Living in a RV

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GHoward

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So the "moving to the country" thread got me thinking. Mainly about just saving up money, quitting my job, buying an RV and nomad-ing it around the country for a year or two. Obviously I would have to save up enough to pay for food and gas, and I could pick up odd jobs here and there.

So has anyone ever done this? Any advice? Are there low cost places to park an RV?
 
I'm trying to work out details in my mind. What are the advantages to getting an RV with its own motor vs getting a trailer and a truck to pull it. I was thinking the trailer/truck combo would be better since if I decide I'm done, or something brakes I could sell them separately.
 
I use to work with a guy that lived out of his truck. He was traveling around the country, living in locals for about 6 mos at a time, delivering pizza to earn money while he lived there. All in all, I thought it was a pretty neat way to live.
 
My parents did this for several years when they retired.

There was a nationwide chain of campgrounds (Thousand Trails) that allowed you to pay a yearly membership fee and then camp at any of their sites free of charge.
 
I want to buy a sailboat and live on the ocean once my kids are grown. Eat fresh fish everyday, keep tan and drunk. Then have it set on fire and sunk out at sea somewhere when I die.
 
Is this a little like living in a van down by the river?

Seriously, my plan is to have a house that is fully paid for when I reach retirement. If I have extra money to have an RV and travel around the country that's fine but the house is the priority. The last thing you want to do is be living in an RV when you hit the age that your health begins to deteriorate.
 
Well I'm still in my 20's, so the point of this idea was not to retire, but to have the retired-and-traveling experience while I am still young enough to enjoy it.
 
I have a friend that when he was in his mid-20s, sold all of his stuff and flew to Hawaii. Once there he use some of the money to buy an old VW Van and lived in it. He would do construction work and mostly do custom painting to make a living, and then, he would find some badass remote beach and park there for the night. He had a few locations that would let him shower and clean up. He did it for about a year. He said it was great. Said he met tons of cool people in his adventure and always seemed to find a way to get ***, especially from chicks from the mainland there visiting. I've never been nearly that adventurous, but part of me would love to be able to do that for a while.
 
^That'd be sweet ^
I think I'd rather have a sailboat anchored a couple hundred yards out, a little inflatable motor boat to get to the shore, and scooter to get around on shore.
 
My parents used to be a member of Thousand Trails as well. They sold their 5th wheel (and it was seriously decked out) about 6 months ago. I have stayed in their various RVs many times growing up and then when I was in college visiting them at various spots.

I like my house better. The showers and shitters are very small. I would never use it and just walk to the community restrooms which at Thousand Trails are usually clean and nice.

I like camping in tents over weekends; if I go camping I don't need my bed. But I don't need to replace my house with something on wheels.
 
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