VallAndMo
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Hello,
We are Vall And Mo, a Brazilian married couple for 25 years, and we are getting ready for fulltime RVing.
We are both approaching 50 years of age, and our first camping experiences were a long time ago, before our marriage, when we tent-camped a couple of times. Then we married, our kids were born, and the need to earn a solid living, of raising kids, and etc kind of got in the way of what we really wanted to do. No regrets (kids are wonderful), but now, more than 25 years later, our elder son has just got his bachelor's degree and his first job, and our other two kids are not far behind, so we are getting ready for the next phase in our lives.
Our first experience with RVing was 2 years ago, when we toured the deserts of South California (Mojave NP - Joshua Tree NP mainly) for 10 days on a rented motorhome; last February, we did the same thing on Germany, touring almost all of Bavaria in 20 days. We liked both RV experiences a lot, so we are planning on making that a permanent part of our lives in a few years from now, as soon as our kids leave home and we can retire and ditch jobs/house/etc and get on the road. In fact, we liked our USA experience the best (we don't think there's a better country for the fulltime RV lifestyle), so we are planning on taking permanent residence on the USA. Vall (the husband) loves the wilderness (specially the deserts), not only for the peace and quiet and the vistas but also for astronomy: Vall loves looking at the sky thru his telescope, and there are no better skies to be found. Mo (the wife) also likes Nature but prefers the cities, so we tend to alternate between both scenarios.
Vall is a compulsive planner, so we are trying to get as much information as we can on fulltime RVing as soon as feasible, in order to make the best possible start.
So far, we have more or less decided that our best option is a to purchase a good 5th Wheel with good boondocking capacity and insulation for our wilderness stays, with a suitable diesel pickup truck; we think this will be the best cost/benefit for the space and flexibility we want. Also, we are considering joining the Escapees club and getting a domicile in Texas so we can have the lowest overall cost considering income tax, vehicle licensing taxes, vehicle insurance, medical insurance, etc. We will be posting our plans on the relevant forums soon.
We must also stress that we are foreigners who have been to the US only as tourists (4 times in the last 3 years), so our USA fulltiming plans necessarily involve becoming legal USA residents; We don't see this as an great difficulty, as Vall has a good prospect of getting an H1B job from an American company which has the policy of automatically sponsoring all foreign employees for a green card. Just in case that this does not work out as planned, our retirement funds are large enough to enter USA on an investor VISA (E2, EB5 or similar), so we are also considering our options on that area.
We have been lurking in this forum a few weeks now, and it has been incredibly useful: you folks are really knowledgeable, kind and helpful, and we can see we have a lot to learn from you.
Cheers,
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Vall and Mo.
We are Vall And Mo, a Brazilian married couple for 25 years, and we are getting ready for fulltime RVing.
We are both approaching 50 years of age, and our first camping experiences were a long time ago, before our marriage, when we tent-camped a couple of times. Then we married, our kids were born, and the need to earn a solid living, of raising kids, and etc kind of got in the way of what we really wanted to do. No regrets (kids are wonderful), but now, more than 25 years later, our elder son has just got his bachelor's degree and his first job, and our other two kids are not far behind, so we are getting ready for the next phase in our lives.
Our first experience with RVing was 2 years ago, when we toured the deserts of South California (Mojave NP - Joshua Tree NP mainly) for 10 days on a rented motorhome; last February, we did the same thing on Germany, touring almost all of Bavaria in 20 days. We liked both RV experiences a lot, so we are planning on making that a permanent part of our lives in a few years from now, as soon as our kids leave home and we can retire and ditch jobs/house/etc and get on the road. In fact, we liked our USA experience the best (we don't think there's a better country for the fulltime RV lifestyle), so we are planning on taking permanent residence on the USA. Vall (the husband) loves the wilderness (specially the deserts), not only for the peace and quiet and the vistas but also for astronomy: Vall loves looking at the sky thru his telescope, and there are no better skies to be found. Mo (the wife) also likes Nature but prefers the cities, so we tend to alternate between both scenarios.
Vall is a compulsive planner, so we are trying to get as much information as we can on fulltime RVing as soon as feasible, in order to make the best possible start.
So far, we have more or less decided that our best option is a to purchase a good 5th Wheel with good boondocking capacity and insulation for our wilderness stays, with a suitable diesel pickup truck; we think this will be the best cost/benefit for the space and flexibility we want. Also, we are considering joining the Escapees club and getting a domicile in Texas so we can have the lowest overall cost considering income tax, vehicle licensing taxes, vehicle insurance, medical insurance, etc. We will be posting our plans on the relevant forums soon.
We must also stress that we are foreigners who have been to the US only as tourists (4 times in the last 3 years), so our USA fulltiming plans necessarily involve becoming legal USA residents; We don't see this as an great difficulty, as Vall has a good prospect of getting an H1B job from an American company which has the policy of automatically sponsoring all foreign employees for a green card. Just in case that this does not work out as planned, our retirement funds are large enough to enter USA on an investor VISA (E2, EB5 or similar), so we are also considering our options on that area.
We have been lurking in this forum a few weeks now, and it has been incredibly useful: you folks are really knowledgeable, kind and helpful, and we can see we have a lot to learn from you.
Cheers,
--
Vall and Mo.
