Do you use your RV mostly for taking vacations? Or do you use it mostly for work? To get places? Because you don’t have any other choice?
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We primarily use our RV as snowbirds in Florida. Otherwise, a few weekends out during the summer.
I would note that being retired, the term “vacation” is irrelevant, one could say everyday is a vacation. But unlike Thelma, we primarily use our RV to get the heck out of Florida.
No, everyday is Saturday. : )
Yes, same here.
We use our RV to snowbird in Myrtle Beach, SC and at least 1 week each month during the spring summer and fall in New England.
No, because we are full-timers. So it goes with us wherever we go!
Ditto!
Our trailer is our traveling “hotel.” We wander for weeks and even months at a time, very seldom staying in one spot for more than a few days. Our own bed, closets, and kitchen just happen to go with us–at least until we park it and investigate around our stopping spot. It is, after all, a travel trailer. It has taken us traveling more than 10 years…
Retired. We use the travel trailer to take ‘nearby’ vacations and drive the car or fly for more distant trips. So, yes & no…
Yes and No for us, since we are full time and it seems we are always on vacation going to new and different places across our beautiful country! So much to see, so little time!
I’m retired so it is a permanent vacation!
Being retired since 1996 we don’t get vacations! We use our RV for sight-seeing trips and to get away from the Missouri Winter weather by escaping to warmer climes.
Similar to most. Retired in 2020, we use our RV primarily to escape Canadian winters. Arizona is the state of choice this year! We spend our summers primarily in our “sticks & bricks” in the GTA.
Vacation = visiting family and friends.
At this time, yes. However after my wife retires in three more years, if we still can (depending on health, finances, and societal norms), we plan to be on the road most of the time.
Vacations and shorter trips with the grandkids are the primary use. But also we never go anywhere without our dogs, the main reason we started rving. Travel to a wedding, funeral or family reunion out of town are other primary uses.
What? Retired is a full-time job. RV is out about 2 weeks a month. Seeing friends, touring the Real America.
My answer would be yes and no. Yes, I bought it to travel our great country, a way to get there and a place to stay when I got there. No, because I’m a full timer, enjoying every minute, even though I am hosting at a state park for a few more months.
Since we have been retired for several years, we don’t say we go on vacation but instead say we go on holiday. We use our motorhome to go on “holidays” 3-4 months out of a year. Don’t go on “holiday” any other way since it is our goal during the rest of our lives never to fly on another commerical plane or stay in a hotel or motel.
I am converting a Ram Promaster High Top to a camper, and I have been using it as kind of a “mobile motel room”. It won’t be done for a while longer, but I have spent several nights in it already. I plan to use the van for traveling with short stays, just a couple of nights at each campsite. I still have my beloved Lance 1475 for extended stays.
For us our campers have always been used for “Micro-vacations”. Never to go for weeks at a time, but rather go for days at a time and once or twice a year go for a week at a time. Since we are still working folks, we opt to spread our vacation time out into many “micro-vacations”!
Vacations are for people who work. Once you’re done with work, you “take trips”. There is a distinction.
Agreed Frank. Being retired we don’t get days off anymore, just on two six months shifts. No vacations, no holidays but we do have a “lifestyle change” as snowbirds.
I said yes but in reality we’re retired and don’t take vacations. We snowbird in it and in the warm months explore our parks in Michigan.
We are both newly retired and have two small dogs. We prefer to take smaller trips stay about a week then move on to another destination in another state for a week, then return to home base for awhile to map out the next several weeks trips. We had planned to leave Oregon and go across country to Ga, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, but I didn’t want to stay away from home that long. Happy with staying this side of the Mississippi.
With it hard to book the “local” state park campgrounds, we’ve mainly been using it for one or two longer trips a year. But we also use it when we go to dog trials that are too far to “commute” each day. It’s dry camping at these events. It is also our “guest cottage” during the months it’s tolerable (3-season).
I suppose that the choice “yes,” is the better one. Our travels generally ARE escapes from working around the house and farm. So, I suppose describing them as “vacations” is accurate. However, we are both retired in the sense that no one pays us for our labors. Instead, we labor to keep things looking nice, or to try to get them looking nice. Our “vacations” are constrained by nature’s rhythms and not a schedule set by an employer.
Same here.
Ditto.
Yep, spring and summer travel along with weekly trips to the coast or mountains.
We’re full-time living in our RV by choice and have been doing so since 12/2015.
I live full time in my 13′ Scamp, by choice. Started 8/3/22
We use it for long weekend excursions mostly and occasionally for eating out after picking up an order of food. We will eat in the parking lot (for example, Longhorns). What fun! We also use it for vacations.
Normally we have taken 3 to 4 week vacations. We also use it to go to various types of weekend shows, However it is my (husband’s) daily driver – Class B. It is nice to have a bathroom wherever we go. During Covid we would take it to food service drive-thrus and have our own dining room right in the parking lot. Our B is not too big and not too small, it is just right. The only drawback is that it will not haul plywood or a lawnmower, etc. like my other vans.
No, unless you count retirement as permanent vacation. Fulltime glampers, our rv is our home.
As a member of the 70+ RV community we use it primarily for vacations + staying in it for a week or so while visiting family scattered around the West. Most trips consisting of a month or so and then back to home in Las Vegas.
Yep!
From upstate NY, I go to Maine or Long Island on occasion but for the most part it’s just local boondocking for a few days a couple times a month since the pandemic started. I guess you could call it a short vacation with nature.
I live full time in my 29’ Class A motorhome by choice since 2005. Have traveled as far northeast as Glen, NH, as far southeast as Cedar Key, Florida, as far east as Georgetown, SC, as far north to Rapid City, SD, south to Big Bend, NP & San Antonio, TX; as far west as Westport, WA, Grants Pass, OR, and further south to Yuma, Nogales, and Keno Bay, Mexico. Definitely a snow bird!
We have been full time for the last 8 years and still love it no matter how RVing has changed. Sometimes we take a “vacation” from our vacation to take a road trip and stay in a hotel/motel
We live in our travel trailer full time. Since November 1, 2022!
In theory yes, but we’re retired and travel a lot but have a home base as well.
When you are retired, what counts as a vacation?
We “vacation” to the local lakes about every weekend!
Answered yes to vacation use primarily. However, we also use here frequently for boys 16U & 18U travel baseball. Our son plays on two teams.