With my approaching retirement, my husband and I have decided to try RV full timing! We presently own a twenty-one foot RV that we go camping in as often as my work schedule allows, but we both know we couldn't full-time in it as it is very small.
So the hunt begins for a thirty plus foot unit that has two or three slide outs. You would think this was an easy task, but has proven to be much harder than we expected. When my husband began searching craigslist he would call me into his computer room and ask me what I thought of a RV for sale. Honestly I find it very hard to tell from a picture, so I suggested we go to a RV lot and look at some models and see what we thought. This was probably not a good idea as the ones we looked at were beautiful and new and expensive, we are on a limited budget OAP being what it is. However it did give us an idea of space and
layout of different
RVs.
Something we didn't consider when we started this quest was, LAYOUT matters! We saw some RVs on the internet with the kitchen in the back and thought that we would like that layout until we actually saw one in person and realized that with that layout there is very little living room and seeing as I don't like to cook we didn't need a large kitchen are, what we needed was a large living area. We also didn't really think we needed a slide out in the bedroom, but again after the RV tour we knew it was a must. Otherwise there would be no closet space and one thing we do need is closet space!
So make sure when you are thinking of full timing you take the time to go look at numerous size RVs and numerous different layouts. It really helps to determine your needs in a 5th wheel and it's length and layout.
