Hi all we have saved this website as our favorites for almost a year now. Karon told me about it in another forum. We are brand new fulltimers as of July 29th 2008. We are currently in Granbury Texas. My husband is a retired airline Captain and I still work. We purchased a Double Tree Select Suite 5th wheel and a 2006 Ford F350.
Our first trip will be next month to Branson, MO. We are very excited to start our new adventure! I am so glad y'all are here so we can learn the ropes quickly.
Tom & Paula said
07:28 PM Aug 15, 2008
Welcome
We have been fulltime since June 2007 and love it. We're in Pa right now but we'll winter in Tx. We'll be in Livingston at the Escapee Clubs CARE center for 4 plus weeks beginning Nov 15. In Jan we'll move down to Rockport.
Jim01 said
06:08 AM Aug 16, 2008
Welcome to the forum and the full-timing lifestyle.
Branson should be nice in September, so enjoy your trip and be sure to ask the friendly folks here if you have any questions.
Full-timing is great! Enjoy!
Judy said
08:43 AM Aug 16, 2008
Welcome to the Forum and hope you will enjoy it. We are Bob and Judy right now in New Mexico and traveling full-time in an Elite Suites. We have been full-timing for 2 yrs now. Sold our home here in Rio Rancho, N.M. so we are visiting friends and getting our fix of the green chili right now. Plan on being in Pa. in the next 2 wks to visit our one and only grandchild then on to Fl. for the winter months to visit our other daughter. Spent the last 2 winters in Az. now I think we need new area to explore. southwestjudy
gypsymaus said
11:00 AM Aug 16, 2008
Thanks for the warm welcome. We are very excited to get to know other full time RV's. I can tell you if we had our hitch in the truck I think we would be some where cooler. The hitch is being installed on Wednesday. The NAV unit goes in on the 25th. Then we will be free to roam. We do love Granbury it is a very neat little town. We are at Bennett's RV Ranch. They have been wonderful to us.
Froggi said
08:05 PM Aug 16, 2008
Welcome to the forum and the wild, wonderful, wacky world of full-timing!
Travelin Duo said
08:48 PM Aug 16, 2008
Welcome to the forum. We are almost set to go also. Waiting for the house to sell. Congratulations, and enjoy your new 5th wheel. Arlene & Larry
DaveSam said
11:05 PM Aug 16, 2008
From 2 year full timers from Grand Prairie, welcome to the world of RVing, the greatest lifestyle there is. Granbury is a neat little town, especially the town square. You will enjoy Branson. We went to Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater and saw some of our favorites from the 60's. What a great time. Enjoy your new life!!!
-- Edited by DaveSam at 00:07, 2008-08-17
phyllen said
05:10 AM Aug 17, 2008
Hi Colleen, glad you followed Karon's advice (wise woman) and stopped over here.
Hopefully will meet you down the road. We plan to take off Feb 1. House is being shown today AGAIN. Let's see.
Phyllis (from the other forum too)
gypsymaus said
06:29 AM Aug 17, 2008
Dave and Sammie if you ever head this way let us know. We would love to meet you. We are in the park right behind Bennetts RV. Thanks for sharing about the shows at Dick Clarks. I will check that out. Did you stay at ABC?
Phyllis big selling vibes for your house!!
DaveSam said
10:14 AM Aug 17, 2008
Coleen.
We stayed at the Treasure Lake RPI Park in Branson, only because we were RPI members. I don't know about the ABC Park but others we have stayed at were always nice.
phyllen said
03:38 PM Aug 17, 2008
We've met Dave and Sammi. Nice people. Oh yes, and Trike too.
gypsymaus said
05:28 PM Aug 17, 2008
Phyllis any feedback on the showing?
Coleen
phyllen said
05:46 AM Aug 18, 2008
Realtor says house looks great, however we only have 3 bedrooms and two full baths. These people want more bedrooms and baths. That's okay.
We were actually hoping there would be no offer. Contact expires in Oct. My daughter wants to buy it. We can both save money going with an attorney and not through a realtor. So - looks like we will be hitting the road in February.
WE ARE SO READY!!!!!
cc said
12:57 PM Aug 24, 2008
I am totally jealous. We live in South Fort Worth and have been trying to sell our sticks and bricks for the last year+. Best of luck. We have friends who own a storage facility on Weatherford Road in Granbury. Did you live in Granbury before fulltiming? cc jealous in FW
gypsymaus said
02:34 PM Aug 24, 2008
Hi Carol!
