Welcome! Why not rent a number of different types of RVs to see what you like...if any?

Welcome Suzanne, that's wonderful, and with the right preparation at the front end you'll love this lifestyle as much as the majority do.

You may want to get your RV a wee while before you actually plan to head out FTing, and enjoy a few long weekends exploring locally to where you currently live, and get some experience under your belt before it becomes your permanent home on wheels. We bought our first RV back in the late 90's with zero prior experience (5th wheel then), and we are still on our current Gas MH we replaced the 5er with in 2002. We love the lifestyle, flexibility and can't imagine enjoying any other form of travel moreso after all these years.

We started off with "making it happen", during busy career lives and kids still at school, even picking them up from the school gates on the last day before Easter break and the likes, to cram in a 10 day trip here and there, as well as lots of Friday afternoon to Sunday night trips. I think the minimum number of nights in the early years we logged were 31.

Over time, we then started doing longer and longer extended trips of 3 weeks, then 6 weeks, 8 weeks, 9 weeks etc, realizing life was too short to make excuses of being "too busy" or "not enough time" to not grab every moment we could to go "glamping".

Besides deciding on what type of RV you want (mainly this will be dictated by how you intend to travel/anchor down and what's most important to you), you'll also start to find what type of camping/RVing you prefer, ie; RV Resorts, Forest CG's, State Parks, Private CG's or as is our case 90+% of the time boon docking in remote locations. Obviously the later is not so possible when exploring more built up areas/major cities, but nonetheless it's what we have found we personally prefer.

Some folks pick a theme to follow for their travels such as Nat'l Parks, or Lighthouses, or Racing, or Sports Games etc etc. Others like ourselves, just look at each state/province one at a time and research what attractions, towns etc are in that particular locale and try to cover as much as we can of interest as we travel.

Exciting times for you Suzanne, and for sure old man time doesn't stand still for any of us, so make the most of realizing your dreams, goals and ambitions starting NOW, we've all read of too too many folks on these forums that kept putting it off and putting it off until it was too late for one reason or another. Hence why hubby and I maybe had an assault course in the beginning years whilst RVing, trying to balance "living for today whilst planning/saving for tomorrow", but at least we've got priceless memories no matter what the future holds.

We are just patiently waiting for our last property to hopefully sell before too much longer, and we WILL BE joining the ranks of other FT RVers, everything being equal at that time. Can't wait, but we are adamant we will to secure our future, and in the meantime we'll keep doing our longer extended trips that are great fun.

Greetings, fellow migrants!

My wife and I are just about ready to set out full-time across America. We have owned several RV's in the past but didn't use them too much. Now, we are selling our house and stuff and hitting the road with our two big dogs.
Having to ecomize as much as possible to make this happen, we are setting out in an '04 Hurricane with very low miles and a Jeep Patriot 4X4 toad. The Hurricane gets fair reviews but some of the nicer coach owners don't prefer it for full-time. As hikers and tent campers, it should be pretty nice. The queen bed is the key to comfort.
I am an old pilot who learned to fly in the northern Rockies and have landed on about every dangerous airstrip (and non-airstrips) in North Idaho with only two incidents. Both wind and weather related. Later, I flew corporate for a company out of Marietta, Georgia when live radar was a monochrome screen that only showed what was immediately in front of you. I called it "turn around" radar! We also did some ranching in western South Dakota and I build custom homes in north Georgia.
The wife, Susan, is a social worker at heart having worked at Early Head Start and different nursing homes with memory care folks. She is a happy, bubbly girl who is the sunshine of my life. She is cautious about this new life but I am sure she will find it rewarding as long as there are new friends to make.
Our children being grown and involved in their own families, we have two big dogs. Riley, an old almost crippled Boxer and Rosa, a black-white-tan Aussie who is about six and still very active.
Susan and I have both taught school and I was a volunteer firefighter for a while. We look forward to making new friends and seeing America - from the ground.

Happy traveling all,

Jerry and Susan

Hi, Suzanne. Hope I didn't steal your thunder and post in the wrong place. Have been trying to find the right place but am computer challenged. Jerry

Hi Suzanne - welcome!!

Ditto, what Larry said!!!!

By your first RV NOW. Don't wait, get something on the inexpensive side to learn on. We bought a Class C and had 2 wonderful years with it, very forgiving, easy to drive, and great for weekends and 2-week vacations. And it showed us that we needed something larger for fulltiming.