Questions for Full Timers

Rick and Kathy wrote:
Tony and Karen,we such as yourselves have been full-timing for eleven years. I am retiring from work this coming February and we are trying to plan a two year trip around the United States. We have heard a lot of different ideas about travel, from staying in a park for a month to what y'all are doing. I would love to hear a little more in depth of what you guys are doing. Money will be an object so we are going to have to travel smart.Thanks for any information you can give us.

I have a lot of information on how to travel cheaply on my blog but here are a few tips to get you started.

If you are over 62 get a America the Beautiful senior pass. It's $10.00 for life and gives you free admission to federal sites and half price camping at national parks, national forests, corp of engineers and blm campgrounds. http://www.nps.gov/findapark/passes.htm

If you're not over 62 the pass is $80.00 for a year and gives you free admission to the parks but no campground discount.

I use these sites to find campgrounds and boondocking spots -
http://www.ultimatecampgrounds.com/uc/index.php
http://freecampsites.net/usa/

Public campgrounds are usually less expensive with a more natural setting than private campgrounds so if we stay at a campground it's almost always a public one. In the west where it's possible to boondock that's our first choice. When we visit cities we're out touring all day so we stay in Walmarts and casino lots when there aren't any public campgrounds close by.

We like visiting museums and gardens so we buy a pass every year that gets us free admission to over 400 museums and 400 gardens. You must buy the $150.00 contributor membership to get all of the benefits but it pays for itself quickly.

Check my blog for more ideas - http://rollinginarv-wheelchairtraveling.blogspot.com/