Escape Plan
When we started full time 4 years ago, we sold out everything, so we have no house to go back to. We have no immediate plans to come off the road, but I am wondering what to do if and when we have to....
Forum Discussion
BarbaraOK wrote:
Please don't take this the wrong way, but if you have already decided that you are going to 'fulltime for a year' you will find yourself in vacation mode the whole year and at the end you will be exhausted, you will both say it wasn't for you, and you will no longer go on the road. You are setting yourself up for failure. It takes 2-3 years just to get the bugs worked out and settle into a comfortable style of traveling. If your wife is already putting up road blocks she is letting you know that she doesn't want to do this and at the end of the year you will be back in that house. Plus, because you only have a year, you will have rushed around and won't have seen as much as you want. Better off to try just snow birding for a year or two and then see if you want to full time.
Barb
FULLTIMEWANABE wrote:
FWIW: I agree with BarbOK that if you are only planning on a year, you will totally be vacation mind orientated, whereas 3 years plus commitment (which isn't forever), will give you time to iron out the bugs and get accustomed to a different way of living and adapting to experience the wonderful side of RVing which is why we all consider taking to the road this way in the first place. We are intending a minimum 3 year commitment and to reassess at that juncture to go to Year 5 or otherwise Who really knows until we are out there walking the talk so to speak?
I hear you both and thank you for the advice. I think saying that we're "fulltiming for a year" is a bit of a misnomer. What we have scheduled is a 14-month trip with a very specific (and extremely overbearing/exhausting schedule) laid out for it.
We've decided that in January/February, we'll reevaluate the spring/summer plan and decide if we want to take the schedule limitations off of the table + extend. If that's the case, we'll be able to slow down and really full-time properly.
For what it's worth, in the past 3 years- we camped for 50 nights, 50 nights, and 100 nights. Last year, we did summer in Orlando. In fact, our original plan for this coming year was to simply summer in Orlando again. Before this, wintering/snowbirding wasn't an option because we don't currently home school the daughter (we will for this upcoming trip, though).
