Gypsy Traveler: My Bucket List Trip  Hi out there!!! I am a single 54 yr old young woman who just became a full time RVer last May 2011. I have been on the road ever since and would not think ...

Living the Good Life!  We retired in 2010, sold or gave away everything and bought a motorhome! Growing up in the 60's in Southern Africa, we never had the chance to throw caution ...

Fulltime and Loving It!  My husband and I began "fulltiming it" in September 2010. We visited Virginia, North Carolina and Western Maryland. We fell in love with this lifestyle....

Countdown Begins  My husband and I will begin full timing in September and would like to know if there are places that you would suggest we try out. We are looking forward ...

Bringing in 2012  First I would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year 2012!

Now, I would like to know where you are, what type of RV are you in etc. No need to ...

Care Taker Suddenly Single  I have been a care taker for a long time, suddenly I can go do anything I want to do. Problem, I don't know what I want to do. lol
I have a camper that ...

The Adventurer goes to the Big Trees – Calaveras Big Trees that is.  Our latest installment of short trips is what follows. For those of you that have been reading along as we put our rig through its paces, welcome back....

Two Technomads (tech enabled nomads) - Full-timing since 2006  Greetings! We're Cherie & Chris, both in our late 30's, and we've been on the road full time since 2006. We both have high tech careers in software development ...

OMG! Am I really going to do this?  I am a 35 year old single woman. My life has always been slightly crazy (probably has to do with me being a little crazy) and I have always wanted to see ...

My Update To Our Story  John and I had finally purchased a conversion bus. An MCI 8 that was finished on the inside except for varnishing the cabinets. The plumbing was unhooked ...

Looking Forward to Full-Timing  At age 59 I am looking forward to collecting my SS when I am 62. Life is too short and you don't hear of too many people on their deathbeds saying, "gee,...

Cant Wait to Hit the Road  House is worth 1/3 or less than I paid and I want to live in Mass. in summer and Fla in winter like I did in my 20's. I'm 43 and will be full-timing in ...

I Am a Wanna Be  Hello all. I am Lisa. I am 43 and seperated. Soon my 19 yr old will be leaving the roost and I can start to pursue my dream. I want to travel with someone ...

Price is Right  About 5 months ago we saw our youngest graduate from High School and then a few months later our landlord sold our house. My husband and I instead of renting ...

The Northern Section of Hwy 49 - California Gold Country  Fall is beginning to show off around here. What with all the beautiful colors of the leaves before they float gently to the ground. With that in mind ...

We Bought a Bus Conversion  My husband always dreamed of owning one of these. After looking at numerous motor homes that had leaks or former leaks, we began our search for a bus ...

Ready to Take the Plunge  I am brand spankin' new to this and am now available to begin the process. I am looking for a mentor that I can work with and would like to know what ...

This Adventurer goes over (to) the Falls…. McArthur Burney Falls that is.  For quite some time we have wanted to go to McArthur Burney Falls but it just never seemed to be a good time. Well, this past weekend we rectified that....

Update On Our Shopping for a Motor Home  So we traveled to two cities last week in search for the motor home in our price range. To no avail! Everyone that we looked at, the owner had not disclosed ...

From Fifth Wheel to Slide In, this Adventurer's Story  After much anticipation and a little frustration, we have finally taken our first excursion in our new Adventurer 86FB. This was just an overnight, close ...

What do you do for health insurance?  My wife and I are retiring early and plan to RV but have one MAJOR obstacle. Both of our jobs will not provide health insurance once we separate from the ...

Just 16 more short days...  Yes, 16 more days and we begin our FULL-TIME RV life. Unfortunately we can't travel yet, the hubby has little more time before retirement. Plus, the TT ...

Considering a New Life  Hi this Is my first post on here. I am almost 21 years old and I have been thinking about doing full timing for about 2 years now. I am getting rid of ...

Not a full timer yet..  But we are anxiously awaiting the day when we can pull away from the brick and mortar and be footloose and fancy free! So what do you do in the meantime?...

Going Full Timer Soon  Going Full time Soon and my wife is scared to. She lost her job just like thousands have done.

We can no longer afford our town home and need to move ...

