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Jim and Linda · Jim and Linda

Hello everyone, We figured it was about time to stop lurking and start posting. Having found this site has been very inspirational to us in that we are hoping to go full-time within the next few years. Like Howard and Linda, we are in our 40’s but don’t want to wait any longer. Wh...

Tom and Barbara · Tom and Barbara

Hi Everyone We are Tom (63) and Barbara (60) and we live in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Our home of 26 years goes up for sale next week. Needless to say we are a little nervous, but at the same time we are excited about fulltiming and this new chapter in our lives. We have been planning this for more than a yea...

Jones3558 · Jones3558

My wife & I have camped all of our lives and in an RV for the last 10. We currently are working in Boise and on course to be full timing in 2008!!

Racerguy · Racerguy

I figured since I've made several posts I should probably introduce myself. My wife Linda and I plan on fulltiming in a little over 2 years from now once I take early retirement after 25 years working in the natural gas business.Linda had to take medical retirement for a b...

wmalefyt · wmalefyt

My wife, Linda and I are retired and live full-time in Naples, FL. We have a 36' Monaco Knight diesel pusher motorhome and just completed a month-long 3400 mile trip yesterday. We have been rving since the mid-1970's when we started out with a 13' Wilderness travel trailer, followed by 2 Clas...

pet rving · pet rving

Hi Iam living in a 36 ft fiver with my husband and our htree dogs,one cat. all which will be traveling down the road in about 4mon and 11 days from now. I have been getting mixed feelings about leaving my family ,but I guess they will pass . We love the rv.dream .com journal We read it daily.

Ramblin Ramseys · Ramblin Ramseys

Not new to fulltiming, but still learning. We sold our home in Grants Pass Oregon in 2003 and have been on the road since then. We have enjoyed every minute of it so far, so I guess we will keep doing it. We are in Deming NM now and head to Tucson, AZ on Thursday. We will stay there until Dec 4th at which time we w...

Carstrom · Carstrom

Hello, I have been lurking on this website and finally decided to get an ID. My husband and I are planning on retiring mid-year 2007. We are Full Time Wannabes in our early 50s. We've always had RVing in the back of our mind but then about two years ago I discovered the RV Life on Wheels website. We attend...

Dick Nason · Dick Nason

My wife, Carol, and I are starting our full time adventure on October 30th this year. We currently live in Wenatchee, WA. We have owned numerious rv's over the past 37 years. We went to the Southwest for 2 months last year and liked the life style so well we decided to go full timing. We have a 2007 35 CKQG Nu...

SHERRILL · SHERRILL

Well, "someday" arrived, and we close on the sale of our home in two weeks (to our son and his wife). Garage sales are done, donations made to family/friends/shelters, and what I "just can't part with" is in climate control storage, along with our seasonal clothing/coats/family pictures. I definit...

Dennis Starkey · Dennis Starkey

I am Dennis and my wife is Michele, we currently do not have an RV but are looking at the lifestyle. We are avid cyclists and camp out some and stay at our primitive farm house a lot. I have enjoyed this trip with Howard and Linda, find it inspiring and motivating. We have already started a simple lifesty...

Olywa · Olywa

Kinda new at the forum thing, but I have been reading Howard and Linda' blog for a while and I have gained a lot of information from all of you. It has been a dream of my husband and myself to hit the road. and it looks like that is going to happen in the next 6-7 months if all goes as planned. I hope to be ab...

RickC · RickC

Hi everyone My wife (Orinda) and I (Rick) actually live in South Dakota (and not just in a mail forwarding site

) and are looking forward to retirement early next year. We were able to spend the winter in Florida last year (I am a teacher and taught over the internet) and are planning to fullti...

