Barbaraok

I’m afraid people waved a red flag of ‘science is wrong’, etc. and I took the bait. Sorry.

Actually they have had several summers in a row where it has been warmer than usual. And the ocean water is getting warmer all the way up the West Coast, so it wouldn't take much to trigger a kill, plus increased temperature would have caused a lot of dissolved oxygen in shallower bays to dissipate. We have had 5 straight weeks with no rain and NOW are moving into the warm, dry months of July and August. There are watering bans in every town we have been in the past few weeks. And, of course, burn bans all over the state as the fire danger is high.

Plus - your Dick Tracy wrist phone!

Holding their breath? Hyperbolic, maybe?

Remember, it is doubtful that most Escapees are on this forum.

If you are towing four down the only thing you might need is to add a drop extension to the existing RV hitch. Is that what you are talking about? Depends upon what type of motorhome. With our Class C it was a straight fit, but with the DP we had to add a drop extension for the Subaru and the CMax. The drops are not specific to any particular base plate.

I believe that there are now adapters made so if the car has one base plate there is away to use the other's arms. I believe they are third party items.

There are ball hitches that will slide into RV

The hitch on the RV will accept whatever connection you have for the car. So it is your choice as th what you put on your car.

To be specific they are asking the FDA for the go ahead to do clinical trials to see if the booster shot will improve the titer level (amount of Covid-19 antibodies) circulating relative to those who don't get a third booster shot. If trials do not show an improvement in level (which means 1/2 of the trial participants would get placebos and not the 3rd booster shot) then a booster will not be offered. The trial would also show if reactions to a 3rd shot are likely to be stronger than with the second shot. It is tricky to figure out when a booster is needed and what the likely reactions will be. UPDATE - so now they are asking for an EUA (emergency use authorization) to go ahead and begin a 3rd dose. Guess they information they are getting out of Israel have tipped in favor of getting the EUA while other trials of combinations are going on. Of course there are questions to be answered, specifically, will the 3rd dose be free, or will we have to pay, and how will we go about getting the 3rd dose to everyone, when they are trying to get 1st and 2nd doses in arms across the country. What fun it will be trying to figure out where to get boosters this fall while traveling. Of course, since it is only 1 shot, no worry about being able to get the second before leaving an area.

We are enjoying being in a high vaccine state but will revert back to semi-isolation come fall when we return to Mesa. Luckily, there are lots of restaurants that have outdoor seating in Arizona, especially Oct-Nov and Feb-March time frames. And we can always hope that more people in Arizona become vaccinated.

He has also posted on the RV.Net Full Time forum the question on full-timing on $2K a month. Kind of a pathetic.

You need to book TT at least 60 days out. And for some parks, that isn't enough, especially in some really "hot" areas between Memorial Day and Labor Day. I was amazed that the TT Birch Bay actually had a few sites open over 4th of July, but then a lot of those who use this park come from Canada, and since they couldn't cross, there was room for others.

Diversification is always key to successfully navigating investments that provide our income, plus the will power to ride out the wild gyrations and make prudent adjustments as needed.

Doesn't matter what we know to be true, the "I'm better than you because I don't spend money" folks will always be striving to say they can get by on the least amount of money. Being honest with people would seem to be a more moral stance to take, rather than creating false hope that causes them to embark on a course that will probably lead to disaster.

If you have been vaccinated and then develop symptoms, it would indicate that either you have picked up a variant to the virus that isn't affected by the vaccination or that your vaccination didn't produce enough antibodies to battle the virus (assuming that you have gotten a heavy viral loa). Either way, once you've tested positive, I would ask if monoclonal therapy would help. The trick is you have to do it right away - so if you have been in an area that is showing increasing numbers of people who are unvaccinated and getting sick and in an event with lots of those people around, then get tested and if positive, get seen right away. If in an area like Missouri right now, even though vaccinated, I would avoid any setting where there were a lot of people because the delta variant is on fire in Missouri and the more it is transmitted the greater chance of it mutating into something even more aggressive than we have now!

Stargazer, you mention that it would cost you much more other places in the country. So your travel is limited to a given geographic area? And if I read correctly, you do not count your living expenses in for your RVing budget. If that were the case, yes, our costs for a lot of months would be $1200, especially when spending weeks in membership parks, only moving 25-50 miles at a time. But that isn't what most people mean when they start thinking about what it will cost them to live and travel in the RV 24/7 for years criss-crossing the country.

