Lost interest in RV Travel

rvten wrote:
Wife wants to travel.
I am not interested anymore.
To me the RV is just a big White Elephant.
After spending all winter home.

I don't have the wife anymore, but I get the rest of it. I, too, am starting to feel that way. Hobbies come and hobbies go. I used to play hockey and drag race, but those hobbies are gone too.

Every year it gets a little harder to do the maintenance and do the driving. As in anything, there is a tipping point. And how many times can you see the ocean? I've been up and down the coast and to the Gulf and it's...water. And it's just mountains, and it's just little towns. I think it's may be getting close to the time to change direction. But I/m not ready to join the old folks on a cruise ship, or go zip lining or sky diving with the old ladies. LOL. I'm thinking park model, somewhere south. Less work, more time for grilling and beer.

Depression has ruined a lot of good people. It happens to me every winter. I complain to DW how crappy the weather is all winter long and she keeps telling me I need to relax and look for the good in each day. I try but I really do hate cold, snowy, cloudy days. If she didn't want to stay close to her Mom and our grandson I'd have moved us to a warm climate long ago.

ChopperBill wrote:
Keeping the RV though because I never want to spend another winter anywhere but AZ. Weather couldn't have been better here this year.

You're right on about AZ winter weather!

We spent two weeks there for the first time ever this January and the weather was absolutely spectacular - winter RV camping at it's finest.

For what it's worth ... I just recently read that Yuma, AZ holds the record for the sunniest place on average to live on earth.

We won't be doing so much this year. Financially, prices of fuel and the economy in General takes it's toll. And it looks like my right hip is going to have to be replaced for the THIRD time. Keeping the RV though because I never want to spend another winter anywhere but AZ. Weather couldn't have been better here this year.

Yep Cruises are nice, just look @ the couple of Petri dish cruises that made headlines this year. And hotels are nice, ever look @ the news programs that investigated bed bugs in high end as well as budget hotels/motels or showed the television remotes under ultra violet light after they have been wiped with same cleaning clothes as the toilets? And how about those hotel/motel bedspreads and blankets?

rvten, I am chasing you and will catch you soon as I have been married 48 years and we are also having some changes in what each of us want to do. I am the one that is wanting to travel, but the wife less so. I do see us doing fewer long trips and more short trips. Times and preferences do change.

I do hope to pass through your good state next year. I like the smaller RV (mine is 29 ft) so that it is easy to find a spot to park when ever I feel the need.

Do what fits you when it fits you!

rvten, I do hope you are ok and doing well.

Maybe try parking in a permanent or seasonal spot close to home. Your wife can enjoy the camping experience with or without you, no one has to drive the rig, and packing is minimal.

A bunch of us (from the same little town) do this for a variety of reasons. One friend won't drive a rig for health reasons, and his wife wants to be within a short drive to the grandchildren.

Another couple have farm duties and make the 1/2 hour trip back home each day. This is their only vacation option.

Two more couples have a boatload of little kids in many activities and love the easy getaway.

We are tied to our jobs and just don't have the burning desire to travel for now.

You can take it down a notch and just reinvent what you loved to do.

Last year my wife and I traveled in our old but very comfortable Cadillac Deville We drove 4500 mi and stayed at nice motels. and ate out in nice restaurants. Visited Ks Mo Ky Tn Ohio (AF Museum in Dayton) relatives in Mi and really enjoyed ourselves without the need of our moho. We've put exactly 700 mi. on that class A in two years. I hope I can sell it because we can travel by car, get 27 mi to the gallon. stay in clean hotels/motels. And eat out in interesting restaurants all for cheaper than driving a moho and toad. If I could dump this Dinosaur I would. But these things are getting harder and harder to give away.And really thats about what you do in order to sell them..So I can see the ops point. But then I'll be 80 yrs old in Dec and maybe its time. Yeah I just put all new tires on it. Oh well. Hell of a time to realize I dont want to rv anymore. But such is life..

JiminDenver wrote:
...snip... After a while it gets to a point that the hassles outweigh the excitement of doing it...

Never heard it put that way, but it is very true. Some things just get old, but the effort to do them stays the same.