FULLTIMING - DOES AN RV FEEL LIKE A HOME
by Karen Coates and Margaret

Margaret wrote:
We've bought a new RV and started as fulltimers. We got rid of most things but we're still carrying too much with us. It's difficult but we'll dispose of the extra, but it really doesn't feel like home. Any fulltimer with ideas? How did you feel and does it seem like home?

Karen Coates replied:
We've been fulltiming for 6 years, I'm 72 and my husband 74 and we're still enjoying it, this is the best life.

We sold our house that we'd lived in for 27 years and like you we had too many things that we brought into the coach even after we gave our daughter most of it, I think we've still got too much.

I know how you feel it didn't feel like home for a long time. It should have been better for us because we'd RVed for nearly six months of the previous year and we should have been used to it but it felt strange when we finally took off after selling our home.  

It does get better though; I don't think about our house much now and I do think of our coach as home. We're thinking of trading for a new rig though so I don't know if that will feel strange, but I think it will be better because we'll have slides and more space. I hope you'll be as happy as we are we love fulltiming.

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