Nope we did not live in Granbury. We had a 2600 square foot home at Eagle Mountain Lake. We bought our Select Suite from Bennetts RV Center here. They have a park behind the RV dealership and we fell in love with Granbury. The park is very clean and they run a tight ship, but are very accomodating at the same time. We intend to make this our homebase.
Selling vibes to you for your house. It is a frustrating time to be on the market. Ours sold when we least expected it. The couple had looked at 5 days prior to the offer with no feedback at all.
Speedhitch said
03:54 PM Aug 24, 2008
We sold our house last month and are now free from yard mowing LOL. We have to wait until February for my anniversary date so I can retire. We are having a March madness party in Kerrville Texas March 1st thru ?? If you happen to be in the area please drop by so all us Dreamers can meet you. We had our first rally in Branson Mo. and we all stayed at ABC...one of the finest bunch of folks in the Camp Ground Business. I think you will find all the Dreamers on this forum to be so friendly and helpfull....I know you will join in and be a great asset to this forum.
Hope to see you on the road
Joe and Sherri
foxriverguy said
12:17 PM Aug 25, 2008
Welcome, Coleen
You will really like this Forum.
Stay tuned.
Fordiesel250 said
10:44 AM Aug 30, 2008
Welcome! We live in Iowa Park Texas which is just a little north of you. Good Luck and enjoy.
emeacham said
08:05 PM Sep 14, 2008
Hey, Colleen, welcome to the RV-Dreams community - one of the best families ever! It's a small world and so fun to get to meet others with similar interests/backgrounds, just from all over the country!
Glad to see you here!
Happy Travels, Ellie
gypsymaus said
05:24 AM Sep 15, 2008
Hi Ellie!
Good to see you! Thanks for the welcome.
4x4given said
09:05 AM Nov 4, 2008
Congratulations on your RV Coleen. Tina and I lived in Granbury for about 8 years. We're originally from Fort Worth, but for the last few years, we've been kind of stuck in Austin. Anyway, we have recently begun to research getting another RV, selling everything (excepting the Harleys, the Accord and the Jeep) and becoming FT's. We've owned quite a few homes and frankly, we're just tired of the stick-n-brick "dream" and having to work high stress, high tech jobs to pay for it all. We're hoping to start our FT lifestyle back up in the DFW area and Granbury is definitely on our list of options.
Interesting you mentioned Bennett's. Their daughter and son-in-law used to live across the street from us and they were really a cute couple! The paren't RV business seemed to be a very reputable business and was in part one factor that got us interested in buying our first RV. (boy do we regret selling it!)
Anyway, hope y'all have fun and perhaps Tina and I will meet y'all one fine, sunny day!
Humbly,
Dutch & Tina
-- Edited by 4x4given at 09:05, 2008-11-04
gypsymaus said
08:19 AM Nov 5, 2008
Hi Dutch and Tina!
Jim and Stacy Rist (the Bennetts daughter and son in law) own Bennetts RV Ranch. The park is just beautiful. Jim has done an outstanding job designing and building it. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett are still at the dealership everyday. Stacy runs the dealership. We have made Bennetts RV Ranch our homebase for fulltiming. We are currently in AZ on our way to the NASCAR race. We will celebrate the holidays with other fulltiming friends we have made in Rockport, TX. We will head back to Bennetts sometime after the first of the year.
I spoke with Jim yesterday and he said he would love to catch up with you. He said he hadn't seen you in several years and wondered where you were.
Coleen
4x4given said
02:25 PM Nov 5, 2008
Funny how small the world is. :)
Doncat said
07:58 AM Nov 7, 2008
Welcome to the friendliest forum on the web. My wife Cheryl and I are hoping to join the ranks of fulltimers soon.
Don
nwlambear said
07:57 PM Jun 20, 2009
Phyllis and Leonard - Tell me more about your F250. We also have a F250 super duty diesel. We will be towing a Cougar-about 33'.
