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I started this sub to share, gather and explore new & old ideas related to the full-time RV living experience.

I started over a year ago after retiring from the business I had for over 25 year. My wife and I sold, gave away and donated most of our worthless worldly possessions, bought a lightly used RV (5th wheel) a great used pull vehicle and hit the road. So far the adventure has been 90% positive.

I would like to invite any and all people to join in, ask questions or share their experiences in this unique and growing lifestyle.

I started this sub to share, gather and explore new & old ideas related to the full-time RV living experience. I started over a year ago after retiring from the business I had for over 25 year. My wife and I sold, gave away and donated most of our worthless worldly possessions, bought a lightly used RV (5th wheel) a great used pull vehicle and hit the road. So far the adventure has been 90% positive. I would like to invite any and all people to join in, ask questions or share their experiences in this unique and growing lifestyle.

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Retired. We spent 2.5 years in a 33ft travel trailer. This past summer we sold our house we had rented out, and bought a house closer to our new great-grandbaby. We still have the trailer, but won't be "full-timing" for the fore-see able future.

We would pick a area we wanted to explore, then find an RV park and take a space on a monthly rental with full hookups (electric, water, and sewer). Then take day trips to visit attractions.

When traveling we would usually only drive 220-250 miles per day, which was a tank of gas in the truck. Mostly because getting in and out of gas stations with the trailer was sometimes extremely difficult. And we are retired, what's the rush? The wife is a bit OCD, so we always knew where we would stop for the night, and had a reservation.

Our very first trip was from TX to Sundance, WY. Less than an hour after getting set up in the RV park an un-forecasted thunder storm came thru. A tornado touched down .5 miles away, and we got baseball size hail, then torrential rain for 15 minutes. Our pickup was totaled. Every external thing on the trailer was gone or smashed. We were lucky the trailer was parked so that the hail hit mostly the rear of the trailer. At least 10 of the big Class As and 5th wheels were totaled, windows smashed out then filled with the rain. Good times.

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That is one of main things we keep focus on is the weather. Your RV style is pretty much what we do, the monthly rental for a nice spot ie, base station. The longest travel day we had was from Central Minnesota to Souther Missouri. It was 11 hours. Sorry to hear about your hail damage. It's the only time you like insurance.

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I was surprised by the insurance. They sent an independent adjuster from a town 50 miles away 5 days later (after the 4th of July weekend). Had checks in the mail in 8 days. I was kind of disappointed, the damage to the trailer was just under the threshold of being totaled. But ended up ordering most of the parts on-line and doing the labor myself. This was in July, and because of all the damaged RVs in the area from the storm, the earliest we could get a repair shop to look at it was Dec.We didn't want to stay in WY for 6 months and be there for winter! Got a portable A/C to use until we found a shop that could replace the rooftop one.

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Good for you for doing a lot the repairs yourself. It really helps to be inclined to do any repairs. I kept most of my essential tools for doing repairs. I've even made a few side $$ helping others.