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GENECOP · RV-Dreams Family Member

Quotations for the RV Lifestyle

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Just for grins and giggles, I'm starting this thread because I ran across great words of wisdom on the website "Pbase" where a LOT of photographers post and share their photos. It is one of the best photo websites that I've ever found, especially for those that want to see what photos taken with a particular brand/model of camera look like. The photographers there range from outright amateurs to very professional ones.

Anyway, while I don't remember which photographer had it in his area of Pbase, it certainly applied as great knowledge for the RV'er as well as the photographer, many of us who are actually both.

Without further ado (and other nonsense), I now give you my contribution to what I hope is a LOT of similar quotes and knowledge from the RV Dreams participants. (Sorry, no prizes for the best.)

“Watching the clock is not the same as watching a sunrise.”

Terry

Cindy T · RV-Dreams Family Member

Here are a couple that I like -

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. — Martin Buber

Cindy T

PIEERE · RV-Dreams Family Member

Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.
Samuel Clemens AKA: Mark Twain

Pieere

Technomadia · RV-Dreams Family Member

'Home is not a place. It's whereever your passion takes you' - Sheridan, Babylon 5

crafter32034 · RV-Dreams Family Member

"Thanks to the Interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything" Charles Kuralt (sp?)

K & E · RV-Dreams Family Member

Don't wish upon a star - reach for one!

Sushidog · RV-Dreams Family Member

Sorry for the length, but worth it!

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost, The Road not Taken

Chip

jbarrett72 · RV-Dreams Family Member

Chip.....That's my FAVORITE poem!!

Dog Folks · RV-Dreams Family Member

Chip,
The last three lines of that poem is our mantra. Funny, I studied that poem in high school 40 years ago and it has never left my heart. I think it explains well the full time lifestyle.

Ravenlotus · RV-Dreams Family Member

This quote has helped me have hope of wonderful things that have manifested in my life. I thought I would never find a man who wanted to go full time on the road and raise family; while selling and performing at renaiseance festivals. But because of this quote which became my mantra it has happened. I acutually got this quote from my daughter's Barbie and The Three Musketeers movie.

"True courage is pursuing your dreams, even when everyone says it's impossible."

makntracks · RV-Dreams Family Member

To live a life of Destiny
we must leave our comfort zone.
But far more ritches will be found
on the road we all call home.

-Me

The Bear II · RV-Dreams Family Member

Small House, Big Yard

My favorite.....

-- Edited by The Bear II on Wednesday 16th of May 2012 09:51:23 AM

Speedhitch · RV-Dreams Family Member

Now that we are retired we never get lost...We just find new places we have never seen before.

Joe and Sherri

laurly · RV-Dreams Family Member

Good thread, Terry. The one we like:

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - credited to Mark Twain

Gary · RV-Dreams Family Member

laurly wrote:
Good thread, Terry. The one we like:

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - credited to Mark Twain

I was going to post that one! It is so true.

Jim01 · RV-Dreams Family Member

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

Scubabeck · RV-Dreams Family Member

Ahhh...to view mother nature in all her glory is a marvelous thing!

I say this every time I see a view (YNP, Badlands, WVA etc etc etc) I don't know where I picked it up from but it's kinda become my own little motto.

DebandDon · RV-Dreams Community Member

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" - Alexander Pope

Certainly describes me versus our motorhome over the past couple of years.

Don

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

DebandDon wrote:
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" - Alexander Pope

Certainly describes me versus our motorhome over the past couple of years.

Don

OK. I am slipping now. How did I miss welcoming you to the RV Dreams forums? I wonder if being 66 had anything to do with it.

Anyway, Deb and Don. Welcome to the RV Dreams forums as active participants. With each new participant, we all gain more knowledge....or a reminder of how little we do know when we hear the answers to questions. We look forward to your questions and comments.

Also, Alexander Pope's quotation would nearly fit me as well. Why nearly????

I also have another favorite quotation. "I know what I know and I know what I don't know, therefore, I DO know it all."

Terry

Alie and Jims Carrilite · RV-Dreams Family Member

There are a bunch of Jimmy Buffet quotes but I won't bore ya'll right now...

"It's 5 O'clock somewhere"

3fortheroad · RV-Dreams Family Member

What you think about, talk about, and get off your butt and do something about is what comes about.

Larry Winget

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

My Travels about the greatest wonders of this world will only end when they remove me from the wheelhouse one last time!!!!!!

PS.......If your there that day. The title is signed in the glove box , Please continue the journey and dont forget to feed the dog!!!!!

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

Coffee...(noun)
A magical Substance that turns "Leave me alone or die!!"...into..." Good morning Honey!!"

Laura and Bunk · RV-Dreams Family Member

My favorite "Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien: Not all those who wander are lost."

Bunk keeps asking me if I'm sure.....

My father was a wanderer, and I must take after him. That has been my signature line for a long long time.

charles · RV-Dreams Family Member

We don't have a schedule and are sticking to it.

CCC

blijil · RV-Dreams Family Member

Bumper sticker that made us smile.

"My lifestyle is a lot more fun than your vacation."

Larry and JB

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

Smile like you've never cried.....Fight like you've never lost.....Love like you've never been hurt. And live like you will Die tomorrow!!!!!!

VanMar · RV-Dreams Family Member

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher.

I think "fatal blunderer" is a bit harsh but I get the gist of it.

Vance

-- Edited by VanMar on Friday 26th of October 2012 06:10:09 AM

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

You will never find a Rainbow if your looking down!!!!!

3fortheroad · RV-Dreams Family Member

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I ended up where I needed to be.

