Question 1 - How strenuous for full time RV?
1st off, I've Have several questions and thought I'd ask them separately to keep the answers on topic and allow people to just respond to the ones they have the most experience. Ops/Mod if this is ...
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Dano1955 wrote:
..This question is being asked because of my bout with arthritis (family inheritance). While I'm not disabled, I have lost some of my physical mobility due to having 2 hip replacements and pain and loss of strength in my hands and legs. Heavy lifting (100 lbs perhaps, one time) or lighter weights repeatedly would not be possible. Since I will be on my own, could this pose a hazard if there were no assistance around?
Your main problem is not going to be if you can bend down for hook ups, lift stuff, etc. but just going in and out of an RV will be THE most difficult and taxing on your body.
I started out with 2 good knees and after about a month on the road I could barely walk. It was from repeatedly going in and out of my RV.
The steps on almost all RV's are way 'too narrow' to walk out on them straight like the steps in your home. You will find yourself twisting sideways to walk up and down into the RV twisting your knee to do so.
I suggest you go to a dealership and try walking up and down RV steps AND if you choose a MH, exit and entering the front of a Class A or Class B MH, to see if you are able to, BEFORE you leap into RV'ing. :C
