I would've titled it new to the site, but after I went to register, it said that my screen name was already taken. For kicks and giggles I tried to log in with my old trusty password and it worked. Appears that back in 2008 (which was a very busy year for us), I stumble across your site and registered, but never posted (shame on me). This go around, I started back at the beginning of the RV-Dream (still have a long ways to go to get caught up) and felt like that I need to introduce ourselves....

We are Richard and Kim from Callahan, FL. (Callahan is the next little town north of Jacksonville). We paid our house off in February 2006 and bought a truck and camper at the end of April the same year. Being that we were still working full time jobs, we bought into the entry level of campers (big mistake). We also had kids, so we feel in love with the 2007 Wildcat 32' bunkhouse by Forrest River. Don't get me wrong, we loved the camper, but boy did we have problems with it. I won't bore you with all that as it would look like a novel when I got done. Either way our 2003 Dodge 2500 QC 4x4 pulled it just fine. Being that we didn't have a house payment anymore, we camped at least twice a month and sometimes every weekend. In 2007, we decided to do a cross country trip and go to Yellowstone National Park. Our oldest son was in college at the time and couldn't take two weeks off from school, so we flew him out there so he could travel back with us. All in our, it really put that "can't wait until we can do this full time" idea into our heads as 7,000 miles in two weeks was a bit too much. Here is a pic of our camper in front of The Grand Tetons

In 2008, we ended up buying another house in Callahan. Even though we still work in Jacksonville, we didn't want to live there anymore. Well this really put a hurting on our camping excursions, so we had to scale it back to once a month and an occasional week vacation.

We made another leap in 2010 when we stepped up and bought the 2010 Dodge 3500 CC dually. I was planning to upgrade our bunkhouse to a toy hauler and wanted a truck that would pull it and that my wife could still drive back-n-forth to work. Washing the Wildcat, I noticed that we started having the dreaded de-lamination issues others were having also. So in April 2012, we took the trade in beating and upgraded to a 2012 Heartland 41' Cyclone 3950 HD. Boy do we like this camper. When it rains outside, we stay dry inside (not like the Wildcat). Also, just about everything worked from the get go (again not like.....well you get the idea).

We do have a plan in effect for the full timing life, just it's another 15 years down the road. Until then, we will continue reading the Journal's of others and close our eyes live that RV-Dream.