Status during the virus

Quote: petroglyph

For my tastes, a person should be able to look out their window and not be able to see their neighbors place. But I'm fine with "each to their own".

I am good as long as I can see either a mountain or water, preferably both. Not much of a flat lander. I can appreciate the beauty of the desert but I get tired of it after a couple of weeks. Neighbours don't usually bother me much as long as they do their thing and let me do mine.

Quote: petroglyph

For my tastes, a person should be able to look out their window and not be able to see their neighbors place. But I'm fine with "each to their own".

In an RV park you get to see
your fat assed neighbor with
4" of ass crack showing fiddling
with his BBQ every evening. Or
sitting in the lawn chair under
the awning drinking Coors
all day long. Or both. Just go to
any state or fed park in MI on
any summer weekend. It's
hillbilly white trash from one
end to the other.

Quote: Evenbob

In an RV park you get to see
your fat assed neighbor with
4" of ass crack showing fiddling
with his BBQ every evening. Or
sitting in the lawn chair under
the awning drinking Coors
all day long. Or both. Just go to
any state or fed park in MI on
any summer weekend. It's
hillbilly white trash from one
end to the other.

I've stayed in probably, well over a hundred during my following powerline construction days. I stayed in so many hotels/motels and apartments, 4 walls is a stigma. Being a mild germaphobe, I've seen what people leave behind in hotels. Maids might change the sheets but rarely the bedspread, and bedbugs are unstoppable. I was highly mobile, and if I didn't like the sound of one neighbor beating his wife I could move everything in less than an hour in an RV, settle in another location and the coffee would still be warm. I know where everything is from locale to locale, knives, pots and pans. Same place they were in the last town. I've got my stereo, tv, etc. No deposits or landlords to deal with. I can tell where to stay and where not to generally.

I hate searching for a place to stay in the next town . Not knowing what the place is like, how the neighbors swing. I like having my comforts with me when I travel.

If EB doesn't hate some activity, it's probably not worth doing.

Quote: petroglyph

I've stayed in probably, well over a hundred during my following powerline construction days. I stayed in so many hotels/motels and apartments, 4 walls is a stigma. Being a mild germaphobe, I've seen what people leave behind in hotels. Maids might change the sheets but rarely the bedspread, and bedbugs are unstoppable.

I agree. I am always suspicious of hotel/motel bedding.
I love sleeping in an RV with clean quality bedding.

Quote: petroglyph

I was highly mobile, and if I didn't like the sound of one neighbor beating his wife I could move everything in less than an hour in an RV, settle in another location and the coffee would still be warm. I know where everything is from locale to locale, knives, pots and pans. Same place they were in the last town. I've got my stereo, tv, etc. No deposits or landlords to deal with.

I agree.

Quote: petroglyph

I can tell where to stay and where not to generally.
I hate searching for a place to stay in the next town . Not knowing what the place is like, how the neighbors swing. I like having my comforts with me when I travel.

I'll probably stay at nice full service places, 40 to 60 a night, for the 1st 6 months as I get my feet wet doing this fulltime
I don't plan on spending a lot of time in the campgrounds unless the weather is crummy
Plan on a ton of bike riding looking for interesting places to ride. Checking out all the historical sites the country has to offer
House is getting empty. I'm getting there.
48 cash transactions of facebook marketplace so far. Only have about 10 items left and may trash those or give away
I had a beautiful Dining room table with 3 leaves so 58 inches to 88 inches. I couldn't sell it. I was very surprised. Gave it away. Coffee table sold for good money.
Huge bedroom dresser drawer 6 feet long with 2 huge mirrors. Couldn't sell it. Gave it away
China cabinet, had to give away.
Overall cheap light dresser drawer furniture sold easily while big heavy high quality furniture sat.
My pop up camper sold immediately. As soon as I put it up, my phone blew up.
My 40 year old audio cabinet speakers went right away
Hammock sold right away. Treadmill sold right away.
Asian stuff like tea pots, tea cups and other Asian stuff sold quickly
Guitars sold fast. They were just toys. I had no talent
Extra bike sold fast

