Were you excited then? Still excited now?

After 5 years we still love it! No regrets at all. Still have places on our list to see and many places we loved so much we will return and stay longer. When we return to our home base for doctor appointments we can't wait to hit the road again! Can't stand the thought of grass growing under the RV!!

crickeydog wrote:
We're not selling our house. We both feel we'll want a home base to come home to every so many months. I know it sounds nuts but I like mowing the yard now and then. And we gotta go somewhere when the cops or the kids eventually take our truck keys from us. I have 198 days to retirement and 3/4 timing. We can't wait. We're betting retirement and 3/4 timing will be the best job we've both ever had.

Happy camping!!! See y'all down the road!!!:)

That is the unique beauty of this lifestyle. It is the ability, and the freedom, to tailor the life style to your particular desires. The flexibility. How many lifestyles allow you to sit down and discuss where you are going to live next winter? LOL

How we live this lifestyle today is completely different than is was seven years ago, and it keeps getting better and better.

Dog Folks wrote:
I enjoy immensely reading posts of those about to go full time. Their excitement is fun to share.

I and the wife remember the day our journey began as the day we sold the house. We felt so excited and free!

I rank the day we started to full time as the third best day of my life, only after marrying my wife and the birth of my son.

After seven years, we still love it. NO regrets.

How say you? Were you that happy also? Still is love with the lifestyle?

The day the house sold was the happiest day of my life. The only problem I had was HOW to get to the closing driving a MH downtown with no where to park it! I ended having to take a limo to closing!:B

6 years later not so much. It got old for me. I don't have any family and I feel the RV'ers that stay on the road have extensive families that they factor in on visiting during their yearly traveling. Giving them a destination through out the year.

What I have done now, which I REALLY wished I had done from the get go, was bought property down south that allows the MH. I am now a reverse Snow Bird. & With more $$$ in my pocket not having to pay exorbitant Florida snowbird season CG fees for a sardine site.

My southern activities are still the same using the toad. Only difference is I come home to a nice secluded 2 acres to spread out on and listen to nature and not a camper parked right up against mine! :C

Dog Folks, very much the same story. Was going to go fulltime when I retired normally, RVed for years, but all of sudden the phone co came thru with an early out. Sold the house in about 5 days, goodbye lawn mower/snowblower, etc. Haven't missed a thing, property taxes, all the municipal baloney. We are now just starting our 11th year, 11th season in Yuma, AZ. after being a resident of Penna. for 50 plus years. If someone would have told me were going to become desert dogs, I would have told them they were full mud. I tell everyone that asks, "it isn't for everyone, but it sure works for us". Leave when we want to, come when we want to. No running back to check on this or check on that. And I am a stickler for not paying for services that I'm not using or need.

We're not selling our house. We both feel we'll want a home base to come home to every so many months. I know it sounds nuts but I like mowing the yard now and then. And we gotta go somewhere when the cops or the kids eventually take our truck keys from us. I have 198 days to retirement and 3/4 timing. We can't wait. We're betting retirement and 3/4 timing will be the best job we've both ever had.

Happy camping!!! See y'all down the road!!!:)