No - we aren't supposed to keep score.
But many of us enjoy keeping track of our travels. Number of nights, number of different states, number of different campgrounds, number of miles, etc.
And such things as number of dollars spent of fuel, number of dollars spent on campgrounds, number of dollars spent on RV maintenance and stuff, number of dollars spent on ......????
One thing I've learned from these forums is that RVers are not a group of people with common plans, goals, experiences.
The only thing we have in common is we enjoy using our fiberglass or aluminum box to have our own place to stay when away from 'home'. Unless like me - that box is our home.
Most people use their RV as a weekend getaway. The VAST majority. Many are happy with their few weekends a year, and maybe one vacation. Many wish they could do more.
Most retired full-timers did the rush to the campground late on Friday, head back home on Sunday trips for years. The one big trip per year vacations for 20-30-40 years. Now we are simply happy to not have to plan everything around a calendar/ work schedule. That if we get up and the weather is bad - we go to the CG office, extend our stay another day, and go back to bed.
Some folks use their RV as a traveling home because the way they earn a living is by going from place to place. Their RV is a better home while working in a different town every few weeks than renting an extended stay hotel/motel room. This is very likely the largest group of full-timers - but they mostly don't consider themselves RVers. The rig is just a convenience. They are not in an RV as a choice, but as a necessity.
Back in the late 60s, my best friend's father worked pipeline construction. Every summer, he would buy a used 40 foot mobile home (no fresh water, gray water or black water tanks, no easy power connector) and tow it from job site to job site - staying about a month at a time at various mobile home parks. Because he wanted the family to spend the summer with him. He spent 6 to 8 months on the road alone working the rest of the year.
He never considered himself an RVer. Never has liked camping or the rest of the RV type living experience. It was just a way to keep the family together.
Some folks are like us, have decided a peaceful retirement does not include spending thousands of dollars a year on maintaining a home in some town. If I never have to touch a lawnmower or weedeater again - I will die happy.
We could not take the long trips we wanted while we were working. Living full-time in the RV isn't really very much cheaper than living in home, but it is cheaper than trying to maintain a home and travel in the RV.
Some of our best friends will spend close to 6 consecutive months on the road in their Class A this year. Currently on their way back from Alaska. All told - they will likely spend less than 100 days in their beautiful mountainside home overlooking a nice lake in the hill country of Texas.
And they are starting to wonder about the value of the money and effort they have to put into keeping up that home while they are on the road so much.
Full-Time 2014 - ????
โNot all who wander are lost.โ
"You were supposed to turn back at the last street."
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