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!!
I have been looking at peoples food budgets and it got me wondering "how much does food cost in the U.S.? I know I will be saving on gas while down south { I live in Canada}, but our food prices are rising greatly and I would like to here from some of you on basic prices for everyday food stuffs. So a loaf o...
Hi folks, Ben and I live in Conifer, CO (in the foothills southwest of Denver). Ben is a nurse and I am a psychologist and a nurse. Our retirement plan was to sell our house and become full-time RVers. Well, several months ago I said "why wait?" So we will put the house on the market in January an...
Hi everyone! My name is Kelly and I live in Alabama. I have started devouring all I can about the full-time RV lifestyle. It has always been a dream of mine to do. I am just now realizing I can embark on this dream, even while working age. My husband and I are hoping to start our full-time road trip Fall of 201...
Last week we bought a 2011 F350 4x4 diesel with only 40,000 miles. The truck was sitting on the lot when my husbance went to look at the new ones. It had the exact options that we wanted (basically loaded, leather interior (heated & cooled), Nav, backup camera, towing package, etc.) was in the e...
Hi Everyone; DW and I are set to FT for our first time and headed to the SE for first ever camp host job. We are stuck with T-Mobile for another year and both have Samsung T mobile Androids. We're not tech savvy, and figure we need to purchase a t- mobile hot spot and then get internet at least on one of our An...
When we broke down on Sunday and called CoachNet's emergency number, Jesse was told to save our campground receipts and submit them for reimbursement and our towing was covered. We have stayed in touch with CoachNet to let them know we may have to extend our stay because the truck is back in the shop and...
just wondering what the thoughts are about the air vents in an RV. I am set up fulltime, and wonder if it's best to keep my vents open when not there or closed? I do have the cap mounts over all my vents so no rain blows in. In the summer? How about the winter time? I have been leaving them open when not th...
I am getting rid of my scooter lift on the rear of the motorhome and going to haul a little cargo trailer instead. How do I back up and hook up being a solo. Do I require a camera or is their another way? The trailer will be a little cargomate 5x8 and weighs 56o lbs but I can't drag that around. Thanks for any...
Hi again, I want to get a solar generator and I understand watts I just can't figure out run time? The goal zero 1250 is what I have been considering. I want this to use the microwave for possibly 5 min a day and since they are supposed to store the power I should be able to use this for a long time right? I am g...
This isn't an offical job posting -- as in we don't have the official job description ready yet, but I need an assistant! We are looking for someone for the season starting as soon as possible. We need someone 40 hours a week -- Part of the hours will be paid and part will be for your spot at our award winnin...
Hi all Lurking is over ! I have enjoyed this forum and the whole Dreams website for over a year. Moving closer each day to taking off on the next journey. House went up for sale Fri and first showing is tomorrow. Six months of de-cluttering, garage sales,landscaping,painting,tossing,sharing,gi...
Hi everybody....We have a business that we need to sell. It is a Pet ID business, collar, harness, leash, water bowls, etc. It also includes an embroidery machine for custom dog collars on the spot. The business includes all inventory, a 10X10 EZ up canopy with sides, 4 grid walls and hangers to d...
Need opinions about extended warranties. I have a2006 Chevy 3500 with duramax engine, truck has 157000 miles. After reading about a couple of fuel pump/ injector problems here on the form i'am getting a little Leary of not having a warranty to help with any costs that may come up if my engine has simila...
I'm a sucker for tracking down new campgrounds. I have developed a web site that displays over 18, 400 publicly-owned campgrounds all across the Lower 48. You can also download the data as a POI list and I just released a iOS app. Check it out at: www.ultimatecampgrounds.com We travel 6-8 months a year...
We are Bob & Lindy and counting the days before we start full timing in summer of 2014, hopefully. Fixing up the home of the the last 34 years to put on the market in early 2014. We started camping on our honeymoon more than 41 years ago & have enjoyed it ever since. We just upgraded the truck in Sept...
Does anyone have a definitive answer to this question: Do you have to register a truck camper? (And if this has been discussed before, if you could point me in the right direction, I will read about it...) I have gotten so many different answers, even my town office and the BMV are telling me different th...
Last night we started cleaning out the book shelves to stage our house for selling. I have many books by Don Coldsmith, Elmer Kelton and Dana Fuller Ross. I thought I would keep the Louis L'Amour for trading purposes. Would anybody like these before I take them to 1/2 price books? Any better suggest...
We're making plans for this winter. We will be spending the winter along the gulf shores of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle. We've made plans through March 8th and are trying to decide where we'll go after that. Any suggestions of where to head from Destin, Florida headed b...
We're currently workamping at a COE campground - Battle Run Campground at Summersville Lake, WV. Because of the government shut down, it is closing early. The campers have to leave by tomorrow at 8:00, and we have to leave Thursday. I was wondering how many here are finding themselves making unpl...
This is our first time buying a motorhome, or any rv for that matter. We have researched and shopped around and came across this one. We saw it today and both agreed we liked it. One owner, kept up and maintained in timely manner, etc. Took it out on the road and it ran great. Everything works in it. The pric...
We have a 37 foot park model camper in a campgrounds. I have one question. Under the kitchen sing are two lines one blue and one red made of like a thick nylon hose. They also have two pullup things to drain them.I know these are used to drain the water lines. My question is once the water lines are drained an...
Hi, Well we have finally made progress, buying an older but low miles Mt Aire. We have gone through it and done alot of work and made some short weekend trips. This year we are going to be Snowbirds working our way to FL...While visiting some Family. Than spend 4 months in Fl. Early April we wil...
I started looking at purchasing an RV a few months ago. I thought I wanted a Motorhome then looked into fifth wheels and now don't know what is best. Any help would be appreciated!
I was planning on boondocking at a BLM campground, but don't know the status.... web searching isn't turning up much, except for the BLM "contingency plans" if the shut down happens... I may wander on over, and see, but, notice how they shut down all the stuff important to us, but none of the...
Now that I'm out here fulltiming, people ask "Where are you from?" expecting that I'm on vacation, like them. I don't know how to answer.... I took off from Northern California, but I'm not really from there, I never really fit in, or bonded to the place. I grew up in Phoenix, but that has been...
When I was 15 I saw a motor home and thought I would really like to live in that and travel. That dream never went away. Grew up, got married, raised kids. Now it is time. After 3 years of looking for our perfect motor home, we bought it! Purchased a 42 foot 2008 Monaco. I LOVE it... despite the post p...
Here are some videos of my week in Virginia City: General tour, 10 minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnaYgBgwv24 Out House Race, 1 minute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcoBMkXo024 Boothill cemetery 4 minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT1cb9_y2ZY The road to and from...
Since I'm shopping for an RV, I was wondering if some folks out there could give me some ideas on deciding on a state for a domicile. I hope to eventually become a full-timer, and have been doing lots of research. My original plan was to have Texas as my domicile, but now with the new health care plans and l...
