11, 2009 by Thunder
	Nice To Meet You (Preview) Hello Everyone! Just wanted to say hi! I've been researching RVing for awhile now and am getting closer to my goal of becoming a full-timer. I purchased a 2001 F350 CrewCab Dually last summer...I chose the Triton V10...what an amazing motor. I've been looking at NewMar and Nu-Wa fifth wheels. Any t...	She-Nist	8	1995	08:26 PM Feb 9, 2009 by She-Nist
	Greetings from central NY (Preview) Hi folks, I'm both an ex full-timer and a wannabe at the same time. A long time ago, I had an f150 and a Shadow Cruiser 27' 5th wheel, which I used to travel for work as a photographer. I hit most of the continental USA for nearly three years in the early 90's. I'm envious of all of the new gadgets and the rigs...	Nbulken	3	861	05:59 AM Feb 9, 2009 by Speedhitch
	Wannabe.. especially today (Preview) Introduction of a new member: I've read the RV-Dreams blog regularly for quite a while, and surfed these forums off and on. We bought our first RV in Feb of '08, a perfect-for-us fifthwheel, a Hitchhiker II 32.5 LKSBG. Last year due to family issues we weren't able to get out on the road until May, and o...	catlinye_maker	5	1340	02:20 PM Feb 6, 2009 by catlinye_maker
	The end of my dreams (Preview) Dear friends. Many times I have come on here couting down to fulltime RVing. My husband Len and I planned to retire 1/30 and be on the road by 2/15. We have planned, preparerd and look forward to be new life. Two months ago Len became moody and withdrawn. He no longer participated in the reparation...	phyllen	30	3193	03:06 PM Jan 30, 2009 by Olywa
	I'm going to be one of you...in...2025! (Preview) In 1974 my Dad came home...dragging a thing...he called it a camper...I'm not sure what we called it...but the next thing I knew...we were at Mogadore Park in Kent...camping. A couple of years later, we were in a Krown fold-down. In 1976 we moved up to a 25ft Corsair travel trailer. We camped from th...	Hembree	5	1630	01:22 AM Jan 29, 2009 by Hembree
	OK, We're No Longer Lurkers (Preview) So I just learned what a lurker is and worse, I realized that I was one - until now, so here goes. Carrie & I plan to fulltime within the next 12 months. We now live in the Florida Keys & love it but miss mountains, the smell of pine forrests, & different seasons (its always summer here). We lo...	DreamerBob	9	1441	10:38 PM Jan 27, 2009 by monkey islanders
	The dream is alive and well! (Preview) Hi everyone, I have spent the past few months reading through all of Howard and Linda's journal entries. It has been great the follow them and learn along the way as they have. I really appreciate them sharing so much of their life with us. It has reaffirmed my dream to hit the road myself. I am still a ways...	TK	0	1028	03:49 PM Jan 25, 2009 by TK
	We have a new blog! (Preview) We are moving forward toward our full-timing dream, and have created a blog to keep track of our progress. Check it out and tell us what you think! http://roamingfree2010.blogspot.com/	Camper_Boy	14	1595	11:11 AM Jan 25, 2009 by NorCal Dan
	Quartszite (Preview) Howard, reference your comment on Quartzite, my wife reminded me of what I said the first time about 1982. " Well, that is twice for me, the first and last" How wrong I was, at least 10 visits in the next 20 years. You may have to kick me off this site because after 25 years we had to return to ful...	Ridgerunner	0	1195	11:28 AM Jan 24, 2009 by Ridgerunner
	Another Newbie... (Preview) It has always been a secret dream of mine to travel in an RV the beautiful sites and destinations America has to offer. However, money always seemed to be an obstical as did my significant other (at the time). Now that one of those problems are not any longer, I have a new sence of freedom and thought, why n...	Spearjack	11	1243	10:51 AM Jan 19, 2009 by ahoweth
	Scared to death... (Preview) Are we nuts?! My husband and I are buying our new rig tomorrow (36' Class A) and will be heading out on March 1st. We're both in our 50's, 3 grown kids, 2 grandkids. Hubby will be keeping his job, working out of the rv. We'll be hopping around SoCal, beach to beach, until summer, and then we'll have to fi...	CherylK	9	1743	03:07 PM Jan 18, 2009 by gypsymaus
	Trying to Decide... (Preview) Hi, everyone: I am 42 and my husband is 48. We are both professionals and have no children. My husband has opportunities for contract work 3-6 months in various areas of the US. I teach college classes online and work as a consultant. We currently own a small condo in Florida on the Gulf Coast. We have bee...	jgraham121	10	1920	02:17 PM Jan 14, 2009 by thebearII
	questions about remodeling (Preview) hi! i have a 2006 national tropical. has anyone added or taken anything away. we changed the euro chair for a lazyboy and are trying figure out a place for a small book case. we only part time for now , but once the kids get older we hope to full time. thanks	faerie	2	1427	01:00 PM Jan 14, 2009 by Speedhitch
	My Introduction (Preview) Hi Everyone, Allow me to introduce my wife and myself, Lee & Tom. We have been RVing since 1989 and have had 3 Winnebago motorhomes. Our first one was a 1987 24' Minnie Winnie on a Ford which we bought used and thoroughly enjoyed it. From that one we went to a 1996 31' Minnie Winnie on a Ford which had a...	Tom-NC	2	1131	09:23 PM Jan 11, 2009 by Speedhitch
	Ready to Roll! (Preview) Hi! We're not exactly new here, having posted several times over the past year. However today is a big day...in exactly 4 weeks we will be spending our first night as fulltimers! We've been planning for this for about 5 years and now it is really here! We appreciate all we have learned from everyone's bl...	Loralie	4	1072	10:58 AM Jan 11, 2009 by petitetot
	Dan & Jan (Preview) Just a quick note to say Hi. Jan and I have been fulltiming in our '08 Monaco Diplomat since December 2007, our toad is a 2007 Jeep Wrangler. We workamped in Oregon for the summer of 2008 and are heading to Branson MO. to work for summer 2009. We travel with Oscar our dog.	NorCal Dan	9	1513	10:35 AM Jan 11, 2009 by NorCal Dan
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