Are you in a comfortable place now? Is it pleasant, a good place to spend your time until the pandemic wanes and we’re free to go about our lives again, as we did as recently as a month ago?
Or are you trapped in a place that is not comfortable at all, yearning for someplace more pleasant?
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Another choice: We are in our RV trying to get home.
I’m very fortunate to be stuck in the middle of a 150 acre farm…
Us too, we have 160 Acres!!!
My wife and I are best friends. We’ve been together for nearly 20 years. We have a permanent home (where we are now), a small, off-the-grid, somewhat rustic backcountry place out in the middle of nowhere (about 125 miles from home…we’ve thought about heading there), and a 24 foot bumper pull..which we were vacationing in the week all the panic buying began. However, regardless of where we might be having to “shelter-in-place”…. I can safely say I’m fortunate that wherever I would have to lockdown with my best friend, my wife, I’d be fine.
I don’t claim to speak for ALL wives, but I’m fairly certain we’d all agree on this:
THANK YOU!
We’re “stuck” at home (near Montreal, QC) , it could be worse. We cancelled our spring travel plans to travel south and bicycle, we cancelled our summer plans to travel and visit the south-west part of Canada with a return through the northern US states.
At home but with an essential first responder husband who is my best friend it can get scary when as an EMT he gets calls to go out to people reporting coughs and headaches. Then the times he’s on his regular job as a Sargent in law enforcement I worry a call will expose him to a non symptomatic carrier. Anyone be it 1st responders, health care providers, grocery staff, janitorial etc who are working now are heroes and deserve hazardous pay duty.
We are full-timers and considered essential workers as County Park Hosts In AZ. I am concerned over our contact with the hoards of people that are fleeing to the park trails during the state mandated stay at home order. Our site is beautiful, the other hosts wonderful and walmart now has RV toilet paper. The meandering trip we planned heading north is off and rattlesnake season is on.
The wife and I are New England Snowbirds “sheltered-in-place” in Florida near Wachula! Fortunately for us, we were at this RV Park when our future reservations at State and County parks began to be cancelled! Also, fortunately, we were able to extend our reservation at our site. Currently there are no virus cases in our County. We have decided to buy a place here, in case the Pandemic closures prevent our returning home for a while.
As Chuck says, RV Parks are perfect places to be during this Pandemic. Sites are separated and there are plenty of places to hike and exercise while maintaining safe spaces between other RVers!
Very comfortable at our home of 25 years in Yorktown VA. Great medical resources nearby. Great long time friends and of course family nearby. Never been so thankful for our sticks & bricks home.
I wish that there was I’m fantastic in the space I’m confined in. We’ve been eating better, getting exercise, and reading more.
Lucky enough to be on our son’s 2 1/2 acres in north central FL, with hookups, when FL was shut down. We full time, so it could have been much worse.
We’re on the road. We’re fulltimers, but we’re slowly making our way west and north from Florida. We’re currently in a Cracker Barrel parking lot in Hattiesburg, MS. They told us we could stay as long as we have to. We pulled in last night and bought supper. We’re debating on whether we should stay tonight as well, since our next stop is in Florence at Shipp Truck to have the front end alignment done and new rear shocks installed. He’s told us we can stay in his lot Sunday, our appointment is Monday at 8am.
From there we go to a fairly isolated RV Park in Blanchard, LA where we stay to visit with our daughter and son in law and grandkids. 14 day quarantine is no problem.
May 1st we head north to Pine River MN where our home base is, our own little private campground, well isolated. Again, quarantine is no problem.
I just hope we have no law enforcement problems on our multi state journey.
I have no sympathy for people who are still traveling while the “Don’t roam; stay at home” thing is in place. ALL my sympathy to the full-timers who have not “landed” yet … or who have not been able to land.
If you are visiting you are not self-isolating. Every time you make a move you put either yourself or someone else at risk.
We are fortunate enough to be in the SKP Escapees RV Park in Benson, Az. so we can stay, on our leased lot, all summer if we need to.
We are in our RV trying to get home. In Mesa for a month. We would be doing the same thing if were in Washington, except in a sticks and bricks. Sitting on the couch watching TV, movies and the internet.
We are comfortable because we are at home.
The poll does not appear on either my iPhone or iPad. Is it just me or is there an ongoing problem?
