...and ever since then I have wanted to be that person in that cozy RV on the Padre Island beach.
I retired in 2012, and 3 years ago I got my little (24 ft) 2005 BT Cruiser and have been using it as my car ever since! I have bashed it into a lot of things since then: trees, mostly. I've also learned a lot about RVs, dry rot, rust, leaks. Now I think I probably should have stuck with the conversion van I had before, but that's another story.
I live with 3 dogs and 2 cats. My dogs are: 2 big golden retrievers and 1 little cairn terrier. My cats are 2 huge Maine Coons. People say that's a lot of pets for even a big sticks and bricks house, so the idea of having them in an RV seems insane. But I still do it. The dogs love it. The cats adapt. These days we mostly go camping for a couple days at a time, boondocking in National Forests. Anyhow, all together they probably take up about as much room as a husband would - but unfortunately they don't take out the trash. :\
I am 72, in relatively good health. I do pretty much all my RV repairs myself because my sticks and bricks house costs me a lot every month and I'm on social security. Repairs seem to cost hundreds-thousands of dollars just to drive in the door. So far I have: replaced the rotten floor on my slide-out, replaced all the seals on the slideout, pulled up the rug and lino to check the floor underneath, put on a new slideout topper - all by myself. I find that if I park very close to my front porch railing, I get excellent access to the roof!
Mechanically I think my RV is in pretty good shape, though I worry about the tires (all 6 of them, gosh!). Mechanical work is something I will pay other people to do. It is mostly work on the house that I do myself.
Anyhow, I think I am getting ready to shed my sticks-and-bricks skin. I have all this stuff in my house that I don't use, all these rooms I never go into, except to see how dusty they are getting and full of junk. The yard is driving me insane with weeds and trees and stuff like that, that's always nagging me to mow them and trim them. I am kind of beginning to see that driving away from it, in my bashed up dubious old RV, might go along with an enormous SIGH of relief. But between now and then there's lots of fixing to do, and lots of stuff to find a new home for.
Anyhow, here I am. I am watching the inspiring Cheap RV Living videos. Hello, everyone!
I retired in 2012, and 3 years ago I got my little (24 ft) 2005 BT Cruiser and have been using it as my car ever since! I have bashed it into a lot of things since then: trees, mostly. I've also learned a lot about RVs, dry rot, rust, leaks. Now I think I probably should have stuck with the conversion van I had before, but that's another story.
I live with 3 dogs and 2 cats. My dogs are: 2 big golden retrievers and 1 little cairn terrier. My cats are 2 huge Maine Coons. People say that's a lot of pets for even a big sticks and bricks house, so the idea of having them in an RV seems insane. But I still do it. The dogs love it. The cats adapt. These days we mostly go camping for a couple days at a time, boondocking in National Forests. Anyhow, all together they probably take up about as much room as a husband would - but unfortunately they don't take out the trash. :\
I am 72, in relatively good health. I do pretty much all my RV repairs myself because my sticks and bricks house costs me a lot every month and I'm on social security. Repairs seem to cost hundreds-thousands of dollars just to drive in the door. So far I have: replaced the rotten floor on my slide-out, replaced all the seals on the slideout, pulled up the rug and lino to check the floor underneath, put on a new slideout topper - all by myself. I find that if I park very close to my front porch railing, I get excellent access to the roof!
Mechanically I think my RV is in pretty good shape, though I worry about the tires (all 6 of them, gosh!). Mechanical work is something I will pay other people to do. It is mostly work on the house that I do myself.
Anyhow, I think I am getting ready to shed my sticks-and-bricks skin. I have all this stuff in my house that I don't use, all these rooms I never go into, except to see how dusty they are getting and full of junk. The yard is driving me insane with weeds and trees and stuff like that, that's always nagging me to mow them and trim them. I am kind of beginning to see that driving away from it, in my bashed up dubious old RV, might go along with an enormous SIGH of relief. But between now and then there's lots of fixing to do, and lots of stuff to find a new home for.
Anyhow, here I am. I am watching the inspiring Cheap RV Living videos. Hello, everyone!
best of luck!
