Full time RV living

[prof_fate]

9.5 is better than I'd have thought. And 12+ w/o a car is great IMO.

I wonder what folks get putting those huge 5vrs? The ones that seem to tower over the TV? Wind resistance has to be worse on them and a 5vr overall than a class A and car.

[Phil57]

I don't know what they get I'm sure someone will chime in. My MPG comes at a cost. I can get to the top of any hill but I won't be the first. No issue for me and I do like the MPG.


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[Tm_rich]

I pull a 41' that's loaded to 15350 lbs. with a 2012 ram 3500 dully 4 door 4x4 and I get anywhere from 11.3-11.9 and I'm very pleased. There has been no mods done to the truck other than an auxillary tank added.


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[Jammer3025]

Very inspiring short stories here about full timing. We can't wait. Just had our first open house. 2 people were really interested in it. Time will tell. If it does sell I have a whole lot of work to do. Everything is going into storage. I don't know what I will do without a garage to goof around in all day, but I'm sure I'll manage. Keep the stories coming.

[Rtazz17]

We have a 41 ft fiver. We get 11mpg with ford f350 diesel.Weighs 14.5 k.. Had a 9k travel trailer before the fiver and got same mpg.


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[Marks]

I think mpg is more a function of rolling resistance including aerodynamics than weight. On the flat, I average 11 mpg with an 18k fiver. I use my cruise and drive 55. Behind my truck, none of the front of the trailer gets any wind except the air that rushes in between.

[wagonrd]

On the sailing thing: Don't go out on the ocean on anything less than a thousand feet long. CDR(USN)Ret

[MeepMeep]

Originally Posted by wagonrd

On the sailing thing: Don't go out on the ocean on anything less than a thousand feet long. CDR(USN)Ret

I'm with the Commander.......altho it doesn't always hold true. Took some waves over the bow of USS JFK off the Virginia Capes back in the late 70's - quite a ride

[Phil57]

Originally Posted by wagonrd

On the sailing thing: Don't go out on the ocean on anything less than a thousand feet long. CDR(USN)Ret

Great advice. Where were you when I volunteered for a NATO cruse in the N Atlantic. Four months in the basement of an LST(USS Fairfax county 1193) In my opinion a LST should be confined to nothing larger than a small lake.
Thanks for your service CDR.


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[wagonrd]

Right on! All RV's are a compromise in some form. Our 5th wheel is for snowbirding at Lake Havasu. Our 11 1/2 ft Lance slide in camper is for two week trips to northern Calif, Utah, Montana. Our pop up is for logging roads. Our Jeep, with camping gear, is for gnarly Colorado, Arizona, Nevada roads. My lightweight air mattress is for a comfortable night on the John Muir Trail.

[wagonrd]

I was the OPTEVOR rep on an LST conducting firing tests of the Sea Sparrow off Point Mugu. That flatbottomed vessel rocked and rolled so violently that I always had to have my arms outstretched to cushion the hits against the bulkheads. I upchucked my cookies several times and here I was a macho jet jock used to turning with G's. Tough sailors, those LST crewmen!

[NINA]

Where's the "LIKE" button.

[FreddieMac]

I am 42 and I have setup my meager portfolio to allow me to retire at 62. I have always wanted to full-time in an RV. I remember going to school as a kid on a bus seeing this old class c motorhome with a Fort Wilderness tire cover. I let my imagination go wild on trips to school for years. I take the perceptive you never really own anything in this life, you are just renting. Big houses and fancy cars just never appealed to me, so after 20 years and a few camping trips my wife has fallen in love with the idea as well. We are a happy couple, but seem happiest when we are together doing things out and about. Our thoughts will be to sell our home and buy some "land" in Orlando, Florida as a home base for the winter months. She really wants to go back to working for Disney, so our goal is to "full-time" during the months of March to September and work the holiday season at Disney world. At that point I will be retiring from 40 years of high pace IT work, dressing up as Mickey Mouse seems appealing! :-) When as you say age or health limit our ability to drive the open roads, then we can simply park the MH and live on our land or get a condo.

[Travelingbuddy]

Love the flagstaff fiver, however after lightning hit house requiring us to live in fifth wheel for seven weeks with yellow lab it was very nice to come home! About two weeks at a time is FUN. Husband likes to drive but got him to spend two days at each cg so we could get in some sightseeing. Much better. He doesn't fish, golf or do crowds. I was getting better at getting Picts at 60 mph but now we can stop and focus lol.


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[techntrek]

Originally Posted by Travelingbuddy

Love the flagstaff fiver, however after lightning hit house requiring us to live in fifth wheel for seven weeks with yellow lab it was very nice to come home! About two weeks at a time is FUN. ...

I agree that keeping a home base is a good plan. We hope to part-time full-time when we retire - keeping the house to come back to every few months.

[Pbalmer65]

Originally Posted by prof_fate

9.5 is better than I'd have thought. And 12+ w/o a car is great IMO.

I wonder what folks get putting those huge 5vrs? The ones that seem to tower over the TV? Wind resistance has to be worse on them and a 5vr overall than a class A and car.

I have a 09 F250 and a Sabre 14 36qbok (42'). I have a programer that allows me more hp and tq and I get as low as 12 and on a windless day 15. :-)


Any camping will do. :-)

[techntrek]

Originally Posted by Pbalmer65

I have a 09 F250 and a Sabre 14 36qbok (42'). I have a programer that allows me more hp and tq and I get as low as 12 and on a windless day 15.

Which one do you use?

[Pbalmer65]

I have the H&S xrt pro. The last of the DPF delete. Also cold air and cat back exhaust. A total upgrade of $1800. Money well spent too. Without 5er I get 16 in town and 21 on the big road :-)


Any camping will do. :-)