Newbie Full-timing questions
Hi all, My first post in the forums (be gentle if i break any social rules) :) My wife and I, and our 5 kids are seriously considering full timing. I've been reading the forums for a while and fi...
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ellenbehr wrote:
We never RV'd before going full-time, and wish we'd followed the advice we ignored: rent one and try it out first on a familiar trip. We just plunged in, found out we knew NOTHING despite more than five years of preparation, careful rig selection, and thousands and thousands of "book-learning" pages.
I agree. My first trip was 7 months long :).
But I deliberately spent the minimal amount of $$ on my van setup because I knew that I would not know what I wanted in an RV until I tried it. Surprisingly, it turned out to be pretty good, but I keep modifying it to be even better. And I might someday buy something else.
I think the 9-person version of this would be: Buy a cheap used RV that runs well, with the intention that you will sell it and buy another, more expensive one next year -- once you really know what you want and need when actually on the road. I think doing that would cost less than renting one for a few months, and you would learn more.
