I need you to come into work this weekend

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An attorney that needs a paycheck is

If you are reading this, then this warning is for you: Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don’t you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can’t think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you’re supposed to read? Do you think everything you’re supposed to think? Buy what you’re told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you’re alive. If you don’t claim your humanity, you will become a statistic. You have been warned.

This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.

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This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.

I'm considering selling everything and living the RV life. It can be pretty cheap
You can do it to Ace

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If you are reading this, then this warning is for you: Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don’t you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can’t think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you’re supposed to read? Do you think everything you’re supposed to think? Buy what you’re told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you’re alive. If you don’t claim your humanity, you will become a statistic. You have been warned.

This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.

And it is all meaningless anyway
But, I would rather have food, clothing and shelter

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I'm considering selling everything and living the RV life. It can be pretty cheap

Cheap in every way, including the lifestyle.
The worst part is, you have to constantly
deal with other losers who decided the
RV life was for them. Loners, substance
abusers, nearly homeless, weirdos and
creeps. Welcome home..

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I'm considering selling everything and living the RV life. It can be pretty cheap
You can do it to Ace

Remind me, Ed... do you already own an RV?

Wife's sister owns one and it is very useful for them for short (couple hours from home) vacations. But the hubby is extremely handy and always can take care of the little issues that come up with RV's. I know I'd be an abject failure as an RV owner.

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Remind me, Ed... do you already own an RV?

Wife's sister owns one and it is very useful for them for short (couple hours from home) vacations. But the hubby is extremely handy and always can take care of the little issues that come up with RV's. I know I'd be an abject failure as an RV owner.

RV = ruins vacations

RV's are basically single wides on wheels. Should you have the pleasure of watching them in a demo derby, simply leaning on one will cause the whole thing to implode on itself; it's naught but particle board wrapped in tin. It's much like a boat; if not spartan as humanly possible, it's not stop headaches in the later years as it disintegrates around you.

That said, while RV parks are like HOA assisted living with less assistance and more mental illness, tramping sounds positively magical. A rudimentary war wagon with just essentials, plopped down in whatever patch of woods you find... I could almost build a life around that. I'd rather swap a ujoint than tear off another roof, that's for sure.

Do full time tramps pay property tax?

Basically 2 groups live the RV life.
Retiree's who can't afford a real
life, and people in their 20's and
30's who are 2 steps from being
homeless. Lots and lots of petty
crime and substance abuse.

People love it at first, and quickly
come to hate living is a shoebox
and worrying about break-in's
all the time. Or breakdowns, they
are constantly shelling out money
for repairs. There are hundreds
of RV bloggers on Utube, very
depressing way to live.

Quote: SOOPOO

Remind me, Ed... do you already own an RV?

Wife's sister owns one and it is very useful for them for short (couple hours from home) vacations. But the hubby is extremely handy and always can take care of the little issues that come up with RV's. I know I'd be an abject failure as an RV owner.

I have a small pop up camper. Can sleep 3 to 5 people.
I bought it primarily to be comfortable at multi day music festivals I attend on vacation
I love it. Its like having a small apartment at a music festival.
I had one of those massive bus sized RV's camp by me once at a festival.
The owner was grumbling about gas mileage and how hard the huge thing is to maneuver. He saw my small popup and asked me what I had inside. I told him, Hot shower, cassette toilet, 20 gallon water tank, 6 gallon hot water tank, sink, stove with 3 burners, AC. He was quite impressed and thinking of downsizing.

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RV's are basically single wides on wheels. Should you have the pleasure of watching them in a demo derby, simply leaning on one will cause the whole thing to implode on itself; it's naught but particle board wrapped in tin. It's much like a boat; if not spartan as humanly possible, it's not stop headaches in the later years as it disintegrates around you.

Yea, not really built to last. Mine has held up pretty well. Keep it in my garage so that helps. The 3way fridge no longer works. They really don't get that cold, prefer ice and a cooler. Replaced the water pump. Did that repair myself. It was tough to replace in that its in a small enclosed space under the sink. No room to work with my hands dealing with screws. In the manual or some sticker somewhere it says its not built for full time living.

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That said, while RV parks are like HOA assisted living with less assistance and more mental illness, tramping sounds positively magical. A rudimentary war wagon with just essentials, plopped down in whatever patch of woods you find... I could almost build a life around that. I'd rather swap a ujoint than tear off another roof, that's for sure.

