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With so many wonderful places to go & see in our beautiful country I was wondering where you went on your 1st trip out as a full time rver and what made you decide to go to that place. 

We are blessed to live in the great state of Georgia where just about anything you want to see & do are right here.....beaches, mountains, lakes, rivers....we could probably spend several years and never leave our home state.

I do, however, want to see the rest of our country but just don't know where to start............confuse

Would love to hear about some of your great adventures and/or disasters.

We are not yet full timing but one of our disasters (a week vacation from work) was a trip to the Okeefenokee Swamp close to Memorial Day.  Not a good time to go as the deer flies were so BAD we left after 2 days.   Those suckers will bite you thru clothing and NOTHING we could spray on would keep them away.  Our only relief was when we were flying down the road on our bikes.  We must have had an allergic reaction (both husband & myself) because we had welps come up & itched for a week after we got back home.  The dog did not even want to go outside when we were there. 

One of our best trips has to be our week at Fort Pickens State Park below Pensacola Beach.  It was in early March last year.  The beach is uncluttered by condos & hotels because it is a State Park.....just miles & miles of suger white sand with the ocean on one side & the bay on the other....no buildings to block the view.   The campground is out at the end of the island and you just about have the beach to yourself.  The old fort is a great place to explore (& fish at if you wish) and there is a wonderful bike trail from the campground out to the fort.  While we were there the Blue Angels were practicing and we got to watch them from an old tower that was part of the fort.   Just a short drive into Pennsacola and we purchased fresh seafood to cook on our grill.   If you love the beach but hate the commercializm of most of them, this is the place to go!

 



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Our first trip was a short hop from the Austin, Texas area to the Livingston, Texas area.  We camped at Double Lake Recreation Area, where we had been before on a few occasions.  This was close enough to Livingston for us to take care of our business there - changing our driver's licenses, registering the rig in that county and so forth.

Friends met us up there, too, one with his bumper pull and another who bunked with us for the weekend.  It was a great send-off for us!

From there, the rest is history . . .  biggrin



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funny you ask since our first trip will be next week to Athens to watch the daughter play college softball at Georgia...

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We drove from Washington state to New England for the fall colors on our first full-time year, 2003. We had a great time and have wanted to make it back since and something has always stopped us seeing that area again.

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We departed the seacoast of New Hampshire on December 5, 2008, and headed to Florida, and down to the Keys to celebrate our fulltime beginning. It was freeing, and exciting. Wishing you all the best  on your future journies too.

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We left Colorado in April of last year going west to California and then up the coast to Oregon where we spent the summer.In August we left Oregon,went back through Colorado then on to Florida via North/South Carolina,Georgia arriving in November.On tuesday March 1st we are leaving here heading back to Oregon.

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We left Milwaukee in late February of 2006 and headed for Savannah Georgia, because we thought it would be the first place that the weather would be tolerable.

Our first night in our new home, the temperature went down to -14 in Milwaukee and we couldn't leave for another few weeks. What a start! :)

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We bought our dp in MT Oct of 2010 and after the final "stuff" we headed south(Nov. 1). Stopped and spent some time in Utah but knew we wanted to be south before the winter weather. We have been in AZ since then. Not a real eventful trip but we are enjoying every day!

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We left northern Ohio on Thanksgiving Day 2000 (the day after my hubby's last day of work) and worked our way south to Florida to visit his folks, then across to the Rio Grande Valley of TX to visit my folks (it was Feb. by then) and then up to Arizona, Las Vegas, Utah and on to Prince Rupert, BC by May 1 where we got on the Alaska Ferry, taking a month to do all the stops in the Inside Passage, on to mainland Alaska, back down the Alaskan Highway, across Canada and back to visit in Ohio, arriving there at the end of September because of a family emergency......we're still on the road as "homeless street people", so is that still our "first trip"???  confuse

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We have been full time for a year now!  Though we lived in our rig full time but had full-time wonderful paying jobs! 

But, we left our full-time jobs one day, traveled to our work camper job to start a few days later.  We worked with some incredible wonderful people! 
After that job commitment was completed, we traveled to TX  and then to FL to work again!

So, with all that said, we are just 3 weeks from really experiencing our first full-timers time off!  We are heading into the Smokey's for a few weeks of "be still and know that I am God" time and to really enjoy the peace and the stillness of thoughts.  We will not be "touristy" and do all the things that most do.  We don't have the funds to do that, but we will just enjoy meeting the folks of that area. 


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