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02-05-2018, 03:20 PM
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#43
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Member
Winnebago Owners Club
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 94
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8 years ago when I was 65. Now on our 4th Motor Home.
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02-05-2018, 03:40 PM
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#44
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Desert Hot Springs Ca.
Posts: 947
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Folks bought their first TT when I was 15. Wife & I bought a used tent trailer when I was 39. Had three TT, four 5th wheels, one 5th wheel Toyhauler, at 70 bought first MH.
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Mike & Trish Romans 10:9
2011 Mobile Suites 36RSSB3
2014 F-350 6.7L CC DRW
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02-05-2018, 04:50 PM
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#45
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 7,494
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For me it was 40. Will be 42 soon.
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2008 Phoenix Cruiser 3100
2012 Jeep Wrangler Sahara JKU.
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02-05-2018, 05:02 PM
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#46
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2017
Posts: 6
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Got our first truck camper three years ago when I was 42. Got rid of that one and got our second truck camper last spring. Have a wife and daughter that enjoy it with me.
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02-05-2018, 05:11 PM
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#47
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Bermuda Islands
Posts: 1,492
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At 56 a little later than most to the RV scene but not new at all to the overnighting away from the house, roughing it. First boat, a 21' cuddy cabin, about as much covered room as a small popup, at about 30. That served us well for the years BC, before children. For the years DC, during children, the boats grew first to a 27 then to a 32 spending something like 40 nights a year on the water, always anchored out somewhere.
The RV came along in the transition years into AC, after children. It is very much a rolling condo for 2.
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Home: Bermuda
US RV base, MD
2007 Alpenlite 34RLR
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02-05-2018, 05:39 PM
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#48
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Senior Member
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Sep 2016
Posts: 1,055
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20, when my young bride and i bought a volkswagen campmobile. we used it to explore florida’s west coast / secluded beaches until i shipped off to SEA.
what fun!
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02-05-2018, 06:18 PM
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#49
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: charlotte,nc
Posts: 459
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Ok. Gotta do some math.
Bought my first full size pick up in 2004, so we bought our first popup the next year when I was 44.
Kept it for about a year and a half before we bought an old "canned ham" camper. A '65 Fan, IIRC. Easy to tow, nice looking, but a little tight for 2 adults and 2 dogs.
Sold that one after a year and a half and bought a larger TT that needed LOTS of work. A '72 Norris, I think. Total gut job. Kept it for 2 1/2 years, until we were coming back from NJ for my dad's 80th. Pammi, my DW, said something was sticking out the side of the top as we were traveling down the interstate. Long story short, the seam at the front of the camper gave way and was lifting in the wind! There was a home center nearby and I bought some duct tape, flashing and self tapping screws and mad and air dam to divert wind over the break.
We got it parked and I secured a tarp over it the next day.
Work and life got in the way and it was the next spring before I got back to look at it.
Uh oh. Black mold EVERY WHERE! I wound up scrapping it out for a lot less than we paid for it. Not to mention what we put into it to get it road and camo ready.
A couple years later we bought another used popup and had fun in it for 5 years or so.
Then, last year, when I was 55, we bought our first new TT. LOVE IT!
Of course, that doesn't included the "camping" I did in The Army from 80-86.
But that's a WHOLE different story!
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US Army 1980-86
Proudly served, honorably discharged
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02-05-2018, 06:23 PM
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#50
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2016
Posts: 263
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I was 60, DW 63. Its about as much fun as you can have mixed in with just enough scary moments to keep it interesting.
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Vern, Paula and Kip the psycho billy devil dog
2017 Dutch Star 4369 2014 CR-V Toad (sold)
2017 Newmar Ventana 3412 (sold)
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02-05-2018, 10:27 PM
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#51
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Spanaway, WA
Posts: 194
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25, used Perris Valley slide-in.
32, used Excel 18 ft TT
37, brand new Fleetwood Angler slide-in
54, used Fleetwood Neon pop-up (still have).
57, brand new Winnebago Paseo.
I've camped since 6 years old. My grandpa always had a VW Westfalia, a few times in that and for the last 51 years in my RVs or a tent. I'll still tent once in a blue moon while either on a short Jeep or bike trip. I've even tent camped in Korea and Kuwait.
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2018 Winnebago Paseo (Class B Ford Transit)
2013 Jeep JK towing a 2006 Fleetwood Neon
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02-05-2018, 11:23 PM
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#52
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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2017
Posts: 20
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Years earlier (1985 or so) we had a 16' TT for short weekend fishing trips...had about 2 years.
In 1992, Age 46, we bought our first MH and have had coaches ever since....2 34', then a 39' DP, and a 40' DP last 4 years. Into our 26th yr of coaches.
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02-05-2018, 11:46 PM
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#53
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Junior Member
Outdoors RV Owners Club
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: Port Orchard, WA
Posts: 18
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Recently purchased our first 5er at the age of 68. In good health but hope we didn't wait too long.
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Outdoors RV, 2018 Glacier Peak F28RKS
2014 GMC Sierra 2500HD Crew Cab, Duramax 6.6L
B&W Companion Hitch
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02-06-2018, 12:10 PM
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#54
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Upstate New York
Posts: 3,722
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Age 32, started with a Viking p'up then graduated to a Kountry Aire 5th wheel at 35. Been a few since.
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Dave W
2011 Ford F250 6.7 Lariat CCLB, Gone but not forgotten
2014 Montana High Country 343RL (sold it!)
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02-06-2018, 12:27 PM
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#55
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Member
Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 83
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MY Wife bought me my motor home for my 65th birthday. We had boats before that and I wanted to tour the entire USA. So far 4 years later we have seen all of the western USA including Alaska up to the Mississippi. This March we will cross the Mississippi and start touring the central part of the USA 9 more states.
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2003 Southwind workhorse with Allison
Seeing the USA in a Chevrolet
Corona California
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02-06-2018, 03:06 PM
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#56
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Oregon
Posts: 653
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I believe I was 38.
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2015 Ram 2500 Big Horn, 6.7 cummins, Crew Cab, 4x4
Mid 2016 Outdoors RV Creekside 23DBS, w/backcountry x4 and armor options.
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