Already, in many places, we are being asked to stay home — to avoid as much as possible contact with others for fear of catching or spreading the coronavirus.
If you’re a full-timer, with no permanent sticks-and-bricks home, then you probably have no choice about where to spend your time — your RV in your only choice. But what if you have an RV and another home, one that doesn’t have wheels and move? Do you believe you would choose one “residence” over the other? Or maybe you’ll divide your time between both.
We realize you may not know for sure what you’ll do, but take your best guess.
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As full time living in an RV we have no choice but to self isolate in the motorhome
I feel very lucky to have an RV in the driveway. Nice having a choice. And if need to, one of us (obviously me) can isolate close by.
Same here. We’ve got our own isolation ward right here at home. If one of us gets sick, the well one stays in the house!
We left Tacoma WA for a planned 7-month trip around the US, on Feb 28th. We got as far as Mississippi (for a planned event which was cancelled the day we arrived) and by March 18th could see clearly that we couldn’t continue on the plan – it included numerous Military RV parks which were already starting to close to new campers, and we had been going to the Canadian Maritimes this Summer. So we’ve started home. We’re in Springfield MO this weekend, headed North to pick up I-90 West in Sioux Falls.
As much as we love our Motor Coach, we’ll feel a lot more secure once we make it to our “sticks and bricks” back in WA.
Hunker down, y’all! Wherever you may be…
We are in our Motor Home waiting to have new refrigerator installed today or Monday. Temperature here in Florida are high for this time of year so being in Motor Home most of the day the walls start to close in even our cats noticed. Headed home as soon as repairs are completed. Master Pro Mobile
RV Service has been a great company to work with.
For now we are in our RV in Yuma, AZ. We’ll probably leave here in a week and start back to Kansas City. Hoping to find open RV parks along the way!
I wish it was in our RV! We would still have everything we need, but in a smaller place to keep everything clean and germ free 😃 At this point in time all I can say is Boy do I miss my RV! While it sits empty at our seasonal site 😩
Full timer, currently getting kicked out of National Forest campground. All of my future reservations are cancelled. Fortunately SC state parks are still open for camping. I’ve pieced together seven reservations to cover the next five weeks. Hopefully they will stay open that long. After that, who knows? I’d like to stay in one spot, but many private parks are not accepting new Rvers, just the ones who are already there. As an older person with an immune system disease, it’s getting scary.
There are 4 back-in spaces open here just south of Amarillo in Texas. Phone: (806) 654-1290. It’s not a fancy park but that old adage “Any port in a storm” fits well here.
This is new to all of us. Anywhere you are is home. The food supply is plentiful, despite the toilet paper hoarders. Fuel is cheap. The coming weeks will tell a lot about who and why things are as they are. It’s funny if you think about it, preppers were considered nuts by many, just a short month ago.
You live in the best place, with the best medical system, bar none in the world. This will bring change, of that, I am absolutely certain. Things like; where critical medicines are manufactured. Who is allowed to enter our lands unabated, all this will change, and for the better i might add. We will defeat this, and we will rebound a changed nation. So, listen to those in government that make sense, and remember to punish those in government, that will try to use this as an opportunity, to take away more of your freedoms. It happened after nine eleven, and those in power then, who do not believe in individual freedoms, will try again.
Stay safe, wash your hands, limit contact as much as possible, and let this Wuhan virus die out with the least amount of carnage as possible.
Totally agree, wish the younger generation wasn’t so brainwashed by their schools. Then I would feel more secure. 🤔
Amen! Well thought out and well written!
Well said & I agree with everything except your last sentence; this is not the Wuhan virus. Wuhan is where the jump was made from animal to human; it is called COVID-19 OR corona virus.
Very well stated BBT. I’m Canadian though and your comment about your country having “the best medical system in the world bar none” would have our Prime **** Justin Trudeau and all of his followers of which there are many, in a fit.
Canadians incessantly are brainwashed with the phrase “Canada does not want, nor will it ever subscribe to an American Style Medical system”
I guess that’s why in the Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald of today March 24, there’s an editorial taking about three Alberta’s, so critically in pain, they skipped across the line recently to have knee operations in Montana – all to avoid the pain of waiting in the long line to have it done in what some on this side of the line say “is the best medical system in the world.
Personally as a born and bred Canadian with kids living in Idaho under your “best in the world system” and relative to my wife’s amazing life saving operation/care in Springfield Oregon at Peace Health this past Fall, I’ll pick your freedom to choose model, over our “sickest most pain riddled get treated first the rest wait in the longest line imaginable” model.
Canadians have – ZERO choice which totally dictates how, where and when they will get attention for a medical problem. It’s far from the best system in the world” and it sure is anything but FREE.
I’ll choose the American system with it’s warts and all (almost) every time over the Canadian (S-word) System
Hi, Alvin. I slightly bleeped your message. You know the rule of no name-calling. (But people can fill in the blank however they want.) Stay healthy! 😀 —Diane at RVtravel.com
Home, but the motorhome parked in the yard is the isolation pod if one of us gets sick.
We have been in Mexico since December. We are staying in our current, relatively isolated location probably until our permits run out in June. We have medical insurance. There is plenty of food (and TP). So far not many COVID cases.