-->***‘08 Ford-250 Super Duty Super Cab, 6.4L diesel engine, towing pkg single rear wheel, rear axle ratio: 3.73 (the only configuration for an F250);approximate towing weights of 16,000 to 16,300 pounds estimated GCVW rating of 23,000 pounds; Sclwt: 7,202; Gwt: 12,000
Do really pull a 3655SA 5th Wheel???? What are your weights--? Have you had any problems?
2009 Montana 3655SA Fifth Wheel with 2006 F250 Super Duty Diesel
-- Edited by nwlambear on Saturday 20th of June 2009 07:59:39 PM
Our first trip will be next month to Branson, MO. We are very excited to start our new adventure! I am so glad y'all are here so we can learn the ropes quickly.
We have been fulltime since June 2007 and love it. We're in Pa right now but we'll winter in Tx. We'll be in Livingston at the Escapee Clubs CARE center for 4 plus weeks beginning Nov 15. In Jan we'll move down to Rockport.
Branson should be nice in September, so enjoy your trip and be sure to ask the friendly folks here if you have any questions.
Full-timing is great! Enjoy!
We are Bob and Judy right now in New Mexico and traveling full-time in an Elite Suites. We have been full-timing for 2 yrs now. Sold our home here in Rio Rancho, N.M. so we are visiting friends and getting our fix of the green chili right now. Plan on being in Pa. in the next 2 wks to visit our one and only grandchild then on to Fl. for the winter months to visit our other daughter. Spent the last 2 winters in Az. now I think we need new area to explore.
southwestjudy
Thanks for the warm welcome. We are very excited to get to know other full time RV's. I can tell you if we had our hitch in the truck I think we would be some where cooler. The hitch is being installed on Wednesday. The NAV unit goes in on the 25th. Then we will be free to roam. We do love Granbury it is a very neat little town. We are at Bennett's RV Ranch. They have been wonderful to us.
We are almost set to go also.
Waiting for the house to sell.
Congratulations, and enjoy your new 5th wheel.
Arlene & Larry
-- Edited by DaveSam at 00:07, 2008-08-17
Phyllis big selling vibes for your house!!
Coleen
Did you live in Granbury before fulltiming?
cc
jealous in FW
Nope we did not live in Granbury. We had a 2600 square foot home at Eagle Mountain Lake. We bought our Select Suite from Bennetts RV Center here. They have a park behind the RV dealership and we fell in love with Granbury. The park is very clean and they run a tight ship, but are very accomodating at the same time. We intend to make this our homebase.
Selling vibes to you for your house. It is a frustrating time to be on the market. Ours sold when we least expected it. The couple had looked at 5 days prior to the offer with no feedback at all.
You will really like this Forum.
Stay tuned.
Hey, Colleen, welcome to the RV-Dreams community - one of the best families ever! It's a small world and so fun to get to meet others with similar interests/backgrounds, just from all over the country!
,
Glad to see you here!
Happy Travels
Ellie
Interesting you mentioned Bennett's. Their daughter and son-in-law used to live across the street from us and they were really a cute couple! The paren't RV business seemed to be a very reputable business and was in part one factor that got us interested in buying our first RV. (boy do we regret selling it!)
Anyway, hope y'all have fun and perhaps Tina and I will meet y'all one fine, sunny day!
Humbly,
Dutch & Tina
-- Edited by 4x4given at 09:05, 2008-11-04
Jim and Stacy Rist (the Bennetts daughter and son in law) own Bennetts RV Ranch. The park is just beautiful. Jim has done an outstanding job designing and building it. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett are still at the dealership everyday. Stacy runs the dealership. We have made Bennetts RV Ranch our homebase for fulltiming. We are currently in AZ on our way to the NASCAR race.
I spoke with Jim yesterday and he said he would love to catch up with you. He said he hadn't seen you in several years and wondered where you were.
Coleen
-->***‘08 Ford-250 Super Duty Super Cab, 6.4L diesel engine, towing pkg single rear wheel, rear axle ratio: 3.73 (the only configuration for an F250);approximate towing weights of 16,000 to 16,300 pounds estimated GCVW rating of 23,000 pounds; Sclwt: 7,202; Gwt: 12,000
Do really pull a 3655SA 5th Wheel???? What are your weights--? Have you had any problems?
2009 Montana 3655SA Fifth Wheel with 2006 F250 Super Duty Diesel
-- Edited by nwlambear on Saturday 20th of June 2009 07:59:39 PM