Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

Beginning to seriously consider "selling out" and buying a motor home or pull trailer and becoming a "snow bird" that wanders the country following nice weather/seasons.

Mr. @Latestarter, you may want to think long and hard about selling out. My wife and I were planning on going RVing full-time after I retired. We watched so many YouTube channels of people doing exactly that. But the more we thought about it, the more it troubled us that we would have no place to which come home if we got tired of traveling. You may reach that point, and then what would you do? It's your life, and you may love it -- several YouTubers have been doing it for years and they love it. But it was the lack of a permanent base that made my wife and me decide to look for a place in the country, and I am glad we did. Perhaps you may want to downsize by getting rid of your goats. Anyway, I'm sure you will think it through before making a big decision like that.

Senile Texas Aggie

 

[Rammy]

Or you could build me a house on the back 40 and I can move in...............just sayin.............

 

[Mini Horses]

Heck, Rammy -- you could just stay in his house while he RV'd

My late DH & I did a lot of RVing & other traveling. It got tiring after we'd "seen it all"...we did always keep a home, however. It wasn't a full time thing but we would go for a few months, then return. One day I just said "no more", just 2-3 weeks maybe every 3-6 months. Still did several trips like that.

 

[Rammy]

Heck, Rammy -- you could just stay in his house while he RV'd

My late DH & I did a lot of RVing & other traveling. It got tiring after we'd "seen it all"...we did always keep a home, however. It wasn't a full time thing but we would go for a few months, then return. One day I just said "no more", just 2-3 weeks maybe every 3-6 months. Still did several trips like that.

Why didn't I think of that? Good idea!! I can take care of the goaties and Mel can sleep in the bed with me ........He would never want LS to come back. Hahaha..................Hmmmmmm............ideas, ideas............

 

[Latestarter]

Mel outweighs you by a few pounds and stretched out is about your height. He's also a bit strong and if he decided to stretch, you'd be on the floor! Thankfully, unlike Elf, Mel doesn't get up on the furniture. Since his fur is full of dirt from his outside bed excavations, coupled with his constant shedding to varying degrees, I personally prefer he stays out in the pasture with his goats. He does enjoy his inside time though.

 

[Rammy]

Anything you say, Sweetie! hahaha.........just kidding!!

 

[B&B Happy goats]

I bought a diesel truck and a 36 foot fifth wheel...took off after selling one of my houses....it was the dumbist thing i have done with money ! It is so expensive to park anywhere, the cost of the fule yikes, let alone a woman and her dog traveling about...talk about weirdos.....after five months sold it all and started over with another house. There is no place like home.

 

[greybeard]

One of my cousins has done it, tho they did keep one of their homes as a hedge. Her and her spouse began doing it long ago when her hubby retired from the USAF.
A big motorhome, not a pull behind.
When her husband died, she continued to do it every summer, traveling from CenTex to as far away as Alaska and last year she and her adult daughter drove it to NY state, where she took a summer job in one of the Nat Parks she had stayed at. Her daughter flew home to return to work but my cousin stayed all 3 months before driving back to Tx alone.

One of my father's friends and his wife did it for years and years, and temporarily managed one of the KOA places in Nevada which gave the permanent manager the ability to travel elsewhere during the summer.
One thing you do have to do in order to easily live the full time RV lifestyle is establish and keep state residency (domicile) somewhere with a permanent mailing address. PO Box doesn't qualify for a permanent address.
There are thousands and thousands of RVers with a residence on Rainbow Dr, Livingston Texas that have probably never seen the street more than 30 days.

For tax reasons, Fla, Tx and SD are the 3 most popular domicile states for permanent RVers.

 

[Latestarter]

Woke up this am with no serious pain anywhere. Hands and wrists were working and would hurt with any real stress, but worked. The knee was functioning as well. Again, long as no real stress put on it. SO after animal chores this am I came in and reclined until things could dry out from the frost/dew. Headed out after lunch and got all the walls up and completely anchored. Tonight it's only supposed to go down to mid 50s Tomorrow should be low 70s with less wind. I hope to finish the walls completely tomorrow which will leave only the roof to do/finish.

Got tired of eating turkey so went out and picked up dog food for the dogs and a little ceaser's thin crust pepperoni pizza. You get what you pay for... 6 buck's worth.

 

[Rammy]

I like Little Caesars pizza. I get the $5 ready to go pizza sometimes on the way home. Looks like the goaties approve of thier new home. Progress looks good. Glad you were feeling better and was able to get things moving along with the new building.