Sleepless in New Jersey  We have read all the stories on this site and use them for motivation. Fortunately we were able to acquire a beautiful Holiday Rambler Motorhome with only ...

About to Become Full Time RVers  My wife and I are creeping up on fifty years of age and are about to hit the road full-time RVing after we sell most everything we own. We have already ...

Ready to Make a Change  I am married and have 3 boys, ages 9,16 & 19. We own a somewhat large home with a huge yard (almost an acre) My husband works full time and has for years....

All Who Wander are Not Lost!  We began fulltiming it last September and have been to several beautiful places so far. Harpers Ferry, WV is beautiful in the fall and Emporia, VA was ...

Finally Found Happiness   Hello Rvers,

This is a new world for me and I am not quite sure how it is going to fall in place but I am going forward with it. About 7 months ago,...

Suddenly Full Time!  This happened so fast with barely any planning. I can't even believe it sometimes myself. 15 months ago I was doing the same thing I'd done for years ...

Newbie  Hello everone. Well I made the plunge last week. I left my home state of Maine and made my way across to North Dakota with my 26' fifth wheel to work for ...

What about grandiose, don't you all miss those babies?  My husband retires in Dec. 2011. He would like for us to take off and travel, be gone all year. Sounds great except for one thing, what about Chloe ...

Living the Dream  I am in the beginning stage of living the dream. I have a daughter in 10th grade and once she is on her own I have every intention of seeing my wife and ...

Need Advice  We are seriously considering full time RVing in the very near future and need some advice, tips, where to stay. We will be on a very tight budget. Any ...

'Homeless' by Choice  After traveling across the United States last year on a road trip that began in Jackson Springs North Carolina, we are glad to be home. Our trip extended ...

Emergency Medical Flag  Emergency Medical Flag

My name is Shirley Mendonca and I live in Modesto, Ca. My husband, Dave and I travel a great deal in our 39-foot Holiday Rambler ...

Can't Wait to Fulltime  My husband and I are trying to sell our house in the shuswap, it's taking a while. We already have a truck on hold and a Fifth wheel in mind. We can'...

Hillbillies On the Road   A few years back, the wife and I, plus 8 kids drove 7000 miles in three weeks. The kids will never forget it, especially the mishaps, the goof ups, the ...

Low Income, How Can We Survive?  I am starting to think full time rving might be for us but I am not sure. I am hoping all of You full timers can help answer this question for me. I am ...

How To NOT Get On Each Other's Nerves When Traveling Full Time In An RV  We all know that when two or more people spend too much time together, tensions are going to rise. This can erupt in some pretty big arguments, and then ...

RVing for an Adventurer   Hi All! I'm a retiree looking to get into the Rv LifeStyle. At First, I thought I was sure of what I wanted to do, as far as getting into it fulltime. I ...

46 and Hitting the Road Full Time  When I was 17 I had Joined the Army and retired after 24 years of service and realized after the last 5 years of working the corporate Life that I was ...

Soon to Be A Full Timer (Hopefully)  I'm Retired, (have been for some yrs now), and have always enjoyed traveling. I thought about Full-Timing when I first retired, but decided against it....

RV Living: A Game Called Musical Adventures   Imagine a couple who had always wanted to live their dream of performing on Broadway. They auditioned for shows and occasionally got small parts and were ...

RV Living: Storage and Organization  When you are living in an RV permanently, there are several adjustments that you have to make. You obviously will have less room for stuff than you would ...

Holiday Decorating Your RV  So, you have packed up all of your belongings and kept only what you really, really need. After all, storage space is at a premium in an RV and when you ...

Where to Park Your RV for the Night  Where To Park Your RV For the Night, Or Longer

When you travel in an RV, you may find that you have a lot more options of where to park it than you ...

Following Fall  Following Fall

The RV lifestyle has something for everyone. Some people take the summer months off, traveling to see friends and family, enjoying ...

Living Skinny...[Part 2]  While compiling Part 1 of 'Living Skinny'... I was certain there would be a sequel as you never stop learning new and innovative ways how to spend less ...

Preparing To Live Full Time On The Road  Our dream of living Full Time, on the road in a motorhome has come to pass as the years of preparation have clicked down to the final weeks. Over the years ...

