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Hi Steve, You two must be pumped on taking delivery! It looks awesome! Hope you decide to come to the rally. We're doing the boot camp as well, but it would be great to meet you both there. Let us know here when you get the rig and look forward to more pics. New signature line looks pretty awesome BTW! Congrats again.

Hi Steve, Will look into it. We're not going new with a dp. Especially with what the market is doing this month! Show would be fun and interesting but we'll be looking at 08-10 DPs and I'm sure we won't see those at the show. Have you picked up your new rig yet? Pics?

So any of you in the class of 2016 planning to go to the Escapees Rally in VT July 2016? Anyone already signed up? Kind of excited as we registered this past weekend including the Boot Camp. Timing is perfect... We're hoping to have the house sold or under contract with a closing date by then. Interested to hear if others are planning on boot camp and the VT rally.

Welcome Rhonda! I've posted our story and timetable earlier in this thread so I won't bore everyone with it again! What's your thoughts on timing? I'd love to go to the PA show next weekend and make a deal, but we'd just have to store it for our Maine winter so I plan to wait till feb/mar and make a trip south (likely Fla) with a shortlist and see what dealer really wants our business. Stay in touch here and let us know how you're progressing.

Welcome to Escapees Terry (& Don). Sounds like you've got a plan. Piano looks good in the rig! Escapees is offering mail forwarding out of Fla now... I'll be opening an account for that in January or so to give it time and test prior to needing it next fall. Good luck with your plans and make sure to check in here in the class of 2016 often and let us know how it's going.

Welcome depeller & oursimplelife! We hope to have the house on the market late spring 2016 and be FT on the road by Thanksgiving! No lack of things to do in the meanwhile. Retiring at year end 2015 to devote full time to prepping the house and acquiring a nice gently used Tiffin Bus. A few yard sales, trips to Goodwill and other miscellaneous fun sprinkled in between! Keep in touch and let us know what you're up to as things get closer.

Steve, Looking good! Thanks for sharing the pics. Looks awesome! Congrats... Now the wait for delivery!

Hi David, That is an impressive setup in your signature! Hope you can post some photos... Would love to see them! Can't talk my wife into considering the HDT setup. I did exchange a few emails with Greg at RV Haulers. Who is doing the smart conversion on the 780? Hope we can run into you somewhere when we hit the road next fall. Best of luck with the new DRV and keep us updated in here as things come together!

Steve, WOW! That's exciting news! That looks like a fantastic floorplan. I would love to do the new coach experience, but we're retiring at 57/58 and paying ourselves completely the first 4+ years, so the wife is very nervous about dipping too far into the till before SS kicks in at all. We're also looking to sell our house in spring of 16... pretty funny how similar our plans are. Lots of baby boomers getting into the RV market. Was just listening to a podcast the other day and the industry as a whole is having it's best year ever I believe. We've had many of the same discussions here about what to sell and when to sell it and the house selling better looking lived in. We just went out to dinner with my brother and his wife and they close on selling their house in 6 days. Hope we can sell ours as fast as they did (1 day). My photo site is here. I mostly do landscape and nature. Did a lot of sports when daughter was 3 season athlete in HS then on D1 track in college, but that has faded away now. I have a couple Nikon DSLRs and a bunch of glass. So when we sell the house we won't spend it all on a coach, but hope to find a nice 09-10 Tiffin Bus or Newmar Dutchstar. We will hit the road debt free. Was really close on an 07 bus, but the cost of storing it for winter and buying it for only a few weeks use this year was going to cost thousands in registration, storage fees, and others costs. I'm retiring by Jan 2016, so, I'll look much harder in late Feb to March 2016 on the east coast. Hope to purchase by Mar/Apr and have it a month or two before the house sells. We'll hope to hit the road by October 2016 headed for warmer climate. Unfortunately, neither car can be towed 4 down, so I'm looking at a Tandem Tow trailer dolly or fully enclosed car hauler (either of which could take my bike too). Wife's car is a lease to boot through fall 2017 (what were we thinking?), but we'll likely leave that at her brother's to have something here in case the need to fly home arises, we'll have wheels back here. My car can go on a dolly. I keep looking in the basement and garage and wonder where the hell all this stuff came from! We had a house fire in 2002 and started "new" after that. Seems like we have more in the past 13 years than the 20 prior! Anyway... checked your website. Really like that floorplan All electric seems the way to go now. I will looking into 5-700 watts solar on the roof of ours. I had been looking at surge protectors, but also saw this RVGeeks video today and will likely investigate the Hughes Autoformer as well. Pricey, but fry an AC or fridge and you just bought one and then some! Looks like a great product and many parks aren't giving you 120vac! Anyway, congrats on the new rig order... very very exciting! Will you go to Napanee when it's under construction? BTW, Looked at some of your photo gallery. Awesome!!! Looks like you're doing some HDR ? Love your barn shots. Some really great stuff there Steve!

