RV and other travels around the World
My last day at the office was May 5th, 2017, on Cinco de Mayo. How fast have these two years flown by! We began this journey with great excitement and some concern for the unknown. Was I doing the right thing by retiring early? Should we sell the large home where we raised the kids? Would we really enjoy living fulltime in a 41 foot home? Would we miss our family and friends? Would our budget hold out?
Continue reading “Two Years Ago Today We Began This Journey: Happy Cinco de Mayo!”
Goodbye to the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas! We thoroughly enjoyed our time there over the winter months. Many new friends and tons of activities to keep us busy. So, we are now well rested and ready to begin Year #3 of our Journey. I still marvel at how quickly this time has gone by. We have many new places this year and a few favorites to repeat as well.
The winter season at our Llano Grande RV Resort (LINK) is starting to wind down into its summer phase. We are watching several rigs depart every day as they begin the journey back Up North. Most residents are still here in our section of the park, but everyone is busy making preparations to leave. Most will be leaving from mid-March to the first week of April.
Planning for RVer’s is a debatable topic. There are certainly two camps of full-time RVers. Those who plan and those who wing it. The planning that I’m writing about is a pre-plan of the RV route to all destinations and RV parks for the year or at least a few months in advance. It is a huge amount of work and can take several weeks to complete working a few hours a day.
What another great year it was! I feel so blessed and fortunate to be able to live this lifestyle of adventure and travel. Pat and I are continuing to enjoy the RV travel and seeing all that this great country has to offer. It has now been a year and 8 months on the road! Sure, there are some down sides such as missing the family during holiday. But, man oh man, what we have enjoyed this year! This post is to provide a recap of 2018.
We finally have a new compact SUV after a couple of weeks of researching, test drives, and decisions! The category of car we wanted is a compact SUV to be able to explore our destinations, have good gas mileage and ease of parking. There were three choices that we reviewed: Ford Escape, Toyota RAV4, and the Honda CR-V. Here’s how we decided…
Yesterday was a sunny and mostly clear day. Although the winds have picked up a bit. This weather was due to a high pressure cell located in southwest Virginia. That will all change by later on today as the Hurricane Florence approaches. The calm before the storm… Continue reading “Hurricane Status – Friday 9/14”
We set off on this RV Journey with many unknowns, although we knew that to take a bold step into a great retirement that we would have to get out of our comfort zones. In many different ways. Continue reading “Budget and Other Updates”
The featured image above is sunset over the bay from our campground.
RV traveling can be a complex business with the complicated modern coaches to the trip planning research that is required. Being a full time RV traveler makes things even more interesting. Fortunately, there are many resources on the internet available to assist almost every aspect of the RV life.
One of the resources are the many people who have been doing this for a long time. We had the great fortune to meet another RV blogger (LINK: warnerrvnews.blogspot.com) who has been a full-timer since 2009. Randy and Pam Warner were staying in a campground just a few miles north of us, so I reached out and asked if they would like to meet somewhere during their stay. Continue reading “Meeting Another Blogger!: Randy and Pam Warner”
As we go to a new location, we try to ask as many locals as we can about favorite places and things to do. Just by researching the internet including Trip Advisor and others, we would miss many of the local’s gems. People all have different opinions, so it is great to obtain a good cross section of folk’s ideas. Continue reading “Locals Are a Wealth of Information”