Welcome to RV dreams. Gene

Welcome!

You have to be excited to have a good chunk of your work done. House is sold, motorhome & toad in hand. Too cool.

We are planning our journey in 2012 as well. One property is on the market, the retirement income is on the other side of the tunnel. Researching which motorhome we want to purchase. Have the toad :)

Good luck to you!

Laurie

Thank you, and you are right about getting out of California. We have always felt like we are living on a different planet since moving here. What we do for the all mighty dollar, is it worth it??? We have the short time attitude now and full time will be here before we know it.

Hi Karen and Bob
Welcome to the RV Dreams Forum!  Glad you've found a place to keep your sanity.

Welcome to the forum Karen and Bob. Just keep the dream in sight as you continue to work towards the freedom of full-timing. You will probably want to change your state of residence, California is broke and always looking for ways to generate income.

Welcome Karen and Bob. We just gave up our apartment and started our full time living and I sympathize with you. When you are in the midst of the downsize and getting rid of things you once held dear it can be difficult. Like you I would get online and read Howard's journal and other RV blogs to keep my eye on the prize. We get to take off in August when my husband and I are finally done working and all these people have kept us excited about life on the road. Good luck and keep reading! :)

Karen & Bob, I understand completely about California.  We left last fall after my husband lost his job, our landlord asked us to leave because he needed to re-fi. his house and couldn't unless he lived in it - otherwise he might have lost it.  We just couldn't afford to live there.

We lucked out with North Dakota  - the mobile is on a friend's farm and we got a deal.  Problem is that the mobile has been ignored for 7 years and needs enough work to gobble the IRA in a heartbeat.  It won't increase value, but we'll be happier.  Decisions are in the air.

For us the biggest issues are the isolation out here, being 1700 miles from our kids (& Grandkids, & Great Grandkids), and the hard costs of living here.  Unless a neighboring farmer (we're on 40 acres) stops by there's little social interaction.   A tank of propane lasts 5 to 6 weeks and it runs $500 to fill it.  Electric is high because you have to keep the pump room and areas where water lines are above ground have to be heated, or the pipes kept heated.  My health insurance is through the roof here due to COBRA requiring that the insurance company has to be the same as before he was fired.  So we get an 'out of network PPO'. 

We'll be heading back to CA - we can live in an RV out there for far less, and more comforatbly than here.  There's also a chance that my husband could get his old job back which would really be great.  That would cover our health insurance again, if he doesn't get the job back my insurance will go down significantly going back to an 'in network HMO'. 

I think we'll keep the mobile - that way we can maintain ND residency, and we'll come back - but I can't wait to get on the road.  There's so much to see in this hemisphere and I'm looking forward to seeing as much of it as we can.   We've located a couple of parks to "long time" in - have to make a choice but I guess we need to get the motorhome first! :)