We bought our first Class A motorhome about 2 years before we were both due to retire from the military because we knew we wanted to see more of the country. It was a 34 footer with one slide. We had family in primarily in Indiana and Maryland. Dave didn't want to live in Indiana and Baltimore was so expensive so when we retired, we built a home on a golf course in Florida. We spent the next five years, golfing, eating, golfing, social drinking and traveling in our motorhome primarily in the summers to get away from the heat of Florida.
We found that we were waiting to travel in the summer until after the grandkids got out of school and visited us in Florida. That put it into mid June before we would start heading out.
We decided to look at moving further north, say Pennsylvania or Ohio (between the two families) and then traveling in our motorhome during the Winter. After not finding anything just right, we decided we would just sell the house and buy a bigger motorhome and live in it for 3-5 years. That was nearly six years ago. We still haven't been everywhere and seen everything on our list but it is getting a little smaller every year.
We will probably end up building a small 600-700 square foot RV Port home down in Florida in the next couple years. We still intend to travel 4-5 months of the year. We want to be able to have our motorhome parked right next to our next house with full hook-ups so it can provide additional living space and also so it can be ready to go at a moment's notice. We plan to basically still live in the motorhome but use the port home to spend the day in and to pursue hobbies not well suited to the smaller space of a motorhome.
