Welcome, and good luck on your home sale. We have ours on the market to. Justing waiting to sell the house & then hit the road to see this great country.
Kenny & frances

Welcome Dave & Cher.  Like you, we lurked on here a while in search of info and watching how folks on here behaved and supported each other.  We liked what we found.  I have every confidence you will too!!  We are still years away from going FT, with much to learn but no doubts that when we do start we will have gained so much we'll spend a lot of time paying it forward and backwack to a very friendly group.

 

Dave Sher wrote:

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2. You all really are kind to others in your responses and it's very noticeable. 

 

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 That is exactly why I love this group of people..and btw when you get to meet some of them in person they will blow you away.  When trying to describe what this group of people means to me to close friends and family I have settled on "in aggregate they are the nicest people I have ever met in my life."   That is definitely a testimony to the example set by Howard and Linda dn the work Terry and Jo do every day watching the forums.  

 

Trace

-- Edited by Lee and Trace on Friday 9th of May 2014 05:28:14 AM

Welcome to the "Class of 2014"! May the mojo continue.

Where in NJ are you? I'm also in NJ (Fanwood). Have been planning for this dream for the past 3 years; finally put the house on the market March 27th and signed a contract on April 1st, which was 1 of 4 offers we had since then.

Currently we're playing the waiting game -- waiting for the buyers mortgage commitment to arrive. Hope to be closing and on the road June 5th. We have a used DRV + Ford F550 combo in mind which is down in FL but can't buy it until closing (need the cash!)

Good luck!

Welcome to the forum! Great bunch of people on here with lots of help! Also, welcome to the world of Fulltiming...in the near future
My husband and I have been doing it for 1 1/2yrs and just recently traded our 2013 Bighorn Silverado for a 2015 Open Range 3X, and let me tell you....AMAZING!!! It's like living in a luxury S&B!!! We had never really looked at an Open Range until an RV show in OKC in March, and we loved them....but of course the 3X won out over the others. They seem to be built really well. I love the residential cabinetry and amenities (fridge, convection micro, kitchen sink/faucet, wood blinds....wow, I could go on and on) and all the ROOM!! They are wonderful units and hope you enjoy yours as much as we have so far.
Also, good luck on the pickup search. We are Ford people (picking up our new '14 F350 tomorrow), but there are plenty of people on here that can give you the pro's and con's of each as far as towing, etc. Don't forget to pick out the right hitch for your rig!
Good luck and maybe we'll see ya out there on the road sometime!! If you get a chance, check out the Open Range owners forum as well for more rig specific questions.... www.openrangeowners.com

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Thanks for the welcome, all. Not to single anyone out, because y'all are great. But to get a welcome from Luck Mike, who I feel like I know from all the help I've read him giving to others… can I say awed by RV Rock Star?

Lee & Trace, we've been following your blog along with quite a few others we found here on RV Dreams. Very helpful (& entertaining!). Yours really interested us, of course, because of the Open Range. We weren't real sure about them for full timing because it doesn't seem many do. But we looked at many RV shows and seemed to be drawn to them for various reasons. Hey, it's gotta be better than a tent for full timing, right?

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 That's so nice.  Thanks for reading my blog :)  What I tell everyone about the Open Range is so far I absolutely love it.  There are these little touches that are special...like we just discovered there is a "porch light" under the stairs that you can turn on at night and when coming back to the camper you can easily see the stairs.  Really special.  All that being said...we will see how it holds up after a year on the road.  But if we have to tighten every screw every three months so be it.  I also felt a lot better once we got weighed by Howard and Linda and had so much extra capacity.   Thanks agin for the kind words...I have never blogged in my life before this and appreciate the feedback. :)

 

Trace

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Fellow NewJerseyans (Cheryl & Kelly, in particular);

We are in Port Elizabeth, Cumberland County - close to the Cape May Co. line & about 20 miles west of Ocean City. We both grew up in more suburban Camden Co. (I know, I know) and have lived in the sticks of rural Cumberland County for about 12 years. We will kind of miss it here because it's very private (5 wooded acres adjacent to 4000 acres of Nature Conservancy land) and peaceful. But, after traveling for 4 weeks to California and back last year in the A-frame popup we fell in love with so many other parts of the country that we realized we need to spend some time exploring this country.

DenJen, thanks for the words on Open Range. Encouraging to hear how pleased you are with it. We'll be joining the Open Range Forum, thanks. I've had a couple Ford trucks & been very happy with them, but I'm open to switch brands, too. I'll know better after we test drive (& Sher tells me what we are getting, hahahaha).

Dave and Sher,

I'll add my welcome to you as well.  There have been a number of folks that have complimented the participants here, and that is for good reason.  They have a vast amount of knowledge and they are always willing to share that knowledge.  When asking questions, don't ever think that a question you have may be a "dumb" one.  The only dumb questions are the ones that DON'T get asked and one then makes an expensive or time consuming mistake.

Glad to have you as part of the family.

Terry

Sherry,

We just signed up for the Goshen Rally. We're not sure we'll have our full timing rig by then, but we plan to go and learn (& make great friends). Thanks for the advice :)

Welcome Dave & Sher! You've come to the best forum on the web. You will love the rally!

So, what size Pickup?

 

Cheryl (my other half)--[See her remarks above...] has been working on the planning for over 3 years, and what I've figured out is that doing this full time means a BIGGER truck.

Looks like we'll have a Ford F-550.

(not small by ANY means of the imagination!)

 

cheers.