Welcome to the best forum you can find. There is a lot of info an knowledge on this forum. An friendly folks. My just starting out you will have questions along the way, just ask & someone will have the answer. Good luck on your travels.

Kenny & Frances

Welcome to the family Amy! Hope to see you on the road sometime :)

Welcome. A little fear with this major change in your life, is normal, good, and expected.

You will get through this as many of us have done.

Looking forward, not back, at this point will help a lot.

Thanks for sharing your excitement, and welcome to true freedom!!

Very soon, you will wonder: "What was I so afraid of?"

Welcome to the "class of 2014" - those of us who have or plan to full time this year.

I, too, have never been in an RV, but back when hubby and I met and used to tent camp and travel to sell candles at craft shows, we loved the lifestyle and promised when we retired we would do that again (not necessarily in a tent and not necessarily selling stuff - but living on the road and traveling). We are both 56 but when our last kid left the nest, we realized the house (in NJ) was too big for just the 2 of us, we hated the upkeep including mowing & shoveling snow, and it was just too darn expensive. We did a bit of analysis and research and realized that both of our careers lent themselves well to this lifestyle, as long as we have an internet connection. So, sight unseen and never being in an RV, we took the plunge.

It took us 3 years to get to this point. We put the house on the market at the end of March and also sold within a day. Unfortunately, we are in a state of limbo at the moment. We were supposed to close on June 5th and after 2 more subsequent closing dates, still have not closed. We are buying our RV (2008 DRV Mobile Suites) from a private seller who has an RV pad with full hookups on his property, who has graciously invited us to move in while waiting to close on the house so we can pay for it!!

During the last week of packing up and leaving our sticks & bricks house, we also suddenly got scared and wondered what we were doing! But the moment we stepped foot inside our "cow" (castle on wheels), all fear dissipated. The coach screamed "this is HOME" and I know we will be very happy here.

Good luck, and prayers for healing.

Amy,

Welcome to the RV Dreams forums.  If you are totally new here (without doing a lot of unregistered lurking), then you will find the folks here to be very knowledgeable, friendly, helpful and encouraging.  Feel free to ask any questions about RV'ing and the RV lifestyle.  There is a lot of experienced folks here.

You didn't say what model of Flagstaff you had bought, so I can't check the numbers.  What you will want to do is find out what the GVWR (Gross Vehicular Weight Rating) is for the trailer.  That will be the "upper limit" of weight with the trailer and your stuff, along with any LPG in the tanks and water in the holding tanks.  Using that number, you will want to find a truck that has a GCVW (Gross Combined Vehicle Weight) rating that is more than the GVWR of the trailer added to the "practical" weight of the truck added together.  Practical weight is the weight of the truck with full fuel tanks, all passengers, pets, and cargo in the truck as you would have it as you travel.

The old saying around here is that we would prefer to have too much truck than too much trailer.  Too much trailer leads to some dangerous situations.

Good luck with your research and planning.  Prayers are out for your husband's improvement in his health.

Terry