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Pleased to be here!
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We are Craig and Linda, currently looking for our fifth wheel. Craig was able to retire this past August. We put our 3100 sq. ft. house on the market in July and were blessed to close in December at a price within $1000 of what we hoped to gain. Our RV dream has been fairly recent as we never allowed ourse...
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New Fulltimer
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New Fulltimers as of 9-17-2008. 2004 Beaver Santiam being pushed by a 2003 Jeep (Renegade) Liberty. Loving life. Our words to live by “Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty & well preserved body, BUT rather to SKID in BROADSIDE, completely used up,...
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We are ready just impatiently waiting...
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Hi my name is Janet and my husband’s name is Dan; we’re married and in our late twenties with two black labs, named Jack and Macie, as our kids. I’ve visited this site many times after finding it while doing some research. Currently we are in the Portland, Oregon area where I am working on a full-time, si...
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Looking to Fulltime Soon
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We are hoping to live the dream also as many of you here already do. Our home has been up for sale since September, we are hoping that with the new year we will start to see some more activity on the home sale. I will still be working fulltime and we will be seeing the USA at the same time. We are ready to live...
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New Future Fulltimers
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Greetings, all - We're newly-registered, long-time lurkers, shorter-time chatters that are planning to start fulltiming sometime the first half of this new year. Thought it was time to officially join in on the fun. I'm Natasha, my DH is Boris, our rig is Bullwinkle and our toad is Rocky. (Yes, Na...
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WOW!!!!!!!!!!
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just a note been lurking around out here for months not even a harsh word how refreshing gitta and i [ i being john] have been puting all the pices in place for over a year slow process after 30 years of gathering wil hit the road part time next year with 2 big black dogs with a 38' raptor toy hauler loaded with...
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Hello Again
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After having some techincal problems with the puter, and losing all of our past information we are now back. Hopefully we won't experience this again. In previous posts we were "JDEnsie" We are still one and the same but now "Serengeti2001" Thank you and a new Hello.
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Hello from Canada !
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Just found this forum so decided to jump in right away. Also on two other RV chat forums and learning lots........I think !!! I've decided to go fulltiming by next Fall (2009). Sell the house and head for warmer climates. Me, my two dogs and of course the main reason for my decision.........My Harle...
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A Rebel without a clue.....
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Hello, David Sussman Boynton Beach, FL Not your usual soon to be fulltimer. I am in the process of trying to sell my place. I actually bought my truck and travel trailer two years ago but unfortunatly I had to deal with those darn health issues. I just turned 37 which is young in RV years but I get along wit...
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Rapidly Approaching Fulltiming Newbies!!
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Hi there! After finally getting around to reading thru Howard and Linda's RV Forum, decided to avoid being a 'Lurker"! My name is Sherry and the hubby's name is Mark. We've lived in the Dallas Texas metroplex our entire lives and currently live just East of downtown Dallas. I just retire...
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New member says HI! here...
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hello everyone! hope to find lot more friends here and have some lots of chats on travel and exchange ideas as well... Welcome to me!
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tuff sell
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this started 4yrs 8 months ago i felt like it was time to drop out of the race led enough laps to take a break my best friend and wife said lets do it so i buy 4 lots on the end of a road in edenton n.c. have it cleared she meets with the bldrs and designs our base to travel from all is done just a couple of weeks prior...
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Let the Research Begin!
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I can not describe how thrilled my partner and I are to have found this web site! A little bit about us: I am Susan, 56, no kids, looking forward to retirement and starting the planning process NOW. My partner is Gary, 54, two kids, grown and on their own. Together we have two dogs, Honda (55 lbs) & Di...
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Don't want to be a Lurker no mo
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Hello everyone, I'm not a fulltimer yet but I got to tell ya it is all I think about from the time I go to bed until I get up the next morning ( I got it bad) Is this normal ? We go camping all the time, My wife and I that is and after camping all weekend Sunday it's time to go home I don't want to go... Just can't...
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Fulltime RVing Family 4 kids 3 dogs 1 hamster now on TLC
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Hi my name is Vernon Loud. I full time RV with my wife, 4 kids, 3 dogs and 1 hamster. Discovery's TLC channel has been filming us traveling full-time across America for the last year. Our series titled SIX FOR THE ROAD starts the 29th of October 2008 at 10/9c. We want this to be a big success so the non-RVing...
