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Old post..but Ill play!
15 years on and off as the work situation allows. Right now off...too crazy out there! Thinking about 2023 to jump back to full time.
Its a great life if you dont mind small spaces and being flexible!
Old post..but Ill play!
15 years on and off as the work situation allows. Right now off...too crazy out there! Thinking about 2023 to jump back to full time.
Its a great life if you dont mind small spaces and being flexible!
Old post but relevant question that is more or less timeless.
I'm c. 9 years from retirement and exploring this too. Sounds like the quoted is a person who's made it a true lifestyle choice. Not something one just jumps into, so I'm considering all options. Skinny results on all this here in C-D; there are other resources out there for answers I suspect.
I'm a loner and presumably always will be, greatly simplifying much about the whole situation. Thinking the bottom line is to keep the 'bricks and sticks' as someone put it, but head out on the road in an exploratory fashion one spring/summer and see how it goes.
Just one week short of a year of fulltime traveling in my cargo van.
I like it. I'm sure I'll stop one day, but I have no idea when that day will come.
Ubersource for me is the forum at www.cheaprvliving.com, which had its roots in a yahoo group, vandwellers, a good decade ago. Also www.escapees.com, which is more oriented toward people with more income in larger rigs. Plenty of crossover though. Both are full of helpful and welcoming people.
Can't say I lived in it, but I owned a Dodge 2500 diesel and had a Hallmark truck camper for 4-5 years. I spent over 350 nights in it comfortably with my bird dogs and wife. I could live solo with the dogs for years.
3 months.
I personally could fill-time it and tend to like RVs better than houses anyway.
The RV would need to be reasonably sturdy, which our current one is probably middle of the pack on that one.
Fulltime from 1997 to 2006. Enjoyed almost every day except for:
Broke down on the Kansas turnpike. Had to wait for a part for 5 hours because even on a lowboy to tall for the overpasses.
Spent 2 days one night in a junk yard waiting for a part, at least had power and water but the gate was closed at 6PM
Massive sand storm while in Palm Springs, had over 2 inches of crap on the roof of the RV and car.
Depends on the type and condition of your vehicle and how far/often you move.
Personally, I'm saving money.
While at the LTVA in Arizona I saved almost $3,000. Those who are living in their vehicles tend to stay put when they can. It's not constant traveling, at least for those I've met.
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