With each day I find more information from the comments people make here, emails, and information from other blogs / forums. The picture is possibly a little more clearer on what I want to use as an RV fulltime. With plans of doing more boondocking than staying at rv parks, and living with my dogs, I am beginning to think a 30'-32' MH will be the best. Leaning more towards a Class A than C and a shorter length so I can stay at National Forest Parks sometime. To help me sort out this confusion, I plan on going to Indianapolis within the next few weeks and looking at and hopefully test drive a Class A and C. I need to walk, stand inside each type to get a good feel of what I want.
I admit the dogs change my whole thought process. If it were just I, I would buy a Class C, 26' and be done with it. Still, I would never trade my dogs for an RV lifestyle, or for anything. So they are in part of my analysis of this move.
I spent a lot of time this weekend, reading all the information at RVforum (great info), thinking of what each of your comments and emails were telling me and looking at pictures of different A's & C's with different lengths. The one's I like I am saving for picture purposes only.
Today it hit me that even if I end up loving RVing full time eventually there would be a stopping point. Possibly a point where I would want to RV part-time. Would I rent in a location different than I have now? Or keep the home I have now, empty (no renters) so if there was ever a point in time I could not RV, then I would have a place with no mortgage payment. Still I would be paying annual property taxes, house insurance and any upkeep while I was on the road. Added expenses that I don't want.
Then different times of the day or night I think I would sell every asset I have and hit the road for good. I know full-time RVers reading this have gone through the same "mental game" as I am going through now. I have plenty of time to make my decision, no pressure to make a decision soon but I am the type of person that as soon as I finish my analysis, I am ready to make a decision and go with it. I already know a lot of places I want to see, routes to take and how I want to stay warm in the winter and cool in the summer. I cannot do that in a house in Indiana, even if I use that as a base address and travel a lot.
Basically I want to downsize more than I am now and hit the road.....dogs and all.
I think you can see that I have been thinking a lot this past weekend. Almost to the point of "information overload".
I think once you tour through a few rigs, that will help you as well. I fell in love with a certain floorplan on a ClassC & haven't found another like it yet. But one day, when the time is right, I hope to find another like it, then I'll hopefully trade up from my small ClassC. Good luck! Share with us what you find.
ReplyDeleteThe dogs do make a difference. We struggled with all of the same things and went to a lot of places and got into a lot of RV's. No substitute for getting a feel of the road, by driving it.
ReplyDeleteYou're doing all that you can do. Keep at it, and when you find the right one, you will know it.
The dogs do make a difference. We struggled with all of the same things and went to a lot of places and got into a lot of RV's. No substitute for getting a feel of the road, by driving it.
ReplyDeleteYou're doing all that you can do. Keep at it, and when you find the right one, you will know it.