Went looking at an RV dealership yesterday since I've only looked at photos and hubby hasn't looked at anything. We started with Fifth Wheels then moved to the travel trailers. We did decide we wanted a fifth wheel, even though they cost more. We saw a lot that we liked but there was one Durango we really liked. That was pretty much the only manufacturer they had in a fifth wheel.

So we know the type of floor plan we both like now. Hubby agrees with me about the rear living room area. We liked the Durango 325CK because of the rear living room and open kitchen with the smaller island. It's about 34', so that's about the length that I wanted.

According to the dealer, we need to get at least an F250 super duty  for towing. I would like to go up to a 350, but don't know if I can talk hubby into it. He doesn't want a dually.

But we are still looking around. There is supposed to be a big show in B'ham in February, so I want to go to that and look at more models and nail down what we want.

Hubby wants to go ahead and try to do this in about 2 years, even if we have to make payments on the RV, which I didn't want to do, but if we buy new we will have to do that. But the other option we were looking at was buying a mobile home with some land and that is about the same price as the RV and the truck. So now that hubby has seen a few of them he is happy and more certain we can do this.

He wants to do this now in 2 years, as I said. Our son will be 18 and he wants to go to France for a couple of months. So basically, he will work, graduate and save up his money, take his trip and while he's gone we'll probably buy the fifth wheel and move out of our rental house. So by the time he comes back to pick up his dog and cat we'll be in an RV park and ready to hit the road.

That's the plan. We'll see how it goes. We are starting a very aggressive savings plan right now. We're renting and have nothing really to sell, so we plan to save for the truck and pay cash, using part of the money from selling dh's current S-10, then we figure we'll be replacing part of the money we now spend on rent on a fifth wheel payment. But we want to have a good down payment and emergency fund as well. We'll probably eventually sell my car too, and we have another car that needs a new engine back at my parents' place in Georgia. We can maybe get a few hundred dollars out of that for the savings account.

So the only debt we'll have will be a student loan and the RV. Still not the way I wanted to go, but if we're going to do this in 2-5 years it's the only way. There's no way for us save up almost $50 K in 5 years.  (That's for the Fifth wheel, truck and an emergency fund.)

Christina in Alabama