@jqubed been trying to convince my husband to stop looking for a house and start looking for a boat. I can learn to like fish. We'd just need to figure out how to make enough income to pay for satellite internet.
@jqubed I have lived on boats before - generally 100 ton schooners or brigantines (have USCG costal captain's license for them, tug assist, sail, and able body seaman limited). Generally OK but sometimes, like when the chain locker leaks, can be wet.
@Kidsandliz Those sound big. Do you have some example pictures so i can see what you're talking about? (Doesn't have to be yours, just something to get the idea)
@jqubed Not mine - I just worked on them as a young 20 something. Someone in another thread posted a photo of one I worked on (but didn't live on - that one only did day sails) American Rover out of Norfolk. I worked on the class B ones. The class A are the huge ones. These are the boats in the parade of sails in NYC. I worked on boats that have been in that - we shot a loaded cannon at (loaded with a frozen hot dog down the bore, this was a baby cannon maybe 2 feet long propped up on coiled rope) an Aircraft carrier that allegedly had the president on it. We joke we missed him by 100 vertical feet (our hotdog hit that thing maybe 20 feet above the waterline, broke into pieces and fell into the water).
@fuzzmanmatt good news, you can try again Wednesday! It might be worth it to take out a loan for $584.4M and buy one of every ticket, so get started filling out those pick slips. And hope that you're the only winner if you do.
I am with you. If I won the powerball, sure, I'd live in an RV. I wouldn't have to be anywhere for work, and I could afford a much more livable RV than I'd get otherwise.
We may rent one for a few months when we retire to test the waters. I don't think that will be our long term thing but... we have traveled so many times just to get to one destination or another, with no time to stop at all the cool places in between. I want to go to the in between places, stop where impulse strikes... and RVing may just be the way.
@duodec i like this concept: a big Airstream with a Tahoe-type tow vehicle. Park your house and have other transportation. Not like driving a bus and having to tow your other ride. Found a good place to try it out https://airstream2go.com The Grand canyon trip looks pretty cool to me. I did a Big Bend trip very close to their suggested itinerary but made my base camp a cool little 5-room adobe hotel in the Ghost town of Terlingua. And a night ir two in other hotels in Marfa and Ft. Davis. Didnt rent the Airstream, but that woul have been pretty neat.
@duodec I have an 88 Nissan sunrader I can sell you. 106,000 miles. Two gas tanks. Antique plates. 17' so it even fits in a normal parking spot. 14-16mpg at 65mph
@Kidsandliz Ummm, no, thank you. Its years until retirement (4-5 if we are lucky) and if we do it it will be a larger unit; either a fifth wheel if I am able to buy full size truck again (my first new vehicle was a long bed club cab, killed by chicago road salt), or a midsize (Class C I think). Not a bus but something big enough to actually live in comfortably.
I knew a guy, a photographer, who worked in a camera store that got bought out by some other store. They still had a few consumer cameras, but all the pro gear was replaced by plush animals and greeting cards. He hated it. Then, in the space of a couple of weeks, some stock he bought years ago in some batch of single malt scotch matured and it paid off big time. Then, National Geographic Magazine offered him an extended assignment to photograph the "wildflowers of the west." How fast can you spell "outtahere!"
Maybe, and nothing bigger than a class B. I once drove a box truck and trailer over 1300 miles; not a fun experience in the cities. The cost difference fuelling up versus a car is significant consideration also.
@narfcake why in hell would anyone want to go to cities with an RV? You either take a commuter car with you (if you've got a big RV) or go to all the (far better) places that are not city. Cities (big ones) are overrated and not worth the hassle.
@duodec Just passing through was a shitty enough experience. Too many inconsiderate assholes on the road. I'm driving something 4 times bigger- I'm not going to accelerate or stop in the same time/distance, fucker!
I have a deal with my 5 children. Whoever contributes the most toward my retirement RV will have it parked in their driveway the least.
Oh, and FIRST!
Someone has been reading my mind around here... Too bad its a fantasy
@Veloslave
Sounds appealing until I remember how large they are.
Living in it would be nice. Driving it not so much.
@brhfl you said it better than I did.
As long as I have high speed interwebz 24/7.
Do people realize that while you technically will have indoor plumbing, you will be responsible for emptying said indoor plumbing?
P-ass (pun not intended)!
@elimanningface That was absolutely intended.
@elimanningface - No shit?
Fuck no.
@Al_Coholic Or as they say in my neck'o'the woods: "Aaahh hay-yell no! No fookin' way!"
Or a boat.
@jqubed been trying to convince my husband to stop looking for a house and start looking for a boat. I can learn to like fish. We'd just need to figure out how to make enough income to pay for satellite internet.
I'm only like 70% joking.
