We have two wonderful children, both done with college and gainfully employed.  Mike was a Registered Nurse and worked in Public Health for 20+ years.  Julie was a manager with a logistics company for 30+ plus years.

As we discussed retirement we thought, “Kids have moved away, let’s live someplace warm during the winter, cool during the summer”. Hard to hit both of these without having two residences and we really didn’t want to shell out the money for that.

So what about RVing?  Surprisingly both of us thought this was an option and we started looking into the possibility in 2016.  We rented an RV a couple of times, once during an Educational RV rally with RV-Dreams.  We survived this week long seminar in a 30 ft RV, came out unscathed, actually had a great time, learned a lot, met some great people and decided that the lifestyle was definitely for us.

As we were getting ready for retirement, we continued to try to learn as much as we could while getting our “sticks and bricks” home ready for sale, as we planned to use the proceeds to buy an RV for our full-timing adventure.

Our plans and efforts paid off. We sold our house in May 2018 and bought our RV in June.  Retirement did not start until August, so we lived in a furnished apartment for a few months to help get used to living in small space. We officially started full-time RVing in August 2018.

If you want to learn more about our journey to full-time RV life, please see our early blog posts detailing the beginning of our adventure.