Random Thoughts

Random Thoughts on getting on the Road Fulltime

So the purge continues. We had another garage sale this past Saturday. I know our neighbors must be thinking “Just how much junk do these people have?”

Well evidently, quite a lot. Well to be honest we've been married now for I think 18 years and we were both married before. So yes we do have a whole bunch of stuff to get rid of. Funny thing is even while we seem to be selling lots of stuff, we still seem to have a lot left. The garage doesn’t look like its getting empty at all. Could we be growing more junk some how?

I don't think we are over pricing our stuff, as a matter of fact I think we might be under pricing on lots of things. But my thought is we want to get rid of this stuff not haul it off to Goodwill or some other thrift store. Barb has had the hardest time. She has a lot of collectables as in Longaberger Baskets, as in they were very expensive. Of course nobody wants to give you what they are worth so there's haggling going on and Barb HATES to haggle. Especially when she's on the wrong end of the haggle. I will say she seems to be adjusting pretty well and understands we are moving from 2000 square feet of house to about 250 square feet of house and we can only take so many baskets with us. I wont even start with her Precious Moments figurines. Enough on garage sales.

We're going to become fulltime RV'ers. As a matter of fact, if you look on the left side of what you are reading right now I have a countdown timer that shows 202 days before we leave on our new lifestyle. That was as of Sunday 4/27/14. That's only about 7 months from now. Wow, less than a year from now and I'm going to be homeless and unemployed. You know that little devil that sat on your shoulder and tried to get you in trouble and told you you can't do this or that. Well he seems to be holding a party on my shoulders because I'm having all kinds of doubt about this whole thing. I'm trying to not listen to him because I've crunched all the numbers in the budget, I've looked at so many budgets and blogs from other fulltimers that I think I might need to see my eye doctor again real soon. The bottom line is I just can't find any reason why we can't do this. We will still need to work some to enjoy this new lifestyle but again I can't see any reason not to do it.

We're still up in the air about which type of camper will work best for us and now I'm starting to take a hard look at fiberglass campers. Yes I'm talking about Casita's and a whole line of other brands. I've found one 25 footer by Bigfoot that looks pretty good. The main thing about fiberglass campers are they are two piece construction. A bottom half and a top half. Meaning there are no seams to leak up on the roof. They don't seem to be four season campers but I don't plan on spending any time up north during the winter either. One big advantage is a smaller tow vehicle which can be used for storage also. This could be a uphill battle because Barb is still dead set against anything that looks like a Casita. Stay tuned the war rages on.

         Safe Travels and I Hope to See You Down the Road.

 

Which Brand for Us?

We took a little road trip this past weekend so I didn't get to put a lot of thought into my blog this week until we got home. What I did do was think a whole bunch about our weekend road trip. Now keep in mind this was the last weekend of March and a lot of spring breakers were heading back to school from Florida beaches and other points of interest of young people. Also the famous Snow Birds were heading home somewhere up north. So needless to say the interstate was quite crowed.

  Thinking about all the traffic Barb and I saw, we spent a lot of time looking at the different brands of RV's we were passing as we headed the other way. We didn't keep track of the different rigs flying down the road so nothing in this blog entry is scientific research. Not that I do a lot of scientific research, at least not anymore.  OK, I never did.

  We saw Crusaders, Open Range, Denali, Forest River and just about every other brand of RV that has ever been built, even quite a few Air Streams. We saw a wide range of Motor Homes, Class C's and B's and 5^th. Wheels. We saw Travel Trailers of all ages. We also saw our fair share of Casita trailers that all Barb would say was “No, I will not live in one of those”.

  I will say this, Montana Cougar was the most seen recreational vehicle on the road this weekend. Does this mean Cougar is the most popular of all RV's out there. I don't think so. OK I don't want to start an argument. Just saying that's the rig we saw the most of. Again not a lot scientific research went into any of this.

  There's just to many options and floor plans available for anybody to say what's the best rig out there. There's to much personal preference involved for anybody and I mean anybody to say what's the best RV for you. Only YOU can say what's best for you.

  We are still RV Dreamers, hoping to be on the road by the end of this year. Seeing all those RV'ers heading somewhere only fortified me even more that I will do this just as soon as possible.

  And just so you know Barb has narrowed down the choices to Crusader, Wildcat 327, Heritage Glen 327, and yes the Cougar front living. You know the list might change again by next week. I just never know.

                    Safe Travels and I Hope to See You Down the Road.