@katylava I have a friend who lived on a sailboat in Marina Del Ray for about a year when she first moved to L.A. I was pretty jealous of her.
@jqubed I have lived on boats before - generally 100 ton schooners or brigantines (have USCG costal captain's license for them, tug assist, sail, and able body seaman limited). Generally OK but sometimes, like when the chain locker leaks, can be wet.
@Kidsandliz I have my Red Cross certification for canoeing. :)
@katylava I know a couple who are full time live aboards, with a kid. The wife has a master's ticket so I guess it's in the blood.
@Kidsandliz Those sound big. Do you have some example pictures so i can see what you're talking about? (Doesn't have to be yours, just something to get the idea)
@jqubed Not mine - I just worked on them as a young 20 something. Someone in another thread posted a photo of one I worked on (but didn't live on - that one only did day sails) American Rover out of Norfolk. I worked on the class B ones. The class A are the huge ones. These are the boats in the parade of sails in NYC. I worked on boats that have been in that - we shot a loaded cannon at (loaded with a frozen hot dog down the bore, this was a baby cannon maybe 2 feet long propped up on coiled rope) an Aircraft carrier that allegedly had the president on it. We joke we missed him by 100 vertical feet (our hotdog hit that thing maybe 20 feet above the waterline, broke into pieces and fell into the water).
@jqubed Go here. You can see all sorts of tall ships.
http://www.sailtraining.org/membervessels/search.php
I am noticing most of the museum ships aren't listed here and I have sailed several of those too.
As soon as I win the Powerball, yes, I'll buy an RV and tour the country. Happily!
@fuzzmanmatt good news, you can try again Wednesday! It might be worth it to take out a loan for $584.4M and buy one of every ticket, so get started filling out those pick slips. And hope that you're the only winner if you do.
I am with you. If I won the powerball, sure, I'd live in an RV. I wouldn't have to be anywhere for work, and I could afford a much more livable RV than I'd get otherwise.
We may rent one for a few months when we retire to test the waters. I don't think that will be our long term thing but... we have traveled so many times just to get to one destination or another, with no time to stop at all the cool places in between. I want to go to the in between places, stop where impulse strikes... and RVing may just be the way.
@duodec i like this concept: a big Airstream with a Tahoe-type tow vehicle. Park your house and have other transportation. Not like driving a bus and having to tow your other ride. Found a good place to try it out https://airstream2go.com The Grand canyon trip looks pretty cool to me. I did a Big Bend trip very close to their suggested itinerary but made my base camp a cool little 5-room adobe hotel in the Ghost town of Terlingua. And a night ir two in other hotels in Marfa and Ft. Davis. Didnt rent the Airstream, but that woul have been pretty neat.
@duodec I have an 88 Nissan sunrader I can sell you. 106,000 miles. Two gas tanks. Antique plates. 17' so it even fits in a normal parking spot. 14-16mpg at 65mph
@Kidsandliz Ummm, no, thank you. Its years until retirement (4-5 if we are lucky) and if we do it it will be a larger unit; either a fifth wheel if I am able to buy full size truck again (my first new vehicle was a long bed club cab, killed by chicago road salt), or a midsize (Class C I think). Not a bus but something big enough to actually live in comfortably.
RV'ing RULES! Been there; done that. Wanna do it some more!
funny you say that, we are gonna pull our RV into Meh HQ and camp this summer
Say!!!!! Let's all go to your place. Good food, great entertainment, open 24hours a day. You better clean up because we're coming right over.
@cranky1950 If you can tie into their wifi maybe it will improve your odds of scoring a fuku...
I knew a guy, a photographer, who worked in a camera store that got bought out by some other store. They still had a few consumer cameras, but all the pro gear was replaced by plush animals and greeting cards. He hated it. Then, in the space of a couple of weeks, some stock he bought years ago in some batch of single malt scotch matured and it paid off big time. Then, National Geographic Magazine offered him an extended assignment to photograph the "wildflowers of the west." How fast can you spell "outtahere!"
Maybe, and nothing bigger than a class B. I once drove a box truck and trailer over 1300 miles; not a fun experience in the cities. The cost difference fuelling up versus a car is significant consideration also.
@narfcake why in hell would anyone want to go to cities with an RV? You either take a commuter car with you (if you've got a big RV) or go to all the (far better) places that are not city. Cities (big ones) are overrated and not worth the hassle.
@duodec Just passing through was a shitty enough experience. Too many inconsiderate assholes on the road. I'm driving something 4 times bigger- I'm not going to accelerate or stop in the same time/distance, fucker!
This has been my dream since I was a child. Unfortunately, I'm not interested in actually driving one.
Just watch Lost In America.
Can only do it if I am independently wealthy unfortunately.
It would have to be a battleship on wheels, but that sounds like fun!
In a heartbeat.
Watch the police and the tax man miss me!