Well we are officially fulltimers, just not on the road yet. We closed on our house on Tuesday and moved into our 38 ft Big Country 5er.
It has been one of the most stressful things we have done but we are so excited to have it behind us. We put our house on the market August 1 and bought the 5er Sept 5. We put it in storage and then started the process of purging anything we could from our 2400 sq ft house. The kids took a ton , we donated even more and had a huge garage sale.
We do still have a storage unit with family furniture and stuff I can't part with.
We are living in an rv park as long as my husband has his job. He is a GM at a country club that is being taken over by new owners so we are not sure what will happen to him. We sold the house and bought the 5er so that we would be mobile just in case. We will still have to work on the road so that is the next step to really research workkamping opportunities.
It is scary but we know that God has a plan for us and it will all work out.
I want to thank all of you on the forum. I stumbled upon this website last June and couldn't believe the wealth of information everything form buying the rv to what do we do about toilet paper!! lol
I haven't posted much cause I felt like I had nothing to contribute but I think that is about to change since we just dove into this head first!
I am still trying to figure out how we are going to do this with 2 cats. One is adjusting well the other not so much and we are trying to find him a good new home. They are coming out next week to hook up our uverse internet and tv so we should be good to go.
Even after all the stress of the last few months we are really liking this lifestyle. No huge house to clean and no yard to care for.
Thanks for all you suggestions and help
mktobob said
09:06 AM Oct 21, 2011
A big CONGRATULATIONS to you guys!
Loretta said
09:27 AM Oct 21, 2011
Congratulations. I hope our house sell that quickly. Perhaps we will run into each other down the road.
Waggin Tails said
08:35 PM Oct 22, 2011
Yipee! Time for the happy dance. Congratulations Granny.
-- Edited by Waggin Tails on Saturday 22nd of October 2011 08:36:53 PM
DGm said
12:01 AM Oct 24, 2011
Congratulations! It's kind of scary, but also very exciting. Sure you're going to love it.
granny said
02:07 PM Oct 24, 2011
Thanks for all the encouragement. It has been a week now and we are really settling in. I am finding out that there is so much STUFF I don't need so I continue to purge. We love the rv park we are in for now, the people are so nice.
The cats are adjusting well. I thought I needed to find a home for one of them, but after he escaped the first night and we moved to a new spot the next day, it freaked him out and he hasn't tried to go out again! We thought we lost him for sure but bless his heart he found us. About 4 in the moring my husband heard him crying under the trailer! We will see what happens the first time we take a trip!
Travel Bug said
01:17 AM Oct 31, 2011
Hi Granny,
Congratulations! It is so fun to realize that no matter where you travel, your home and bed is right there with you.
We started full-time RV'ing one week ago. Our prep time was four months from when we both lost our jobs in late June, until our launch Oct. 22. We had never RV'd before.
We left Oregon last Thursday and are now in Fallon, NV to work at amazon.com for the holiday season.
Good luck.
P.S. Check out my blog if you'd like a blow-by-blow of how it all came down.
weedpatch said
07:42 AM Nov 2, 2011
Granny, congratulations, you are embarking on a new "adventure". I am sure the kitty will adjust, it is new to him and they are not fans of change. I had one that got upset every Christmas cause we had to move furniture around for the tree. When you travel, he will have a bit of a "pity party" but he will get used to it especially if his buddy is with him. We too are planning on full timing AND taking our 2 cats. One is very curious about everything and that overpowers any fear for him, the other is much more timid and cautious and it will be tramatic for him but he will be fine. Good luck and enjoy the ride.
Cindy
melandu said
10:32 PM Nov 6, 2011
Well, this is my first time to write anything. We sold our home a year ago last month and have been full timing and loving it ever since. I just wanted to tell everyone about a wonderful place we go too every summer. We have been going every year since 2008. It is the YMCA of the Rockies in Colorado. We go to Snow Mountain Ranch but there is also Estes Park. We just love it. We get there in June and stay as long as we want. We volunteer 28 hours a week for our FH and 3 buffet meals a day, 7 days a week. The weather there is awesome and the people we work with and play with are wonderful. If anyone is interested just look up ymcarockies.org Snow Mountain Ranch is the best in my opinion.
Well congratulations Granny and hope to see you on the road...
Well we are officially fulltimers, just not on the road yet. We closed on our house on Tuesday and moved into our 38 ft Big Country 5er.
It has been one of the most stressful things we have done but we are so excited to have it behind us. We put our house on the market August 1 and bought the 5er Sept 5. We put it in storage and then started the process of purging anything we could from our 2400 sq ft house. The kids took a ton , we donated even more and had a huge garage sale.
We do still have a storage unit with family furniture and stuff I can't part with.
We are living in an rv park as long as my husband has his job. He is a GM at a country club that is being taken over by new owners so we are not sure what will happen to him. We sold the house and bought the 5er so that we would be mobile just in case. We will still have to work on the road so that is the next step to really research workkamping opportunities.
It is scary but we know that God has a plan for us and it will all work out.
I want to thank all of you on the forum. I stumbled upon this website last June and couldn't believe the wealth of information everything form buying the rv to what do we do about toilet paper!! lol
I haven't posted much cause I felt like I had nothing to contribute but I think that is about to change since we just dove into this head first!
I am still trying to figure out how we are going to do this with 2 cats. One is adjusting well the other not so much and we are trying to find him a good new home. They are coming out next week to hook up our uverse internet and tv so we should be good to go.
Even after all the stress of the last few months we are really liking this lifestyle. No huge house to clean and no yard to care for.
Thanks for all you suggestions and help
A big CONGRATULATIONS to you guys!
Congratulations. I hope our house sell that quickly. Perhaps we will run into each other down the road.
Yipee! Time for the happy dance.
Congratulations Granny.
-- Edited by Waggin Tails on Saturday 22nd of October 2011 08:36:53 PM
Thanks for all the encouragement. It has been a week now and we are really settling in. I am finding out that there is so much STUFF I don't need so I continue to purge. We love the rv park we are in for now, the people are so nice.
The cats are adjusting well. I thought I needed to find a home for one of them, but after he escaped the first night and we moved to a new spot the next day, it freaked him out and he hasn't tried to go out again! We thought we lost him for sure but bless his heart he found us. About 4 in the moring my husband heard him crying under the trailer! We will see what happens the first time we take a trip!
Hi Granny,
Congratulations! It is so fun to realize that no matter where you travel, your home and bed is right there with you.
We started full-time RV'ing one week ago. Our prep time was four months from when we both lost our jobs in late June, until our launch Oct. 22. We had never RV'd before.
We left Oregon last Thursday and are now in Fallon, NV to work at amazon.com for the holiday season.
Good luck.
P.S. Check out my blog if you'd like a blow-by-blow of how it all came down.
Cindy
I just wanted to tell everyone about a wonderful place we go too every summer. We have been going every year since 2008. It is the YMCA of the Rockies in Colorado. We go to Snow Mountain Ranch but there is also Estes Park. We just love it. We get there in June and stay as long as we want. We volunteer 28 hours a week for our FH and 3 buffet meals a day, 7 days a week. The weather there is awesome and the people we work with and play with are wonderful. If anyone is interested just look up ymcarockies.org
Snow Mountain Ranch is the best in my opinion.
Well congratulations Granny and hope to see you on the road...