Can you believe it’s already November 9th? For some of you, that date means you’re getting ready to head south for all of, or some of, the winter. Is that you? Maybe you’ve already begun your journey! Or, maybe you stay south year-round!
Will you go south in your RV this winter for at least two months? More than that? Less than that? If yes, will you share with us where you’re going? We’re curious to hear! Thanks!
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We’re already there for a 5 month stay in southwest FL. This will be our 8th season as snowbirds. Feel very blessed to be able to do this.
Been going south to Arizona for 20+ years and we are already here this year. Worked in cold weather for 30+ years and don’t want to deal with it ever again.
I would love to head south for the winter, BUT the wife wants to go home after three-4 weeks on the road. She starts to get the itch to head home after two weeks and it just gets worse as the days pass. My Grand Parents, Parents and her parents all made the annual migration, she just can’t. Love her anyway. Just got the Snow Blower on the tractor and the Motor Home in the barn for the winter so I guess I am ready for the season.
Any further South, we would need a boat. Come on down, we love Northern
Dollars.
All ready there – SE GA
We use the Class A to drive back and forth to and from NJ and FL. Stay at our house in FL over the winter. At our southern NJ farm spring, summer, and fall.
Yup, four months in the Southwest. Can’t wait to leave this Canadian winter! Thank-you to all who make us Canadian snowbirds feel so welcome in the USA!
Worked out of SoCal for a number of years; they thought I spoke with a Funny Accent!!
But at current Exchange Rate do not think I’ll be heading South this Winter.
With staying in Canada might even get a “Call-Up”!! ….. Nah!!
We live 200 miles north of I-10 in New Mexico. That’s as far south as we normally travel for the winter.
Braving the snow this year. I’m sure it will be what the heck did I do.
Lol
I am a skier. I go west, but without the RV.
I have traveled to Florida once and hated every minute. No, I will not be going to Florida this or any other winter.
I wouldn’t go to Florida either, but love the southwest.
Agreed
17 years here in Texas. Five months away from the deep freeze of Minnesota.
We will go to Florence, AZ for 3 month this winter. Should be nice.
We already live here (AZ) in our sticks and bricks home. We go places in our motorhome except during the summer
Yep, on our way to the gulf coast of Texas for 4 months ( beginning of December until the end of March) then back on the road north again.
That’s the plan! We have been taking short (1-2 week) winter vacations south for the past several years. This year we are planning to spend 2 months in Texas, in the RV. Not sure if it will be in one or two trips. We’ll see. Wish us luck!
Good luck and safe travels! 🙂
We do the opposite, live in Florida and go north to the Dakotas every summer. Not snowbirds, we’re anti-hurricane.
I already live in Florida, and I wouldn’t give you a nickel for ALL of Arizona. 😏
Agreed.
I’ll go you one better.. no amount of money would get me to Florida again.
👍👍👍. Florida is way too crowded for me.
In’69 we left the crowded, too busy North to move to, not crowded, laid-back Florida. Now we live in crowded, too busy Florida and when we go back home we find it less crowded and more laid back. I do think the poles of the Earth are in fact flipping. Now we can’t go back north because I sold the snow shovel and tire chains. ….
👍
I am already in the south…
We traveled to Yuma Arizona every winter for 24 years and stayed 3 to 5 months. We have not been able to travel because of illness for the past several years. I miss Yuma. We had wonderful times there. I hate the cold and snow. I keep hoping that maybe some day to return to Yuma or the southwest.
Built a winter home in Lake Havasu AZ in the 80s. Moved to MO in 2021 but still make the 1500 mile winter journey. Sadly the migration from CA has made it less desirable.
We enjoy heading down to Quartzsite but not this year. After being stuck in Houston for a year (medical reasons), wifey wants to stick out the winter right here at home (Reno area). We’ve already fired up our wood burning fireplace twice. So I guess it’s a snow shovel instead of the Polaris RZR this winter.
Since incessant greed has permeated all RV parks, especially in the snowbird areas, it is no longer feasible for us lower echelon folks to do the generational thing. Unless one is off grid and boon docking expect to use your deep pockets to satisfy the greed monster.
We live in Idaho and will be going south to Bullhead City, AZ for 2 months beginning the middle of January.
Since we live in Southern California, I voted “Yes” as we spend the months of Nov through April there. The remaining months on the Oregon coast.
Already gone south. We always head south before north central MN gets cold. Firmly ensconced in Tombstone RV Park, AZ until May 1, 24.
Nope, already as far south as can be before crossing into Mexico.
I wish I could have answered “yes”. We love the dry warmth of Arizona- I miss it so much.
With family in California, Texas and Kentucky, my wife and I made those locations winter destinations from our Northwest home for more than 20 years. For 3-5 months we kept moving, never longer than 10 days or so in one spot. Now I do the same routine, but alone.
Very sorry for your loss, Bob. 🙁
Me too
I spend winters in Yuma and summers in Flagstaff with a month in Kingman going each direction.
Living on the west coast of Florida is as south as I get, campgrounds here are booked solid all winter. If I could get a site for a week or two I would be in the keys.
Six weeks, but not two months.
Go south for winter yes. In my RV, no.
No but I wish we were. However in the interest of marital harmony, we will endure Colorado winter. We don’t get as much snow as the mountains get but It gets cold. Lowest last year at our front range home was -17. Our gas company consider us a good friend!
Won’t “go” there. We live in the SE corner of Tennessee. Our winters probably would pass for fall in Wisconsin, Minnesota, etc.,. We travel in all directions during our winter, but not too far northward.
No. We live in Florida and RV northward in the summer😁
In Mission, TX in the Rio Grande Valley from the end of October until the beginning of April. This is our 6th year of doing this.
I am already pretty far south. I live in North Texas.
Didn’t know if I should say YES or NO.as we are already South with RV in the driveway.
Normally south Florida but not this year. Our 3 favorite parks have almost doubled their prices !
Can’t wait to get out of Washington State gas $5.50 Diesel $6.00-$6..69
Nope I’ll be dealing with the cold, snow, and few open campgrounds in the Midwest. My work doesn’t change what region we cover in the winter so I don’t get to change where I travel. The cold I can deal with at this point, I just hope I don’t have to tow through too much snow.
Yes, I just made reservations 2 weeks ago at an rv resort near Arcadia Florida. We are getting away from the Michigan winter.
Not tellin’. 😉