Question to the full Timers Out There Or Soon To Be

Been at this FT thing now in our 16th year. Can't imagine going back to a fixed location. As I tell everyone who asks, this lifestyle isn't for everyone, but for those of us who love it, it's been the best 15+ years of our lives. It's all about freedom.

"we could never live full time in a RV, I know sounds strange but as business owners we get far more vacation time than normal employees do sometimes 3 to 4 big trips per year not including the little weekend trips, almost feel burnt out but hate to stop and be bored."

Four years before we went full time, we bought a boat and used it for camping on the hook. We spend at least 100 nights a year on it for two years. We switched to a tt and for the next two years spent 120 nights and 180 nights in it respectively. During the second year, we realized we loved being in our RV but we hated 'vacationing.' It was stressful and rushed and we never got to experience a place, only got to see it. So we sold our stuff, 'retired,' and have been living in our RV for the 2+ years since.

'Vacationing' is a break from every day life. Full timing is living your every day life.

The other day DH and I were talking. We can't decide between continuing full timing on land or switching to water. The one thing we did decide is that the worst thing would be to buy a 'home base.' Neither of us would want to stay there all the time, want the maintenance and up keep, want the stress and worry of being away from 'home.' As it is, we are always home, regardless of where we are parked.

'Vacationing' is a break from every day life. Full timing is living your every day life.

The other day DH and I were talking. We can't decide between continuing full timing on land or switching to water. The one thing we did decide is that the worst thing would be to buy a 'home base.' Neither of us would want to stay there all the time, want the maintenance and up keep, want the stress and worry of being away from 'home.' As it is, we are always home, regardless of where we are parked.

Well said!!!

I never liked mowing the yard, raking leaves, shoveling snow, paying real estate taxes just to have a place to sleep so I could go to work every day.

The day I retired on Oct. 29th 1999 I also closed on the house.
I went Full Time on the 30th. Since then I never have had to mow a yard, rake any leaves, or shovel any snow nor pay real estate taxes.

Before I retired on many vacations I traveled to all 48 lower states on a motorcycle. So I have been back to many of them in a MH pulling either a motorcycle or a toad. But now get to spend a longer time in each one.

So after almost 17 years I will continue Full Time until my health won't let me.
Then it will be either assistant living or at my paid forever lot. :)

Not us, but some friends are in the same situation as the OP.

When they sold their business, they took the motorhome on the road for a couple years.

But eventually decided that they wanted to spend several months of the year close to kids/ grandkids. And they like cruise ships. They wanted to cruise the rivers of Europe, around Cape Horn, Australia and New Zealand, etc.

So they bought a condo in a senior community where they have zero maintenance responsibility. They spend 4-5 months on the road in the motorhome each year, they spend 3-4 months traveling around the world each year. When he came down with a serious illness two years ago, it wasn't a big hassle to find a place to stay and get the medical treatment he needed for several months.

Frankly, if I had the financial reserves they have, we would probably do the same. But there is still a LOT of the US we have not seen, so the RV is great for us.