skirk55 said:
I read just sold our house and we did it but what about people that have been fulltiming for 4 or 5 years? Is there anyone out there that has been full time for more than one or two years?
Me? Since May 2006, with a tent, in a car & the tent since Dec 2006. So that's 5 years fulltiming, but not yet in an RV. Upgrading to a 31' Class A this fall.
skirk55 said:
I just was thinking how long can people full time?
I have no plans to stop. I'm 36 years old, and I can see myself doing this for another 50, 60, 70 years...basically the rest of my life. This lifestyle suits me.
skirk55 said:
We will fulltime it as our health holds out. After we are too old to pull a 5th wheel we will keep two on site and travel from one to the other. We do not want a house again.
This is my plan as well. As long as I've got my health I can drive and when I can drive no more, I can park it and keep right on living in it. This is what I intend to do.
skirk55 said:
It's not just that we have found a lifestyle that we both like very much and it is in our blood.
Fulltiming is in my blood. I am by race a Scottish Traveller aka a genuine pure blooded Gypsy. We can trace our geneology back to the 1400's and no one in our family tree ever lived in a house very long. A few even spent their lives living on merchant ships t sea rather than live in a house!
I grew up in a "band of gypsies" living in cars, jeeps, trucks, trailers, motorhomes, anything they could find that had wheels on it, really. There were 260+ aunts, uncles, and cousins. Big group. My family was 2 adults, 1 kid (me), 8 dogs, and 4 cats living in a 1964 Dodge 330 (which I still own to this day.) I was about 9 years old when my family settled down on a farm. We didn't settle down much though, we were never home. Every week we'd pack in the car and off we'd go, one road trip after another for some 20 years! LOL! We just couldn't sit still!
I don't know, I don't think I'd even know what to do with myself if I ever tried settling down in a house full time. I mean, I lived in a house, yeah, but I was never actually in the house, because we were always gone on long road trips and sleeping in the car. I am much happier in a car, than I am in a house.
skirk55 said:
My daughter told me they are going to purchase a pop up camper.
There is a couple on YouTube that they and their dog, live full time in a pop-up towed by a jeep. And I once saw a guy who lived full time in a tiny "tent-trailer" towed by a motorcycle! Too small for me, but I guess you can live in anything you want to as long as you are happy with it.