Quote: terapined

I'll probably stay at nice full service places, 40 to 60 a night, for the 1st 6 months as I get my feet wet doing this fulltime
I don't plan on spending a lot of time in the campgrounds unless the weather is crummy
Plan on a ton of bike riding looking for interesting places to ride. Checking out all the historical sites the country has to offer
House is getting empty. I'm getting there.
48 cash transactions of facebook marketplace so far. Only have about 10 items left and may trash those or give away
I had a beautiful Dining room table with 3 leaves so 58 inches to 88 inches. I couldn't sell it. I was very surprised. Gave it away. Coffee table sold for good money.
Huge bedroom dresser drawer 6 feet long with 2 huge mirrors. Couldn't sell it. Gave it away
China cabinet, had to give away.
Overall cheap light dresser drawer furniture sold easily while big heavy high quality furniture sat.
My pop up camper sold immediately. As soon as I put it up, my phone blew up.
My 40 year old audio cabinet speakers went right away
Hammock sold right away. Treadmill sold right away.
Asian stuff like tea pots, tea cups and other Asian stuff sold quickly
Guitars sold fast. They were just toys. I had no talent
Extra bike sold fast

Yeah, right on.

Get a book and a yearly pass for the national parks. I have a disabled one for free. That's the federal ones. Man you can wear the tires off your bike going around Yosemite. There are so many beautiful places to camp, comfortably. I didn't like Yellowstone much, to strict. But the animals were great, Old faithful. Go across the top in the summer and the bottom in the winter.

I would think there is a Deadhead caravan somewhere? Most of the time decent RV'rs want to help if they can. I think Bob is thinking about run down mobile home parks, at least that's the visual I got with plumbers butt.

I think we may have been the first to camp in Valley of fire state park outside of Vegas. It is awesome. Smoke a bowl and climb up Atlatl rock, the petroglyphs almost talk to you. Really an enlightening experience. One wall has a quarter mile strait of petroglyphs, but they are rapidly fading into oblivion. There are so many civil war stops, indian ruins, national parks. My avatar at wov is from petrified forest on the 40. How many motels would that take?

I here you on trying to unload stuff that has no meaning. My wife taught me that they sell furniture in all 50 states, and she is right. Our possessions do own us. How many storage places are full of crap people will never need again?

When I moved to Alaska I bought a Uhaul truck 24ft. with a lift gate. I went across the scales in Anchorage to find out how much the crap I hauled from Wash, to Ak. weighed. I hauled 14 thousand pounds of stuff. Tools yada yada. I lost the truck and the house, the truck probably still has a ton of stuff in it from 30 years ago when I went north. Silly me. Wouldn't leave furniture behind.

I really liked living on a boat. If there isn't a place for it, you don't take it to the boat with you. Simple.

I think you will love the journey, and be glad you aren't waiting another ten years to do it.

That's a funny revelation about the cheap stuff going fast and the expensive stuff not selling. Auctions are that way. Go bid on a 11 horsepower farm tractor and you will fight with ten other bidders. Get to bid on a D-9 caterpillar and you can get it for next to nothing. I sent my 12 yd. dumptruck to auction without a minimum reserve, it had a brand new motor. I think it sold for 800 bucks. Ouch, I couldn't buy 3 of the tires for that much.

Quote: terapined

I agree. I am always suspicious of hotel/motel bedding.
I love sleeping in an RV with clean quality bedding.

If I had to pick the biggest
sucks about RV living,
besides the huge number
of low life's that do it,
it would be these. Everytime
you drive one, it's like a
mini earthquake to the RV.
They're designed to be
used a few times a year,
not full time.

So they constantly break down
and cost a fortune to repair
on the road. This is a fact of
RV life, nobody is immune to
it. They guzzle gas like a biker
at Octoberfest. No matter how
comfy you think it is at first,
in a month you'll think you're
in prison. If it's hot outside you'll
be hot inside even with the noisy
gen and air going full blast. And
ditto when it's cold out. Cold out,
cold in.