Sherri, Guessing you and Robbie may be "homeless" by now? How's it going? Class or 2015 or 2016? :-) My brother lives only a couple miles away, just put his house on the market and sold it for asking price in 1 day and moving from ME to NC. Amazing how fast it all happened for them (no RV, just retire/relocate). Another house ( a cape like ours) just went on the market and sold at full asking price, also in a day. Hope the market is that hot when we sell next spring. Hope your legal situation is resolved.

Steve, How are the plans progressing? Also former LEO and retiring early 2016 and hope to be on road FT by fall 2016. Also into photography and have a website for that! This 2016 group needs a shot in the arm. Pretty dead for for only months away. Let us know how your plans are progressing.

Welcome Sherri! It's been a little quiet here in the class of 2016 of late. But sounds like you're in for some adventure. What a great experience that would be for your kids. We hope to be on the road in late fall 2016, theoretically after our only child gets married. They'll take off on their honeymoon, and we'll take off full timing it! Keep in touch in here and let us know how you're making out. We've been looking at rigs and come close on a couple, but got tons of time so we're being pretty picky right now. If we could score a great deal this year, we'd have more time to try some shorter trips and get it setup the way we want while I still have my workshop and garage before the house sells next spring. We'll see.

Congrats Kaybee and Ramblin Reck. Feels good to have a date to look forward to, eh? We're getting the task list of things to do before selling the house thinned out and slowly but surely things are coming together. We hope to be on the road to warmer places before the snow flies. Expect the house will sell quickly given that one like it just sold in 1 day in this fairly sought after neighborhood. I guess my bigger concern is having a rig here and ready to move into when the house sells out from under us and what we'll do with the "must keep" stuff. We expect to FT for 3-5 years (but who really knows) and settle into a small retirement house after that... maybe keeping the rig or possibly downsizing to a smaller rig at that point. The bigger concerns for us is good health care coverage and we're paying full freight on that for a few years since we'll be retiring at 57/58. I plan to retire 1/15/16 and the wife will work until maybe the end of June, but my full time job starting Mid January 2016 will be finalizing getting the house ready for the market by late May 2016 and finding a rig somewhere and getting it home to prep for fall departure. Good luck and keep us posted how it's going!

Thanks... I've got a countdown of days on the calendar at work. They are ticking down for sure. Been working hard on the "honey do" list and already have so many things knocked off, the wife said next march/April time frame I'd probably need to think about a road trip to find our new home". It was great to hear that from her as it seems like she's really (finally) getting on board with the plan. Not sure I'll list the house as early as March 2016, but by May for sure. Closing after 7/1 when the wife retires and hopefully we can be in the MH by then. She still wants to put some stuff in storage and not really ready to hear the logic of why that's not a good idea so may be some concessions there. I've got to get on the stick and do some more research on the health insurance stuff. Have looked some during last fall's open enroll on ACA, but we'll be 57/58 when we hit the road so paying our own freight on insurance and spending money for a few years. Good luck with your plans and keep us updated!

We hope to be in the 2016 class. I plan to retire by 2/1/16 and hopefully a few months behind will be my better half. I'll be organizing yard sales, ebay and craigslist sales, painting, cleaning and fixing and preparing the house for the market in later spring with the hopes of getting on the road before the snow flies. Can't wait. This class seems pretty dead for only a year or less away!