Complete newbie with big dreams
Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 8:41 pmHello!
This is my first post in this forum -- glad to have found you. My husband and I have been attracted to the RV lifestyle for years but are starting to get very serious about it, despite the fact that we've never set foot in an RV before. We love traveling, hiking, biking, kayaking, birding, walking, and we have a very energetic four-year old Boston Terrier, whom we want to be able to take along with us on our travels. It seems that RVing would be perfect for us.
We are in a unique position as over the past few years we downsized from a 4 BR house with a 3-car garage, sold the vast majority of our stuff, and only have a small amount of household items stored at my mother's house. We did all this in preparation for moving aboard our sailboat, but when we got close to doing that, I chickened out. I didn't think we had enough sailing/boating experience to go cruising, and I didn't think that living in a small boat with our dog would work out for a variety of reasons. Since I was about to retire and we wanted to live in a warmer climate, we decided to buy an ocean-front condo in Belize instead. We bought the condo in July of 2010 and moved down here full time in August. 2011. We love the condo and the beach, but we now realize that living in a resort is not for us, and we're too limited in where we can go here, being on an island. We have traveled the mainland and absolutely LOVE our explorations, but we can't take our dog with us when we travel here. We have come to realize that we really want to travel full-time while we are still relatively young (58 and 51), fit and healthy.
So, this brings us back to the RV. As soon as we can sell our condo, our plan is to move back to the US (North Carolina, where we're from) and rent for awhile until we can find a Class C motorhome (we're thinking 28-30') that suits us, then take off and see the US (and maybe Canada and Mexico as well, eventually) for as long as it suits us. We've been reading tons of RV blogs and are very excited about joining in on the fun. We would like to visit as many state and national parks as we can and indulge in all our favorite activities and interests.
I guess that's enough for a first post. Looking forward to being a member of this forum!
Emily
This is my first post in this forum -- glad to have found you. My husband and I have been attracted to the RV lifestyle for years but are starting to get very serious about it, despite the fact that we've never set foot in an RV before. We love traveling, hiking, biking, kayaking, birding, walking, and we have a very energetic four-year old Boston Terrier, whom we want to be able to take along with us on our travels. It seems that RVing would be perfect for us.
We are in a unique position as over the past few years we downsized from a 4 BR house with a 3-car garage, sold the vast majority of our stuff, and only have a small amount of household items stored at my mother's house. We did all this in preparation for moving aboard our sailboat, but when we got close to doing that, I chickened out. I didn't think we had enough sailing/boating experience to go cruising, and I didn't think that living in a small boat with our dog would work out for a variety of reasons. Since I was about to retire and we wanted to live in a warmer climate, we decided to buy an ocean-front condo in Belize instead. We bought the condo in July of 2010 and moved down here full time in August. 2011. We love the condo and the beach, but we now realize that living in a resort is not for us, and we're too limited in where we can go here, being on an island. We have traveled the mainland and absolutely LOVE our explorations, but we can't take our dog with us when we travel here. We have come to realize that we really want to travel full-time while we are still relatively young (58 and 51), fit and healthy.
So, this brings us back to the RV. As soon as we can sell our condo, our plan is to move back to the US (North Carolina, where we're from) and rent for awhile until we can find a Class C motorhome (we're thinking 28-30') that suits us, then take off and see the US (and maybe Canada and Mexico as well, eventually) for as long as it suits us. We've been reading tons of RV blogs and are very excited about joining in on the fun. We would like to visit as many state and national parks as we can and indulge in all our favorite activities and interests.
I guess that's enough for a first post. Looking forward to being a member of this forum!
Emily
Welcome from not so sunny today SoCal and good luck on your sale and search. Use your imagination when looking....we've all made mods on ours, so let your imagination fly!