Hi everyone ~ We are Dave and Lisa and we have just recently started to plot our escape from corporate america! We live in the Charlotte NC area and we are in our early 50s.
When we found out the manufacturing plant Dave works for is closing and he will eventually be out of a job, it gave us the opportunity to think & dream about what we really want to do and where we want to live for the rest of our lives. We couldn't come up with an immediate answer to that dilemma, so we decided to take a year to travel & figure it all out. The fact that I am miserable in my corporate job motivates me even more to start taking steps to escape.
We are investigating a year of RVing. We've starting reading the blogs and researching the RVs and formulating a plan. I found RV-Dreams.com and found many kindred spirits and it looks like lots of people we can learn from.
We are going to spend 2016 finishing our jobs & getting ourselves in the right financial state (including selling house and most of our belongings). We will hopefully be headed out in 2017 to see this beautiful country! We signed-up for the spring rally in TN and I'm hoping we'll learn lots and really set our course for our RV adventure.
SO....if there are any of you have done this before or are starting to plan like we are, we would love to hear from you and learn from you and explore with you!
JonRV said
05:07 PM Dec 10, 2015
Congrats on getting started and welcome to the forum!
bjoyce said
09:13 PM Dec 10, 2015
I am glad you are being honest with us and saying you are only going out for a year. That does help us out, since you are not committing to being fulltimers for years and years. We won't be recommending things that do not make sense for you, or at least will try not to. Of course, you might like it and decide it it worth staying on the road. We had a 2 to 5 year plan, and it has been 12 year so far.
TRAILERKING said
08:20 AM Dec 11, 2015
Welcome aboard....
Gambler said
11:12 AM Dec 11, 2015
Welcome, you will find just about everything you could want to know here. I'm sure you will find the TN rally more than just informative you will meet some great people
just like yourself.
boxyadventure said
11:21 AM Dec 11, 2015
haha - you noticed that right! I dream of being full-timers, but can't commit just yet! ....we'll see - all options are open at this point!
Hi everyone ~ We are Dave and Lisa and we have just recently started to plot our escape from corporate america! We live in the Charlotte NC area and we are in our early 50s.
When we found out the manufacturing plant Dave works for is closing and he will eventually be out of a job, it gave us the opportunity to think & dream about what we really want to do and where we want to live for the rest of our lives. We couldn't come up with an immediate answer to that dilemma, so we decided to take a year to travel & figure it all out. The fact that I am miserable in my corporate job motivates me even more to start taking steps to escape.
We are investigating a year of RVing. We've starting reading the blogs and researching the RVs and formulating a plan. I found RV-Dreams.com and found many kindred spirits and it looks like lots of people we can learn from.
We are going to spend 2016 finishing our jobs & getting ourselves in the right financial state (including selling house and most of our belongings). We will hopefully be headed out in 2017 to see this beautiful country! We signed-up for the spring rally in TN and I'm hoping we'll learn lots and really set our course for our RV adventure.
SO....if there are any of you have done this before or are starting to plan like we are, we would love to hear from you and learn from you and explore with you!
just like yourself.
haha - you noticed that right! I dream of being full-timers, but can't commit just yet! ....we'll see - all options are open at this point!