I Am Officially PUMPED!!!! - RV-Dreams Community Forum

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

I Am Officially PUMPED!!!!

rjenkins · RV-Dreams Family Member

Terry and Jo, congrats!!!! Don't worry about your never ending questions because newbies like me have (had) the same questions or some that I never thought of so you are an integral part of all of us trying to figure out what unit would fit each others lifestyle.
Not to mention that you also answered a lot of questions for others based on past experience and your research.
This truly is a great big family to be a part of. Looking forward to hearing about your shakedown trip!!!

Dave Buck · RV-Dreams Family Member

Terry, congratulations on the new Suite. I saw your post over on the Suite forum. My wife and I are also looking at a Mobile Suite but will probably be looking for a late model used unit but unless something just falls into our lap will probably wait until next spring. We plan to list the house next spring and hit the road sometime before winter 2001. I too have appreciated all you your posts. Look forward to meeting on the road sometime.

Dave

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Dave Buck wrote:

Terry, congratulations on the new Suite. I saw your post over on the Suite forum. My wife and I are also looking at a Mobile Suite but will probably be looking for a late model used unit but unless something just falls into our lap will probably wait until next spring. We plan to list the house next spring and hit the road sometime before winter 2001. I too have appreciated all you your posts. Look forward to meeting on the road sometime.

Dave

Dave,

While I know you are in Illinois, check out the link I posted on the SOITC forum under "Dealers" about Rolling Retreats in Elk City. They have some nice used Mobile Suites units. I remember the lady there, Alicia, telling me that she had one guy from Arizona call her and make arrangements to buy one before she even got it on their website.

We saw her website and drove over to Elk City, and their units looked as good as the photos showed them to be. Alicia and her husband buy most of their units at auction after they have been repossessed. Then they go through them and check out the systems and clean them up.

Terry

janieD · RV-Dreams Family Member

Congratulations! i know you have researched and waited for the right rig for you. Enjoy your future home. Hope the house sells quickly

Dave Buck · RV-Dreams Family Member

Thanks, Terry
I've looked at the Rolling Retreats web site several times. My first task is decide on a truck. I'm thinking I want a MDT but have not decided that for sure. Thanks for your help.

Dave

RodnReal · RV-Dreams Family Member

Congratulations T & J! Thanks for all your helpfull posts about the process you have gone thru. I bet the wait to full time is getting even more difficult now that that beautiful 5er is sitting there.
--Rod

Happytrails · RV-Dreams Family Member

Congratulations on your new MS!! Congratulations on your excellent bill of health. Now we will say a prayer and keep our fingers crossed for a great sell on your house. :) Sounds like it is all falling into place nicely. Hope to see ya down the road very soon.

heyduke · RV-Dreams Family Member

now I am going to guess that yo just can't stay out of your new RV ... can you... sit in your S&B for a moment then thinking you need to check something out in the fiver... probably going to spend a few nights in the driveway in it too... aren't you... best of luck...

TxYellowRose · RV-Dreams Family Member

Congratulations to you both on getting your new home "home." biggrin

We are gradually loading our 5er and, like heyduke says, it is sort of hard to stay out of it now. "Guess I'll take some cycling clothes out." "Gee, might as well put this in." We may be about a month from truly moving in, but seems lately there are more and more "reasons" to go out there!

Have fun!

Melstar · RV-Dreams Family Member

Congrats on your new rig, Terry and Jo. I LOVE the model you picked. I have been doing extensive research into 5th Wheels and I'm convinced Mobile Suites is my favorite!! We have a dealer here in our town and a friend of mine sells them.....I walked through several and fell in love!

Unfortunately, I don't know if I'll ever have one....my hubby who was all excited about selling our home and getting a motorhome or 5th wheel....has now done an about face. At first I was reluctant....then after finding this website (Howard and Linda) and all of the others I've found I began to get excited about planning this in a few years. Now Wayne says...he doesn't want to sell our home and put all of the money into a rig that will depreciate and if we change our mind later we will not have enough money to buy another home.

So, I'll just continue to live vicariously through you all on this forum!

