Choices after coming off the road ...

For us, the issue became mostly medical. I seem to develop a type of very rare, non-cancerous tumor, that is highly invasive locally so it must be removed. (The first required that I be off work for 3 months. The last recovery period was about the same. During that period, because of the reconstruction of my abdominal muscles, no way could I have even done the minimal amount of physical stuff required to hook/unhook our dinghy.) That means that I need to be near my doctors at Loma Linda University Medical at least once a year. After having to rent an apartment for the last surgical recovery, we got to thinking, with real estate values starting to move up, maybe we should find a small place reasonably near the medical facilities where we could spend 3 months on the road, 3 off. Found a great own your own lot, adults only, mobile home park in Murrieta, Ca. Bought an old unit, had it pulled out, replaced it with a brand new unit including on-site RV storage & FHU's. All for about what the depreciation will be if we buy a 2016 Dutch Star, gently used, in about 5 years, as opposed to buying one now as we had planned.