A couple of people have asked that I post this.
After I retired my wife and decided to live in a motor home and travel around the US.
Ask away!
Do you come to Tucson in the winter, along with the rest of your kind?
Where do you park it?
Are current gas prices a problem for you?
Related to Alice The Goon’s post, is there a sense of community among others in RVs, or does everyone socialize with their own friends and family?
And while I’m thinking about it, is “snowbird” a polite phrase to use?
Is “About Schmidt” one of your favorite movies?
Do people at RV parks really say “Permission to come aboard, Captain?” to come into your motor home?
Will you adopt me?
What happened to the ‘r’ in your name?
Our winter destination has varied quite a bit over the 8 years we have been doing this.
Florida, South Padre Island, Bouse Az and Benson AZ are ones we have stayed at for a month or more.
Bouse is close to Quartzsite which is home to over 500,000 RVers over the course of a winter.
Why did you choose a motor home as opposed to a travel trailer and a diesel pickup?
Do you have a tow-behind?
We are not “boondockers” - people that park in areas without full hookups - water, electricity like BLM land.
So we stay in RV parks. Cost is anywhere from $160 per month to $350 per month plus electricity.
There sure is a sense of community among many full timers however there is no common mold for us. Some are doctors, lawyers, plumbers, truck drivers and anything else you can think of.
There does seem to be a common thread though - most are friendly and helpful - not too many snobs.
We are not snowbirds as the RV community defines it since we full time and don’t own home to go to, but I am not aware of any negative connotations for the word.
That is one I have missed. I will have to check it out.
While we do use some nautical terms - dinghy for towed vehicle, galley for kitchen and shore power for the electrical hook up - I have never heard anyone say “Permission to come aboard, Captain”.
Good one! I had to think a minute.
I was a diver before I became a driver and didn’t want to change my name.
Are you pretty and compliant?
Traditional travel trailers aren’t too common in our world. There are a lot of fifth wheel trailers though - maybe about half and half motor homes and fivers. There are all sorts of folks out there though that full time in everything from pickups with slide in campers to homemade things that defy classification and bus conversions.
I considered a fiver but I didn’t want to have to drive a big honkin diesel to the grocery store or to dinner plus DW (dear wife in our vernacular) pointed out me that she could go back to the bathroom without me having to stop and that was a big plus.
I do pull a car (toad or dinghy). I have a Honda Accord that I pull four down - about 65,000 miles so far. It gets about 26 MPG and seats four comfortably.
The tow bar arrangement RVers use is pretty sophisticated and very easy to hook up without requiring close alignment of the two vehicles.
Well it can cost a chunk to cross the county since we get about 7 miles per gallon, but it used to cost more for oil to heat our house in NH.
If we don’t stop along the way it takes us about 14 days to go coast to coast because we only drive 200 to 300 miles a day.
It took us a little while to get out of vacation mode, into full timing mode and slow down.
Usually we stay somewhere at least a month and then move on.
What state are you a resident of and how does that work when you spend so much time in other states.
Plus, mail, where does it go, how do you keep up with certain bills like Ins etc.
Sounds like you’re driving a class ‘A’. How big is it? Make/model? Slides? We lived in our 28’ class ‘C’ for five months last year and enjoyed being free of all the “stuff” that was in storage.
What are your contingency plans for a tornado?