So why are we considering going full time? After all, we’ve managed to successfully marry RVing and home ownership for the past 5 years. Or have we? Upkeep to two houses in addition to a large RV, combined with the loading and unloading for every trip, had been wearing on us, hence the desire to simplify by downsizing our RV (reducing maintenance/costs and allowing for loading/unloading in our driveway). As detailed in Maybe Bigger is Better, the downsizing experiment is not going well.
Our attempt at downsizing has been disappointing
So we’re left with three tenets: 1) we like traveling in an RV; 2) we don’t like traveling in a small RV and 3) we don’t like dealing with two houses and a large RV. The logical conclusion is that we must sell one or both houses and go full time in a large RV.
We love hiking and exploring different regions
We love making new friends
We love RV Travel
We love having opportunities to have new experiences
In all seriousness, we’re pretty confident we would enjoy full-timing. Our 5 month trip to Alaska ensured we can easily live in a 41’ space, and more importantly, not want to kill each other. The question is, can we extrapolate 5 months to a number of years? I don’t know. I do know we love exploring new areas and always feel we’re rushed to get back home. Our current one month trip to Arizona is a perfect example. We’ve found quite of number of beautiful state parks we’d like to camp at to explore the hundreds of hiking trails we didn’t get to enjoy, yet we have to get home to attempt to revive the lawn from 5 months of neglect while in Alaska 🙂
There are always more trails we’d like to hike
We’re both pretty much sold on jumping in with both feet, so the question now becomes: sell the main house in town, sell the cabin in the mountains, or sell both? The house is easy to sell, but the maintenance is also minimal given the 1/4 acre lot. The cabin is hard to sell (you’re paying for the view, not the cabin), but the maintenance is considerable given the 175 acre lot and hundreds of beetle kill lodgepole pine trees that need cutting and dragging into slash piles every year. We’re both in agreement the cabin has to go long term, but it could take years to sell. So do we wait a fear years and continue putting up with a small RV? Or do we sell the house (normal house, nice neighborhood, could have a contract in a week) and go semi-full time while waiting for the cabin to sell?
A big change is coming
