Feeling like winter Saturday

[Pooker]

Sharon and Shirl - Stay warm! Even here in SoCal I can feel the fall chill in the air. It's weird because one night the temperature is like always and the next night the temp is the same, but you can feel the chill in the air!

BJ - My Serendipity looks just like your Elsie and I've gone through all the various ways of selling her while trying to stay safe distance from folks who want to go through and touch everything and test drive. Then I would have to thoroughly sanitize everything! Dealing with all the low ballers who want to flip her for a tidy profit turns me off, too. I decided that trying to sell her myself was just too stressful, so right now she is on the lot of a consignment dealer. They have been super nice and in less than 2 weeks have found a buyer. Feels good that they get to do all the showing, explaining, paperwork, etc. Keeping my fingers crossed that it all goes through okay. Good luck - hope you get a serious buyer soon. There are sure a lot of folks looking for B's right now!

Catherine - Neither my son nor I felt the quake, but my daughter-in-law felt it.

Barbie - best description of texturing! Thanks.

Evie

[monik7]

I sold mine last year on consignment in 2 days. No way was I going to have people coming to my house, etc. It’s even worse now with Covid and all the problems it brings.
Sandi

[BarbaraRose]

Evie, send that "chill" down the mountain to me! No chill here!
I sure wish I could have afforded to buy your rig, but way out of my price range I'm sure. I will have to wait a year or two before I can seriously start looking for something, and even then it will be under $15K which won't be easy to find one that runs decent and is in decent shape. If I can pay off some more debt by then, I could probably get a nicer one with a loan. We'll see...

[Pooker]

Barbie - I have this theory: There are so many people thinking they can escape the virus, maintain social distancing, etc. by buying an RV and just taking off! Many of these folks know absolutely nothing about RVing and the novelty will wear off by next spring/summer once they see that it's not as easy as they think. That's when there will be a glut of RVs for sale and the prices will tumble. Should be just in time for you!

Evie

[Cudedog]

Barbie - I have this theory: There are so many people thinking they can escape the virus, maintain social distancing, etc. by buying an RV and just taking off! Many of these folks know absolutely nothing about RVing and the novelty will wear off by next spring/summer once they see that it's not as easy as they think. That's when there will be a glut of RVs for sale and the prices will tumble. Should be just in time for you!

Evie

I like your thinking, Evie. I love my little Jayco, but I can't see taking "Hope" out anytime soon - but that is just me.

Add to that. . . how do you maintain "Social Distancing" in places like Oregon where you can't pump your own gas, so have to do "face to face" with the person pumping it for you (paying by cash/credit card)?

How to do Social Distancing checking into a campsite?

How to do Social Distancing when the picnic table of the rig next to you is only a couple of feet to just a few inches below your own rig's window?

And laundry? And groceries? Maintenance? What if one has a breakdown?

Rving is amazing - but a lot of it isn't "instant home" and a lot of it isn't easy, especially for those who have not done their research.

I'm reading that there is a real run on RV's at the moment - to the extent that dealerships can't keep them in stock. Which might mean, ultimately, (at least for the short term) that campgrounds are going to get more and more filled up, and have less space for all of the new rigs coming on the road.

I know that there are full-timers on here, and my hat is off to them (Beth and Judy come to mind, I know there are others) in dealing with all of this.

You full-timers out there, what kind of problems are you seeing?

Anne