Full time RV Living for a newbie

BAD IDEA!
At least how your leaning. As a full timer yoir going to want eating, sleeping, and work space in addition to a decent bathroom, plus sufficient closet space for clothes. Then there is storage space for stuff. What you looking at might be OK for a weekend when the weather is good. But what if you get stuck for a few days of cold rain? Your going to be stuck inside.
As a single person, start looking for a motor home, something around 30 feet or more. This will give you enoigh room to be comfortable and have plenty of storage. You also need to consider laundry facilities. Laundrymats can be really inconvient long term. No one wants to spend one day a week sitting someplace while your clothes get washed whwn you could be out enjoying life.
If you go a MH route be sure to budget in a toad. Not a frog, but a small car you can tow behind. This will allow you to park and have a small car to move around in.

BTW ALL are RVs, whether it is a motor home, truck camper, travel trailer or a fifth wheel, ALL are a RV.

The first thing is to go look at some RV's and then pick a type. Travel trailer, fifth wheel, class a, class c or class b.

Then come back and people can help you a little better.

The cheapest entry is probably a Travel trailer and a truck. You can find a ton of different floor plans that will fit any lifestyle. Some manufacturers frown on you living in them full time. So keep that in mind. Grand Design, artic fox and I'm sure there are more don't care.

Don't skimp on size, you'll want to be comfortable. Go check out floor plans, pretend to live in them and see how they feel.

Look at lots of RV's and get a feel for what will best fit your needs and budget. Keep in mind that a smaller trailer towed by a pickup has a lot of storage space available if the truck has good cap/topper on it. Large plastic storage bins can make sorting and accessing the items you don't need right at hand at the time easy to find when you do eventually need them. We can go 3-4 weeks without hitting a laundromat for a few hours, so don't let that deter you. We've always been able to find clean, safe facilities when the park we're at didn't have adequate, or any, laundry facilities. Yes, a larger motorhome would be nice, but not for your gas budget. As long as a smaller unit has the features you want and need, it doesn't need to be any bigger. We had a lady friend that fulltimed for over 20 years in a small teardrop trailer towed by a minivan, upgrading only to replace the van or the trailer with new similar models despite being able to afford much larger RV's. She even gave her son and daughter-in-law a brand new Class C as an anniversary present. She finally hung up the keys at 78 due to illness, and passed away a few years later. Bottom line, get what works for your current needs, you can always change it later on as your experiences and needs change your requirements. And if they don't change, you're all set...

DON’T! Rent an RV, such as a Class C, for a month. Try out our lifestyle before selling and buying anything.

Your house appreciates in value - your RV depreciates in value. A typical new RV depreciates about 50 percent in less than 10 years. My house appreciates most years.

RV's are nice ..... selling your house to buy an RV is a crappy idea!!!

Do you know the maximum amount of money you are able (or willing) to spend on your setup? That's a really small RV and you are going to feel like you are living in your home closet when it's rainy and cold. Have you thought about what you are going to do to be able to work remotely? Will this require an internet connection, a VPN, large amounts of data? Have you budgeted in the cellular internet connection that will be mandatory?
Any additional details about your plans would be helpful. As an additional thought, if you are thinking you can visit all of the places you have listed in 7 months you need to do a serious rethinking of your plans. Alaska is completely out of the question in that time frame and you will only be able to scratch the surface of some of your other destinations in 7 months.

Bill.Satellite wrote:
As an additional thought, if you are thinking you can visit all of the places you have listed in 7 months you need to do a serious rethinking of your plans. Alaska is completely out of the question in that time frame and you will only be able to scratch the surface of some of your other destinations in 7 months.

You may want to read the OP again. His journey will start in 7 months (April) and he will be in the RV for the foreseeable future. Plenty of time for his plans.

I think you would not be happy for long in a small tt and truck. For 1 , your concept is to travel to NParks, which have limited services. In that scenario you will want larger water capacities and battery banks than a compact tt has. For life and flexibility in an RV storage and capacity outweighs purchase savings on a smaller unit and fuel. Remember, parking costs are the same.
No to MH. fuel mileage will not be better than a tt truck combo, complexity depreciation, insurance, duplication of driveline all raise the cost of what you are contemplating. MHs are perfect for a lot, not for a single moving occasionally
If I were to do ( Oh wait, I did! ) what you wish, find a 20-26' TT, with good weather capability, a 1/2 T pickup or van with a V 8
The cost trade off will be negligible, savings in site fees in less serviced campsites more than offset the fuel and higher purchase cost.

I am solo with a cocker spaniel. Currently a 26' travel trailer, no slide,
queen bed, sofa, dinette, all the rest. I could pull it with a 150/1500 v-8, just have not traded my 2500 Dodge Ram yet. Works fine for "us" and I live in it full time.

Before committing to buying something, maybe try first renting an rv for a weekend or vacation to get an idea of what you like and don't like. That's what I did, and I learned a ton about what worked and didn't work for me. Plus learning about what types of RV's work best for me for navigating around different national parks, highways, parking lots, gas stations, etc.
Cruise America and other vendors do RV rentals. They're a little expensive, but a lot cheaper than buying something outright and end up hating. Also check out an RV show to see lots of different rigs all in the same place.
In addition to travel trailers and class C's, check out truck campers. They may be small, but give you a TON of versatility and mobility. (spoiler alert, truck camper is the style I went with....Dodge Ram and Arctic Fox 990). I didn't sell my house and go full time yet, but it works out great for the style of travel that I want to do at this point in my life as a single guy and pet dalmation/pitt bull mix dog.