Almost every camper, at one time or another, entertains the thought of chucking in their day job and hitting the road in a RV full time. For most people it is just a thought that enters their mind when their camping vacation is over and they have to head home and back to work.

For others it becomes more than a passing thought and starts to take root in their minds, becoming something they truly want to pursue.

It is something that has been on my mind for several years. I even got to the point of mentioning it to my husband last year because I figured, or at least hoped, he would be the one doing it with me. At first he wasn’t very enthusiastic about it. But that is because he is the “sensible” one in our relationship and the only things he thought about were how much it would cost, how we would pay for it, and if we could afford it (notice a theme)?

I, on the other hand, could only think about how wonderful it would be to be able to visit the places in North America that I have been wanting to see for myself for a long time instead of just looking at pictures and videos that somebody else took.

Now that my husband has been tossing the idea around in his mind for about a year, he is getting more interested in the idea, so now I feel less guilty about the hours I spend online “researching” full-time rv’ing and reading about the experiences of others (the good, the bad, the ugly and also the funny stuff and the sad stuff).

What is even more exciting to me is that my husband works with someone who has decided to RV full time and who has agreed to talk to me about it and answer all my questions (although he may change his mind when I show up at his house tomorrow with a list of questions as long as my arm)! . Plus he and his wife are letting me videotape it so that I can share it with you (watch for the video to be posted here within the next 2 weeks, but keep in mind that it will in no way be anything resembling an award winning documentary - just a conversation with people who are going full timing and who are sharing what they have learned so far).

Since full time rving is front and center in my mind with my upcoming “interview,” I thought it would be a good time to share some resources with you to check out about full time rv’ing. There is some great information online from people who spent years on the road full time and are now back in a “non-wheeled” home and from people who are currently on the road and who are willing to write about the positives, the negatives, and even share information about the financial end of it including their exact costs. Here’s a few of my favorites:

- Larry and Connie Farquhar - they started traveling full time in their motorhome in September 2004. Their website is Happy-Wanderers.com. They provide detail about how they came to the decision to full-time and also their 12 month countdown to from being “brick and mortar” homeowners to full-time rv’ers.

- Norm and Linda Payne took early retirement at ages 54 and 39, respectively and hit the road to full-time in September 1999. Their website, SeeYa-DownTheRoad.com that has a quiz to help you decide if full-timing might be right for you, an article about the “misconceptions about fulltimers” and an article about their “first eight years on the road.”

- Ron and Barb Hofmeister. They were on the road full time for 14 years and their website, MovinOn.net, has tons of information about full-timing.