Tmcblane · Tmcblane

Hi I am Tab and my wife is Deanna, we are part of the graduating class of fulltimers which Howard and Linda are a part of. I just found the site and knew I had to sign up! We started fulltiming in May of 05 and spend the winter in Quartzsite. Currently we are on a cash rebuilding/workamping position for a whil...

ralbert · ralbert

My wife of 38 years and I part time in a 32' 5th to stay warm in the winter. I am retired Air Force as well as from other enployeers. We both retired in 2002 and prior to that we had a 945 Lance TC that we love. Retired and spent the summer of 2003 in Alaska and than came home thinking we would sell the Lance and buy...

bardave · bardave

Hi Y'all About 10 days ago, I stumbled onto the daily email, via one of the 5thwheel forums and I signed up....didn’t even know abut the forum web site until todays email and telling folks to introduce themselves. Sure glad I found your emails, as I do enjoy reading about your t...

sfischer · sfischer

I'm Steve and my wife is Karen. We currently live in Stafford, VA. We've followed the RV-Dreams site for quite awhile now and love hearing the experiences both of the Paynes and from fellow RVers. We've been RVing since 1991, first in a 19' foot trailer. Within a year...

Lloyd · Lloyd

Hi I'm Lloyd and my wife is Suzanne. We're looking (for the first time ever!) at RVing ... quite possibly full time. I've been spending time researching what to buy .. yes, you heard right, we don't (yet!) own a rig, let alone something to tow it with! There are so many questions! and (sometimes) few...

DonLola · DonLola

Well we done we sold our house and getting readto hit the road in late november. I am retired form the Navy I have been driving a school bus and working for the corp as a vol gate att. My wife is CNA at the Hosiptal hear in Knoxville, Iowa We have been married about three year, we both lost of spouces in t...

danlesr · danlesr

Hello, We're Danny and Leslie from NW Florida. At present we're planning our retirement and will spend most of the year in our travel trailer doing a combination of volunteer work and just enjoying ourselves and about 4 months of the year in our house. We enjoy most outdoor activities, such a...

Earl Truxton · Earl Truxton

Hello, From South Dakota. My wife (Sandy) and I are both retired. I worked for the Water Dept in Pierre, SD for 30 years retireing in April of 99 as Assit- Supt. My wife retired in 2003 after 36 years in Dept of Motor Vechiles State of South Dakota. We have decided to go full time Rv'ing as our house ha...

I Luv Ouray · I Luv Ouray

Hello all. My name is Julie and my husband is Casey. We are 47 and 50 and have been married for 27 years. We live in the Dallas area. I'm currently living my (our) fulltime dream through Howard and Linda's website. What a fantastic site. I am envious of all of you who are already fulltiming. Thanks to How...

Sandra · Sandra

Gordon and I started full timing in August of 2004. We spend five months in Ontario to keep our Ontario health benefits and one month elsewhere in Canada, this year we will spend about three weeks in Quebec visiting Quebec City and Montreal which isn't very far from our home base of Ottawa, Ontario. We a...

leelare · leelare

My name is Lee Ann McCormick & my husband is Larry. We have lived in Las Vegas, Nv for the past 30 years & have just sold our home May 30th, 2006. We are age 56 & 65 (I am the young one!) Larry is a retired Insurance Broker & I am a retired poker dealer. We purchased a 34ft 5th...

MBFuentes · MBFuentes

Hi all! I'm Mel and my wife's name is Barb. We're in our mid 50's and are planning on hitting the road within the next 3 years. We have a 30' 5th wheel that we got for practice. Neither one of us had ever towed anything so it's been an adventure. We've been learning a lot about our set up and what w...

Tiger · Tiger

I've been reading the RV Dreams Journal for a long time now and was excited this afternoon when I discovered that they have a Forum! Okay, so maybe I wasn't reading the fine print! I'm a wannabe. In fact, I have decided that in 5 years I'm going to retire (one of the benefits of being...

Stan and Trudi · Stan and Trudi

Hello everyone. Howard and linda have really inspired us to go fulltime in a few years

We have been Rving for about 16 years, just weekends and a few week long trips. Life is short and it is time to plan for a new life. We are planning and saving for a new RVing life. Stan & Trudi - Twin Falls Idah...

adobe dweller · adobe dweller

Hello I am Bob and my wife is Judy, she is also known as Southwest Judy. We have 2blackdogs that travel with us. We have sold our home and plan to close early October but we have been on the road since Aug 3rd. We were in Kansas for a few weeks to see daughter and new grandson and are atCochiti Lake, about 50 m...

foxriverguy · foxriverguy

We are George & Sandy. We are counting down the 36 months to our planned escape on our Great RV Adventure in early autumn of 2009. We made our decision to jump in with both feel about six weeks ago. Surprisingly, we have already started to sell "stuff"on eBay and are quite...