Wasn't it fortunate that Polio wasn't seen as a political statement when the vaccine was developed. And all of the people who refuse to get the Covid-19 vaccines are those who vaccinate their children against Polio, even though Polio never killed the numbers that Covid has killed. Why people would willingly subject themselves to getting a disease when it is unnecessary, and eventually those who aren't vaccinated will get the disease. And many, many, many of them will die, often still proclaiming that the whole thing is a hoax. What is even worse, is that they have already identified a number of other viruses, including a number of corona viruses, that will likely jump from animal into human population over the next few years. The next one is out there, and yet we are not preparing for it. SMH

This is the essence of trying to help someone take a realistic look at what it will cost. We could have purchased a brand new rig but chose to purchase a 3 year old rig and take the different and put it into the maintenance fund and add to it every month. Some had said that was unworkable for most people, but that fund has never been close to zero and after 16 years, the coach is still running. Yes, she needs cosmetic work, and we are considering some, but mechanically she is sound and goes where we want to go. Wish I could say we were in as good a mechanical shape as she is. Alas, growing old takes it toll on all of us sooner or later. If you look back at the start of this thread years ago, you see that I suggested that it would be better if he could have a little more income. My post was: "Is there some way to get it to $3K a month - for one person that should be a very doable amount. And in 5 years, who knows what will be needed. Just try to get the amount up, whether by work camping, etc., so that you have a cushion. Repairs can quickly add up and it isn't IF you will need repairs, but WHEN." No one said no, just it would be better if he had a little cushion. And that was YEARS ago, and costs have done nothing but go up. When we started in 2006 there were a number of people stating that they could full-time on $2K a month. 16 years later, people are saying the same thing and are being encouraged on this and other forums to give it a try, and these are usually not younger people who can find a job, etc. and regroup and go on.

Well apparently the consensus is to encourage ppl to go ahead with whatever they have dreamed up for ‘full timing’, reasonable caution being seen as unnecessary.

Maybe a single person if they never have a break down, never stay in an RV park, never get sick, and takes decades to do can see all of the country. after 16 years, yes I do think I have a feel for what the average newbie is asking, who is usually part of a couple, when they come here to ask questions. Which is why a lot of us start the dialogs with asking some questions or pointing out some problems that might develop with their initial parameters.

And how it is used - Full time sitting? Plus, the Oxford dictionary is out-of-date. Does anyone come and ask if they can Full Time sitting in a spot for the rest of their lives. Look at the OP of this thread - the purpose was to see the country. We have a Park Model in Arizona and it is technically an RV. But when we set up for the winter (or all year like last year) we are not RVing.

I'm saying that what you describe isn't what the average person who comes here looking into full-time RVing are talking about. There are a lot of people who get more than $2K in social security benefits, depending upon how long and how much they contributed during their working years. Maximum benefit this year is a little over $3K. And having veterans benefits for medical care means a lot. Yes, I know that some places it isn't great, but look at what some people are paying for the supplemental to cover what Medicare doesn't - it can be A LOT. And a lot of people are talking about total income of $2K for a COUPLE. I'm glad his health was such that he could keep going. Dave had quadruple bypass last March (yes, in the middle of the pandemic), his kidneys gave out and it was touch and go for a few days, followed by pacemaker insertion in June. We are now a year later and he is just now getting back to about where he was, but it has been hard for him, but doing repairs unless very limited (he did climb up the 13' ladder to seal a leak in our bedroom slide) and thus we have a repair budget line to set money aside to do it. People seem to ignore the fact that there will be problems, things will break down, our health deteriorates as we age and NOTHING costs the same as it did 5 years ago.

Randy, how would you define Full Time Rving? Because it sounds like the verb portion of RVing isn't included in your definition. If one is living in an RV 24/7 in a static location, then that isn't the same as someone RVing. Doesn't make it right or wrong, just a different calculus is needed. But that isn't what the question is when someone new comes on and asks about what it costs to be Full-time RVing. Go back to the original post (from 6 yrs ago) and look at what was said. At that time most said that if one were frugal one could get by, especially if one had a way (work camping) to supplement income. I don't know about you, but NOTHING has stayed the same, price wise, in the past 6 years. And if you look you will see I suggested that getting towards $3K a month would give the person a cushion for things like repair (because we all know it isn't IF, it is WHEN repairs are needed) and increasing costs in the coming years. After 16 years of watching people come and go on this forum, I would say that a majority of those who come on, trying to do it on very, very, very little, are gone within 2-3 years. For some it will be health, but I would bet that a large number of those who come off the road (not to say they still aren't living in their RV) will do so because of limitations of funds.

Arizona announced that it didn't matter where you were from, if you were in Arizona they wanted you to get the vaccine. It was tricky sometimes to get them scheduled together because of antiquated computer systems, but by the end of February we had had our 2 Pfizer shots. Didn't have to wait until spring and travel without being vaccinated.