Just took a look at your setup when you are in Fl. It looks great. Nice way to go.
Steve__
Steve & Toni__
38 foot Monaco knight with every option available.
2001 Honda CRV in tow.
Wife running the show.
95 pound Golden named Max loving the ride.
FULL TIMING AS OF JULY 13, 2007
Thanx. We think it gives us the best of both worlds. In the winter we get to continue to use our RV, which we love, but expand its functionality into that of nearly a double wide. While using it that way, we don't have to pay to store our 5ver as we might if we had a park model.
After the winter season, the lanai half comes down and we again haul our 5ver and wander the country. Meanwhile, the only thing we have 'exposed' to the elements or hurricanes is a vacant concrete slabbed RV lot - i.e., nothing to insure. No double cost of a RV and a park model but the functionality of both.
That's my plan in a couple of years, I have a Park Trailer in Northern MN and I plan on spending the rest of the year in my fifth wheel. Already have both the trailers, just working out the details so I can retire and put my plan in place.
Bob M
2006 F350 DRW, King Ranch, 4x4 6.0 PSD
Bailey the rescued Golden Retriever (At the Rainbow Bridge 5-12-2009)
2007 Escalade 37 REB Fifth Wheel
2001 25 ft Sportcraft
Avan, where do you store the winter room and furniture?
Dianne
Donnelly, ID
DataStorm
HAM WB6N (Terry)
2010 Ford F350, 4x4 SRW, xcab, longbed (will not be pulling the Teton)
2005 Teton 39' Frontier Grand
Life Member Good Sam
Escapees
Geocache..."RVcachers" RV net Blog
We rent a 10x10 storage room for the summer months. Others that we know store in their shed on the lot - they don't have a 'hard roof' on their lanai but use their awning for the roof. Saves some $ but the lanai is restricted to the size of their extended awning and their rooms, lacking the insulated roof, can get very warm. With a w/d and fridge in our shed, wouldn't have room anyway and would be able to get furniture in there anyway.
We were in a large rv park in west Phoenix a few yeas ago that was interesting. Many sites had "Arizona Rooms" beside the pad. Basically the setup was a park model next to a paved pad with an rv carport. Most used the rv to escape the summer heat I suppose and lived in the park model in winter.
Very upscale and expensive. What made it different than most places was that you MUST have an rv on site to live in the park, that way the place is an rv park and not a regular city subdivision.
Many of the sites were for sale, with a nice Arizona Room, @ $80-120k.
The on-site real estate agent gave us a tour, that was the only way you can get in if your not a resident.
Don
We have a casita in Mexico. It's made of hay bales, looks like adobe, has a pad and hookups for the fiver. It's self-contained, and we wouldn't need to take the fiver IF I didn't want it for storage, oven, air conditioning (rarely, the casita stays at 70 degrees most of the time) and a better bed than the futon.
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