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03-04-2014, 11:21 AM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Muskegon Michigan
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Just retired hitting the road!
My wife and I just retired last month. We are packing for our first extended trip, any good advice will be appreciated.
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03-04-2014, 11:36 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Posts: 2,328
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Expect that things will not always go as planned and take it as just part of the RV experience. Remember that a wrong turn down a dead end with a toad is not a disaster. It's a story to tell your friends when sitting around a camp fire and laugh about.
Bring wine because as every one know, wine not whine makes everything better.
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Paul, Kathy, and Tux the Mini Schnauzer
2014 Tiffin Phaeton 42 LH, 2013 Honda CRV
"When the time comes to look back, make sure you'll like what you see"
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03-04-2014, 11:46 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: https://binged.it/1KdDqKO
Posts: 2,428
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No Radio, No Telephone, No TV, No Computer.......
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03-04-2014, 11:59 AM
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Senior Member
Thor Owners Club Ford Super Duty Owner
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Wherever the rig is parked
Posts: 8,092
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Set out all the clothes you think you'll need. Divide the pile by two and leave half behind. At the end of the first year stack up all the clothes you never used and run them over to Goodwill. Its amazing just how small of a wardrobe you actually need.
Buy an Emergency Roadside Service subscription: Good Sam, Coachnet or whatever.
Remember you are retired. It is no longer a race. Stop and smell the flowers.
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Bruce Dickson 2013 Thor Challenger 37GT, 5 Star Tune, Safe-T-Plus Steering Control with Air Trim, Roadmaster front and rear Sway Bars, SuperSteer rear Track Bar, Crossfires, 2018 Honda CRV . Full timers since Jan 2012.
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03-04-2014, 01:02 PM
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Community Administrator
Fleetwood Owners Club Workhorse Chassis Owner
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Marquette, Michigan "Da UP" & Lehigh Acres Florida
Posts: 21,827
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Have a great trip.
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John & Cathy R.
06 Pace Arrow 38L Workhorse W24
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03-04-2014, 01:04 PM
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Senior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club Ford Super Duty Owner
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: SoCal
Posts: 15,749
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Take your time and enjoy. Stuff will happen, just deal with it as it comes along. It's not an emergency unless someone needs to go to the hospital. 
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Vince and Susan
2011 Tiffin Phaeton 40QTH (Cummins ISC/Freightliner)
Flat towing a modified 2005 Jeep (Rubicon Wrangler)
Previously a 2002 Fleetwood Pace Arrow 37A and a 1995 Safari Trek 2830.
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03-04-2014, 01:14 PM
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Senior Member
Newmar Owners Club
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: On the road.
Posts: 1,432
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Welcome to iRV2.
Quote:
Originally Posted by homeless
No Radio, No Telephone, No TV, No Computer.......
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You can't follow your own advice.  
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John & Diann
2014 Dutch Star 4364
2016 Ford Edge Sport
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03-04-2014, 01:30 PM
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Senior Member
Thor Owners Club Freightliner Owners Club Entegra Owners Club
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Casey, Illinois
Posts: 106
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Take one day at a time and enjoy the adventure. We departed Illinois for Lafayette, LA last Saturday. Stuck in Tunica MS due to ice. Who cares, we don't.
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Gil and Amy Mullen
Central Illinois
2019 Anthem 44B
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03-04-2014, 01:49 PM
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Senior Member
iRV2 No Limits Club
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Naples, Fl.
Posts: 1,303
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Number one rule:
Attitude makes the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.
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Camping Rig: 2006 Outback 27 RSDS--
2005 Dodge 3500 - Dually- Cummins
Full time since June 2006
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03-04-2014, 05:07 PM
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Senior Member
Country Coach Owners Club Retired Fire Service RVer's
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Ocala, Florida
Posts: 6,295
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 Welcome and glad to meet you!
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FMCA #F431170, GS #822128658, Escapees SKP #112655
2012 Airstream Mercedes Interstate Class B
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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03-04-2014, 06:45 PM
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Senior Member
Ford Super Duty Owner
Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 1,126
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what a life enjoy and welcome to irv2
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Allan&Mary with Daisy Dog&peanuts
1999 Newmar Mountian Aire 3758 37.5 ft V10
living life like there is know tomorrow
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03-04-2014, 07:10 PM
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Senior Member
Thor Owners Club
Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 204
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2013 Silverado 2500 HD LTZ CC 6.6L Duramax Diesel
2014 Sunset Trail SF270BH
Holly & Buster, mini Dachshunds
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03-04-2014, 07:46 PM
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Senior Member
Forest River Owners Club
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Livingston, TX
Posts: 1,088
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TAKE YOU'RE TIME!!!!!! Spend more time at each place.... Do some boondocking..... Make new friends.....
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03-04-2014, 08:23 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Southern Ohio
Posts: 793
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Take every pair of underwear and every T shirt you own. Same goes for socks. You can wear the same pair of jeans for many days and shirts too if the stuff underneath is clean.
The goal is to minimize trips to the miserable, expensive, nasty laundromat in the campground or elsewhere.
Take a million quarters with you. Washers are $2.50 and up now and the dryers take forever to dry at $0.25 per 10 minutes. And the guy before you put incredibly nasty stuff in them.
If you are careful you can go a month without laundromats without taking an inordinate amount of stuff.
If you're a clean towel every shower person, then you're in trouble.
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John McKinley
2007 Damon 3060-Ford 16k, Ford C-Max Toad, Ford Ranger Toad, Kawasaki VX300 Versys Motorcycle
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