I guess I'm the exception to this entire discussion. I've never been an RV'r, I've never spent the night in one.
I'm a novis non vacationer who's about to become a fulltimer. I decided that I was tired of setting here in my rented home after selling my last home and started looking for answers, found this place, started reading, posting, go a few smart replays and a few smarta$$ed responces... kept the ones that mattered and flushed the rest.
Took advice and went to a local dealer who has a very good rep. started looking at fifht wheels, then came back here and found the boondocker forum then found the "show you boonie pics" thread, and found what I needed to know.
That was that , for where I want to go and what I want to do an overly large 5er wasn't it for me, went back to the dealer and said...sorry, no 5er, TT for me, they had a 2 06 25' AF that was perfect for me, and it was traded in the day before, I walked into it and said I'll take it, I was home!!!
Then bought my new truck a 350 dodge diesel, way to much truck for the TT but I may love doing this so much I'll want to move up, heck I may find a nice lady that wants to go along...so...prepare for the move up...
I've pulled the TT 35 miles, to my BIL's house to weld brackets for 2 more batts... 4 is a good number... got my two new honda 2000'S and am slowly getting ready to make the jump... I'll learn as I go and I'll make mistakes as I go, then I'll learn more...
I've no desire at this point to move from CG to CG, I truly want to be out there... on the edge of the earth..no crowds and the ability to enjoy a gajillion stars because of no street lights, no loud cars with BOOM BOOM coming from them...
So I'm a newby rv'r that's a fulltimer with 35 miles behind me and the rest of my life ahead of me. All my friends have been thrilled for me but one who said "I think your crazy but it's your life".. I thought ...BINGO!!!!!
So soon I will head out on a great adventure, with no plan, no direction, no co pilot, no answers, too new to have the questions yet.
BUT.. I have faith in my abilitys, I've made camp in the high mountains with the first breath of winter at the fires edge, slept on the ground by the fire, in grizz country, with my horse standing by the fire, I've ridden so high up that I understood for the first time the meaning of something I read ones... " When a man's sitting on a good horse in the high country, he can see all the way to God"
So, I think as a newby I can do this, as a man who's lived a long time, I can say hell I already been here.
So I can understand what the OP was talking about, when you've seen the Elephant it's hard to explain it to somebody who ain't.
I plan to stay in the lonelys, so if you wonder by , stop at the fire, say howdy, sit a spell, share a cuppa coffee and some "Who shot John" and tell me about the sunset on the side of the mountains I ain't seen yet.
To me that's what this is all about, just being, just living, newby or old timer it's all the same in the end...we're here then we ain't.
So see it now, do it now, smell those roses now, live life, love life, leave it with no regreats.
Sorry to sound morbid, but I just lost somebody who should have out lived me by 30 years, and it showed me that for some , today is all we got, tomorrow is only another today, use them well, use them fully, enjoy them all, good or bad. It's all we got...
I don't think you sound morbid at all, trip. Make it do, use it up, wear it out whatever way suits you best. Much as I enjoy solitude, the people I find most enjoyable are the ones who are more them than anybody else could ever hope to be. They just sorta veered off the beaten path at some point, and that's when they got interesting.
Serena wrote: I don't think you sound morbid at all, trip. Make it do, use it up, wear it out whatever way suits you best. Much as I enjoy solitude, the people I find most enjoyable are the ones who are more them than anybody else could ever hope to be. They just sorta veered off the beaten path at some point, and that's when they got interesting.
Interesting people are people that are passionate about something. It could be feeding the poor, or skydiving, lifelong RVers,.....whatever. I believe that if a person is positively passionate/interesting about just one thing, then they are generally a ball to visit with and talk to. I have always been wary of people when RVing across the country, but that is just my trepidation of all strangers.
Tripwire....I, too, have had my share of that campfire, high in the mountains with my good horse by my side. Maybe that is what this all boils down to......finding the serenity of life.
My nights on the river do for me right now, but one day, I want to go back to my campfire and a good horse, if just to relive those memories.
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trkrhelp wrote: Yep - those who get it get it, those who don't flame ya. But a few of us hear you Serena - how are the flamingo's doing
That's right. I understood the OP post and didn't feel it was an 'us and them' thing. It's more of an observation. You can see a lot of that when a Walmart thread comes up and some just don't get it when we talk about stopping for the night when enroute. It doesn't make either side right or wrong, it's just that we are faced with issues that many who do not F/T do not encounter.
WOW!! Whatta thread. Just tryin' to figure out what to do an' how to plan to get out there. Don't rightly feel welcome no more. Guess won't post no more ???'s on this forum.
maddog348 wrote: WOW!! Whatta thread. Just tryin' to figure out what to do an' how to plan to get out there. Don't rightly feel welcome no more. Guess won't post no more ???'s on this forum.
Post away. This thread is just a lot of differing opinions. We're all right actually so please do ask questions if you wish. There are a lot of good people here, some in this thread willing to help out. There's always controversy in the definition of full-timing and we all know it, we just like to voice ours now and then. Everyone has good points and I myself appreciate them all, but don't run off. Everybody here is glad to help. What's import is what works for you and we all will help you achieve that if we can, so don't stop asking questions! It's how we all learned at point or another.
maddog348 wrote: WOW!! Whatta thread. Just tryin' to figure out what to do an' how to plan to get out there. Don't rightly feel welcome no more. Guess won't post no more ???'s on this forum.
Post away. This thread is just a lot of differing opinions. We're all right actually so please do ask questions if you wish. There are a lot of good people here, some in this thread willing to help out. There's always different opinions in the definition of full-timing and we all know it, we just like to voice ours now and then. Everyone has good points and I myself appreciate them all, but don't run off. Everybody here is glad to help. What's import is what works for you and we all will help you achieve that if we can, so don't stop asking questions! It's how we all learned at some point or another. There's a lot of experience in the posters in this thread , all willing to help. We have to let our hair down now and then so to speak.
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What's import is what works for you and we all will help you achieve that if we can, so don't stop asking questions! It's how we all learned at point or another.
