DIYGuy
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UPDATE: The construction road is in. Now my contractor can get into the upper field to put in a utility pole and the full size excavator can get in to pull big stumps.
A few more picture updates on the parent page here.
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rreece
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Great web site. We decided to do the 'tween home base. Some call this the nothern entrance to the Texas Hill Country. A unique convergence of low humidity and TREES. We liked the land so much we bought it before we had proper zoning, will know about approval 6/24.
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Kbix
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DIYGuy: I think you have a great plan and I like your website. Look forward to following your progress. I can understand having a home base especially if that is where friends and family live.
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WTTCS
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"I noticed that a lot of longterm fulltimers tend to head back to one particular spot for summer or winter. Sometimes it's a favorite area or RV park where others come back year after year."
Seems some have seen the light. Long time fulltimers have just about seen it all and are tired of the rat race going on in the rv parks for the past 10-15 years, and the raping of the rvers on rates and exceptions. Fulltiming, to me, is not traveling cross country trying to see everything. Fulltiming is a lifestyle and it allows us to enjoy what we want, the sun, the weather, the people , that to us is the difference. You can see the u.s. in a chevrolet.
Oh and yes, we have our own spots in N Ga, Fla, Cal and our biggie in NTexas. That is where the perfect weather is year round. Having a homebase lets us avoid all the raping by the parks and we do what we darn well please on our own property.
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trarnold
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I don't think having a "home base" necessarily precludes the ability or desire to see the country or is in violation of the "full timing creed". There may be several reasons for wanting a base camp you own. As mentioned you set the rules as opposed to living by the rules of a campground. It may be near family that you return to see often. Perhaps its a need to have some semblance of permanence somewhere.
I have found few quality parks in northern Illinois where I would want to rent for an extended period of time even though I'd be returning there often to see family and friends. I could envision buying a rural piece of property and setting up a camp just for me.
I don't know how others do it but I'm a coastal person more likely to hug the coast than the interior. I'll take some time to go to the mountains, cities and lakes of the interior but mainly I like the smell of saltwater. I suspect that most of us tend to end up with a favorite environment that we return to after the occasional foray in to the unknown. Having a basecamp in New England and one down south would be a nice concept and I'd be no less a "full timer" for it.
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Skid Row Joe
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Homebasing means different things to different people, just as FTing means different things to different people. Almost without exception, even the die-hard FTers return to one area or piece of real estate for a month to 6-months or more each year, for whatever reasons. This indicates that most have one or more, but each description is different.
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DIYGuy
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Finally finished a grueling 10 day work fest on the land. Updates on the page here -> Camp Agnolo
Stump Fest came to a close and the shed pad is ready for gravel, forms and concrete.
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DIYGuy
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UPDATE:
Another 5 day workfest. Results: Power Pole in, Contractor has the entrance road at finish grade. Compared to the temp road I put in above, the new road is amzing...
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Kbix
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DIYGuy: You are really making progress. It sure looks like a beautiful area.
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DIYGuy
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I got the foundation for the utility barn b-done this past week. Only a for more work weeks left...
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