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We also added one to our 2005 Safari Cheetah. Made a nice difference in steering and, hopefully would protect us from a catastrophic event in case of a blowout or accident. We went to the factory in Georgia and they installed it at no cost. Their techs are amazing in their ability to adjust it.

We arrived at our winter quarters in the Houston area in November of 2019, expecting to stay through March. In January I was asked to help a church out that is between pastors. I agreed to it, but only until late May. Then Covid hit. The church went to recorded, streamed services and their pastoral search stopped. I agreed to stay through June. With the drop in Covid cases, we planned on hitting the road by July 4. Then, Texas, and especially the Houston area, had the big resurgence of the virus. We decided to stay put until the end of July. Which brings us to today. The virus is still on the upswing and, so far, there are no hurricane threats in the Atlantic. So we are staying put at least into August.

I sure appreciate all the interesting responses to this question. Our hope is to someday exit gracefully - but as we all know, life has a way of changing the rules on us.

Okay - thanks. I don't have one of those, so that's not my issue.

Glenn, ours does the same thing. When you say "box" are you talking about the switch you push to open and close it? (Excuse my ignorance)

Now I've learned something. Our MH burps and I know that means we've arrived at dump day but I never understood why.

Man, we could have saved a few $$ and done this instead of buying some shields!

Seeing lots of positive information on wearing a face shield rather than a mask. Like this: https://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-2020/shields-compared-to-masks.html

We were talking today about cities we have visited in our travels. As would most anyone who tours in a RV the majority of our stays are in rural areas. Still, when we are within reasonable driving distances of big cities we usually take a day or two to check out the major attractions of the city. We often drive to the outskirts of the city and switch to public transportation to continue our trip into the city. We were talking earlier today about how many places we have visited that have been in the news lately. For instance we have been in Minneapolis, Washington, DC, Seattle, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Atlanta just to name a few. We know for sure that we were right where riots (not to be confused with protests) have recently taken place. In other places we don't know the local area enough to know where we were in relation to the areas we have recently seen on the news. In fact, that's kind of the point for us. We are generally focused on some tourist destination - so far as local areas where unrest might happen we are babes in the woods. We could have easily missed an exit or for some other reason blundered into some charged area. All of that to say I'm thinking that because of the current situation with the threat of violence I'm glad we've already been to a lot of places because if we were just starting out I'm not sure we would be up to just wandering around any big city right now or any time in the immediate future. I know that we all have to march to the beat of our own drummer about stuff like this but I think we have plenty of company when it comes to rethinking exploring big cities in our nation.

One of many great things about this lifestyle is that you can do what suits you. Early on, most people start off in "vacation mode" - moving often. Then, they either burn out and call it quits or they slow down a bit. We have, basically, two different travel styles. When we are in "travel mode" we tend to 10-11 day stays. That doesn't mean every stay is one or the other. If we are in Thousand Trails we can stay up to 3 weeks so our stops might be a little longer. If we are in an expensive area and paying rack rate we may shorten the stay. Our other style is "winter mode." We spent several years volunteering at a state park near our family. These days we are in a commercial campground paying monthly rates, still near our family but also working at an interim position for a few months. With the virus situation, our "winter mode" stay has stretched into the summer, but we plan on returning to the road and "travel mode" in a month or so.

I'm not sure FB Purity will run on an Ipad anyway - I think just Safari on a MAC in the Apple world. I've just run it on my PC - great addon for Facebook.

I've occasionally asked the same question on both a Facebook group and this forum. Generally, I get more replies on the Facebook group than I get here. My feeling is that replies here are often more informed than those I get on the Facebook group, however, the larger number of replies there kind of evens it out. Threads on Facebook tend to balloon quickly and then die out, gone forever. Threads here tend to get diverted off into trivia, but can unexpectedly come back to life at any time in the future.

Facebook reports 1.73 Billion active daily users so I can see no harm done if someone decides it isn't for them. I actively block and filter people and posts and generally avoid political discussions. One key to my use of Facebook is the Facebook Purity add on. It gives you a lot more control over what you see.

