What kind of RVer are you

[NMDriver]

Not trying to say one is better just in answering a question my cousin asked today I started thinking about the main categories of RVers. I may have overlooked some and of course most people will fit into multiple categories. I have been all of the following types at one time or another. Right now I am a Snowbird more than anything else. Spending summers in the mountains and winters in the desert at a stick home.

Basically RV people are either:

Full timers with out a stick house.

Snow birds going from bad weather to good weather and frequently having a stick house somewhere.

Vacationers traveling for one or two vacation trips a year or going to a favorite place for recreational reasons on weekends.

Retirees seeing the country and traveling for months at a time at a leisurely pace stopping for days or weeks at they go along but returning to a home base for most of the year;

People living in one because it is the best economic choice for them.

AND ????

[Jay_Pat]

Our rv is our hotel on wheels as we travel around the 48 states.
Pat

[TomHaycraft]

Still working, another 5 to 8 years. For now, we get out for a 3 or 4-day weekend once a month whether we need it or not (always do!) and a couple 1-week trips thrown in to make sure I don't lose any PTO at the end of the year due to max carry-over!

Starting to sketch out concepts of 2 to 3 month trips for after retirement. With DW's need for a place to call "home" will likely keep the sticks & bricks ... maybe that will change though!

[Opie431]

We do not RV, we camp. We usually have electric hookups but are on lots so large and wooded that we can seldom see our neighbors.
And sometimes we change to a tent traveling for several weeks at a time. And at 77 we can still backpack.
We spend 80-100 nights a year camping.

[Trails_And_Tail]

Right now we are newbie week-enders, but next spring we plan to become ... Retirees seeing the country and traveling for months at a time at a leisurely pace stopping for days or weeks at they go along but returning to a home base for most of the year.

[loggenrock]

We're "Travelers" - semi-retired, not waiting until it's too late to get out and see this great land. Will travel for 1-2 month trips, back to S&B, work some more, travel again. Also like to camp - visit local State and USFS parks, sometimes stay for a week at a time - rare for folks in a 'B', usually. Break out the dutch oven , fly rod, and canoe, then back to S&B to do it over again! As someone's tag line reads "Life is short, death is long". So we choose to live! ST

[johnhicks]

We're liveaboards renting out the stick house hoping the tenant wants to buy it. Otherwise we're happily giving her an incredible deal.

Back in 2010 we went off on a short trip. We're still out there.

[restlesswind]

Full time no S&B for 9 years.
This year we'll be part time RVers 4 months or so a year to get out of the Arizona heat, the rest of the time at our, new to us, S&B in Arizona.
That's the "plan",it's yet to be seen if we'll be able to stay in one place for so long.

[noplace2]

Our RV is our fulltime roving home, now in our 15th year.

[TxCowboy]

I'm twice retired and assist in my wife's business. I do all of the business operations so she can focus on the technical aspects of work.

We have a stick and brick house outside a major Texas city and use the 5th wheel RV as a beach front vacation home about every other weekend.

We are about 2 1/2 years from sliding in to full retirement. We plan to sell the SnB house, keep the FW in our current beach front RV park as a base camp, and buy a late model used Class C to do some trips we've planned over the past couple of years.

After about 2 years or so and several trips in the Class C, we hope to have a better picture of whether we should keep the Class C / FW plan going or sell both of them and buy a Class A.

[rdmike]

Road Runners wrote:
This is us....

Retirees seeing the country and traveling for months at a time at a leisurely pace stopping for days or weeks at they go along but returning to a home base for most of the year;

X2

[mikensallyt]

Not really a vacationer since it feels like my life has just been one huge vacation. Now if I get the urge to just get away from it all for a few days, "SEE YOU LATER".

No camp fires in the summer but they sure are lovely in the winter.

[wildtoad]

We live in a nice log cabin on a pond and have a 15 yo motorhome which we try to use once a month to go to state parks. We also take week to two week trips once or twice a year. We will never go full time but may take more longer trips. P

[bigred1cav]

We are tourists. We use our motor home as our hotel room. We do not camp and do not bother with a firepit in the hot summer months. We do not NASCAR nor fly Confederate colors. We also occasionally make and sell custom coffee mugs at some venues where we are welcome.

[Jim_Shoe]

My Dad loved to travel and my Mom put up with it. I'm retired (early) and single, but I inherited the "travel gene" from my Dad, so I go where I choose when I choose. Even had my home built with low point drains in the basement, and furnace settings to keep it just above freezing in the winter when and if I'm gone. They had a 'C' and pulled a VW. I drive a 'C' and pull a Jeep toad. I still haven't been in Washington or Oregon but they're on my list. I did make it to Alaska on one trip. That was for my Dad. He always wanted to go but didn't live long enough to make that trip. I even got pics of Denali on a rare day when the peak wasn't shrouded in clouds. He would have loved it.

[VAfan]

lap527 wrote:

Artum Snowbird wrote:


But our home is our life and the RV is just a nice thing to have and enjoy on occasion.

Well said....that be us too!:B

Us too. Like exploring more than setting around the camper.