Happy to find this group and learn how you are all making your way to fulltiming this year! We sold our house last April (downsizing phase 1), and then the lease on our apartment ended March 9 (downsizing phase 2). We moved into the Bus that day. It’s a Thor, but we call it the Bus. By now we have finally- I think- finished the final purge of extra stuff that came with us from the apartment with downsizing phase 3. Our plan had been to do multiple short shakedown trips around California in March as we’re new to RV’ing, and then set out for ongoing travel beginning April 1. This virus has totally derailed the fun part of our plans, but the meat is still there! The shakedowns went well but were happening while California was figuring out its shelter-in-place plans and campgrounds and Harverst Host locations were closing. The experience probably suffered a bit for it, but we had fun and stayed away from others. Come April 1 we likely would have stayed in California except we had no house or apartment anymore. In the end, we decided to follow our plan to leave California and park ourselves in an RV park in Las Vegas until the end of May at least or until the virus-related travel future becomes more clear. It seems as if many others in this park are in a similar situation, sheltering in place here because they may not have other better options. We thought we’d be out checking out state and national parks, boondocking as much as possible, and checking out interesting shops, bars, and restaurants on the way. We had plans to be at the Boot Camp later this month here in Las Vegas and at the Escapade in June meeting new friends and learning the Escapee community, but all are now cancelled of course. So it’s really not the beginning we thought we’d have to our fulltiming phase of life. There is disappointment in that, but we look forward to learning as we go and finding out where the year takes us!
