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  • August 4, 2020 at 5:25 pm #118866
    Mackeyser
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    The wife and I have been thinking about the next step in our lives.

    We realized that in our 33 years together, 30 married, we’ve taken less than 2 weeks of vacation (time away that didn’t involve family)… 1 week vacation on our 1 yr anniversary and another 4 days for a cruise ostensibly for our 25th anniversary, but by the time we booked it, we took it on our 26th anniversary.

    So the idea of just not having stuff except for what we are carrying and riding around the country sounds very good to us.

    As much as we loved the idea of moving to Minnesota and love the people there, with all the latest stuff, we just don’t want to do the property thing again.

    I mean… it’d also be nice to just have it be the two of us… and about 400 sq ft to clean not including the outside.

    I think RVs will be the last thing to go electric, so when we enter that “looking to buy and downsizing stage” in 2024, then that should give us about a year, give or take to finish the transition.

    The wife and I have been watching full timing vids/vlogs on YouTube as well as I’ve been a lurker on the irv2.com forums which is a huge forum for RVers of all kinds.

    What’s funny is that while my pr0n site used to be Zillow with a dash of Hall and Hall ranches for when I was feeling frisky, it doesn’t really do it for me anymore. Well, the mountain VIEWS from some of these ranches still does, but all the crap of owning all that? Yeah, not so much. And the wife never shared that which woulda made it awkward, even if we did come into money (which is unlikely).

    Anyway, we’re even putting trip ideas down including traveling to the drivable 49 states, doing the TransCanada highway trip. doing the east coast baseball stadium trip (dunno if we start in Miami or Baltimore and head north to Toronto… presuming Canada decides we can enter some day… Yosemite, Grand Canyon, SoFi Stadium… maybe a road game…

    Really hoping that the RV SuperShow in Tampa in January still happens. We’ll be pretty focused this year whereas in years past, we’d go and not really know what was what…

    Sports is the crucible of human virtue. The distillate remains are human vice.

    August 4, 2020 at 6:40 pm #118867
    wv
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    Awesome, Mack. I love it.

    But I am a sucker for alternative-lifestyle-stuff. I’ve thought a lot about the ‘tiny house’ thing, myself.

    One of the advantages of living-mobile is, when the zombies come, you
    can move around. Ya know. I’ll be stuck on the roof of my tiny-house, but you can zoom along, spattering things.

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    August 4, 2020 at 9:57 pm #118874
    Mackeyser
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    Well, that’s kinda the plan.

    We’re gonna be looking for used Class A’s. If I had my wish, in 2024 or 2025, we’d buy a lightly used 2021 Newmar King Aire… or maybe a lightly used Newell.

    I’m not interested in any of the Prevost bus conversions, tho.

    What’s great is that they depreciate SO HARD in the first three years that I think we’ll be able to do something about aiming pretty high and not going crazy.

    There’s plenty of upkeep, sure, but if those big’uns are kept well, they can last decades and drive a million miles or more. That’s what so funny about lightly used RVs.

    Heck, I can get a used 2018 with 7000 miles on it for a 20% discount on the original price which is generally below MAP or minimum advertised price.

    By 4-5 years out, we’re looking at 40%+ depreciation. That’s pretty good and gives a good 5-6 years to enjoy the 10 year rule before you have to start sending pictures everywhere.

    Note: the 10 year rule is a rule in the RV industry that campgrounds use as a “no shirt, no shoes, no service” policy. The ones that use this basically ban any coach or rv over 10 years old. Most will allow you to send pics to see if the rig still meets their visual requirements, but it’s no guarantee.

    It was as a measure years ago to ban those super old and junky rigs from making the park look bad, but the effect has yielded all of the same BS prejudices.

    What’s amazing is that something like 84% or more of RVers don’t like that rule and many of those won’t stay at parks that use it. Unfortunately, there’s currently so much demand for RV spots that you can pretty much get away with keeping the rule and not feeling the financial hit.

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