But above all the rest, above water
hookups, and sewage dumps, bad
to non existent internet,
no storage space, tiny kitchen and
a shower you can barely turn around
in, constant problems with the
propane, constant breakdowns and
repairs that cost a fortune, nights
you can't sleep because you hear
every single noise because the
walls are paper thin, on top of all
that, you have to be constantly
worried about being vandalized.
In an RV you're a sitting duck for
crooks who will steal anything
you leave outside.

I know half
a dozen people in the last 25
years that were super excited
about living the RV life and
all quit in disgust some time
later. It just beat them up
and beat them down. That's
why when you see the hard core
RV people who do it year in
and year out, you soon find
they're stuck, they have no choice.
It's all they can afford. Most of
them are not capable of living
anywhere else.

Had a guy tell me one time, "if you own an rv, you don't need a hobby". Because they are some needy sob's. That is an inescapable fact of having one. Like you said, the constant vibration, out in the elements and so on.

They are like having horses, or atv's. You have to not mind fixing things, and every measurement seems unique to that individual rv as well. They order a certain case lot of parts and build some, send them to the dealers and sometimes finding a replacement is difficult.

The quality has gotten considerably better in 40 years. It's crazy to me, that there are actually clubs that like restoring old, antique travel trailers. Even when they are repaired as new [they meet here in Havasu], they are old trailers that look new, heavy and often don't tow as well as modern ones. Odd shape and size to every light, or fixture in the thing.

Agree on the neediness of rv's. Boats, planes, atv's, they all need a lot of attention.

I will add though, even a landed house sitting on a foundation does require maintenance. It either gets maintained or people live with it deteriorating, or it resolves in the sale price. But things wear, and the more they vibrate and are exposed to anything other than laboratory conditions, the sooner they need maintenance. It r helps to have skills and not mind fixing little stuff, frequently. Chances are everyone here has something that needs doing, either at their house or on there vehicle. Life takes attention.

Pretty much if you have a phone signal, you can get internet.

Quote: petroglyph

I will add though, even a landed house sitting on a foundation does require maintenance.

Having owned a home for 40
years, it's a slow and pondering
maintenance. Not an immediate
I'm stuck on the side of the road
in bum frick Utah staring at $2400
in repairs.

Quote:

Pretty much if you have a phone signal, you can get internet.

Slow and crappy and expensive
internet. Just watched a video
of an RV'er who said it's his
biggest beef. Internet sucks
big time in an RV no matter
how many phones you have.
Wanna watch Nflix, better
choose wisely cause you ain't
at home no more..

Quote: petroglyph

Had a guy tell me one time, "if you own an rv, you don't need a hobby". Because they are some needy sob's. That is an inescapable fact of having one. Like you said, the constant vibration, out in the elements and so on.

My pop up has treated me well. A lot of minor issues but that's no big deal
Really only 2 big issues, fridge and water pump
Fridge stopped working after several years. It was small and just kept stuff cool rather then cold
I just switched to an ice cooler, keeps stuff a lot colder
The water pump under the sink stopped working.
I just bought a new one and switched it out
That was tough because very little room to work but I got it done
Other then that, really happy with the camper the last 14 years as I used it about 50 to 60 times and towing it as far as VA and TN from FL

Need to upgrade so I put it on the market. Advertised it was garage kept 14 years and I am original owner
Due to the virus, RV camping extremely popular
All rentals sold out
Pulled out of the garage, set ip up in my driveway. Neighbors checked it out. 1st time I set it up in the driveway.
Posted it on Facebook marketplace. My phone blew up.
I was taken aback by the response
I had immediate cash offers but they were discounted cash offers
It was a pleasure to message back saying I can't accept discounted cash offer due to very high interest.
Sold it a few hours later for my asking price and given cash. That cash roll was huge.
Thinking about not banking it but just setting it aside. Never know what may come up.
Might come in handy on my future RV adventures