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Hello Everyone
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Just wanted to introduce myself to the members here. My name is Coly and right now I am working at a ski resort here in Colorado. I have been thinking about buying an RV and working different seasonal jobs around the country but I will get more into that later. I also wanted to say that this is an excellent w...
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One more for the road
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I will start full timing in the next couple of months. Although it is something I have fantasized about, I have been kicked into doing this due to loosing my job. I am still quite apprehensive, but expect this will pass as I relax and leave this stressed filled life behind. Reading this site has helpe...
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Just another New wannabe :)
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Hi, I am just another new wannabe fulltimer. I still have a little time left to learn all I can before I can do this....waiting for daughter to go off to college...she is a junior in high school now. I just thought I would register to learn as much as I can while waiting and dreaming...
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Just getting into this
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This has been my significant others dream for a long time, me. . . I'm new to it but open and excited about the idea! Truthfully I wasn't keen on the idea of being in cramped quarters for an undetermined length of time. But now as I read about it and I see how happy it would make her (and me the more I find out ab...
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Nor Cal RV'er
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Good Day, I am new to RV Dreams. My wife and I just purchased a new 5th Wheel (2008 Everest). This is our third trailer. They seem to get bigger every time. We started with a 23ft hybrid trailer (cross between a pop out and conventional trailer). When we started camping we started with 2 boys and my w...
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Full Time HDT Wannabe
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Hi everyone. My name is Jon and I have been interested in hitting the road full time for several years. At first I thought having small children would prevent that, but as I've seen from other sites it works well to teach the kids "real" history and life. My only problem is my wife doesn't sha...
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4 years Full Timing... New to the Forum...
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Hello Folks ! Just wanted to introduce my self to this fine forum. My DW and I started our full timing in October 2004. She retired from a trust deptment in a bank in Cleveland Ohio... and I handed in my turn out gear to the Elyria Ohio Fire Service as well. Both of our daughters had moved out of Ohio after c...
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newbee,soon
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Hey, My wife and I are planning to become fulltimers as soon as possible. Our orinal plan was 24 mos. or less. Now it is by summer 09.We bought a home in phoenix and a travel trailer less than 2 yrs. ago. We decided we like the travel trailer best. In what order did you start getting rid of things and how? ...
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New
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I am not a fulltimer as yet would like to be in a few years. We have a 28 foot Puma TT. We only get to use it on weekend and vacation twice a year. Married to the same sweet girl for 42 years and looking forward to 42 more. We have 6 grandkids 4 boys and 2 girls.(the Lord created grandchildern to make up for havi...
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5 years and still going strong...
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We're new to RV Dreams and looking forward to enjoying all it has to offer. 5 years ago we purchased a VW Campervan in Holland and camped our way through 29 countries in 24 months. Getting back in April 06 we picked up our MH and have started our FT'ing in the "America's". We have had the oppo...
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Currently in Florida....
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Not for Long.... Hi, We're Paul & Rosa, (aka "TheCuban") Currently, we're in Lake Worth, (a 'burb of West Palm Beach) and within a year, we're outta here!!!! Rosa is a born and raised Florida gurlie, formative years in Key West, and a couple of decades in West Palm. She's a retired RN (n...
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Saying hi from Michigan.
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Hi all. Thank you for such a wonderful forum folks! I'm David and am seriuosly considering the fulltimer lifestyle. I work as a contractor back to a leading telecom company working on software installions from my home and use DSL for everything. As all my work is done remotely I am studying up on the pos...
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Researching EVERYTHING I can
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Hello all, I'm glad I found this site thanks to some HDT'ers...Yesterday I found an important item on this site. TETON is falling back and regrouping......music to my ears, as that is what we were loking at for next year. I'm looking forward to getting as much information as I can before retirement n...
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Hi from soon to be frozen Northern Minnesota
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I'll confess, I've been a lurker here for about a year, I found it while lookin' for recipes, most of which are very good and simple. My wife Suzanne and I Hope to be fulltiming in the next 1-2yrs, depending on family issues, aging parents, needy (but grown) kids and now 2 grandboys. We have owned 5 motorh...
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Full time RV'er New to the Forum
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Hi and thanks for letting me become a member. I was born in Maine, Raised in Fla. I am married to a wonderful man (Jack)of 40yrs, and raised two kids. We are both retired and have been traveling in our 40'MH for the past 3years and love it. We have been around the US once and traveled across country to Florid...
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