Well, some of you may know me from the SKP forum or some of the others popular ones. I did a lot of posting a year ago as I pursued the road to full-timing. Things didn't work out, but now I am back trying again.

I'll be a solo RVer, one who hasn't driven anything larger than an F-150 crew cab. LOL! So I hope to go to an RV driving class to help me increase my confidence. I've done the same thing as I did last spring....started out thinking it would be a motorhome, then back to the reality that I need a toy hauler.

Now I am trying to decide between a light-weight, side-load garage, bumper pull under 26' with a slide that bumps out for the bedroom (30' when out) versus a fiver that is 30-33', has a generator and is heavier (and $15k pricier).

Decisions, decisions......

-- Edited by Froggi at 01:42, 2007-06-17

Donna,

Welcome back to RVing. I followed your postings, way back when you were traveling with your husband.

We went full-timing in 2001 and was not on the Internet for a long time, so I lost track of what was happening in your life. I hope things are going better for you now and that your dreams of traveling can come true. Your web site at that time really helped us get started in this lifestyle.

The fiver will handle better on the road, and I think it would be easier for one person to hook up. As far as you handling it, I have no doubt that you could handle just about any rig out there, with a little practice.

Hi Jim! Nice to see you and Linda here....the RVing community (at least the online one) is pretty small sometimes. <g>

Lots has happened in my life..I'm in TN now, we moved here less than two months before Mike passed (Nov 2004). I spent most of 2005 traveling the country solo on my motorcycle. Came back intending to find a job, couldn't so decided on the full-timing. Sold the house, sold everything in it, buyer backed out (all the gory details are in my blog for anyone who is bored and needs something to read...LOL!), I found a job, took the job off the market, eventually quit the job, found another and ended up stuck deep in a rut (newer blog entry).

So, this fall when I start to collect my widow's social security, since I have to cut back to part-time I plan on just moving back into the full-time RVing. Since the fiver sounds like it will work best for me, and since used toy hauler market tends to be of the spartan interior variety (with no vapor wall which is a MUST for me), I am now considering a better quality fiver with a frame that will allow me to add a motorcycle lift to it. The move to a 400# bike rather than an over 700# bike is a step in the right direction.

Okay....will stop blathering now....LOL! I'm enjoying the forum and we're having a good time in our newly created solo folder. Thanks for the note!

Hi Donna & Jim, We have been lurking on this site for a while and We saw that you both knew of each other a while back. It is nice to see a meeting place like this. Jim said if we wanted to get some infro just to ask. Well, We would like to know how to get a pic or an icon under our name as you both have it. Thanks in advance.

That's called your avatar and here is how you add/change it:

1) click on your name in the upper right where it says LOGGED IN AS
2) click AVATAR on the left side
3) scroll all the way to the bottom where you see BROWSE and UPLOAD IMAGE
4) click BROWSE and find the image you want to use (on your computer)
5) once selected, click the UPLOAD IMAGE button
6) now you should see that image displayed, click on it once to highlight it
7) click the SELECT AVATAR button and that's it!

You can upload several avatars and change them from time to time (as I do). They should preferably be small in size, I can help you resize if needed. Just let me know.

Thank you very much. Now we see that we will have to select a better and closer pic.

Glad to help! The nice thing that I haven't seen in any other forum is the ability to store multiple avatars.....