No, it’s just you, Mike. 😆 Sorry, but we haven’t received any other complaints that I know of. Maybe you have popups blocked, or security controls are too tight (if there is such a thing as being “too” secure)? Good luck. I hope you can get to it somehow, and I wish I could be more helpful. Stay healthy! 😀 —Diane at RVtravel.com
My wife and I spent 3 weeks in California taking care of my Mother in law, it was cold and wet, could only work in the yard a few times. Because of her age (she’ 91) and my wife health we were self quarantined before everything was closed down. Was so glad to finally come home to Florida. It’s warm and I can at least work in the yard or with my scroll saw in the garage. A much better situation.
I’m comfortable (for now).
Our first winter as full timers, we were in Yuma, Az for February and Tucson, AZ for March. We should have been headed north in the next two weeks for a 3 week stay on the coast in Oregon….that isn’t happening.
The park we’re in has let us extend our stay another month – and even let us move to a space with grass.
I’ve cancelled 15 reservations made for the next 6 weeks, hoping that we can still make the late May booking…..Lord knows, south AZ in the summer is NOT where I want to be!
We’re ok here at Forest Retreat RV park. Texas has not closed or altered terms for staying in RV parks.
RVillage is maintaining a list of open RV parks throughout the USA. Check it out.
We have plenty of spaces available.
We are at Two Rivers Landing RV Resort in Tennessee, very nice place to be on lockdown. There are less than ten TV’s here out of fifty-five sites. We are staying here as long as it takes.
I’m quite happy with where we are. We spent the winter oilfield gate guarding in West Texas and left last Sunday (29th) for our summer jobs in Pennsylvania. We arrived here on Tuesday night. We have woods behind us and other work campers on either side. The owners of the campground asked us to self quarantine for 14 days before starting work so we now have plenty of time to try and get all the oilfield dust cleaned up in the RV.
we’re in mesa, az at our snowbird park and have been told we can extend our stay as needed. we’re experienced RVers (34-yrs) so we’re about as comfortable as can be but the urge in me to go home (suburban chicago) is strong primarily to be around our network of family and friends. but we’re staying put…for now.
My wife and I, are home. Only thing missing are our three grandchildren. Miss them very much, along with my son and daughter. My daughter, eldest of the two, doesn’t want mom or dad leaving the house and to call her if we need anything from the stores. My son buys us things when he shops and drops them off. I hope others are doing okay, be safe and keep the faith. We are in this together!
Just as many others here, we had planned to be “on our way” by now out West. We had just returned from a scuba diving trip on 3/16 where we had had no TV, internet, WIFI for a week and boy was that great (we were in a locale with no virus problems). Then reality set in as we got back to our RV in Summerdale, Al. Then the madness began……no toilet paper? Really? Why? Did they stop making it? Was everyone getting the runs? Pure madness and insanity for the supply chain had not been interrupted whatsoever but people just went nuts. But thankfully we can stay here as long as necessary while the rest of the world loses their mind over this virus. Perhaps we can all learn great lessons from this plague. Hopefully some good will come of it but I sure wish I could be looking at the Grand Tetons by now. Full timing for gong on 11 years makes it hard to stay put!
When we purchased this home in Florida back on Jan. 1, we had no idea we’d be under lockdown. Having left NJ/NY and full-timing for 4 years, we thought we’d try it out. With relatives trying to get by in fourth-floor Walk-ups, others unemployed, some in low-income housing, or stuck in hi-rise one-bedroom apartments, we look back and count our blessings every day. We think how fortunate we are.
Hoping that everyone is coping.
God Bless You,
and God Bless America.
My wife and I are comfortably isolated in our fifth-wheel.
We are down in a small town in Baja California north. There is food on the shelves although our beach is closed – I’m pretty sure that we could find an isolated area of the 50 km of beach to walk along if I could (I broke my leg Feb 14 and have been bed/couch bound since then). So far everyone is healthy, fingers crossed that it stays this way!
We are now in our own home in Winterpeg, Manitoba after spending 4 months in Florida, rushing home because of this virus. It is amazing how we can spend months living happily in 350 square feet in our MoHo, but have problems once you get home to 1200 square feet. But that is mostly because you can’t leave and go outside to soak up the sun (we just got 2 feet of snow), though my hubby has been shoveling every chance he gets. It seemed easier to talk to our grandkids over Facetime when we were thousands of miles away rather than just a few miles. I believe the social-distance (self-isolation) was better in the Moho with our closest neighbours at least 50 feet away, no hugs and kisses were expected. But hey, we are all in this together and as they say “this too shall pass”. Hope to see you all on the road again in the next few months. Stay safe and healthy.