The title is just clickbait, probably not even worded by the person who wrote the article. In general, the "negatives" have at least some connection to truth (you do have to get rid of your stuff, you do have to get proper insurance, etc.). Considering the intended audience which is people who know absolutely zero about fulltiming, I don't have a real problem with the article. After all, on Facebook most every day someone asks burning questions like "what kind of toilet paper" or "how do I find a campground." They are the target audience of the article.

Just for discussion - if you spent more than 5 years fulltime and have now "landed" why did you stop?

Twice we had a similar experience.. One package finally caught up to us after sitting somewhere for awhile, then getting sent back to Livingston, then being forwarded to us again. The whole process took about 2 months. Then, we had a package with a tracking number so I followed it around. It went to some tiny town between Houston and San Antonio, then to another town around 30 miles north of there and then, finally to Conroe which was closer to Livingston than any of the places it visited. I don't think either one was any fault of Escapees. These days we too usually use priority so we get a tracking number.

It saddens me that so often friendly, non-confrontational posts on this forum are taken over by argumentative, nit-picking responses. It makes this forum less enjoyable to me. (I know, I know, my post just adds to that.)

I'm thinking that June will tell the story. Either cases will drop to near nothing (as is predicted by some) or we will see a big second wave (as is predicted by some). With that in mind we hope to start traveling in July.

It just so happens that we had already dialed back our 2020 travel plans. I accepted an interim position in February and told them I would stay till the 1st of June. Now, their search has been put on hold and I've agreed to stay longer. The thing I'm not looking forward to is Texas summer heat and humidity.

Don't know if this will apply to anyone but us, but we had a problems with hangers coming off the rear closet in our motorhome. When I put new shocks on the rig the problem disappeared.

Sounds like you are handling it just about right. If I were in your shoes I'd do the same - just tap the brakes a bit and give this thing more time to play out. Hopefully you aren't depending on investments for part of your income - this isn't a good time to tap into them. There's a good chance that the country will open at different speeds in different areas. My guess is that rural areas will be declared "okay" first - something that works well for RVing. Good luck with your plans, I think you will love it.

I think the next level is to wait till closer to winter. Because reservations are made so early there's a higher rate of cancellations than you might expect. If you can get on some waiting lists and are flexible, there's a good chance that you'll get a spot. Otherwise, you might want to set up a list of campgrounds you would like and call them every week starting in the early fall. Good luck in your search!

I've been thinking about this every since I heard about New Mexico's closing of their State Park Campgrounds, trying to understand the logic of it. Like many of you we are sitting in our RV in a long term campground waiting it out. In our case we're already committed to stay put till Memorial Day (nothing to do with the virus) so it isn't impacting us personally. It would sure matter to us personally if we were on the road! Here are my guesses: The decisions being made to close public campgrounds are being made by bureaucrats who envision "camping" as a big group of cub scouts in tents. Not much "social distancing" in a group like that - and, of course, not the most common user of a paved RV campsite either. If not that, maybe they are thinking "shelter in place" as meaning stay right where you are - for most people, at home all snug in their stix and brix dwelling. People heading out to the state park are buying fuel, going to the store, and, in general, mixing with others. The thing is, most people are doing these basic things, camping or not. It seems to me that the reasonable thing would be to lock the bathrooms and any other common areas and let people camp, maybe even allowing longer stays. All the above is just me thinking - I really don't understand the reasoning.

Thanks. Yes, I was looking at the old map with it's location specific markings too. Reading your post I realized that there is just one mark per state - more or less in the middle. The thing that confused me was that I was zooming in to Texas and thought the big dot near Fort Hood was only for the soldiers returning from South Korea. Thanks for helping me understand what is happening.

I'm a bit confused by that gisanddata map because it shows just one cluster of virus cases at Fort Hood and no where else in Texas. However, if I look at the local news or go to the Texas DHS site, it says there are scattered cases all over Texas, including in and around Houston. I wonder why the fancy data map doesn't include those cases?