Why did you go the 'full-timing' route...
I recently posted a request for comments from those who believe full-timing is not for them and many great replies resulted. Now, it seems we need to give the other side an opportunity to tell us why ...
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We were sort of “accidental” full timers.
We didn't intend to full time, just wanted to take a three to six month trip around the country visiting friends and family and then find some warmer, cheaper place to buy or build a house. At the time we had a 96 model year motor home with no slides.
We threw away stuff, gave stuff to places that could make use of it and distributed as much as possible to our kids.
We put all of the rest of our stuff in storage so we wouldn't have to go back to NH if the house sold quickly and it was still cold and yucky there.
The house did sell quickly (in a month) and we found after about a year that we were having so much fun traveling and having no ties to a stick house that we decided to keep on full timing. We traded the 96 motor home in on a new 2004 with a lot more CCC, storage space and two slides.
That was 12 years ago and so far we both love the life style. But health issues and sort of "having done it all" have intervened and after being snowbirds for a year we are now living in a home we bought in CO.
It was a wonderful twelve years though.
We didn't intend to full time, just wanted to take a three to six month trip around the country visiting friends and family and then find some warmer, cheaper place to buy or build a house. At the time we had a 96 model year motor home with no slides.
We threw away stuff, gave stuff to places that could make use of it and distributed as much as possible to our kids.
We put all of the rest of our stuff in storage so we wouldn't have to go back to NH if the house sold quickly and it was still cold and yucky there.
The house did sell quickly (in a month) and we found after about a year that we were having so much fun traveling and having no ties to a stick house that we decided to keep on full timing. We traded the 96 motor home in on a new 2004 with a lot more CCC, storage space and two slides.
That was 12 years ago and so far we both love the life style. But health issues and sort of "having done it all" have intervened and after being snowbirds for a year we are now living in a home we bought in CO.
It was a wonderful twelve years though.
