Where are you now?

We are staying here on the TX Gulf Coast at Port Aransas at the lot we own in the Gulf Waters RV Resort. Saving all sorts of money and we love it here and other parts of the country are hotter than it is here on the beach believe it or not. We are in the MH full time. This is our house just as it has been for almost 8 yrs. Cost of diesel for running around is the reason we are sitting still.
Chris the Bigfoot

We have taken ourselves out of the fulltimer category as of the first of May this year. We had been spending a lot of time in the upstate foothills area of SC the last two years and have found a very nice 55+ mobile home community here in Taylors, SC and finally got it all set up. We get free yard service including trimming and free garbage service. So we are very secure here and can still seasonally travel. Our next trip will be to The Grand Casino RV Park in Robinson, MS for our 50th anniversary on October 4th. Then back to Taylors for Christmas & New Year then down to Lake Okeechobee in Southern FL for three months of fishing before the place drys up. Then up to Marianna, Fl for a month of Crappie fishing in the great 7 mile long Merritt’s Pond that's going to produce a world record White Crappie soon. Then back to Taylor's. So you can see we are not giving up our traveling habits.
We are also going to join the southeast region of SMART and attend their quarterly get-togethers.


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Fast Eagle

Fast Eagle,
My husband and I love to fish, also. We bought a pontoon boat, and have it here in our seasonal site in DE. I caught a nice flounder Sat., and there is noting like eating it the day you catch it. We had stuffed founder, Sat. The crabs we have been catching have been very nice. We bring in from 40 to 50 every other day. DE allows two crab pots per person. The only problem we have had is that the commercial crabbers have been emptying the pots. They emptied 18 that we have counted last Tues. The DNR here has been making arrests, so we hope this will end soon.

I think many of us retires, have had to make a few adjustments do to the economy, but making lemonade out of lemons, is not to bad. If we weren't concerned about the gas we would of never found this spot in DE. I know this winter will be a new adjustment, but we will just take it as it comes. We will be staying at FT Meade to visit family, and help our daughter out. We would also like to head south, but we will have to see how things our going. When we don't stay at military, we try to use Coast to Coast, to help keep expenses down. We still own our home in MD, that we had rented out. We will probably be moving back there soon, if the gas prices don't stop rising. I am just grateful we have had the time we had, to enjoy the wonderful adventure, of fulltiming. Tomorrow is a new day, so we will bide our time, and see how things are going with the economy, and go from there.

We are in the Minneapolis area at Mystic Lake Casino in Prior Lake, MN. Actually the Dakotah Meadows Campground adjacent to the casino. After sitting in our stick house since October while the wife saw her mother through chemo we hit the road on June 2. Spent two weeks in Amana Colonies, Iowa, including attending an RV rally. Spent the last two weeks in Wisconsin at three different campgrounds. Arrived at Prior Lake today. Next week is another RV rally and then up to Duluth for the rest of the month.

In the past we have tried to spend the winter south, Florida/Arizona, and the summer in Minnesota, where the wife is originally from. Spring and fall are okay to be home in Oklahoma but winters and summers it is not the place to be. Also, in past years we seldom stayed in any one place more than a few days. We are now finding we're staying longer in one place. The three different places in Wisconsin were less than 100 miles apart. We also try to stay in Passport America parks since they are half price for members. We hit military campgrounds when we can but there are not any or many up north and none in Minnesota. We're not letting the price of diesel keep us home, just stay longer in each place to stretch the budget. Actually, we find we spend less money when we are out in the RV than we do sitting at home totally bored. We'll return to Oklahoma sometime in August, spend a few weeks maintaining the house and then head west for another RV rally in California. (Camping fees are included in the cost of the RV rallies. This gives us a chance to have fun, see old friends, make new ones and save a little money.) We are now in our third motorhome and we didn't buy these things to let them sit in a storage lot collecting dust.

Ride on.....

We're at our summer base about 8 miles NW of Gettysburg, PA.....seasonal campground with w/e only...."honey wagon" service once a week and dump station....price is right as we pay $750 for 6mos......do the visiting with the family thing and enjoying the grandkids.....we are re-thinking our winter travels because of the gas prices.....looks like alot of money to head west, then south, then east again....even if we stay longer.......but who knows.......one way or another we'll head out sometime in Sept......

Lori and Dock

Im in an RV park in Washington. Spending my days as a volunteer working at North Cascade National Park. They pay for my rv site with full hookups as well as give me a stippance every day for working.

Like utmtman, we're doing a similar volunteer job with same type RV site. Presently with the National Forest Service in NM. Making just enough to pay for the fuel to get here, but great surroundings...if you like cougars, snakes, and jack rabbits.

We are spending the sumer in Yuba City, CA. due to my brother-in-law having cancer surgery. We had planned to spend the summer on the Oregon coast. We spent 2 weeks there in May just to get away before the surgery.

Hopefully we will spend the winter in southern CA.