Tom & Paula · Tom & Paula

Hello everyone. First off we would like to thank Linda & Howard for the time they give up to educate us. We began camping in a popup camper in 1981. We stopped for several years but began looking at RV's when we retired in 2002. We park our RV at a campground on a seasonal site for 6mo and take it out usual...

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	Hello from New Hampshire (Preview) Hello everyone, We figured it was about time to stop lurking and start posting. Having found this site has been very inspirational to us in that we are hoping to go full-time within the next few years. Like Howard and Linda, we are in our 40’s but don’t want to wait any longer. Wh...	Jim and Linda	3	1082	05:26 PM Jan 16, 2007 by Tmcblane
	Hello from Georgia (Preview) Hi Everyone We are Tom (63) and Barbara (60) and we live in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Our home of 26 years goes up for sale next week. Needless to say we are a little nervous, but at the same time we are excited about fulltiming and this new chapter in our lives. We have been planning this for more than a yea...	Tom and Barbara	5	887	06:31 PM Jan 11, 2007 by joyinthejourney
	Greetings from Boise Idaho! (Preview) My wife & I have camped all of our lives and in an RV for the last 10. We currently are working in Boise and on course to be full timing in 2008!!	Jones3558	2	882	07:55 AM Jan 10, 2007 by mikeway
	Greetings from Colorado (Preview) I figured since I've made several posts I should probably introduce myself. My wife Linda and I plan on fulltiming in a little over 2 years from now once I take early retirement after 25 years working in the natural gas business.Linda had to take medical retirement for a b...	Racerguy	3	1020	08:00 AM Dec 19, 2006 by mikeway
	Hello from Naples! (Preview) My wife, Linda and I are retired and live full-time in Naples, FL. We have a 36' Monaco Knight diesel pusher motorhome and just completed a month-long 3400 mile trip yesterday. We have been rving since the mid-1970's when we started out with a 13' Wilderness travel trailer, followed by 2 Clas...	wmalefyt	5	1136	07:42 PM Dec 9, 2006 by wmalefyt
	Hi from Idaho (Preview) Hi Iam living in a 36 ft fiver with my husband and our htree dogs,one cat. all which will be traveling down the road in about 4mon and 11 days from now. I have been getting mixed feelings about leaving my family ,but I guess they will pass . We love the rv.dream .com journal We read it daily.	pet rving	2	834	04:26 PM Dec 9, 2006 by dunwurkin
	Hello from the Ramblin Ramseys (Preview) Not new to fulltiming, but still learning. We sold our home in Grants Pass Oregon in 2003 and have been on the road since then. We have enjoyed every minute of it so far, so I guess we will keep doing it. We are in Deming NM now and head to Tucson, AZ on Thursday. We will stay there until Dec 4th at which time we w...	Ramblin Ramseys	2	818	09:40 AM Nov 28, 2006 by Ramblin Ramseys
	Greetings from California (Preview) Hello, I have been lurking on this website and finally decided to get an ID. My husband and I are planning on retiring mid-year 2007. We are Full Time Wannabes in our early 50s. We've always had RVing in the back of our mind but then about two years ago I discovered the RV Life on Wheels website. We attend...	Carstrom	1	887	06:39 PM Nov 27, 2006 by bjoyce
	Counting the days (Preview) My wife, Carol, and I are starting our full time adventure on October 30th this year. We currently live in Wenatchee, WA. We have owned numerious rv's over the past 37 years. We went to the Southwest for 2 months last year and liked the life style so well we decided to go full timing. We have a 2007 35 CKQG Nu...	Dick Nason	5	1091	09:59 AM Nov 21, 2006 by Dick Nason
	Hi, from Texas! (Preview) Well, "someday" arrived, and we close on the sale of our home in two weeks (to our son and his wife). Garage sales are done, donations made to family/friends/shelters, and what I "just can't part with" is in climate control storage, along with our seasonal clothing/coats/family pictures. I definit...	SHERRILL	1	790	05:56 AM Nov 16, 2006 by Tmcblane
