To RV or not to RV?

Last summer we took an extended trip in our motor home and thoroughly enjoyed most every minute of the trip. The 3 1/2 month trip really got us to thinking about if and when we go full-time and how it would be to do so. By the way, going full-time means living permanently in your RV/motor home. We love our motor home and since it's 37' with 3 slides it's actually plenty roomy for us, besides you always have a patio it seems no matter where you park it. We actually both seem to even sleep better in our motor home bedroom than in our at home now.

Anyway with the housing market the way it's been for the past 3 to 4 years here in Arizona and the values just down at the bottom of the tank, we've been thinking more and more about living in our motor home. Not just to be living in an RV or motor home, but the adventures that naturally go along with it intrigue us a bit. It's now just the two of us and a 3000 plus square foot house on a acre that consumes a lot of our time and energy and money to maintain, and with myself retired and B very near retirement we wondering if we really need all this. We've actually been toying with the idea of downsizing in the biggest of ways, into our motor home. We plan on doing this for sure when Bev retires officially and basically following the sunshine across this great land of ours. As far as work goes she actually worked while on that 3 1/2 month trek with no problems no matter what part of the country we were in, technology today allows for most anything from anywhere and that's good.

I'm not sure by writing this blog that I'm asking for comments or not or advice one way or another, but I as usual welcome all comments with reference to any blog I write. And like I said we're toying with the idea and hoping to make some kind of a decision in the next few months as to what we do with the house, furniture and junk we really don't need or won't need. We know it would be a big step in our life, and to downsize that drastically is a big move and we know it and will pray hard about it.

With all the reading and talking to full-times that we've done the vast majority wouldn't trade it for anything, and make and have friends literally all over the United States. The grand kids and our children would and will be probably the biggest stumbling block of the entire decision, we're a very close family and it was even hard to be gone the 3 plus months last year. With laptops, skype, and video conferencing we can still see each other but we will most likely have a home base of some sort in and around the Phoenix area because God knows we love this place so much! So as you might imagine there is so much going into this decision, much more than just a house or the finances of one over the other just so much to think about.

Pray with us and for us as we make these life changing decisions....................