We were on a trip in our Minnie Winnie to the Gulf Coast, FL, and the East Coast to be gone 6 weeks. After 12 days on the road, we decided our best bet was to return to our home in the middle of the woods and follow the self-containment steps recommended by the government. Doing that now. BTW I never did see the POLL. I don’t know if it’s something I’m doing wrong or what.
Hi, Larry. Maybe you have popups blocked? Or, if possible, you might see it if you use a different browser? The poll is showing up for most people, so I can’t tell you for sure why you can’t see it. Sorry. 🙁 —Diane at RVtravel.com
We just arrived at Plamosa Rd near Quartzsite, AZ. Still lotsa folks here. No volunteer permit writer as we drove in, so I’m curious about the usual 2-week restriction. As we passed through the Lake Havasu area we noticed several boondock areas PACKED! We WERE going to spend a couple weeks staying in NV state parks, but they decided to close them to overnight camping. Backwards thinking, in my opinion. So here we are in the beautiful AZ desert. There are lots of new Geocaches around here so we’ll stay busy.
Funny question… it depends on whether I get to move the RV around or leave the shelter. At home, my “world” exists as a couple acres around a larger “inside”, but in the RV (moving) I get the cozy RV plus about 20 square miles around whereever it’s parked… If I have to STAY in the house or RV, obviously the 5X bigger house.
We are feeling lucky to be able to boondock in the desert with the closest RV over 100 yards away.
We’re doing the same and feel relatively safe. If we’re asked to leave the area or when it gets too hot, we’ll join our RV community, but for now, this feels freer.
We are so lucky. Just returned a week a go from a 2 month trip. Mixed emotions. None of the small towns/areas we stopped in have any cases, so we keep saying what if we had stayed. But then, things could have changed by now where you could stay and for how long. So, glad to be home. Plus, need to help with my 91 yr old mom, so in reality staying out was never a choice….just a fantasy to avoid the chaos in Silicon Valley.
We’re already under mandatory isolation here in California. Probably coming soon to a state near you….
We are far from home and already in our RV. No reason to travel long distances just to self-isolate.
We’re in a fairly large Newmar that is pretty old, but provides shelter and most basic functions. No other home, but we are parked in a semi permanent setting.
I still have snow both on the ground and in the forecast – rig is still winterized. So I’m in sticks and bricks.
My husband and I are laying low at our five acre place north east of Seattle. We have a functional, self-contained twenty-one foot trailer parked in our driveway. We hope to take it camping for a few days in the next week or two for a sanity break and some much needed fresh air somewhere here in WA. We are now of that “certain demographic” who, according to Governor Inslee strongly suggested to stay home. What about hitching our other home to the truck and taking it with us? Is that also “self isolation?” We go camping to get away from people!
I can understand why the privately owned RV campgrounds are shutting down. I’ve seen how RVs and trailers are packed in together. You’ve got some high population density going on in those campgrounds!
I really feel for you full timers in your studio apartments on wheels. Where will you go? Pray you are not looked upon as motorized vectors of pestilence as you enter the next town!
I can only speak for our area in Florida. We are FT and in our RV at our winter lot in a private campground. So far there is no danger of being kicked out, or even rumors of it happening. As it is, there are many here that live here all year in RV’s and park models (which technically are RV’s). Our sites/lots are not on top of each other. The community buildings were closed almost 2 weeks ago, as well as the pool and activities. Everyone here is following the rules of self isolation or staying 10 feet apart. Our lot is our lot for as long as we want it. People are living a lot closer to their neighbor in an apartment than I am and even in some sticks and bricks because they build them so close, you can jump from roof to roof if you had to.
I doubt you will be in a WA state campground; I read they were closed except for day use. Crazy huh!?
We got home from our winter trip just recently, so we will be sheltering at home (which we would be doing anyway for the next couple of months).
I’m with Scott. Snow on the ground and even though it’s supposed to be spring, there is still snow in the forcast as teams still dip a few degrees below freezing here in central B.C. at night. So sticks and bricks it is untill this either gets better or, we learn a lot about boondocking.
We are self-isolating at our winter home, so time for homemade bread. Our plans to go to Alaska are off due to the Canadian border being closed. Have the motorhome all ready to go but that is not going to happen. Guess we will see just how it is to live in AZ this summer. This is going to last for many months or longer methinks. We are at 4K ft so better than Tucson. Just got a new house heat pump installed thank god. Have food but we will need home delivery of booze. Hello Amazon Prime, do you hear me?
I get a kick out of people saying “Well there are no cases where we are at”. Just not reported as no testing. A systematic can spread it long before they show signs of it.
There’s still debate that an asymptomatic person is contagious. Insufficient information. Just like the 6foot distance is not based on science. However, best to go with what the authorities are recommending at this stage … things may change in terms of advice.
Very sorry about your trip to Alaska, I would be so disappointed! But you are doing the right thing. I would like to think we could get back to normal in a month or two. Down deep I don’t believe that but I’m hoping we’ll be there in 2021.
Just got home from a month in Central Florida where we had some very cool temperatures.
