We are Gary and Pamela Augustine and we will be attending the Fall 2017 Rally. We have been planning to retire to full time RVing for the past four years, although we first talked about buying a fifth wheel in 1989. We are one year away from retirement! Everything is feeling more tangible and real as we get closer to our departure date. Lots to do before then . . . We have only done a little bit of camping, but it has covered backpacking, tent camping, pop-up trailer and travel trailer. We have always loved every moment we have spent outdoors with one another (and at times, with our children--now grown).
RonC said
03:42 PM Sep 11, 2017
Welcome to the group ... we'll see you at the rally.
Travel Safe!
MAYBE2021 said
10:28 AM Sep 12, 2017
Hi Gary and Pamela, My wife and I are where you were four years ago. Not retired yet but have considerable camping and RVing under our belt. We now have a 26 ft TT and the plan is to purchase a fifth wheel closer to retirement. My wife is still on board with the fifth wheel but I'm starting to lean more towards a larger TT. I'm just not that crazy about driving a DRW truck everywhere we go. A lot of that depends on whether our grandson is still living with us.
This forum is the right place to ask questions; lots of experienced full timers here.
Welcome,
Steve
RonC said
02:32 PM Sep 12, 2017
If you go for a TT ... invest in a very good weight distribution hitch and a very good anti sway system.
MAYBE2021 said
05:32 PM Sep 12, 2017
RonC wrote:
If you go for a TT ... invest in a very good weight distribution hitch and a very good anti sway system.
Yep, got them both on our current TT and will definitely have them when we up-size. One consideration though is that hitch and ball assembly is one heavy chunk of iron! As I get older I may be leaving it in the receiver more often.
RonC said
05:58 PM Sep 12, 2017
When we were at MorRYDE, There was a gent who had a new New Horizons Travel Trailer. That baby weighed around 25,000 lbs. The bars on his equalizer hitch were so thick he used a bottle jack to connect them. A lot of work, but that was an impressive trailer!
-- Edited by RonC on Friday 15th of September 2017 03:13:45 PM
LarryW21 said
02:34 PM Sep 14, 2017
Welcome! Hope to see you posting on a regular basis.
We are Gary and Pamela Augustine and we will be attending the Fall 2017 Rally. We have been planning to retire to full time RVing for the past four years, although we first talked about buying a fifth wheel in 1989. We are one year away from retirement! Everything is feeling more tangible and real as we get closer to our departure date. Lots to do before then . . . We have only done a little bit of camping, but it has covered backpacking, tent camping, pop-up trailer and travel trailer. We have always loved every moment we have spent outdoors with one another (and at times, with our children--now grown).
Travel Safe!
Hi Gary and Pamela, My wife and I are where you were four years ago. Not retired yet but have considerable camping and RVing under our belt. We now have a 26 ft TT and the plan is to purchase a fifth wheel closer to retirement. My wife is still on board with the fifth wheel but I'm starting to lean more towards a larger TT. I'm just not that crazy about driving a DRW truck everywhere we go. A lot of that depends on whether our grandson is still living with us.
This forum is the right place to ask questions; lots of experienced full timers here.
Welcome,
Steve
Yep, got them both on our current TT and will definitely have them when we up-size. One consideration though is that hitch and ball assembly is one heavy chunk of iron! As I get older I may be leaving it in the receiver more often.
When we were at MorRYDE, There was a gent who had a new New Horizons Travel Trailer. That baby weighed around 25,000 lbs. The bars on his equalizer hitch were so thick he used a bottle jack to connect them. A lot of work, but that was an impressive trailer!
-- Edited by RonC on Friday 15th of September 2017 03:13:45 PM