We would be getting ready for our trip to our PA campground, but we are here at our winter campground in FL. We are safe and since the PA campground is closed, we will be staying put. We miss our family very much and hope we can get to PA by Mid-summer to greet our first Great Grandson in August. People please stay where you are at if possible and most of all stay safe. God Bless.
We arrived home just before the “shelter in place” rules went out. Home is a farm with our extended family. The youngest and healthiest individual does what shopping is needed, while the rest of us stay home and pretty much do what we would be doing anyway. Other than not going out for dinner (which we did a lot of) life on the farm is pretty much the same as before. With outside jobs to do and room to move around, we don’t suffer from cabin fever. So the disruption to our normal lives is minimal.
We are in Casa Grande AZ in a large park. Most activities have shut down so avoid “social contact” or is it really anti social? Today at 5 pm they are shutting the pools and hot tubs. I’m getting BORED. nothing to do except read. My posterior is getting tired of sitting. Wish I were home and by my workshop and tools. Have gotten to make friends here but nobody wants to get too close together now and with distance comes loud talking to the point of shouting because us old farts can’t hear. Oh well,could be worse, we could run out of TP.
Home on the farm. Impact is minimal. Only thing different is having to do curbside pickup from restaurants instead of eating in. Ag is considered essential so all the places we need are open. Personally, I choose not to go into those places because of having non curable cancer. Our local farm stores offer curbside pickup and did before the virus as well.
Starting the final month of our 2nd winter season @ a Maricopa park outside Phx (Hi, Nanci 😎), won’t be going to Oregon park for summer as we’d planned 😟 (but sure glad they let us know before we hit the road!). So we snagged the last available monthly site at a neat RV campground outside Prescott Valley from May thru Sept 2020 and will see what transpires during the summer. And that’ll leave us in AZ in the fall, so we’ll likely volunteer next winter at one of the parks down here again. But we’re safe, healthy, home in our own space, and the Maricopa Co supervisors finally have set out parameters which limit anything but the briefest contact with visitors, so we’re guarded but feeling OK.
We spent the winter at Imperial Dam LTVA north of Yuma, AZ, & when the virus hit, we’ve just extended our stay until early June when we’ll make our yearly visit to see our kids & grandkids in Michigan. This is the best place to be right now. 90% of the snowbirds have already left, so here we sit in the desert, with no one anywhere near us, just enjoying the pleasant weather under my brand newly installed electric awning with wind sensor. Life is good. I wish everyone else could be as stress free, but, unfortunately, life is playing a cruel joke on many people right now. I pray for the health care workers who are feeling the brunt of this pandemic.
I’m in a Thousand Trails location in central Arizona. I’m in an annual site but out my front door is a short term site. I fully understand there are valid reasons to be moving as well as reasons to leave during the day. But the current occupant leaves EVERY day. Maybe it is a Dr keeping family at home safe but constant coming & going still concerns me, with age & 3 chronic health factors indicating possible severe complications.
Full timer, in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. I am heading halfway across the country to my brother’s house, where I will self isolate for fourteen days in my RV before moving into his spare room. Not where I want to be, but I am very comfortable in my RV. Too bad the park I was in was forced to close.
I’m at home. My only constraints are the businesses closed to the public. We travel on weekends out of state. I’m sorry folks but by definition this is not a pandemic it’s not even an epidemic. H1N1 deaths are significantly higher than COVID-19 both here and abroad RIGHT NOW TODAY!!!! The total FLU deaths are running on the low end of the annual range It’s just that the media can’t seem to want to report on anything but COVID-19. If you take the time to seek the real numbers and not the numbers that the media are generating you will see that this is just tunnel vision and the tunnel is the media. Are there problem areas, yes, folks have died. but more folks have died from other forms of the flu and you don’t hear about those poor individuals just the COVID-19 deaths. Nothing else is happening in the world. Listening to the news there is nothing going on in the world except COVID-19.
I’m not sure where you are getting your information but covid-19 is a pandemic according to Merriam-Webster.
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) the average death rate of the seasonal flu is 0.1% whereas the global death rate for the coronavirus is 4.7%. Italy at 11% the US at 1.8%.
