HeatherLane
Member
Hi all, I have read through a great many posts today but so many seem to be quite old so criteria may have changed. Apologies if I'm asking questions already answered.
Our situation is this; we are British and sold our house 6 months ago. We have been pet sitting in the UK and touring France ever since. We are registered at a family members house in the UK otherwise we can't get savings accounts, medical appointments etc. We don't live with them.
We plan to buy a Class A RV in the USA in April/May and spend a year between Canada and the US touring around. I have read that although Montana is the cheapest for registering, it is the highest for the insurance and that South Dakota may be a better fit.
We intend to bring the vehicle back to the UK so I've read posts about taxes in the UK which sounds promising but again, they were quite old posts so hopefully we can bring it back. We intend to keep it for more than 12 months but we are planning to move to the EU within that 12 months. We realise that there are width restrictions to registering the vehicle in the UK but haven't researched yet if this also applies to the EU.
I will be doing the driving, I will be 64, my husband will be 71, we may put him on the insurance but only if it's not too prohibitively expensive. I've read too that there might be difficulty getting health insurance for him (he has pre-existing health issues).
We are looking at a diesel Class A around 34ft in length which I'm hoping will be under 7500kg (16534lbs), I intend to increase my licence anyway to a PSV licence so will be fine for heavier. I believe the vehicle will be heavy on tyres and components in general so have factored that in.
So, what I'm posting for really is - have I considered everything? Is anything glaringly missing? Can anyone give me more up to date advice on all the issues please? Am I mad? Can this be done? Will it all be worth it in the end? We don't want to sit on our backsides until it's too late to experience life, we want to get on with this but am I dreaming? Have you done it?
Thanks all, thanks for reading this far.
Adventure before dementia.
Our situation is this; we are British and sold our house 6 months ago. We have been pet sitting in the UK and touring France ever since. We are registered at a family members house in the UK otherwise we can't get savings accounts, medical appointments etc. We don't live with them.
We plan to buy a Class A RV in the USA in April/May and spend a year between Canada and the US touring around. I have read that although Montana is the cheapest for registering, it is the highest for the insurance and that South Dakota may be a better fit.
We intend to bring the vehicle back to the UK so I've read posts about taxes in the UK which sounds promising but again, they were quite old posts so hopefully we can bring it back. We intend to keep it for more than 12 months but we are planning to move to the EU within that 12 months. We realise that there are width restrictions to registering the vehicle in the UK but haven't researched yet if this also applies to the EU.
I will be doing the driving, I will be 64, my husband will be 71, we may put him on the insurance but only if it's not too prohibitively expensive. I've read too that there might be difficulty getting health insurance for him (he has pre-existing health issues).
We are looking at a diesel Class A around 34ft in length which I'm hoping will be under 7500kg (16534lbs), I intend to increase my licence anyway to a PSV licence so will be fine for heavier. I believe the vehicle will be heavy on tyres and components in general so have factored that in.
So, what I'm posting for really is - have I considered everything? Is anything glaringly missing? Can anyone give me more up to date advice on all the issues please? Am I mad? Can this be done? Will it all be worth it in the end? We don't want to sit on our backsides until it's too late to experience life, we want to get on with this but am I dreaming? Have you done it?
Thanks all, thanks for reading this far.
Adventure before dementia.