Hi Everyone. Well, after 15 years the RV-Dreams Community Forum is coming to an end. Since it began in August 2005, we've had 58 Million page views, 124,000 posts, and we've spent about $15,000 to keep this valuable resource for RVers free and open. But since we are now off the road and have settled down for the next chapter of our lives, we are taking the Forum down effective June 30, 2021. It has been a tough decision, but it is now time.
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My name is Sam and I am living in Ohio. For the past 8 1/2 years I have been taking care of my wife full time 24/7. Our children are out of the home, with one out of the country and one out west. I also have a brother out west and I have been thinking and reading about full timing in a motorhome. My wife is not about to travel and is now wheel chair bound. She needs help with everything. I think that if something happens to her (God forbid) I might sell everything and go full time out west and see my daughter and brother and the country. This is what I have been thinking, and reading as much as I can about FT RVing. This may never happen for me but I enjoy reading about making life a lot more simple to live. This is the first time I have posted on any site so, forgive my rambling.
I am very sorry for your wife's health issues. Should you decide to begin RVing, enter our world slowly to see if what we do is for you. You might love fulltiming OR you might lIke long trips then home for a while OR....
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Winnebago TT 2101DS & 2020 Silverado LTZ Z71. 300 watts WindyNation solar w/MPPT, 2 Trojan T-125s. TALL flag pole. Prefer USFS, COE, BLM, USF&WS, NPS, TVA, state/county camps. 14 year Army vet-11B40 then 11A - old MOS 1542 & 1560.
Hi all we attended the 2016 spring rally going to the 2017 spring rally and we have just started full time the 15th of this month and found out we have way to much stuff
Do you believe you are alone in having too much stuff, Jan? Lol Let's see, I've carried that around since my first RV in 1978....yup, might need it.
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Winnebago TT 2101DS & 2020 Silverado LTZ Z71. 300 watts WindyNation solar w/MPPT, 2 Trojan T-125s. TALL flag pole. Prefer USFS, COE, BLM, USF&WS, NPS, TVA, state/county camps. 14 year Army vet-11B40 then 11A - old MOS 1542 & 1560.
Thank you, I will take it slow, very slow, so much to consider. The more I read the more I feel I want to or maybe I just want to run away from all the stress. Again thanks for the response.
Furb14:
Welcome aboard, sorry to here about your wife and her health. I kind of know just how you and what your going through. in 2012 my wife was told she had pancreatic cancer, and a year and half latter she was gone. After 45 plus year of being together it was probably the hardest thing I've had to deal with in my life. I kind of let things settle down for our a year. And then I asked myself the question, " Is this how I want to spend the remainder of my time on this planet"? We had already had a Motor Home we bought years before, so I had that setting out in the backyard. So I went out and loaded it up and took off on a month trip to New Mexico, and Colorado. I had a pretty good time even though I was solo. That was the had part, and having to learn to cook my own meals. But I made it fine. I came back home after making the decision to get rid of the stuff we had gathered over the years.
I made the decision to sell the house because it held too many memories. Before I did all this I read everything on the subject of "Full-Timing" that I could find, and my brother and his wife where already "full timing" themselves so I had another source of information to tap into. Anyway, in 2015 I jumped in with both feet. I joined the "Escapees RV Club". Signed up for there mail service and off I went. And the place I always wanted to go is the western U.S. So right after I got to my brother place we took off for a month long trip up to the Oregon Coast. All I can say about that is "Holy Cow"
After getting back here to my new home base in Pahrump, NV I got settled in and got on with my new life. In 2016 I took on a Camp Hosting Job up in southern Utah for 6 months. Right in the middle of all the National Parks in Utah. All I can tell you is take it slow, and take small steps.
Welcome aboard.....Have you considered a motorhome with a wheelchair lift in it? At least your wife could get out and see a bit of scenery while she still can. I even know of a few people that have chair lifts in the pull trailers. They have one heck of a good time.
