Information overload
Alright. I have information overload and I need help. Background Information: June of this year we (wife, daughter 11 years old and I) will be selling our house and traveling around the US for 1 ...
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I truly appreciate everyone's input, advice and suggestions. I've discovered a few issues I would never have thought of or even encountered during a rental test run. I do plan to rent an RV for a weekend and get some actual hands on experience. However, I feel the thread keeps getting sidetracked by my insistence on a Class C. I'd like to clear up a few things.
It has been suggested that I would be crazy to put myself and my family into a small class C for a year or two. The truth is, that's the sanest part of my plan. I am quitting a job making $80k a year with amazing benefits for a job making $12k to $20k a year with almost no benefits. I am taking an 11 year old daughter who has spent her entire life in the same house and school out of everything she knows and throwing her into this just as she's entering her tweens/teens. I'm taking a wife who is somewhat of a social butterfly away from all her friends and social life to live with just the 3 of us in a small box while always traveling. I'm doing this with the intention of living off the generosity of others and no real experience doing it. I have done just about everything I could to set us up for failure. We know this is going to be difficult and there are going to be problems.
However, I'm 43 and my wife is 36 and we've been married for 19 years. We have experience with life upheavals and starting over after I was medically discharged from the Army after 11 years. We have a very strong family bond and our faith to get us thru most of this. We've been doing this part time now for several months in a small car and have a little bit of experience packing/unpacking and traveling lite. Most people do what we're doing with a minivan and motel rooms so a class C while small is still going to give us more personal space than that. The fact that we have an end goal in mind and not a lifestyle helps out a lot as well.
Again, I want to thank everyone so far for all their input and help. You've really helped me out.
Right now, I know I'm hung up on maneuverability and size. I drove our church shuttlebus for the senior route for a while and really don't want something much bigger. Even the idea of towing a trailer give me a bit of a pause. That may change as I'm planning on trying to rent an RV for a weekend trip in February but who knows.
When I started this thread I had information overload and still do to a point. I"m still not sure how best to maximize the limited time I have to look over RV's or the extremely limited selection I have in this area. Especially since I"m looking to buy a used rental located several states away. But I do have a better grasp on what I'm getting into. Thank you very much.
It has been suggested that I would be crazy to put myself and my family into a small class C for a year or two. The truth is, that's the sanest part of my plan. I am quitting a job making $80k a year with amazing benefits for a job making $12k to $20k a year with almost no benefits. I am taking an 11 year old daughter who has spent her entire life in the same house and school out of everything she knows and throwing her into this just as she's entering her tweens/teens. I'm taking a wife who is somewhat of a social butterfly away from all her friends and social life to live with just the 3 of us in a small box while always traveling. I'm doing this with the intention of living off the generosity of others and no real experience doing it. I have done just about everything I could to set us up for failure. We know this is going to be difficult and there are going to be problems.
However, I'm 43 and my wife is 36 and we've been married for 19 years. We have experience with life upheavals and starting over after I was medically discharged from the Army after 11 years. We have a very strong family bond and our faith to get us thru most of this. We've been doing this part time now for several months in a small car and have a little bit of experience packing/unpacking and traveling lite. Most people do what we're doing with a minivan and motel rooms so a class C while small is still going to give us more personal space than that. The fact that we have an end goal in mind and not a lifestyle helps out a lot as well.
Again, I want to thank everyone so far for all their input and help. You've really helped me out.
Right now, I know I'm hung up on maneuverability and size. I drove our church shuttlebus for the senior route for a while and really don't want something much bigger. Even the idea of towing a trailer give me a bit of a pause. That may change as I'm planning on trying to rent an RV for a weekend trip in February but who knows.
When I started this thread I had information overload and still do to a point. I"m still not sure how best to maximize the limited time I have to look over RV's or the extremely limited selection I have in this area. Especially since I"m looking to buy a used rental located several states away. But I do have a better grasp on what I'm getting into. Thank you very much.
