Again, our dream takes a turn!

By early 2015, we were visiting our oldest daughter and her family in Kansas City Missouri and decided to all go to an RV dealer there. When we told the sales guy what we were planning, he immediately directed us to a Rockwood Signature 5^th wheel. We had told him we wanted something small and this was only 32 feet long but it was HUGE! I kept telling the salesman that I didn’t want anything that large! It was massive!! We went inside and I kept saying, “No! This isn’t at all what we want! This is way too huge!!!” I was very upset and overwhelmed and could not imagine buying or pulling anything so monstrous! We left and I never wanted to see anything like that again!

But, we were soon looking at 5^th wheels. I had read a lot about 5^th wheels and that they are much easier to pull and control since they are attached in the bed of the truck and had a lot more storage. Soon, I was getting pulled into the world of 5^th wheels. I was reading every blog I could find about small 5^th wheels.

Gradually, Tom and I began talking about traveling for a year instead of just 6 months. Then we began to see how expensive it would be to keep a house that we did not plan to live in so, why not sell the house when we retire? We talked about buying a house in Kansas City that we would come home to after we are done traveling. Well, that plan didn’t last long. Why would we pay for a house, maintenance, utilities as it sits empty. Soon we were talking about selling our house and not buying a house until we actually stopped traveling… and soon we were talking about living full time in our 5^th wheel for a year, or 2 years, or 5 years…

We have read a lot about the staggering number of people who travel full time in their RV’s. We began to follow blogs and researched Escapees Club, Passport to America, Good Sam’s, etc. What a great adventure we were on! This was an exciting world of travel! We could go wherever we wanted to go, get up and go somewhere else whenever we wanted to. We decided we needed a 5^th wheel that could keep up with our constant travel and wear and tear, so it had to be very well built. But also, it had to be able to withstand the extreme temperatures. We came to learn that the term for that is a “Four Season” 5^th wheel.  We also learned that some manufactures say they are 4-season but there are lots of degrees of 4-season!

We were on a roll! We began to put together our Bucket-list!! Alaska! Salmon fishing, Fly fishing, deep-water fishing, bears, moose, mountains, streams, lakes, wildflowers, glaciers. Newfoundland and Labrador! Northern Lights, kayaking with icebergs, quaint villages in the bay, whales, puffins, history etc. The list began to grow almost daily!