Louise and David in the Grand Tetons
Fuji X-T1, Fujinon XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OISII lens
Two years and a few days ago we sold our home and small farm in the northwest Georgia mountains, moved into a new fifth-wheel trailer, and became full-time RVers. It has been an interesting experience, and we have been extremely comfortable and happy living in our camper. But now we are in the process of buying a home in Knoxville.
"Why?" you may ask.
We love our trailer and many aspects of the full-time RV
life, but we are not accomplishing our goals in RVing. We have traveled, but
not as we had hoped. Travel has mostly consisted of going to a campground
somewhere, staying a month or so, then moving on to another campground for
another month or so. It's been interesting to have our tiny home on wheels in a
variety of different places, but we had intended to travel much more.
Our plan was to be footloose, as we were when we went west in 2018 in a smaller camper and light truck, covering 7,000 miles in 30 days. (I wrote about the trip in August and September of 2020.) But travel is cumbersome in a big rig. Setting up and breaking camp is a much slower process. And diesel fuel is prohibitively expensive, especially for a heavy-duty truck that gets 10--11 miles per gallon.
The valiant Chevy and our Starcraft travel trailer at Badlands National Park.
So, we are buying a condo in a pleasant section of Knoxville, near the church
we attend. We plan to sell our trailer and truck and buy smaller ones that
will enable us to resume the more mobile kind of travel we enjoy.
We have a lot of travel left in us, God willing, but we need to change the way we do it. (But maybe not 7,000 miles in 30 days again!)
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Dave, good luck with setting down roots again. You will still be blogging I hope?
ReplyDeleteI have never really pulled much with a truck, so your Chevy and RV are big enough, let alone a 5th wheel and big diesel dually. You should not have any trouble selling your rig in today's market.
No plans to stop blogging, Greg. Once we make the planned changes we hope to spend less time in an RV, but to make our time there more intensive.
ReplyDeleteThere are two 2021s like ours listed in RVTrader for more than we paid for ours brand new. But they have each been there for more than ten weeks. We can afford to price ours a little lower to move it out more quickly and still come out okay, especially since we have had the benefit of living in it for two years.
Hope we can see you both the next time we are in Knoxville. Or, you can come see us. E and C
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