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Roy_Lynne
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Oct 03, 2013

What is your month like

I'm also thinking about full-timing and read with interest the post below about the cons and pros, but what is your month usually like? Do you mostly travel? Do you stay at RV Parks, campgrounds, boondock?

We were thinking about taking like one state at a time and just moving when we felt like it.
  • We spend five winter months in Florida, then travel and do campground hosting in Texas and Colorado maximum of three months total - maximum two months in one spot, always different State Park campground each season. That leaves four months of travel, plus exploring area around camp host state.
  • When full timing, we stayed anywhere from a week to a month at each place, perhaps once or twice a year staying only a night or two at a particular location. DW wanted a house so we bought one two years ago ...this week is a bummer as we arrived back at the house after 4 1/2 months on the road and have yard to now, stuff to unload, and the other bummer tasks to do ...

    Enjoy the adventure while you can !
  • Well, like everything else, you can get thousands of answers. Thankfully, we are all different and are interested in doing different things. We park host 6 months of the year in CA then travel for 6 months. It depends on our plans, in 2011 we went all the way from CA to the FL panhandle on I 10 then north on the east coast all the way up to Niagra Falls. We came back down through PA, OH, KY, TN then stopped for a few weeks to visit family in NW AR before heading back to CA. That was a 6 month trip. In 2013 we went to Tucson for 3 months, then TX, AR, IL, WI, MI, IN, over to MT to visit relatives and back to CA. We enjoy visiting national parks, COE parks and other places we were never able to see while working. Some people like to golf, fish, attend Nascar races, visit caves. We stay busy, either traveling or seeing sites, sometimes we spend a couple of weeks on maintenance.
  • We travel every week to 2 weeks........travel 250 miles or less then park and explore the area. Then we move another 250 miles or less...repeat.

    We stay in public CGs, private CGs. COEs, State/National CGs, fairgrounds, boondock, city parks.

    We try to travel via secondary/backroads vs Interstates as much as possible.
    We have never Walmart/Rest Stop overnighted.......we rarely overnight anywhere.

    We went FT to travel and see as much as possible.......but not in a hurry.
    We just meander were and when we want.

    We purchased a 'membership' via a resale and use it when we can......FHU's for $10/15 a night to control 'housing' costs.