Hi, My name is Lori and my husband's name is Tom. We have made the decision to go FT  when my husband retires. He is nine years older than I an so it's early retirement for me!! That's the good news. The bad news is that it is several years away. I was very excited to find this website. It has given us a wealth of information. We have never even been in an RV before so we have a lot to learn before we actually hit the road. Both my husband and I are photographers in our spare time. Hopefully we can turn this into a possible income source once we are on the road by taking advantage of our beautiful country. We have decided that a 5th wheel is what we want and we have narrowed it down to Carriage and DRV, at least for now.  Well enough for now.
Thanks for reading!

Welcome Lori and Tom! Best RV forum on the net.

Welcome Lori and Tom! This is without a doubt, the friendliest rv forum on the net!

When are you planning to hit the road?

welcome an may you always have a safe an happy adventure

Unfortunately, not for 7 years.  Right now we need to keep working and save all our pennies. We will need to wait for S.S income and we will take the proceeds from our house and purchase the 5th wheel and truck. OR maybe we can play the lottery and hit it BIG!  In the meantime we will go to as many shows as we can and perhaps rent and RV for short vacations to get the hang of it.

Welcome,I know 7 years sounds like a long time but it will go faster than you think.Plan, ask questions,make up your mind,change your mind,ask more questions etc.,etc. This will make the time go fast.

Welcome. We too will be fulltiming in the future. Not as far out as you are(3 1/2 yrs.). Lots of friendly people here with experience and good advice.

Lori & Tom: Welcome to this friendly forum. We've got a bit to go before we can live our dream, but the journey is just as exciting. Good luck in all your research! Laurie

Welcome Lori and Tom, There are several of us on this forum preparing for full timing. We have about a year to go and I'm glad we found this forum as well. Several years of bouncing questions and ideas off the folks in this forum will greatly help your process.

Lori and Tom, we also want say welcome to this forum. Since joining a couple of moths ago, we have had several of our concerns answered just by reading some of the posts and also just by reading Howard and Linda's postings on the RV Dreams web site. You will not only find this web site friendly and informative, but also very supportive of the life style we all want to pursue. We are hopefully only 2 - 2 1/2 years away from "hitting the road" full time but this will depend on selling the S&B which will depend on the economy in or area. Good luck in pursuing your dreams, you will find there are many ways to live this life style sooner than you may think.

Welcome Lori and Tom. Like you, Kev and I knew nothing about RVs when we decided to ft. We are hoping to start sometime in 2011, but it could be as much as 2 years out. This is a great and friendly place, and you'll enjoy it!