	Hello from Texas (Preview) I am Dennis and my wife is Michele, we currently do not have an RV but are looking at the lifestyle. We are avid cyclists and camp out some and stay at our primitive farm house a lot. I have enjoyed this trip with Howard and Linda, find it inspiring and motivating. We have already started a simple lifesty...	Dennis Starkey	2	1272	05:06 PM Nov 13, 2006 by Tmcblane
	Hello from Washington (Preview) Kinda new at the forum thing, but I have been reading Howard and Linda' blog for a while and I have gained a lot of information from all of you. It has been a dream of my husband and myself to hit the road. and it looks like that is going to happen in the next 6-7 months if all goes as planned. I hope to be ab...	Olywa	6	1228	07:33 PM Oct 28, 2006 by bjoyce
	Hello from South Dakota (Preview) Hi everyone My wife (Orinda) and I (Rick) actually live in South Dakota (and not just in a mail forwarding site ) and are looking forward to retirement early next year. We were able to spend the winter in Florida last year (I am a teacher and taught over the internet) and are planning to fullti...	RickC	1	731	06:41 PM Oct 24, 2006 by Tmcblane
	Well Hello (Preview) Hi I am Tab and my wife is Deanna, we are part of the graduating class of fulltimers which Howard and Linda are a part of. I just found the site and knew I had to sign up! We started fulltiming in May of 05 and spend the winter in Quartzsite. Currently we are on a cash rebuilding/workamping position for a whil...	Tmcblane	6	1435	10:33 AM Oct 22, 2006 by Tmcblane
	Part timing (Preview) My wife of 38 years and I part time in a 32' 5th to stay warm in the winter. I am retired Air Force as well as from other enployeers. We both retired in 2002 and prior to that we had a 945 Lance TC that we love. Retired and spent the summer of 2003 in Alaska and than came home thinking we would sell the Lance and buy...	ralbert	2	1029	05:27 PM Oct 19, 2006 by Tmcblane
	Hello from TEXAS (Preview) Hi Y'all About 10 days ago, I stumbled onto the daily email, via one of the 5thwheel forums and I signed up....didn’t even know abut the forum web site until todays email and telling folks to introduce themselves. Sure glad I found your emails, as I do enjoy reading about your t...	bardave	3	989	11:06 AM Oct 15, 2006 by Parrothead
	Hi Everyone! (Preview) I'm Steve and my wife is Karen. We currently live in Stafford, VA. We've followed the RV-Dreams site for quite awhile now and love hearing the experiences both of the Paynes and from fellow RVers. We've been RVing since 1991, first in a 19' foot trailer. Within a year...	sfischer	0	720	10:28 AM Oct 15, 2006 by sfischer
	Seriously looking! (Preview) Hi I'm Lloyd and my wife is Suzanne. We're looking (for the first time ever!) at RVing ... quite possibly full time. I've been spending time researching what to buy .. yes, you heard right, we don't (yet!) own a rig, let alone something to tow it with! There are so many questions! and (sometimes) few...	Lloyd	0	945	05:47 AM Oct 12, 2006 by Lloyd
	Going Full Time (Preview) Well we done we sold our house and getting readto hit the road in late november. I am retired form the Navy I have been driving a school bus and working for the corp as a vol gate att. My wife is CNA at the Hosiptal hear in Knoxville, Iowa We have been married about three year, we both lost of spouces in t...	DonLola	1	991	06:23 PM Sep 30, 2006 by Brian and Tam
	3 Years from Retirement (Preview) Hello, We're Danny and Leslie from NW Florida. At present we're planning our retirement and will spend most of the year in our travel trailer doing a combination of volunteer work and just enjoying ourselves and about 4 months of the year in our house. We enjoy most outdoor activities, such a...	danlesr	3	964	08:20 PM Sep 28, 2006 by Paul and Bonnie
