Recent content by steve-hazel

Wow, I'm blown away by all the responses. I understand that many people will spend more on a 1 week vacation.  But as we will be travelling for 7 months we need to keep the costs as low as possible. I dont believe the children need to go to theme parks to have a good time. lol. Hazel

Hi, We are in County Down, near the beautiful Mourne Mountains. :)

Hi, Me again.  I am trying to weigh up the pros and cons between renting an RV for 7 months (expensive) and buying an RV but having to try to sell it at the end.  It ocurred to me... do RV owners ever rent out their own RVs in order to help them pay for it?  Or is that just not done?  I'm...

On the topic of seatbelts can someone tell me, if an RV says it sleep 6, does that mean that there will be 6 seatbelts too?  Or not? Hazel

Hello again, I just posted a message in the introduce section, but i have lots of questions to pose as well :) I'm reading the book RV vacations for Dummies.  Chapter 6 talks about the cost of RVing.  It says this... "a family of four traveling in their own motorhome, staying in camp grounds...

Hi there I thought we should introduce ourselves since we are going to be posting thousands of questions. LOL.  We are Hazel and Steve from Northern Ireland.  We have 3 kids ages 12, 10 and 3.  We are in the starting stages of planning a 6 - 7 month trip across america, starting and finishing...

Thanks so much for all the input guys.  I cant tell you how much we appreciate all your advice.  We are only at the beginning of planning our 7 month trip - getting visas and planning a route etc.  The plan is to arrive in Florida in January.  All being well.  We will be travelling with 3...

We are planning a trip across America and was wondering how safe it is to use lay bys and shooping car parks?  We plan to use RV camp sites too but was just wondering?  We are from Northern Ireland and are coming over for seven months. Is Mexico safe and are there RV parks there too?  We plan to...