The 11th will be our first month full timing. I like it and the wife still has mixed feelings about it. We are currently in a nice RV park for a month and the cost is reasonable. I would like to know how you all handle your length of stay in a park? Do you stay a month at a time or do you travel a lot? What do you do with your time?

We FTd for 7 yrs.We rarely stayed more then 2 weeks.......typically just 1 week.We would travel on Mondays leaving CG by 10am and pulling into next place by 3pm traveling roughly 250 miles.After getting set up and settled in we would go to local bar/tavern and strike up a conversation with the locals. They are a wealth of information.......go here, see this, forget about that, not wast your time etc. Then Tues/Wed/Thurs we would go adventuring around the area based on what we had learned from locals and on our research. Leave early, lunch some where and then come back to site by 5pm.Fri/Sat/Sun......hanging out at site. Catching up on any chores/getting ready to hot the road come Monday.We did public CGs, State/Fed parks, city parks, fairgrounds, COE, private member only CGs and boondocking........depended on where we were.Did spend setting in place very first year at my Sisters place in FL.She was having back surgery so we spent late Nov thru April parked in their yard (4 acres) with 30A & water.......used a macerator pump to dump waste tanks into septic system (75' with 2' rise---worked perfect).Spent several months the next year in NM at a friends RV Park working with him building a couple cabins, running electrical to storage/garage units and building/installing fencing separating sites. Plus Honeywagon duty.After those 2 extended stays we had enough of being parked. Not what we hit the road for.We preferred traveling ........6 round trips across USA (border to border-coast to coast) rarely traveling the same route and using secondary/back-roads as much as possible

Get acquainted with your neighbors. Take advantage of organized activities.We spend up to 4 months in one place. You'll know when you have found a good one. Climate dictates when we move on.

We have been fulltiming for 2.5 years. Our longest stay has been about three weeks in one place but it was family related. When we move, it can be anywhere from 30 miles to 400 - it just depends on where we want or need to be. I think we would both go crazy if we stayed a month at any RVPark - we usually only last about a week in one. State/National Campgrounds we can do two weeks.We both have lists of places we want to see and things we want to do. I'm a local food junkie so we find local food and try it from various places (here in Maine, it is blueberry pie). Then in down times, I try to make what we find, testing recipes. We both love historic sites and old decrepit buildings so we visit lots of them. We hike and walk. We plan our next destinations. In our two+ years, we have found that we miss more than we see and so always have a reason to return. We run out of time more often than not.Much like Old Biscuit, we settled into a quasi-routine with a moving day, a cleaning day, site seeing days, and make sure to include an 'I don't want to get out of my sweats day' now and then. If you treat it like vacation, one can burn out quickly. If you treat it like a s&b, one can get bored quickly.Figure out what you and your wife like to do or see. Make part of your travels center on that. We went to a tiny town in PA just to get a particular bread flour that is hard to find. Loved the town so stayed a week. We also figured out where an ancestor lived after getting off a boat in 1749 and went there to check it out. I'm not into quilting but there are quilting museums and stores and classes all over the country. Breweries and wineries and factory tours are everywhere. Find a local church, bar, dog park, diner where locals hang out. Hang out with them and get the scoop. Grab the local paper and see what events are coming up.If, when we started out, we just parked somewhere because it was cheap, we would have quit soon after. We try to park with a view in a place open for exploration. If there is nothing to do there but watch tv, why bother?

The beautiful part of this lifestyle is you can do whatever floats "Your" boat. I'm just starting year 7 and am still loving it.

when we first started fulltiming in 2007, we had a list of places we want to see. We intended to be full time for approximately 3 to 5 years. Now nine years later we have almost completed most of the items that were initially on the list but here are enough new items on the list to keep us going for at least another 3 years.If you started to full time to sit without having a house to take care of, then finding a nice place at a great price for a month is probably good. IF you started to full time because your wife wanted to see the country, then probably NOT good to sit for a month. Your wife may have gone from a nice big kitchen to a tiny kitchen but is still trying to cook and eat in the same way. That can be frustrating. If you want your wife to enjoy your new lifestyle, then talk to her about what she wants to do and then find a way to do that.Sometimes we go and do what Dave wants to do and sometimes we go and do what I want to do.

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Old-Biscuit
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Aug 08, 2016
We FTd for 7 yrs.
We rarely stayed more then 2 weeks.......typically just 1 week.

We would travel on Mondays leaving CG by 10am and pulling into next place by 3pm traveling roughly 250 miles.

After getting set up and settled in we would go to local bar/tavern and strike up a conversation with the locals. They are a wealth of information.......go here, see this, forget about that, not wast your time etc.

Then Tues/Wed/Thurs we would go adventuring around the area based on what we had learned from locals and on our research. Leave early, lunch some where and then come back to site by 5pm.

Fri/Sat/Sun......hanging out at site. Catching up on any chores/getting ready to hot the road come Monday.

We did public CGs, State/Fed parks, city parks, fairgrounds, COE, private member only CGs and boondocking........depended on where we were.

Did spend setting in place very first year at my Sisters place in FL.
She was having back surgery so we spent late Nov thru April parked in their yard (4 acres) with 30A & water.......used a macerator pump to dump waste tanks into septic system (75' with 2' rise---worked perfect).

Spent several months the next year in NM at a friends RV Park working with him building a couple cabins, running electrical to storage/garage units and building/installing fencing separating sites. Plus Honeywagon duty.

After those 2 extended stays we had enough of being parked. Not what we hit the road for.

We preferred traveling ........6 round trips across USA (border to border-coast to coast) rarely traveling the same route and using secondary/back-roads as much as possible

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