Barbilou and Fujimo wrote: .......
Maybe we should go on Oprah.
Leave to a fulltimer to figure out a way to screw up the lifestyle.
No Oprah, no made for TV movies, no documentary. This lifestyle works well for some because we're not competing with 300 million others wanting to do the same thing.
Happiness is an RV park only half full with nobody crammed into the space next to you. IMO.
TV 02' Chevy Silverado 3500 8.1 liter 4X4, Rancho 9000, Airlift Airbags 2 Honda EU3000,plus paralleling kit (6000 Watts peak!)
Old Rig (03' Lance 1161) Boy I missed it!
New Rig (05' Cedar Creek 37RDQS)
Second new Rig 1996 Damon Intruder 325B
We have to keep in mind that the number of full timers has to be divided by 50 because that's how many states there are... Because TX has so many, they have made changes, as have some places in FL and it would be reasonable to expect SD to do likewise, but VT? Or IA?
I would NOT rely on a PO box for a number of reasons, most importantly the forwarding services, and next for the non-delivery of UPS, FedX, etc. I believe current US postal regs require a 'local, verifiable' address to have a box.
Simple! Get a mailing service. They will provide a street mailing address with a box #. You put your address down as street address with nothing but number behind it OR put number in like apartment #. Works for me past 3 years.
I've seen numbers reported from RV-related sources, in the range 100,000 to 200,000. Those numbers are probably good to cover people who consider themselves full-time RVers. When you include people not moving around, but living permanently in RV-grade housing, it might be a million or more.
If you include migrant workers (and non-working migrants) living in TTs and old motorhomes, and working people living in cars, trucks and tents, the numbers are easily double that, counting only legal residents. Estimates of migrant illegals, on the move full time, could take the total to four million or more.
I can't imagine how the number of full timers out there could be counted. The only official indication that I am a full timer is what I told my RV insurance company. Otherwise, I am invisible. No one else cares or documents the information.
Eric Perplies
full timing since 6/04 with best friend and wife: Suzie
1996 Bluebird Wanderlodge, 42'
towing a 99' Honda CRV with M&G braking system.
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