RV parks run the gamut from high end places that are like resorts with golf, pool and buildings for recreation to cheap places catering to tents.
Don't like your neighbors, move.

I'm pretty excited in an adventure I am taking at the end of August. I have 17 days off. The most I have spent in my camper is 4 nights in a row. This trip, plan on spending 2 weeks in my camper to see how I like the RV life. Beginning of trip, tow to Fort Sumter area and tour civil war sites and anything else in the area. Then a couple days wandering up to Maryland staying at campgrounds where ever I wander too. Meet up with friends to attend Lockn festival. After a festival, take a week to wander down to Tampa stopping and camping near interesting civil war sites.

Looking forward to this to see how I like a 2 week RV experience

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I'm pretty excited in an adventure I am taking at the end of August. I have 17 days off. The most I have spent in my camper is 4 nights in a row. This trip, plan on spending 2 weeks in my camper to see how I like the RV life. Beginning of trip, tow to Fort Sumter area and tour civil war sites and anything else in the area. Then a couple days wandering up to Maryland staying at campgrounds where ever I wander too. Meet up with friends to attend Lockn festival. After a festival, take a week to wander down to Tampa stopping and camping near interesting civil war sites.

Looking forward to this to see how I like a 2 week RV experience

There are more than two groups of people that travel in RV's. I've had 5 trailers, some w/tipouts some not. I'm currently on my 4th cabover camper [I may have missed one in there someplace?]. The first one was a 35ft. double tipout park model that I towed to 50 different city's in 5 years during my early tramping years in powerline construction. I was already just gut sick of hotels and motels, and I dislike them to this day. I've been in I consider more than my share of those as well. But with a caveat, I was almost always cost conscious on the motels picked as a lot of the time I was batching and wanting to take as much of my salary home as I could.

I've heard about everything that could be said about "trailer trash" said. Guys in the trades are using some campers that barely hold out the wind, to some high end motor homes with vaulted ceilings and ceiling fans and even some are combined with toy haulers. They have all the amenity's, dishwashers, washer/dryer etc. Some even have hot tubs. I've stayed in very few, and not for long, those that you could consider sketchy. The sketchier places were hotels in or near poor areas of towns. In actual trailer parks, say KOA or better, and some of the time shares, there is a manager on site and although some guests get loud, no one wants to deal with assholes and they get run out. There are some trailer trash places, but what I've seen those are mostly the fixed units with the axles removed and serve the typical white ghetto movement. ymmv

As has been alluded to, and I was told, "if you own an rv, you don't need a hobby". They are needy things. But in their defense, so are planes, atv's, boats, and my god....horses. I think the graph goes in order of expense to maintain it is something like planes, boats, atv's, rv's. Something like that. The same part on all of those, say a water pump, in price and difficulty rides about along that scale. The guy that told me that one, said to me when mine was about 3 years old, "I'll bet you are putting off fixing some little thing on this right now", and we laughed, there was indeed something,,,I don't recall what it was. But chances are your's needs something right now?

I have used the living heck out of mine. Been the gambit of emotion with them. From loving having all my own stuff, many many miles from home, to seriously considering wrapping one around a tree on the next corner and driving away during a white out snow storm. Since it is just me that does the traveling now, I really like the cabovers, but may have to go to a motorhome as it's become harder to climb ?

The camper before this one, which is identical to this one, one year I got ninety days of camping in. Forty-five of those was up to Alaska and back to Arizona, the rest was hitting indian ruins and state/national parks, Grand Canyon etc. So, I get my use out of them. I also like having one sometimes, just to offer to company if they prefer as an option to not stay in the house, young parents and such. To let them have everything a house offers, and privacy.

I highly recommend the lifestyle you are considering, at least trying it anyway. There are RV clubs that are in communication that meet up all over the country, Good Sam type clubs, where there is guaranteed roadside assistance. Fellow travelers will almost always try to help, it is like a code on the trail.

Add to all that RV'ing I will throw in 5 construction seasons of living on a 32ft. boat. Similar, but floats. What a great way to wake up in the morning and see something different. Back to campers. I think we were possibly within the first ten campers to stay at Valley of Fire park outside Vegas. That should be on everyones destination list, look at it. Over a quarter mile of petroglyphs, that is also how I got my blog handle.

I really like being able to "have a wild hair" and being able to completely be leaving town in less than an hour. It has given me great freedom in my life. .02