	New full timers After Oct 20, 2006 (Preview) Hello, From South Dakota. My wife (Sandy) and I are both retired. I worked for the Water Dept in Pierre, SD for 30 years retireing in April of 99 as Assit- Supt. My wife retired in 2003 after 36 years in Dept of Motor Vechiles State of South Dakota. We have decided to go full time Rv'ing as our house ha...	Earl Truxton	5	1027	03:10 AM Sep 26, 2006 by Tom N Gina
	Hello from another wannabe (Preview) Hello all. My name is Julie and my husband is Casey. We are 47 and 50 and have been married for 27 years. We live in the Dallas area. I'm currently living my (our) fulltime dream through Howard and Linda's website. What a fantastic site. I am envious of all of you who are already fulltiming. Thanks to How...	I Luv Ouray	1	868	08:47 PM Sep 23, 2006 by foxriverguy
	Full Timers from Ontario, Canada (Preview) Gordon and I started full timing in August of 2004. We spend five months in Ontario to keep our Ontario health benefits and one month elsewhere in Canada, this year we will spend about three weeks in Quebec visiting Quebec City and Montreal which isn't very far from our home base of Ottawa, Ontario. We a...	Sandra	2	1576	02:24 PM Sep 23, 2006 by Brian and Tam
	Hi from Larry & Lee Ann (Preview) My name is Lee Ann McCormick & my husband is Larry. We have lived in Las Vegas, Nv for the past 30 years & have just sold our home May 30th, 2006. We are age 56 & 65 (I am the young one!) Larry is a retired Insurance Broker & I am a retired poker dealer. We purchased a 34ft 5th...	leelare	3	1957	11:30 PM Sep 11, 2006 by leelare
	Hello From Oregon (Preview) Hi all! I'm Mel and my wife's name is Barb. We're in our mid 50's and are planning on hitting the road within the next 3 years. We have a 30' 5th wheel that we got for practice. Neither one of us had ever towed anything so it's been an adventure. We've been learning a lot about our set up and what w...	MBFuentes	1	867	08:23 PM Sep 11, 2006 by Paul and Bonnie
	Hello from Maryland (Preview) I've been reading the RV Dreams Journal for a long time now and was excited this afternoon when I discovered that they have a Forum! Okay, so maybe I wasn't reading the fine print! I'm a wannabe. In fact, I have decided that in 5 years I'm going to retire (one of the benefits of being...	Tiger	0	714	02:06 PM Sep 8, 2006 by Tiger
	We are planing and savings for Full Time RVing. (Preview) Hello everyone. Howard and linda have really inspired us to go fulltime in a few yearsWe have been Rving for about 16 years, just weekends and a few week long trips. Life is short and it is time to plan for a new life. We are planning and saving for a new RVing life. Stan & Trudi - Twin Falls Idah...	Stan and Trudi	4	1525	08:06 PM Sep 1, 2006 by Readytogo
	Hello from adobe dweller (Preview) Hello I am Bob and my wife is Judy, she is also known as Southwest Judy. We have 2blackdogs that travel with us. We have sold our home and plan to close early October but we have been on the road since Aug 3rd. We were in Kansas for a few weeks to see daughter and new grandson and are atCochiti Lake, about 50 m...	adobe dweller	6	1341	01:58 PM Aug 31, 2006 by Tom & Paula
	Wannabees sign on (Preview) We are George & Sandy. We are counting down the 36 months to our planned escape on our Great RV Adventure in early autumn of 2009. We made our decision to jump in with both feel about six weeks ago. Surprisingly, we have already started to sell "stuff"on eBay and are quite...	foxriverguy	0	950	04:15 PM Aug 30, 2006 by foxriverguy
	Greetings from Tom & Paula (Preview) Hello everyone. First off we would like to thank Linda & Howard for the time they give up to educate us. We began camping in a popup camper in 1981. We stopped for several years but began looking at RV's when we retired in 2002. We park our RV at a campground on a seasonal site for 6mo and take it out usual...	Tom & Paula	0	952	12:01 PM Aug 30, 2006 by Tom & Paula
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