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Hello to everyone! I wanted to introduce myself (and had to get the "lurker" title from under my username). My husband Chuck and I are 40-something DINKS that are "gonnabes" sometime in the next few years (hopefully) with our 3 cats. We are planning to build a bus conversion and are currently readin...

Well, I'm not sure I'm posting this in the right place, but here's some web pages about RVing that I just enjoy. I bet most of you know about them, but just in case there's some very new lurkers out there.... Welcome to Escapees RV Club Roadfood.com RV Service Review RV Park...

Hello Everyone! We are Dennis and Sharon Godsey from Cincinnati Ohio. We are fulltimer wannabees and working our way to our fulltiming goals! Right now we have a popup camper and camp a few times a year (working to much to camp more

We love camping, fishing, watching Nascar racing, watchi...

Hi from the Broseys in Lancaster, PA. My husband and I have been RVers for about 8 years having a popup first for 4 years and a 30' TT for the last 4 years. We love it and are looking forward to going full time somewhere in the future. Currently I am an RN at a local hospital and my husband w...

My husband and I actually met Howard and Linda at the Life on Wheels seminar in Bowling Green Ky in May. It was a wonderful weekend, and are looking forward to attending another Life on Wheels in the future. We highly recommend these seminars......it doesn't matter if you are a fulltimer...

Anyone have any recommendations for Santa Rosa, CA? I've been trying to research this for a month long stay in October and the web just doesn't give me the right information. We are willing to stay in other towns that are fairly close by. All recommendations are welcomed! Thanks, Robbie...

No...I can't seem to bring myself to full time but we do love to part-time

. During the summer we are on the road a lot and when we are not out for an extended stay we will do long weekends to just get away. We have been to Wisconsin Dells, Niagara Falls, Branson, Shipshewana, just to ment...

Hello Everyone! Since I just finished my first post in another topic, I guess it's time for introductions. We are Tim and Robyn Fansler, and we live in Columbus, GA. We are fulltimer gonna-bees... maybe even as soon as two years (we hope!). I will be turning 60 in October, and Robyn is ... much younger...

Well, I just read Howard's journal for today. I re-read the part on filling up at the trucker's pumps at big interstate stations. We have a GMC duramax 2500. We have alot of trouble fitting those bigger nossels into our tank to fill up. I know they must make adapters for private-truck tanks. We were wo...

We are early retirees from So. Ca. I (Eileen) have camped most of my life starting in tents in the 1950's with my parents and then introduced my husband Tony to camping after we were married. Our first RV was a truck and camper in the 1970's then in the 1980's we graduated to a 5th wheel and las...

Hello, My name is Cheryl and it is my dream to one day hit the road in an RV and see the country.

We are doing the research for the future..in 2 yrs the youngest of our kids will be out of high school. There was a time in journal you consulted a pro about storage..can you tell me or show in pictures what they changed for you to give more storage? We are considering the flat screen t...

This is just way too much fun! All of us have been followers of Howard and Linda, each of us communicating with them from time to time through comments to their posts. But now, we've become a community, talking not only to them, but to each other. It's a lot of fun reading all the posts, especially the intr...

We are Jackie and Tony from Tampa, Florida. We are exiting the "Rat Race" in less than a month on the 15th September and are going to do a little cruising - the high seas - before we start our fulltime RV'ing experience. Retirement can't come fast enough for us! We bought a 40' Motorho...

Greetings, I have been following the Payne's since just after they hit the road, and I was pleased to chat with them in Tampa at the RV show. My wife and I have been camping and Rving since 1974, I refuse to do the calculations. I enjoy laughing with Howard from time to time. I doubt he has done anyt...

Hi I wondering if anyone out there has or knows of anyone one with a Mandalay Class A ? That model is on our short list, but other than dealers we haven't seen but 2 used on the internet. I know their parent company, Thor, has had a bit of a bad reputation for some of their models, but I think the Mandala...

We are the Praters and live in Nashville, TN. We are both getting close to retirement age and have thought about either full timing or part timing. I am still having trouble with Linda though as she does not like the idea of giving up her "roots" and a real home. We still have parents here who depend on us so...

I love the website and will full-time within the year. I retired last November and spent the winter driving my aunt's motorhome to CO, AZ, UT, and CA and back. Now I know I want to do that full-time except in my own motorhome and at my own pace. When I was w o r k i n g I started reading you...

Almost every morning before I leave the house (or begin work if working from home) I check two blogs. I read Mark Cubin's and Howard & Linda's blogs. Have been doing that for most of a year now. I may never make it to fulltimi...

Hello everybody, We are Tom and Debbie Adair. Here's a little info about us ... Debbie has been camping on/off her whole life (I stopped after about age 15 ). She continually prodded me to get back into camping but I was always too busy working....

Hello, all - Just wanted to thank Howard and Linda for the most wonderful website and now this forum is just icing on the cake! It's beginning to feel like there's a whole host of friends out there just waiting to be met... We're John & Lora Newby from Alaska (Ok, easy on the newbie jokes!) an...

Tam and I have been married for 43 years now and have been RVin for 34 of those. We have lived in Central California (Fresno) for the past 31 years. We have a 34' 5th wheel that we pull with a F350 Diesel Dually. We started out with a pickup camper and it just got bigger over the years. We presently travel...

Judy and Bob and 2blackdogs here from New Mexico. Sold House, stored some things, and will finalize house first wk in Oct. Meanwhile we are camping here and there and in and out of house til then. Originally from Pa. but living in the "Land Of Enchantment" of which we shall keep as a home base.Full time wi...

Ok Linda. I just read that the beads are in so I hope you are trying to figure out how to make those bracelets. Time is a tickin' and the season is close at hand !! Lisa and I want to be the only ones around (at first) with them !

HERE IS OUR FULLTIME STORY. WE ARE A COUPLE OF BLACKJACK DEALERS, SPENDING THE WINTER MONTHS IN LAUGHLIN, NEVADA, AND THE SUMMER MONTHS AT LAKE TAHOE. WE DEAL ABOUT 40 WEEKS OF THE YEAR AND SPEND THE 3 MONTHS "OFF" TRAVELLING. AFTER LABOR DAY WE WILL BE HEADED ON AN ELEVEN WEEK TRIP BACK TO IOWA/WISCONSI...

Hello, Wow, this is a great new forum thanks to the Paynes. We are so glad that we are members and are happy to participate. We are the Wadsworths. We are from Texas and are living full-time in our new KZ Escalade fifth wheel that we purchased and moved into in...

Hi - we are Tim and Peg and have just begun our journey to fulltime rving. We are orginally from Ct but right now in Duluth, Mn. We will be starting back east for the birth of a new grandchild on September 15 in Ct and then will head west for the winter. Want to than...

HELLO -Everyone! We love RVing! Have been reading RV-Dreams from the beginning. just the 2 of us with our FurKid named PASCO, the pearl white schnauzer. We also frequent the OPEN FORUM as pasco1215, you may have seen our postings. Looking forward to being a membe...

We've been researching RVing for over 10 years since we were stationed in Yuma, Az. Alex was an active duty pilot for the Marine Corps and flew out of Yuma. I spent my time in Yuma checking out all the RV shows. As most of you know there's a lot of RVs in Yuma. Actually, there's no...

OK, I'll be the first to start it. With diesel getting more expensive than ags in some places, which is really the most economical? How long do you think it will take you to break even on the extra cost you pay for the diesel engine?