We are John and Carol from Sacramento, CA.  I am 67 and John is 64.  We bought a Holiday Rambler Presidential 5th wheel in 2003 with the intention of living and traveling in it while I worked as a travel nurse.  As fate often changes our plans, we had to come off the road after several years.  I was diagnosed with Lymphoma and was no longer able to work.  We bought a manufactured home, John found a job, and we kept the 5th wheel for vacation and weekend use.

Now we are planning to sell the house next year and get back on the road.  We will not have any equity in our house so we aren't going to be able to purchase a new RV without having payments, so we've decided to do some major upgrading to our current 5th wheel and hit the road with only two years left to pay on the RV and no other debts.  We plan to put in new flooring, new roller shades, a new electric awning, and stackable washer dryer and replace the RV stove with a cooktop only.  We've already replaced all the furniture and are going to cut down our king bed platform to fit our current memory foam queen mattress.  The king bed is so difficult to make as the mattress takes up all the space in the bedroom slide and we don't need a king bed. 

We are both very excited to finally be able to retire of good and travel with no financial worries, and as long as our health holds up we plan to do it until we can't anymore or we decide we are tired of it. 

We have two French Bulldogs that travel with us and we have everything we need and a lot of things we don't!!  We feel very fortunate. 

I plan to take an RV driving course so I can do more than just drive the truck when traveling.  John currently does all the backing up etc and I'd like to be able to do that too. 

I hope everyone who dreams of this lifestyle gets the change to do it.  We loved it the first time around and this time, not having to work, it will be even better.