What are Full Time benefits?
With so many Full Time participants, there must be several common threads that have contributed to the success of so many. Please share a couple of factors which lead to your enjoyment of Full Timing....
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DutchmenSport wrote:Very well written comment. I enjoyed reading it and agree with you. Thanks for your post.
I'm not a "full timer", but I do have an camper "Full Time!" (If that makes any sense).
Although each person makes their own choices in life for various reasons, for me, it would be very hard to become a full timer (maybe this answer is the opposite of what you were looking for).
I was 35 years old before I bought my first house. Before that I lived with my parents (not my house). I then rented 5 different houses (not my house). I then went into the Army for 6 years (definitely, none of those living quarters were my house), I then lived in rented houses again for another 6 years (again, not MY house). When I finally reached that point in life, I realized I had no sense of belonging ... anywhere.
Oh, my mother still lived in the same house I was raised in, and she's still there. But there was this great need to have a sense of "belonging" somewhere. So, my first home I bought was on a 2 acre lot, in the country, in SW Ohio. Lived there 3 years and finally felt like I had something to drop my anchor on. Well, things changed.
Moved back to Indiana and for the next 6 years rented again (not my house. very unhappy, no sense of belonging, I couldn't even put a picture on the wall without an act from Congress. Are you beginning to see the picture here?
The "real" RV full timers who own nothing but their camping rig are those who have settled into the opposite mind set where I've been for many, many years now. They do not NEED that sense of "belonging" anywhere. They don't NEED an anchor spot. Most likely, (I imagine if you did a poll on full timers, you'll find at one time in their lives they felt trapped, or enslaved to property, to than anchor, and it probably suffocated them). Some people are just meant to be "free". And those who full time on the road are those who have he greater need to enjoy that freedom, than to enjoy the constraints of an anchor.
There's nothing wrong with either lifestyle. We need them all to keep our culture a beautiful place to live for all of us. But I do definitely think if you are really going to enjoy the RV full timing experience, you really have to be a "free spirit". This has to be the number one trait needed.
