I am an inveterate fly fisherman and the very word "kamloops" send chills up and down my spine - Kamloops rainbows, Fraser River, Tranquille Lake - Y'all don't need an RV because you have Heaven right in your backyard!
Seriously, at 38 you have to be frugal or when you get our age you won't have a pot to weewee in, especially with your wife at home with the kids - which I greatly admire. Mine worked, and looking back I wish she hadn't - but then I probably wouldn't be here talking about an expensive hobby like rv'ing.
I've always dreamed of coming up your way - but even that isn't worth $5.00 diesel.
Julia and I have have a business that will allow us to stay on the road and run our business at the same time. We just stepped up the pace a little in regard to building our business a little faster to offset the price of fuel. So far so good. If I can continue to grow it at the pace we are on, the price of fuel will have no effect on our travel plans. good thing is that what we do, can be taught to anyone, anywhere.
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Rick and Julia...Living Life Without Limits...
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2007 Jeep Wrangler Toad.
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There will be fewer extended weekend trips this summer but we will close the house for the winter, turn off water, heat, lights, and propane. Then allocate the 1700 gallons of home heating oil into diesel fuel budget wise. Leave New Hampshire right after the autumn leaf peepers have gone home. Run across the country south of the bad weather and arrive in Seattle to meet a new grandbaby that is due in June. Then leave Seattle and run down the west coast chasing warm weather and probably winter in Arizona. Then to New Orleans for Jazz festival and back to New Hampshire for the summer. Figure about 900 gallons of fuel, saving about 800 gallons. That will pay for campgrounds, the savings in the electric bill, about $850 for the time that we are gone. Looks like it will be a win win and we will be warm. I had two bouts with pneumonia here last winter.
Brad & Lucy aka the Geezer & The Hedgehog
1990 Foretravel 38' DP
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Whitey Ford the Explorer riding the car trailer
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We too have been planning a trip to the northeast, Main, Vermont, Massachusetts, etc. for some time now. Our plans haven't changed as yet. We still plan on making the trip. The part of the plan that may change is we might find ourselves staying longer at some areas and maybe bypassing a few other areas we had planned. For example, we might leave the motorhome in a central campground location and then drive the toad further, where in the past we'd have just taken the motorhome to these areas also.
Bob Bowers
2004 Pace Arrow, 8.1 Workhorse W22
Colorado Springs, CO
We will make the necessary adjustments. We may not travel as far or stay in CGs. We will wait and see. One idea is to travel until half of our vacation fund is spent. Then, we still have the other half to return.
lilredmom wrote: Absolutely less travel. That extra $150 to take our summer vacation to visit family hurts us. If $200,000 is considered "middle class", then we are very poor at $48,000. We started cutting back on our driving last year when it hit $3.00/gallon. There isn't a whole lot more cutting we can do in that department short of canceling all camping and traveling other than that of necessity. People may consider themselves "middle class" with that kind of income, but they truly aren't. As mentioned by someone else earlier, there are two types of people when it comes to this issue...those who can spend whatever they want on fuel and those who can't. The lower the income, the more the impact. It won't be long, and people won't be able to afford to go to their jobs or will have to forego other basic needs, such as food and clothing, in order to do so. We will be camping very close to home for the very few times we will be able to do so this summer. Our annual trek to visit family is nearly in jeopardy...next year, we will most likely be forced to alter it greatly if not actually have to cancel it altogether. I pray regularly that our leaders will allow something to happen to ease the burden.
Beth
I doubt you're actually poor at $48,000 income level. According to MSN, 43% of Americans spend more a year than they earn every year, many are part of the self-imposed, poor. And since most people consume 100% of whatever they earn, it will never matter what amount some earn a year. Middle-class covers most Americans, regardless of how poor, they claim to be. In most cases, it's usually their debt load and spending that are the problem, not their adequate income. RVing is a luxury, not a necessity.
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Joe, you need to change monikers to "High Roller Joe",
the rest of us are the "Skid Row Joes", LOL!
We are not cutting back on the number of trips, just the distance we go. We were going to Buffalo National River in Arkansas this year, but we are going to the North Georgia mountains instead. We still plan on going to WV in the fall.
For next year, we are planning to use this years tax rebate check to go to South Dakota. At $4.00 a gallon we will need $1600 and we got $1000 of the $1200 that we can use for gas.
Jim & Junnie
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