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I was opposite. My first year in the military I was a shadow learning from a guy about to retire. It was mostly what he liked to talk about so I learned and became proficient in the subject. When he left I felt like I got left behind. I started buying multi family rentals I could maintain. I was...

Welcome back We’ve been rving on the road retired for 22 years. Congratulations on finding a place and partner. I’m always wondering if I’ll see a place we’d want to live just over the next hill. Will try a summer in Alaska next.

Our current neighbor in an rv park is following around military kid and grandkids in their motorhome. When we’re not able to live independently we’ll pull up into the circle drive of a minimum care facility in the Moho, get out with a few things, and throw the parking attendant the keys.

Wife’s friend we were going to spend 3 months with near London just told us she has covid. We’re all vaccinated except her 2 small children. May throw a wrench in our plans for spring. Wife’s cousin died last month after Covid with diabetes. She was vaccinated and a teacher.

We sold our big house in a glitzy area and have been living in our motorhome since 2000. After traveling around North America and spending a few years in Europe I can’t imagine having such a big house or any of the huge wood furniture we owned before. The value of an rv after 20 years is about...

Seems like everything on the motorhome we live in broke in September. This month I replaced the solar panels and controller, replaced microwave oven, and replaced whole house vent fan. Still need to fix the mirror that is a door covering the stacked washer and dryer, and outdoor awning spring...

The microwave oven Best Buy promised me three days ago isn’t here yet and the wifes new iPad cover got lost completely by amazon. Northern ARizona wind and sun in flagstaff jacked up the prices on all the new solar system components I called about the day before. The prices on their website...

We’ve been living in a big motorhome for about 21 years now following the weather. We usually camp without hookups on public or private lands 9 months out of the year using around 500 gallons of water, 20 gallons of propane, and 30 gallons of generator gasoline a month. We dump the tanks every...

With that attitude, the girlfriend may need to be replaced instead of the vehicle.

I had the same problem in my shed. Lots of mosquitoes and black widows. I tried everything then did a bug bomb. It solved the problem immediately and I didn’t notice any lingering smells.

If you’re going to fill your time with a part time job then why bother leaving. Traveling will be a great education for your child. Maybe you can find sports or social events in foreign countries. That could lead to lifelong friendships. Retiring at 34 I gave up most of my high earning years...

You could say your nervous about running out of time.

I’ve seen this on rentals the last few years. I was renting a car in Cali that had enough miles that the tires were pretty worn. I asked for a car with better tires since I was responsible for their performance.

We got evacuated from flagstaff Az on 22june because of forest fires. All the forests are closed because it’s so dry. The pine needles all snap when walking around. We moved RV to Vegas park. 112 outside now. When I was a kid there was big wind and rain every afternoon for about 6 weeks. Now...

The problem with southern AZ is unless you go to Mexico every trip you go on is a trip to Phoenix first. Decent lakes, Snow skiing, and ocean are past Phoenix. The mountains west of Sierra Vista have oaks and some nice cactus but to get to town you have to drive through the base. With the...

Old lady sent hers in 10 may. Just got notice they got it Thursday. They say 10-12 weeks from now if nothing goes wrong.

July is hot too but the monsoon rains make it humid. Phoenix is pretty ugly unless you get out of the valley into a little higher elevation where the Sonoran desert is spectacular. Good time to visit is nov-March. Just to visit family for a few months I would get an Airbnb close to them and ask...

I’ve had some friends that have been camp hosts and have been asked to do it several times. It’s total benefit has been four dollars an hour or less. I just wouldn’t work for that. If you’re board or lonely in retirement it would be good. In the last 3-5 years rving has somewhat changed from...

How about Hershey’s bars. Early 2000’s 8 oz bar at Walgreens was 99 cents. Now 5oz bar is 1.79.

Great idea When I retired, sold the house, and moved into our motorhome we both wrote listing the reasons we did and didn’t like owning a house and where. The thinking was we would choose the next place remembering the positives and negatives. I keep thinking the next time we roll into another...

Long distance rentals are frustrating to manage. The gulf coast may get a little weather from time to time. You should rent when you want to go.

For us size wasn’t an issue. Noise was. In Germany the people above us had small children that would constantly be jumping and running on the wood floor. I couldn’t really say anything during winter but they did it all year. We got a brand new upscale apartment on the top floor temporarily in...

We quit going to movies about seven years ago because of the at least half hour of commercials before the movie.

Too bad you don’t have much camping there. Plenty of campgrounds in the western states but we can’t use it. People reserve all the weekends way ahead of time for the year then cancel most of them at the last minute when they narrow in on when they will actually go. We like to go all week and a...

We bought a mattress at Costco about 5 years ago and after about 9 months the DW said she just couldn’t get comfortable sleeping on it. We took it back and got a full refund. The same time we bought another one and have loved it for about 4 years now. I don’t remember what brand name the first...