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7/30/05, 10:40 PM #1

Mike G. in SC
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Mike G. in SC

>My wife and I took the plunge and decided to start living in our 35 ft RV trailer. So far, it's been pretty good. With only two of us, there's not too much clutter unless you count all her craft stuff all over the place. I was supposed to have some shop space in one of the 10x16 ft portable buildings we bought, but they are full of stuff we can't decide about getting rid of yet. You ever try to put 10 pounds of $#!^ in a five pound sack? That's what happens when you try to move all the stuff from a six room house with four outbuildings into a 35 foot RV and two 10x16 ft buildings. I still ended up having to rent a 10x15 storage unit just to store my shop cabinets and tools.

Well...whichever one of us is still alive after six months gets to keep it. 8^)

Mike G. in SC enjoying the RV life...so far.

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7/30/05, 10:46 PM #2

Mike G. in SC
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Mike G. in SC

>I forgot to mention that we went from having DSL back to dialup, so I don't get on like I used to...it is sooo slow.

Mike G. in SC

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7/30/05, 11:53 PM #3

Bill Houghton
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My sympathies

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>I get all twitchy when I don't get a few minutes of doing something physical every weekend. I don't always get much shop time, but even pulling weeds helps.

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7/31/05, 4:08 AM #4

john l. blue
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>Hey Mike!

Sorta hopin' you could keep me posted on your rving, thinkin' about tryin' it ourselves in the future.

We are in the Sandhills (Pinebluff) of N.C. John

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8/1/05, 9:07 PM #5

Alan Hamilton
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>Mike,

Some friends and I were camping in our VW Campmobiles (yes, that long ago, around 1975 or thereabouts) in Death Valley where we met three retired couples that literally lived on the road in their trailers. They had their trailers outfitted with all the conveniences of home--they even had clothes washers and driers, and dish washers. In the winter they all headed south, in the summer they went wherever the road led.

Apparently there are (or were) a whole lot more people doing this than I thought. The three couples knew one another, but weren't traveling together; they all just happened to wind up in Death Valley at the same time. They said that it was rare if they didn't run across someone they knew every week or two.

They went where they wanted to go, stayed as long as they wanted to stay--or until their Social Security and pension money caught up with them--and then packed up and moved on. One of the couples had been living this way for six years when I met them. One of their children's house was their only permanent address--where they hadn't spent more than a couple weeks in the entire six years.

I was--and am--envious.

Alan

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8/2/05, 12:16 AM #6

Mike G. in SC
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Mike G. in SC

>We actually have our trailer set up on my son-in-law's place until we can find some land of our own to set up on. We couldn't afford the gas to haul this thing around. If we decide we want to "trailer" around, we plan to buy another, smaller trailer. 8,000 pounds is more trailer than my poor truck can haul.

On topic, I'm slowly getting some room in my shop. Pretty soon, I'll be able to actually do some work on some small projects.

Mike G. in SC

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