Hi Everyone. Well, after 15 years the RV-Dreams Community Forum is coming to an end. Since it began in August 2005, we've had 58 Million page views, 124,000 posts, and we've spent about $15,000 to keep this valuable resource for RVers free and open. But since we are now off the road and have settled down for the next chapter of our lives, we are taking the Forum down effective June 30, 2021. It has been a tough decision, but it is now time.
We want to thank all of our members for their participation and input over the years, and we want to especially thank those that have acted as Moderators for us during our amazing journey living and traveling in our RV and growing the RV-Dreams Family. We will be forever proud to have been founders of this Forum and to have been supported by such a wonderful community. Thank you all!!
Hello, I have an issue when running off battery power. Whenever we turn too many things on ( a light and water pump or 3 lights ... ) the whole electrical system shuts down. We then have no power at all for ~ 1 to 5 minutes and then the power comes back. I have two new deep cycle batteries fully charged. I'v...
Hey y'all, we are heading to Madison, SD to get our drivers license. We prefer full hookup sites including sewer. It seems in SD, they consider full hookup is water and electric. Does anyone know of a place that would fill the bill for us?
My husband and I went to the Hershey show this past week with a list of possible contenders to start our serious quest of finding that right RV. After lots of questions and kicking the tires so to speak we have decided that DRV mobile suites was our choice. Having said that, the particular model we are loo...
Hi everyone, We will be in the Ft Myers area mid-November thru the end of May for work. I am looking for suggestions for RV parks in that area. I have done a search and came up with a few from the forum, but they were state parks or COE which won't work for us because of our length of stay. I would welcome any sug...
I was just checking on medical insurance coverage. WOW!!! Scary. We are 61 and 56 with no medical conditions. The quotes so far are over $2000.00. Can anyone tell me where to go to get a reasonable rate or is this the price for coverage where ever you go? Thanks for the information.
I know everyone is thinking about warmer places now, but I'm doing some long range planning! When July through September get here again, I want to be in a cooler place. My wife has COPD, so higher altitudes is not the answer. Where would we find the coolest places in the good ol' USA for those months? -- E...
One would think that with working FT from the road for over a year and up to 25% of the time on the road for the 3 years before we went FT that I would have gotten much faster at muting those conference calls when Dale is making noise in the background. I think I need a remedial course So what happened? Typic...
DH and I are planning to attend -- hoping there will be vendors of RV gadgets and gizmos. Anyone else planning to go? It's free admission and parking and minutes away from our house.
Eileen and I visited Mt Rushmore this morning and then Crazy Horse Memorial this afternoon. Tomorrow we're off to Sturgis and Deadwood. We were standing in the parking lot getting ready to leave the Memorial when Eileen reminded me I wanted to buy a raffle ticket for a Harley Davidson being raffled o...
Does anyone have some kind of spreadsheet set up to compare the important construction build and features of the different 5th wheel brands? Don't want to reinvent the wheel...
Hey guys, this is my first post here and I have a question. We just installed (18) 250W panels on our house, but for some reason they sent me 19. I didn't have authorization to install 19 panels on my home, so I called the company and they sold me the extra one at cost. I installed it on my RV with a 3000 W pure s...
We are considering purchasing a used 36' 5th wheel in becoming full-time RVers. We are fairly new at the RVing, this being our first year. So my only concern is whether there are many 35' cut-off parks, as I definitely don't want to decide I made a mistake after the fact. The type of parks we're intere...
I'm gonna tread really lightly here, as I know a lot of you are dog owners, and that you travel with your critters... That said, I really prefer not to camp next to dogs, if at all possible. I love them as much as the next guy, but my camping experiences vary from the snoozing Lab, that wouldn't bark if a squi...
With the discussion of dogs, as an issue, I got thinking about the different solutions plus what products I use that make life easier on the road and/or at home. Once I learned about using a crate, I would never be without one. Our dogs count on the crate as their bed and go there even with the door off. A...
Hi all, I last visited with most of you last October at the RV Dreams Rally in Franklin, NC. Still dreamin' of the day I'll be joining you folks, April 24, 2015. I may have posted that I sold the house in Bloomington, MN this past May. Well in early August I picked up my new Ford F350, and then over Labor Da...
Howard have you heard of many people who use transportation companies to transport their units from place to place if they only move two or three times a year? It would seem to save a good chuck of money on the cost if the Vehicle, Maintenance, insurance and would not require an additional vehicle for lo...
Headed from Chicago to Arizona mid October. Looking for suggestions of best routes that time of year. We do need to stop in Albuquerque. Also would love to hear about what parks people like in AZ, we have been new full timers for 4 months now. Moving too much will slow that down in AZ and would love to c...
DW and I are in the midst of purging our stuff. After looking at a budget, we find after all outstanding payments we will have only $2,000.00 to $2,500.00 left for fuel and campgrounds. Tough to put money aside for emergencies.
I was on this site in late 2010/2011 back when I first started researching full timing in an RV. Boy, a lot of water under the bridge since then. But I am back at it, and now the only main thing holding us back is getting our current place ready to sell. At any rate, at that time, the hosts of this website ha...
Would like to hear from anybody who has recently taken Factory Tours at. DRV, New Horizon ,Forks, Heartland Landmark, Excel or any other Factory that builds Full time rated luxury 5 Th wheels.
Hello Everyone! We have always enjoyed camping. We started out with a three man pup tent and have worked our way up to our current 5th wheel. For years we have talked with work campers as we have traveled and asked them about full timing. This past January, we met Howard and Linda at the RV show in Grand Rap...
I found one. Would a moderator please delete this thread? Thanks everyone. :) -- Edited by 7point3diesel on Wednesday 24th of September 2014 02:05:03 PM
My wife Theresa & I were inspired to consider fulltiming by finding the RV Dreams website.i just turned 60, Theresa is "younger".Our goal is to start fulltiming in late 2017 to early 2018 (depending on how our 2 younger boys are doing in college.I've given them the 3 year ultimatum!) W...