Melanie
dreaming of a Mobile Suites one day! :)

DorisandDave · RV-Dreams Family Member

Congrats Terry and Jo!!! I know you are just thrilled and have to keep looking in your driveway to believe it is actually there!

We pick ours up June 11th! The waiting is hard.

Doris

dream reachers · RV-Dreams Family Member

Congratulations Terry and Jo on your new MS. It is great that you are healthy and ready to try out your RV. All your research and questions have paid off and you can feel confident that you have made a wise decision as you venture out on this new adventure.

Acorn · RV-Dreams Family Member

Congratulations to you both! One step at a time, right?

2fortheroad · RV-Dreams Family Member

Hey T & J congrats on getting your New Dream Home!! And by the way, the pinch marks do eventually go away. biggrin

jagco · RV-Dreams Family Member

Congrats T & J! Wishing you the best on getting your house sold and hitting the road.

foxriverguy · RV-Dreams Family Member

The really imporant response to this topic is the one posted by Melanie. I hope others will chime in here.

MELANIE:

There are ways you and Wayne can try out this lifestyle without risking all of your net worth. Why not buy a very small and older unit and do some weekend camping? You might not have to drive far to find some neat places to camp.

We have met quite a few couples that started out doing this part-time and after a few months or a year or two decided to go full-time. We have also met couples where the reluctant one changed their mind and went full-time. You at least owe it to yourselves to get a taste of your dream.

Don't let yourself wake up 10 years from now regretting that you never gave it a shot.

This is a pretty neat lifestyle. From our own standpoint there is no way we would ever want to buy and live in a house again. Renting makes so much more sense.

Hold on tight to your dreams.

Racerguy · RV-Dreams Family Member

Well said George,somewhere on this forum is the story by Bubba Dan. His wife was totally against any RVing at all.Eventually she agreed to exactly what you said and if I remember right Dan and his wife just finished a very successful trip.Not everyone is cut out for full timing but why not RV as often as you are comfortable with and decide from there.
By the way, congratulations Terry and Jo on your new home.We have been on the road since April 27th and hope you can soon join us.

-- Edited by Racerguy on Tuesday 11th of May 2010 07:44:35 PM

2fortheroad · RV-Dreams Family Member

We agree with both Georges. We have always enjoyed camping, but had never really give it a thought that we would full time. Last year some friends turned us onto a camp ground that is family oriented, but also there are a lot of snowbirds that spend their summer months there. We were 1 1/2hrs from our house, so we would come home on Fridays, do our errands and yard and go back up Sunday. We got a small taste of the lifestyle, now we are so ready to join in. It cost $20 a year to join the association and $180 a month for a site with W/E they have a honey wagon comes around twice a week cost $5, well worth it not to have to move and they do all the work..
For anyone that may be passing through or thinking of a place to park for awhile in North Central Idaho, you might check out siscraidaho.com .

Happytrails · RV-Dreams Family Member

George really said it well...don't give up on your dreams and then look back one day and wish you had given it a try.
There are many different ways to achieve this goal. It is an awesome lifestyle and one worth investigating. Now with that said...it isn't for everybody but you will never know if you don't try.
We don't ever want to own another house. We have "been there done that" and really enjoyed the experience. But now we enjoy the freedom that comes with NOT being tied down to a house and all the upkeep that comes along with that ownership. Houses are not appreciating as they used to and perhaps never will again. If and when we come off the road we will look into options such as renting or leasing. I wouldn't be opposed to a park model etc. Owning a house is not something we need any longer. I like the freedom.
George is right....it is a pretty neat lifestyle. Do hang on to your dreams.

Happytrails · RV-Dreams Family Member

Terry and Jo
I can't say enough about the joy you all are about to experience. There just aren't enough words to describe it. If I had to use one word I probably would say - freedom. There is a freedom you wouldn't believe.

Congratulations again on your new home!!! Oh the places it will take you!! :)

tntlowrider · RV-Dreams Family Member

Congrats on the new rig. I know you will enjoy it. I am on the verge of fulltiming. By the time this weekend is over I will be there. Hard to believe. Will continue to work but looking forward to having all this move done and enjoy the time at the lake or wherever I park it. Best of luck to you.