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We Are Now Officially Fulltimers

© Barry Houseknecht

Approximately eight months ago, due to my job I relocated to a city some sixty miles from where my wife and I were living. Due to a prior commitment, and her also just starting a new job she stayed behind. Now she has turned in her resignation quit her job and moved here with me.

We left what we called our home over the last five years, and have no plans of ever returning for anything other than a visit don't consider ourselves to be truly "on the road" yet. Our plans workcamp for the winter season didn't pan out. We are not retired nor old enough to draw social security so our entire living will have to be made from the jobs that we find. So far none of the jobs that we have found would have supported us. We are thinking that we will have to have something like $2000.00 per month to live. Our plans for now are develop a side income E-bay auctions and continue to look for something for the spring.

We have been living together in the fifth wheel for just over a month now and here are some things we have found;

1. Several things need to be modified to our taste, a shelf here, a hook there.

2. There seems to be a lot of storage but what goes where is an ongoing process.

3. There are things that disappeared when we moved, two sets of keys and a pair of binoculars.

4. The refrigerator, being smaller, is full one day and empty the next, haven't got that shopping thing down yet.

5. The clothes basket doesn't yet have a home it just seems to move on its own and is always in the way.

6. The cats sleep more now than they did before

7. If you don't put everything back in it's place a fifth wheel gets cluttered very quickly.

8. There is another person always in your space, you need to be very good friends when you are never further than 15 feet apart.

9. Laundry is a big chore now that we don't have the washer and dryer in the house.

10. We used to say "Do you want this?" "Yes keep it just in case." now it's "No we will get another if we need one."

I think that our actually living in the RV prior to our starting "life on the road" is absolutely the way to go. I would suggest that if it is at all possible move into your RV and totally live in it for a while, even if it is in your own front yard. Finding that you are not compatible in such confined living will be much easier to take near home than 1500 miles away.

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