Red Shoe RVing...I Need Your Stories!
I joined yesterday and posted the mid life crisis one but through reading over it and clarifying for others it helped clarify for me why I actually joined. I wasn't looking for advice though I appreci...
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I was working at a job 38 years, 3-11 shift, 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. No time off and even worked through some of my vacation because "they needed me". The wife worked 8 to 5 shift so we did not see much of each other except on weekend when she didn't work. The wife and I decided to by a diesel pusher and take trips on my vacation and I decided I was taking the vacation I had coming no matter how bad "they needed me".
We bought our Beaver Patriot and was going to use it about 6 weeks a year. Our first trip out to South Dakota was great, we loved every minute, not worrying about the job, the boss, or whether the work got done. Well I was turning 62 that February so we planned to go to Yuma, Arizona for the month of February. My boss said I could not take a whole month off. I said I am 62 and don't need this anymore" I retire" Well we sold the house, gave our belongings to our children and grandchildren and we left for Yuma. That summer we went to Alaska for the summer. The following winter we went to Texas in the valley.
Well to make a long story short we have done a lot of traveling spent winters in Florida, Texas, and Arizona. We fell in love with Yuma, Arizona and last year we bought a place and next winter we plan to live in Yuma, still travel but home base will be Yuma, Arizona. The most important thing is we will be married 52 years in 4 more days and the last 10 have been the best 10 years of my life because we are together doing what we want to do and I Love It. We have been to all 52 states including Hawaii and have spent a winter in Mexico. We are like newly weds seeing everything and doing everything Fulltime RV living is the best life I could have asked for.
We bought our Beaver Patriot and was going to use it about 6 weeks a year. Our first trip out to South Dakota was great, we loved every minute, not worrying about the job, the boss, or whether the work got done. Well I was turning 62 that February so we planned to go to Yuma, Arizona for the month of February. My boss said I could not take a whole month off. I said I am 62 and don't need this anymore" I retire" Well we sold the house, gave our belongings to our children and grandchildren and we left for Yuma. That summer we went to Alaska for the summer. The following winter we went to Texas in the valley.
Well to make a long story short we have done a lot of traveling spent winters in Florida, Texas, and Arizona. We fell in love with Yuma, Arizona and last year we bought a place and next winter we plan to live in Yuma, still travel but home base will be Yuma, Arizona. The most important thing is we will be married 52 years in 4 more days and the last 10 have been the best 10 years of my life because we are together doing what we want to do and I Love It. We have been to all 52 states including Hawaii and have spent a winter in Mexico. We are like newly weds seeing everything and doing everything Fulltime RV living is the best life I could have asked for.