May I suggest next weekend you stay home, to protect other people, and relearn the facts.
We are comfortable where we are. Is where we would want to be? Of course not. But we feel so fortunate to have found a park on the Oregon Coast in a small community that we can just ride this out. I feel for the park owners and RVers alike that are struggling with the loss of the short term stay freedom. But on the other side I also look at all of the people in these small communities that would have to worry about all of the RV/camping or vacationing community that have possibly just been traveling through a virus hotspot and now are using their fuel pumps, grocery stores, take out, medical facilities, or any bathroom that they can find.
We were finally going to get to start our full-time lifestyle out of the state of Oregon. We had plans for a rally in Tucson, seeing 90 and 95 year old parents in Omaha, a family reunion on Cape Cod, and much much more. Are we bummed or upset, of course. But as to possibly getting sick or getting others sick we see it as the best option to stay in one place and not move. Possibly we are fortunate that we have this option as others may not.
My wife has been working with some of the Oregon Government on both state and federal side as here in Oregon all “Campgrounds” have been shut down but “RV Parks” may stay open if they cater only to month long stays. Since the wording has lessened the availability of parks she is trying to get them to understand that there is a vast community of full time RVers and that we all need to have a place to call home to ride this out.
I understand that the park we are in has locked down the bathrooms/showers and is limiting the laundry to one guest at a time. Otherwise they would be in there sanitizing after every single use to protect everyone and that is too much to ask I think. I imagine that the vast majority of us are self contained and can do most of this in our own rig with the exception of laundry.
We all need to work together through this. I know we can and we can beat this virus. And after that we will all be back on the road, fulfilling our dreams. Living the lifestyle that we have chosen as full timers.
We are comfortable in our stick home. I have a sizable deposit for a site for June, July & August. I am waiting to see how the RV park is going to work with me and others as we are not about to leave our S&B home to be quarantined or holed up in our RV. Surely we would not want to participate in Park activities. Nor would we feel comfortable sharing facilities with overnighters or those on short term stays who could be spreading the virus, no less with those other seasonals out to the National Park or in town possibly bringing back a virus. Common sense dictates that our health is more important than taking the chance of exposing ourselves to this virus and doing it in a quarantined environment. I only see August as being anywhere close to a possible timeline for departure.
When this first started, my wife and I decided that staying at a Corps of Engineers campground on the lake would be better than staying at home. We were there a week and a half and then the Corps of Engineers decided to close all of their campgrounds. A couple of days later the state closed all state parks. So now we are stuck at home. My heart goes out the the full timers who are struggling for a place to stay.
We planned to travel from the Washington, DC area beginning tomorrow (4/6/2020), but our reservations at a regional (multi-jurisdictional) park campground were canceled a month ago. So, we are “stuck” at our sticks and bricks home in the approximate center of 120 acres owned by us or my parents. About half is cleared and half still forested. As retirees we already were in public little, instead spending most of our days with housework, yardwork, or farm work (sans livestock). At this point, self-quarantining has caused little deviation from our normal routine.
Currently, hunkered down in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana at the Cajun Palms RV Resort. There are approx 400+ RV sites plus 300 cabins. There are maybe 30 RVs here. On my side of the resort there are 200+ sites, I have no neighbors and there are about 8 RVs. We left home (Maryland) for points south (Florida) in mid-Jan and have been here in Louisiana since March 1st. Heard early on that we should not mingle with the grandkids. We have 11 grandkids. Eight (8) of our grandkids and their dad all live with me and my husband. So, we decided to stay here in Louisiana at least until June. Hopefully, we will be able to return home by then and not have to self-quarantine. We only have electrical and water hookups at home. Leaving every week to dump our tanks would get old really quick. So, we will stay here until we get advice from the head health care advisors and our Maryland Governor Larry Hogan.
We were at Colorado City State Park at Colorado City Texas, had been there 4 weeks had plans to stay there to ride this out. The park is very spacious and spread out a lot of room between camp sites, beautiful area. We have enough supplies to last us for about 4 weeks. Then the email came at 935am that all Texas state parks would be closed at close of business on April 7,2020. All we could do was race 400 miles across the state of Texas to get to home base.
Well we have a really nice home base parking on our own land, guess they will tell us we have to leave here next. Fat chance on that happening, LOL. They better bring the army when they come.