Full-timing in truck campers?

trail-explorer wrote:
What is an SKPer?
I've never heard that term before.

Joe.b, is referring to the Escapees Club. I came from their HDT (Heavy Duty Truck) forum when I learned about the RV.net forum. It is an amazing group/entity/corporation that fills a niche’ for people that often want a turn key operation. Some just don’t wish to learn the hard way or experience the steep learning curve of Fulltiming. So they choose Escapee Camps. Joe b explains it very well.

joe b. wrote:
There really are at least two distinct groups of full time RVers, IMHO. Those that travel, using their RVs as a home while they are involved in many activities, hiking, fishing, photography, working, enjoying different scenery, etc and the full timers that live in their RVs, while seldom, if ever moving them. This forum seems to have more members that fit into the travel group.

By going to Google Sattellite and viewing the SW side of Tucson, AZ you will see many communities with built infrastructure to accommodate these “Fulltimers” who travel south, park for the Winter and then head home or to another RV Park in the North. Many of these communities have these sites for sale. You get a community with swimming pool, bus tours to surrounding attractions and Casinos, as well as laundry, movie nights and the list goes on and on. As well as a Tuff Shed, platform deck sized to meet your threshold of your RV doorway. And yes, these individuals consider themselves, Fulltimers.

Most of the people on this forum that claim to be Fulltiming, are as joe.b shared, staying in campgrounds permanently or in one location, like a work site or in a family member’s back yard or driveway. There are lots of definitions for Fulltiming and I personally have no problem accepting all of these types. I only have control over my own, moving all the time, not staying in campgrounds and often found in remote areas for months at a time. I sold all my properties and home in 2008 and moved into my TC fulltime in 2009. So, I have nothing to go back to.

But, there is often confusion in how one uses the term Fulltiming. Truck Camper Magazine once featured a couple that they announced in the title line; Fulltiming in a Truck Camper. When you read the article you learn that they actually go on vacations in their Truck Camper. As they have a 5th wheel parked on their property in Texas and live in that location and often strike out for summer months in their Truck Camper, returning to their 5th wheel for the remainder of the season. Are they Fulltimers? Are they Fulltimers in a TC, as Truck Camper Magazine positioned it? You decide.

For me, what matters is that we are all out enjoying our TCs, working on them, personalizing them for our own needs and uses. As well as dreaming of future adventures. As for those that do Fulltime, there is a wealth of information we are able to gain from many of these people in using TCs, even for just a weekend.

Safe Travels and hope the OP is out enjoying their Adventure in their TC.

b


edit; corrected spelling on word