Here in North Alabama its still raining and more in the forecast which will help us stay isolated.
I answered RV because we sold our house and are full time. I have to be honest though, after this I know I have no desire to be very sick in a RV. We stay generally healthy, but one never knows what the next day will bring. I have never been more ready to buy another house/townhouse, just a lot smaller than our old house, the downsizing was not hard for us so that has never been an issue.
We were going to start heading towards Michigan now from southern Arizona to arrive in early May, where we spend 2-3 months visiting our kids each summer, but now decided to stay here in the desert north of Yuma until late April. We have enough toilet paper for a couple of months, clean underwear for 3-4 weeks, a stocked fridge, & 3 months of dried food we always carry in storage under the bed. I don’t consider myself a true prepper, but I do like to be prepared for most emergencies, so we’ve carried the dried food with us for the last 7 years of our 10 years of fulltiming. I hope we don’t need it, but if everything goes to hell, we have fresh water, a dump station, & propane nearby, & with our solar & generator, we’re pretty well set to be isolated for the next couple of months, if needed.
Hi, Fred. I read this morning that laundromats are considered essential, so are allowed to stay open. Just sayin’. 😀 —Diane at RVtravel.com
RV is my home. CG’s are where I reside. What’s left, parking lots?
NOT isolating. Moving about living a normal life as are others I meet out and about. I give this isolation about 10 days before people revolt, We will see.
Please reconsider. You are putting people at risk.
Bob
PLease help everyone and yourself for a short couple of weeks you can do this. Self isolation is unselfish and humane Bob. Teach everyone this. WE must do this NOW>
It is me yelling.
Hosmer
You are making a selfish decision; I hope you stop to think about how your choice could affect other lives. The point of isolation is to flatten the curve so 10’s of 1000’s don’t get sick all at once. It would be a horrible task to triage. Please just think about it.
Bobs got morbid friends +11, that’s outlandish considering the long term consequences of this unprecedented crisis. Do I feel sorry or outrage? I pick the later – BOB grow up!
We have full hookup with 50 amps at our brick and mortar home. If one of us gets sick the healthy one will move into the motor home. Clothing and non perishable food is already stocked.
As a full timer I said RV. The only other choice would have been with family, who I know would welcome us, but I wouldn’t even consider asking and putting the extra burden and stress on any of them.
That’s where me and my 2 dogs are as well. I don’t want to get anyone sick or they get me sick.
I said sticks and bricks because of the inability to travel knowing that there will be an available campsite. With Sp’s and National Park’s closing til further notice and some private parks Not accepting any new clients. I don’t think this is the time to be traveling
There are laws to follow for one who is being quarantined and to violate them carry’s serious consequences.
Is some places, yes. But living in an RV is not illegal. One can stay inside in an RV, just as they can stay inside in a house.
Yes you can stay inside an RV, you just can’t park it wherever you want.
We live in our retirement cabin (plan for using as our sick room if needed) Altho I love my little FBGM camper I can’t fit many books or supplies in it. When DH and I married in 1981 we both had approximately 3,000 books in our personal libraries. I have turned some back into used bookshops I still have the vast majority of them plus all the books we have purchased over the years That includes: literature, poetry, survival skills. canoeing, hiking, hiking, natural history, human history, religion, , nursing, parenthood, science fiction, science books, manga and graphic novels. I am sure that isn’t an exhaustive list. Yes, I have a KINDLE but haven’t had the time to figure it out. Also a 13.5 to 14 ft long living area is not going to be a great place to be with 6 cats- 2 of whom are yard cats, dumps that we feed, but who are not thrilled in being around the 4 “inside” cats.
I grew up not watching TV- didn’t have one till the 1960s, so I feel somewhat uncomfortable with one around. We DO have some movies on compact discs that we consider to be great for watching, but it’s been 3 months since we even did tHAT. (play them on the notebook)
I live in an RV and that is where I will be. I’m an American citizen in Canada and the park I am staying at has been wonderful during this crisis. I intend to stay put here until this thing blows over.
It may not blow over for months, or even next year….
My RV is my home. Don’t own, or want, a house.
in my stick n brick. no money to fix the truck or buy fuel so can go nowhere. as well as the gov in ca has shutdown this state.
I suspect that I’m the black sheep of this crowd as I’m one of the 1% ‘other’, I’m now on a beautiful tropical Caribbean island in Panama while my truck camper is in storage back in California. I’m a retired full-time traveler that spends half the year outside the US. I’m hunkered down in a small hotel, in a small village, in a room with four times the square footage as my camper. I’ve got a kitchen and stores nearby that are fully stocked with most everything of the stores back home. No shortage of TP here! hahaha, There’s a brand new hospital within a mile of where I live. My landlady is a nurse and she reports to me every day of any changes in Positive tests, of which there are none.
Sure, the country has closed down all inbound and outbound flights, but I feel safer here than if I was back in the US. I plan to stay here as long as it takes. In fact, it’s cheaper to live here than traveling around back in the states. There have been no reported cases of the virus within over a hundred miles of here. Of all you that complain of the crowded RP parks, why not help out the situation by putting your RVs into storage and see the world. I’m in paradise with no worries.