Help Me Figure Out the Dream?

SoundGuy wrote:

HadEnough wrote:
So I'm looking for an elusive dream. Something with a couch or 2 (dinette not even needed), a bed and an awesome kitchen with oven and a refrigerator at least the size of my full size Norcold. It should fit in a single parking spot and be able to be put on a RoRo to ship to Europe. It should be reasonable to drive in Europe. Or.. if a truck camper, maybe I can leave the camper behind and drive the truck in Europe to get into small places. Then I'd like to ship it to Southeast Asia and travel there. It should fit into a parking space but still he huge inside. Triple slide??

Any thoughts?

Never have been convinced it's worth the cost of shipping to get a N American built RV to somewhere else in the world where it likely wouldn't meet local standards without significant modifications at potentially great cost.

And you're right.

I looked into all of this over the past few days.

It's significant money.. closing in on $10k to send your small RV to Europe for 180 days which is the max allowable time. Most people like my girlfriend can only stay in the Schengen area for 90 days. Then you have to bounce out if it. Or start out of it and get into it for those 90 days.

Then by day 180 your RV has to leave or be modified to be up to EU code.

The other option is to rent. It's around $1000/WK. The shipping money can get you an RV for about as long as your 90 day tourist visa. So that's decent.

However, air BNB and renting cars or taking trains is more reasonable than anything else.

So you're right. It doesn't make sense to send a North American RV over.

We're going to set up the RV stuff here in North America, see Europe and Southeast Asia by Airbnb, and keep one of the boats for North American cruising and possibly world cruising later.