Douglas Adams

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” --Mark Twain

RVing at its best.....To some its going there......To others is getting there......to me its "Where the hell are we!!!!"

Loretta · RV-Dreams Family Member

I always liked this one:

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming...
'Wow! What a ride!’

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

KEEP Going!!!!!!!!............
Each step may get harder, But Don't Stop..........
The View at the Top is so Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!

TheHarveys · RV-Dreams Family Member

Heard it on a Lexus car commercial...

Someday your life will pass before your eyes. Make it worth watching!

Alie and Jims Carrilite · RV-Dreams Family Member

TheHarveys wrote:
Heard it on a Lexus car commercial...

Someday your life will pass before your eyes. Make it worth watching!

That is a great saying!

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Since I started this thread, perhaps I should step back into it with another quote. It isn't really about RV'ing specifically. One other way of thinking of it is to replace "click the shutter" with "view the beauty." At any rate, the quote is one of my favorites of all that he has said.

"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."

Ansel Adams

Terry

-- Edited by Terry and Jo on Tuesday 30th of October 2012 09:43:36 PM

Jo And Craig · RV-Dreams Family Member

Dance like no one's looking!

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

Life is too short not to take time out to enjoy the fun.
The best part of life is when family members become your friends and friends become family.

BruceandTrisha · RV-Dreams Family Member

Love love love this quote:

"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints." -Robert Louis Stevenson

MarkS · RV-Dreams Family Member

This is a great thread. It makes me want to share a philosophy I've developed since my age has reached the point where the days seem to go by faster. There comes a point when you realize that you have reached the pinnacle of your career. You aren't going to be promoted, you won't double your salary, where you are is where you'll retire. You're basically done painting the picture of your life. Some have ties to the community and will remain active by contributing to the community and some of us have moved several times and have no ties or family in the town where you live so there is no reason to stay. As I said in another post, if I were to retire in this house, I'd waste away on the back porch with nothing to do. In either case, you are passing time, doing your best to enjoy your remaining days. Actually, it's kind of nice. You have no pressure to become successful, no long hours at someone's direction, no goals in lieu of failure. You can choose to plan a day ahead or a week ahead or not to plan at all. That is why we have named our rig "Waiting for God". All things considered, it'll be much easier to come sliding sideways into the gravesite in a motor vehicle than in a rocking chair.

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

like I said in an earlier post some where..........If you see this rig pulled over, the title is signed in the box......all I ask in exchange is to have a quick Cremation...tie my urn to the top of the rear ladder pull the top off and continue the journey..........to my Friends on that day....You will see me down the road!!!!!!!!!!! literally !!!!!!!

janni · RV-Dreams Family Member

I also have really enjoyed this post. My life changed a lot when we sold everything and moved onto the road. When I had my first helicopter ride, two sessions on a respirator, open heart surgery, and facing my mortality at 55 years old..........this has become my philosophy.

""I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise." Dawna Markova

PS: feel blessed for each day!

-- Edited by janni on Sunday 4th of November 2012 12:02:55 PM

RVRon · RV-Dreams Family Member

Lucky Mike wrote:
like I said in an earlier post some where..........If you see this rig pulled over, the title is signed in the box......all I ask in exchange is to have a quick Cremation...tie my urn to the top of the rear ladder pull the top off and continue the journey..........to my Friends on that day....You will see me down the road!!!!!!!!!!! literally !!!!!!!

I like that idea! A lot less expensive and a whole lot easier than the traditional end game stuff.

MarkS, what you said reflects our feelings perfectly. We actually moved away from our family ties in the northeast and started a new "life" in Florida. We had a nice home, local friends and volunteer positions that we liked but we felt tied down. As fulltimers now we can see our kids and grandkids a lot more, get reacquainted with friends and family we haven't seen in 30 years or more and see some great new places as a bonus. I don't know that we'll be able to do this forever but we're having a blast while it lasts!

BruceandTrisha · RV-Dreams Family Member

Janni . . . love the quote from her book . . . "I Will Not Die an Unlived Life." Now, I want to go back and read it again! Thanks for sharing!

MarkS · RV-Dreams Family Member

Janni,
An outstanding philosophy. Both my wife and I have had our hearts attacked(?)! Even good diets and exercise didn't prevent them. However, I did learn not to try to keep up with the young on the volleyball court. Thank goodness one of those youngsters was an ER nurse!

At any rate, the way you value each day changes quickly.

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

We are hitting home today!!!!!!!......................after this journey I am about to complete ,some of the greatest quotes , lessons that were spoken to me through out my life came home.

At 52 to have it all come to a major halt and all of the sudden find out that your only priority is to live and breathe.

If it wasnt for everyone on this site sharing there journey down the road I would have gone nuts in this place......

But this thread when I found it , is probably one of the greatest personal thinktanks going this month!!!!!!!

Thanks everyone............we each have our own lessons , paying them forward makes them all worth it!!

RVRon · RV-Dreams Family Member

janni wrote:
""I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise." Dawna Markova

An excellent quote, Janni! Thanks for sharing! I can think of so many people who have indeed "lived an unlived life"... at least more "unlived" than others. We meet so many people who, when we tell them we live full time in our RV and travel, say they wish they could do the same or that we are living their dream. So many people are just afraid of taking the plunge, divesting themselves of all the stuff they truly don't need and really living their lives as they wish they could lead them. We've only been on the road a little over 7 months but I can honestly say that I have lived the life and if for some reason had to park myself somewhere permanently I would have no regrets other than that I couldn't do it longer or didn't start it sooner!

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

I was reminded by my Doctor today that my blood type was "Be Positive"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PD CFK · RV-Dreams Family Member

This thread needs a "like button"!! Love it. Pat K