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I am looking at ordering a fifthwheel in the next few months. I have to have a bunkhouse model and want something built well. At this point I am seriously considering a 2014 avalanche. I would like to go a bit higher end but then would require a aloan... ugh. Does anyone own or have any opinions in regards to this model? Info 2 kids 2 dogs Using in ne tx Only pulling maybe 5-6k miles a year Full time living Also any suggestions on models in the 50-60k price range that might be superior? Thank you!542Views0likes2CommentsRe: saying hi as a fellow fulltimer in a different situation.
Bigdogger. Thank you for the reply. Real world has smacked me around a lot in my life and went to work overtime since fulltiming. Your first comment about friends and their parents we have experienced first hand a lot in the last year. However I have found that at every campground we have managed to meet many great people and their children and maybe we are lucky but only had one issue where we did not allow our children to play with another residents children. As for our current perm park we are great friends with the maintence team and their family that includes 3 children. I have gotten to know my neighbors better since ft then I ever did at my s&b. The summer heat you got me... but I figure after visiting gma in so fl in middle of last summer we will find a way to survive. Fortunately for us we are freezing when it is under 80 out. Now this last winter in texas was rough! We had to turn on the furnace and were stuck indoors a lot! This is why were looking at a new 5slide fifth wheel before next winter! If you have any valuable tips to combat the problems you speak of I am all ears tho! Thx!407Views0likes0CommentsRe: saying hi as a fellow fulltimer in a different situation.
Thank you for the warm welcome all. The main reason we did the rv "thing" was to spend more time with our children. Just over a year ago dw worked fulltime at a bank and I worked not 1 not 2 but 3 jobs to pay for our honestly obscene lifestyle. We realized that we were working ourselves to death and practically aabandoned our children to pay for a house we were never at and a bunch of toys we weren't home to enjoy. It was truly a blessing to get to spend the last year traveling with the children and really getting to spend time with them. Everything from a campfire to legoland and clearwater aquarium have been a blast. The kids have enjoyed more in a year than many will their entire childhood (including my own) not to mentiom dw and I got to partake in the fun as well! We may be settled in a semi perm location now but we will continue the lifestyle and will continue the good times with our children. The almost hysterical part currently is... were now enjoying not only our children but eachother and our lives as well while easily battling our way to financial freedom. I know a lot of people say rving is expensive but in our particular case it has been 100x cheaper. Went from aquiring additional debt EVERY month to now living on just 10percent of just my income! If I ever add anything worthwhile to this forum let it be this. I wish I would had came up with this 10 years ago and I'd be a lot better off. If you ever have the desire for the type of lifestyle that allows freedom do it now. The advice I give me children om graduation day will be most likely this. Buy yourself (maybe with help from mom and dad) a truck amd camper. Dont get tied down to material things and enjoy being free!407Views0likes0Commentssaying hi as a fellow fulltimer in a different situation.
Hello, I am new to the forum but have been reading them for sometime and found them extremely helpful. Thank you to everyone who contribute. A little bit about my family and myself... I am 27 and dw is 25. We have two boys 7 and 3. We currently live fulltime in a 2002 Pioneer 30ft travel trailer at a commercial campground in tx. We started our journey back in feb 2013 when we purchased a 1978 shasta 27'. We had decided to take a year off to travel after I finished a 3 month job in flordia. We had always talked about wanting to try it and we knew we did not want to stay in our current location in illinois so we ended our lease on the 2800sqft house sold almost everything and away we went. We traveled in 6 states and ended up in texas where we decided we wanted to live. We essentially picked a point on the map and looked at local rv parks and chose one. No real plan was devised but within two days of hooking up camper I had a fulltime job that offered the best pay I have had to date. So here we are living fulltime in a travel trailer with 2 boys and our two girls (pitbull and german shepherd) I know we are not the typical snowbirds or retired couple and we are by no means wealthy (in debt actually). I felt the desire to introduce myself so that maybe anyone else surfing these forums that maybe in a similar situation as we are would know it is possible to fulltime and enjoy it. I hope that I can provide maybe a different perspective to fulltime living on the forums.5KViews0likes20Comments
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