RV Travel with Pets in the Summer  The Dog Days of Summer: RV Travel with Pets in the Summer Months

Most people plan their main RV travel time for the warmer summer months, traveling ...

Seeking More Answers to Hanging Heavy Cabinets/Pictures  I have a curio cabinet (must keep) and a very large grizzly picture (must keep) and frame. I haven't weighed them, but probably 7-10 pounds. At this point ...

Yard sale before buying - Can't Let go of items.  I need opinions of those that have faced the big choice of what to keep and what to sell when you have so many favorite things that your heart would break ...

I love this site!!!! It's me Kim  I am not sure where on here I found my question, it was just there!!, the ? I had previously contacted/asked ref: mfg's out of business. I was so excited ...

Living the Dream  We were hit by a little hurricane by the name of "Katrina". Fortunately we left (just ahead of the storm) in our little (27') Jayco travel trailer. Since ...

Soon to be Full-Timers, any tips?  Hello, I'm so happy to find this site, we hope to learn a lot from it. My husband will retire in 10 years. Our dream is to be travel and live in our RV ...

4 Years of Homelessness to Full-Time on a Mission!  Hello, my name is Kimberly. My daughter (7), dogs and I are about to embark on a journey of a lifetime---full timing in our new RV. I am a traumatic ...

New to Full Timing  As others have indicated on this forum, my husband's job causes us to move frequently so rather than have to find housing every time we chose to make our ...

On the Road With Larry and Teddy  We are retirees from Appleton, Wisconsin. Larry from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI and Teddy from Theda Clark Regional Medical Center in Neenah, WI....

Nomads and Gypsies  We sold the old Permafrost Ranch in North Pole, and left Alaska after 35 years, towing a U-Hall Trailer. It was a hard decision letting go of what we ...

Wouldn't change it for the world.  I had feared I would miss our old home we sold before going full time.

However since we have lived full time in our fifth wheel the last 4 years, I ...

Frugal Retirement Living...do not expect a lot of encouragement  When you announce to your friends, coworkers, and family that you are going to retire to a frugal lifestyle, don't expect any encouragement.

When we ...

Living the Frugal Life  We work in road construction which keeps us moving every couple of months. We used our RV to travel and stay at job sites; and we always felt comfortable ...

Adventure, Ideal Climate and Landscapes, Making New Friends,   Wandering Homeless Seniors!!

When we started 10 years ago we both had a house, one in GA and one in OK. They were a pain when we went ...

Freedom to Travel with Our "Home"  We started living full-time in a fifth-wheel RV two years before I retired from my second career to be sure that was going to work as our lifestyle.

My ...

The landscapes, the seascapes,
the escapes...  Somehow– without so much as raising one literary eyebrow in the past–I find myself in the just plain weird situation of being chosen as a “roving correspondent”...

We Are Activated Storytellers  We have been traveling now for 17 consecutive years with no end in site. Our son grew up on the road (he is now trying out a stick house - his first since ...

SO MUCH TO SEE & DO & SO LITTLE TIME LEFT TO SEE & DO IT ALL!!  From the first day Kelly & I met back in 1993 it was apparent we had a lot of things in common including adventurous spirits. Over the years we talked ...

Freedom to Explore  Donna and myself (Newt) and Reggie our Golden Retriever have been full-timing since 2001. We had bought a Winnebago 38' Vectra a couple years before and ...

Live Work Dream: We Didn't Want to Wait Till We Got Old  Have you ever considered taking a long sabbatical to really explore what you want to be when you grow up?

In May of 2007, we did just that . After ...

Pursuing RVing Passion and Profit!  Our plan is to travel the country and sell Solar ID™, personalized RV signs, and other unique RV accessories and gifts at rallies and shows. We developed ...

Found Along the Way  A year ago we had a shop in a bulging metropolis. Two years ago my wife gave birth to our first son. And soon there after we found out we had a baby girl ...

Pure and Simple Joy  The last two weeks we were all over the Sierra Nevada Mts, playing in the mountain terrain. Hair pin curves and uneven roads are great fun in a very mobile ...

Freedom, Financial  As a computer programmer I have moved 10 times in 10 years - often over 1500 miles at a time! I call it 'chasing the gravy train'. As I have accumulated ...

Adventure, Variety, Lower environmental footprint and lifestyle design  We're both in our mid-30s, and gave up our traditional houses to hit the road full time in a small solar powered RV. We live, work and play out of our ...

Traveling fulltime by RV -- a good life  How often do you use your RV? A couple of weeks a year? A few months? Probably not surprising to you, there are hundreds of thousands of RVers who live ...

WA Picky About Physical Address  Not a full-timer yet, but looking to go that route. My state (WA) is rather "picky" about "physical" addresses, have to iron out that wrinkle first. I ...

To Photograph This Beautiful Land  We chose this life to travel the backroads and find the real spirit of our American brethren and photograph this beautiful land.

My life has always ...

A Minimal RV Life Style  My husband is semi retired and still works part-time. I have two part-time jobs, and will be losing both in the summer. I will return to one in the fall....

First Night I Slept in Three Years  I worked for the same company for 20 years, then got laid off. We struggled to make the house note for the next two or three years. I finally told my husband ...

Sold Our House  Happened by accident. We sold our house and didn't have another place picked out, winter was coming on so we stored our stuff and went south for one winter....

Pet Friendly RV Parks  RVers enjoy traveling with their furry companions in pet friendly RV parks. Most pet owners are considerate of their fellow campers, but occasionally we ...

Regional Tastes and Dialects  It Comes with the Territory: Regional Tastes and Dialects

As you travel around the country in your RV, you will no doubt stumble upon some very interesting ...

Do You Need a Swamp Cooler?  Melting the Asphalt: Do You Need a Swamp Cooler?

RV living can be an interesting concept, especially when it is more than a hundred degrees outside ...

Sing Frog Sing! The Appreciation of Nature from My View  The wind is whipping the trees, the sky looks wild with a storm on the horizon...I love a storm, always have. Many people don't enjoy nature like we do....

Hey It's Kim.. Electrical Systems etc. OMG  I have the complete idiot's guide to Rv'ing, great book, but I guess to understand electrical systems, amps, watts etc, it will have to be hands on, trial ...

New to the full time RV life...  We read up, we thought about, we talked about it but we have 3 kids and a cat. We have jobs, we have more excuses....we have done it! Kind of. I took a ...

Faux Panels to Cover Ugly Wall Paper  I found a site that has faux, polyurethane panels that look just like wood or stone. Faux Panels.com is the site to peek at if you hate your wall paper....

Living La Vida Loca (Broke-a)  When it came close to my husband's retirement we were worried about how we were going to afford our large mortgage and high utility bills. I also scaled ...

Missing Full-Time RVing  Sadness of losing a life-long wife led me to move into a motorhome. Not wanting to sit and grieve for another 6 months, I sold all and went on the road ...

Life is a Journey!  My husband and I are in our mid-20's and could not decide where we wanted to settle down, we still don't! So 2 years ago, we moved out of our $1300 plus ...

RV Awning Mat   I recently purchased an RV Awning Mat from www.carefreemats.com It's the first one I've owned so I have nothing to compare it against but it came with ...

How my Full Time RV Lifstyle turned into a Book and Blog.  About 10 years ago my wife and I made a decision to buy an RV and follow my job around the Province of British Columbia. My job was to install and maintain ...