I say “Yes lets go” my wife says “not so fast Sparky”!

I would just like to thank you again for your responses. I said in an earlier post that I've read your posts to my wife and she found them very interesting. I'd also like to tell you what she said she got the most, "how nice you all seem to be!" I agree with her and what a great thing to get from the very folks we're talking about being around. Thank you all

My wife wasn't keen on traveling in a motorhome at first. I told her to get a set of dishes, pots, pans, silverware, toaster etc that could just stay in the MH. She then did some decoration (pictures etc). We are both good for up to two months before we are ready to go home. She quilts (and does some while we travel) and I like spending time in my gardens and garage, so it's good to get home too.

Welcome to the class A forum although you other post helped me get a better feel on how to answer. "We would most likely be on the road a few months a year stopping at places of interest for a week or so. We also have friends and family around the country, most where we can park the motorhome during our stay. From what I’ve seen and checked out so far the 30 to 34 feet should give us enough room without giving cabin fever yet small enough to get in and out of places." Pretty sure you figured out you need a toad by the answers in that post. Also, it helps that we now know you will be keeping the house near the space center.

I would start by reading Johnny T's post on first time buyers by clicking on Class A in the box at the top on the right. The joke about retirement, well actually it's not a joke: Twice the husband on 1/2 the money in 1/10th the space. Oops, at 30' that's 1/20th the space. It worries me when I see first timers looking at short MHs. I learned the expensive way $$$$ that you should buy more USED MH than you think you need ...ONE TIME. Fortunately my first was a used 36' and too soon after a 40' and now for 11 years... 42' as half timers. The shorter the rig the smaller the tanks... have to dump and refill more often. Cuts down on how long you can go off the grid... boondocking. After many rainy days and regardless of how lovey dovey you'll wish you had a bigger MH. There are not many diesel MH's that short... lot's more at 36'+. It's a lot easier to make it homey when you have plenty of CCC and the storage compartments to haul the stuff.

Hope this helps as I learned the $$$$$ way.

Home is where the pillow is!

To the OP, boy does this sound familiar. We looked for over three years before we bought. Toured the Thor plant and the Tiffin plant. It was like pulling teeth to get my wife to go look at Motorhomes. We finally bought our first Motorhome and within a year and a half traded it for a bigger nicer one. Now all my wife talks about is where are we going next. She's ready to quit our jobs and sell the house and move into the Motorhome full time now. LOL Good luck I hope you get her to come around.

RVing is not for everybody. My wife and I enjoy it but I would not go full time. I still enjoy my stick house. But we do use it about six months of the year.

But I have a friend that would like to do the same thing that I do, but his wife is absolutely against it. So now he has cancer and he probably will never enjoy what he always wanted to do.

So it can be a problem when the partner does not want to try it.

Good luck!

I'd like to thank you all again and Heavy Metal Doctor how right you are when you said "I've always been a structured / scheduled kinda guy". So am I. Then you said "She's not so much a home body as she is into "no stress" while away from our normal routine at home. She wants to get up whenever she feels like, sit around and read, take naps, fix meals". That is so true! She is a home body, but one of the reasons she is, is because of exactly what you just said!

Plus if truth were told even after all these years she still values our time together! Hey, she can't be both beautiful and smart!

Thanks all and a Very Merry Christmas

It can be struggle and everyone needs to find their way of making it work for all involved......As I sit here reading and thinking of next years RV travels.....In may case DW loves the tt we bought because it's nicer than our old shack of a S&B fixxer-upper. She actually came up with the idea of just living in it this spring / summer while we renovate the house to make that work easier.
Her biggest issue while traveling, which makes her hesitant to go at all on some trips, is quality time together. She gets frustrated with me when we are on the road and I want to GO GO GO!! and see / do everything around the location at the time. She's not so much a home body as she is into "no stress" while away from our normal routine at home. She wants to get up whenever she feels like, sit around and read, take naps, fix meals whenever (better yet go out to eat and save the work). I've always been a structured / scheduled kinda guy. I want ot get the Most out of my time every day, especially when I'm out somewhere new / different. Some days I leave her at the CG and go explore - she gets a good nap, I see the stuff I want (I reserve these outings for the things she has no interest in which we discuss / agree on ahead of time).
As for making the RV itself homey, we often camp in a group of friends / family, and last summer, on sucha trip, I learned from my sister how much work she puts into decorating her then brand new 5-er. I hadn't really paid much attention before , but she has put up family pictures and a picture or 2 from each major destination trip they have taken and has pre-set arangement of decorative items she stores away in a cabinet for transport and then put out in place within minutes during camp set-up....feels like any "home" you would step into anywhere.

Merry Christmas to all!!

Merry Christmas to you. Just keep in mind that if Momma is not happy no one in the household will be happy. Us men IMHO, have two choices do we want to be right or do we want to be happy.

Dale.Traveling wrote:

rjxj wrote:
Yes indeed, DON'T buy her a cheap saw either! Buy Stihl and be sure the log splitter is easy for her to start. Cheapest way to buy wood is usually a semi load in 8 foot lengths. ;)

Wow we have Walter E. Williams on the forum.

Unless you've heard him talk about late Mrs. Williams you'll never understand.;)

Professor Walter is right on and I know his stuff well. :)

Seriously though I believe they can both be happy. They just need to build with what works. I know people who travel alone and it works out just fine. On top of it all there is good reason to have someone at home keeping things under control at the ranch. Keeps the squatters out. She is armed isn't she?