Experiencing The Mountaintop  My husband and I have been planning to Full Time for the past 17 years, give or take. The kids were young when we began camping in a pop-up camper because ...

I Know What I Want Finally  I want the Coachmen Freelander 32BH. It seems to be perfect for full time...bunk beds and the pictures of the ones in Texas were gorgeous, they had wood ...

Kim again, Why do they add hideous patterns to the dinette etc.  Why can't or don't the mfgs realize that we can add our own accent pillows etc. I learned long ago, do not get a piece of furniture with a pattern. Gray,...

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 ...

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....

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 ...

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....

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Few New Articles to Read  There has been a few new articles added to my Suite101 site on RV Recreation concentrating on RV Culture. Living full time in a rolling home is a daily ...

More Work Than You Can Handle  The place is Wiliston ND. In Wiliston they have found the biggest oil field ever, 24+ billion barrels of oil, looking for 500 truck drivers at $80,000....

Boondock Fun!  While boondocking at a local Wal Mart, I woke up and noticed the yellow parking lines were a little more intense...but then said,"no, you're not awake ...

Workamping  My son and I are wanting to become workampers in the Pigeon Forge area but do not know how to go about getting started. We have wanted to relocate for ...

Starting from Scratch  We sold our vintage fifth wheel! My hubby is not in good enough health to fool with the set up and take down, so we sold it. Selling the truck also. John ...

Wanting to Trade House for Class A  We want to make the move to be a full-time RV couple and looking to trade our 3 bedroom home in Dallas, TX, that is handicap friendly for Class A. Has ...

We are the Full Time RV Family!  Nope, we are not “professional RV people”, we’re not even experienced RV people.

In fact, we have barely ever camped, RVed or done anything remotely ...

Working On the Road  Hi,

My name is Kristi Linebaugh, my business partner Miriam Vigoa and I are a small batch seasoned olive oil company. We have been on the road for 9 ...

Want to live in RI in our Rv....can't find a place...HELP!  Hello All,

I am looking to find place to live in my RV in Rhode Island year round. I can't find a place. Tried to look on the web for places. Looked ...

FTRV is #1  I was quickly drawn into what I call FTRV. Full Time RV. Free spirited people who enjoy meeting new people are the back bone of FTRVer.

The best things ...

Four Weeks In and Loving It  My husband retired early due to company closing, and it took us about a year to sell out and hit the road. We've been on the road four weeks now and loving ...

The Worst Restaurant I've Ever Seen  My wife and I are full timers and have been on the road for several years. We were traveling through Tennessee one time and stopped in a place called Clinch ...

So Many Questions  I have decided I want to full time after a year of contemplation. I have been doing research and one thing I am concerned about is that I have a rather ...

First Camper  Circa 1981, I borrowed a pop up camper that was in terrible shape..

Gonna take a trip to California. Just me, the wife, 8 kids and 2 foster kids...lol ...

Real Freedom  Back in the Summer of 2009, My wife dragged me to one of the largest RV Dealers in the Dallas area. I wasn't sold on the idea of giving up the house and ...

We've Been Fulltiming for Two Years   My wife and I "quit normal life" on January 1 of 2009. We haven't looked back. We have had mostly good times, but hit a few snags along the way. We have ...

Adventures in Full Time RVing  A lot of people think that full time RVing means just doing nothing but driving all across the country, maybe stopping at the odd gift stop or tourist ...

Motorhome Rental  Here you get easy and cheapest online Motor home Rental quotes simplify the application process, providing instant and affordable online cheap insurance ...

The Skinny On Living Full Time  Living 'Skinny' isn't as difficult as some make it out to be and it certainly doesn't have to cost as much as some people spend. Of course you can keep ...

Snowbirds of the World Unite  In the southern states, Florida most prominently, there are little communities of people who do not sound local. They sound like New Yorkers or Michiganders ...

Living Skinny On the Road [Part 1]  Learning how to live frugally while living Full Time in a motorhome for us was achieved by the process of elimination. We began by establishing a mind ...

I don't like the available dealer I am working with.  He talked me into coming to an RV show, that had a couple of the class c bunk models I wanted to see and evaluate, and then he ignored me when I wanted ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...