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Technomadia: I wish you would do a reply to Neal's post on that forum to clarify things - without any links. (Hope you're out of bug range with your boat!! Those were horrible)

Thanks for the clarification 'bobsallyh'! That sounds great.

Zulu (under a different name on irRV2) gave the link in post #14 (Mobile Internet Resource Center - MIRC). In post #15 it states that MIRC gets their articles from the iRV2 OP's work.

For your rig Baker's Hole sites will be very limited & could have tree issues - narrow road.

Carry dog repellant. It works. We had unleashed dogs coming after us while bike riding. One spray & they take off yelping.

Personally, the Bowlus is ugly - in and out though I'm sure some like it. Choices.

You both have high qualifications. You'll need to be stationary for a teaching job and probably for any good paying job. Good luck!

From Casa Grande take I-8 west to Hwy 85 at Gila Bend then north to I-10 at Buckeye. Go west on I-10 to exit 45 taking your to 72 to AZ 95 at Parker, AZ. Then north on 95 to Lake Havasu to I-40 then either west to 95 or east to 93 into Las Vegas. This completely avoids Phoenix and CA95.

If you keep bouncing around from plan the price will soon catch up with you. They all raise their price at some time.

You seem to have a good attitude about your future lifestyle. Personally, I'd give it longer than 6 months. If you do a year before making a decision you will have gone through all the seasons and realize you can have reasonably good weather all the time. Also, with the seasons of summer and winter you will get a feel of the different types of people out there - families and retirees. Slow down in your travels. You don't have to see it all right away. Many seasons we picked a state and explored that state thoroughly - driving every secondary road and backroads. If you seem to become bored, why not try volunteering? In addition to getting your campsite in some of the most beautiful places in the country, you can have the feeling of really helping out our public parks. You don't have to be a camp host. There are many unique opportunities to do. We specialized in giving lighthouse tours, including living on an island in Lake Michigan. We gave the tours at the famous Heceta Head Lighthouse in Oregon. We volunteered at fish hatcheries. We also did a stint on the Trash Tracker on Lake Powell, AZ - cleaning up the shoreline. We went with another couple and the pilot of the houseboat. We hauled a barge for the trash and a speedboat for off-time siteseeing. We also did some camp hosting. When you get to pick the places you want to live with your RV it makes it pretty special. Best of luck to you!!

I don't know if it's still the same but when we volunteered at Lost Dutchman State Park there were multiple rescues from the mountain by helicopter and they didn't have to pay a thing. Park rangers said folks go up there when its light & don't realize how difficult the climb is and then use their cell phone to call for help when it gets dark. The park's hands are tied. They have to do a rescue, if needed.

Zulu... you live in one, right?

I would say they probably wanted privacy from their front window instead of facing the road but if the curtains were closed...… ? We've been in some public parks that have narrow roads or one-way roads and you would need to go the wrong way to enter front first. The camp hosts will ask them to leave and come in the correct way. We hosted at one and that's what we had to do.

… just to get an idea on various floorplans and prices here is a good site to do that: https://www.pplmotorhomes.com/used-rvs-for-sale/travel-trailer?sortBy=price+desc It sounds like you have a good plan and since you love the outdoors you'll really enjoy yourself! A small trailer is very doable for you. Good luck in finding the right one and enjoy the lifestyle.

Hmmmm. I think there are more than you think where family and friends know the address. Some like the personal touch of greeting cards and letters more than Facebook, etc.

I meant we never bought anything that was recalled.

All you mentioned are in our list of creditors/financial info. Easily found. I guess recalls might be a problem but we've never received one.

Your family & friends can be notified via email or text. Create a group email and you'll only have to type the address one time & it will go out to everyone. Surely you have a list of your bills and it probably is not long if RVing. Contact them and do an address change. Magazines - if you subscribe it's probably for very few. Google them for address change or get an old copy and in the front would be contact information. It really shouldn't take long at all.

TrailerTraveler gave you some good information. If you are talking about national forest campgrounds then this site might be helpful. We used it all the time for our 40' motorhome. You have to know the name of the national forest that you want to stay and then you'll find the campgrounds. Some Corp of Engineer parks also have primitive areas. We rarely made reservations even on the 3-day holidays. We would choose places that didn't have any kind of water attractions - lakes, rivers, pools. That's where the crowds will be. If you want a quiet weekend it's doable by avoiding those places. https://www.forestcamping.com/dow/pictures/pictures.htm

When you think of the thousands and thousands of mail handled daily, personally, I think the post office does a great job! Just in reading this some mistakes are due to the person not following directions or not addressing properly. You can't blame the post office for everything.

We always avoided big city post offices like Surprise/Sun City area which are really busy. We always picked a smaller post office and didn't have issues. For Surprise we would have picked Buckeye or waited until our next move.

If a caravan takes its customers on the road then you know it's o.k. Those using caravans don't all have the same driving ability.

We're ones that would say "not bad". As AlF stated above it's all a matter of perspective. We love touring the back roads so a gravel road doesn't bother us. You won't have any steep mountain inclines or downs like you might have even on an interstate or those Colorado passes on secondary roads. I'd just call them small hills. We've done it in May and also in August. Both times we had good weather and that's the key. You don't want to drive it in the rain or for a couple days following heavy rain. Just be flexible and in case of rain plan to spend a couple extra nights in either Tok or Dawson City depending were you're starting from. If the weather is good when you're heading up then plan to do it then just in case you might have bad weather when you return. Dawson City is not to be missed. It's a fun little town with lots of history. As far as it being narrow... there are very few places, if any, where two vehicles couldn't pass. We never encountered any. You don't want to pull off beyond the hard packed road unless it's a well-used pull-off. The 'shoulders' will typically have very, very soft dirt and it's not safe.

As you've told me previously, an old post might still be helpful.

We full-timed in our motorhome 8 years without having to spend days or more at the service facility and never returned to our selling dealer. We called ahead to a place for maintenance in the direction we were traveling and they were waiting for us when we arrived. Service was done that day or the next morning and we left when finished. We were always able to spend the night in the motorhome on their lot; often with electric.