Retirement and the Full Time RV Lifestyle - Can YOU Afford It?
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- Опубликовано: 9 авг 2019
- In this Video, we discuss our expenses to live the Traveling Full Time RV Lifestyle and compare it to another Full Time RV Couple and their cost to live the Traveling Full Time RV Lifestyle. We also discuss our RUclips Channel and all the informational videos we have on our channel for the Retirement RV Lifestyle.
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Enjoyed the video you guys! Lots of positive comments which is great to see. I'm excited to see you guys approaching 10k and you deserve every single one of them. Thanks for all the informative eye opening videos you create.There's so much you guys can offer people that we can't. Also...thanks for allowing us to reference you in our video. We really appreciate you.
~Stacy~
Can't tell you both how much we appreciate the shout out you gave our channel and so many folks came over to watch our videos. I have gotten over a hundred emails (and probably a thousand subscribers) from your viewers requesting one of our spreadsheets and they all mentioned the "I'm Not Lost I'm RVing" video you put out, and they all wanted to make sure we knew why they dropped by. That says a lot about how they feel about you two and your channel. It is a great community and we are so proud to be part of it and also very happy to get close to our 10,000 subscribers 3 or 4 months early. Very Much Appreciated Bob and Pearl
Watched your video last week...well done...great RV advice!
I'm Not Lost I'm RVing we love Thomas and Stacy’s channel too. Always informative! They are such a sweet couple!
You're why I've subscribed to Bob & Pearl. Thanks for showing me and many others!
Having much fun watching you both! It’s so great to see how well you build up and give to the RV community.
Another great job Bob and Pearl!
Terrific information.
I love your spreadsheet ,but I love the way y’all are so chilled and payed back.
Love your videos! We are preparing for retirement and RV travel is a big part of our plans. Thanks for all your great information - so helpful!
Thank you so much bill and pearl. For your insight to the cost of full time RVing
Bob and Pearl, thank you so much for your spreadsheets. They are awesome!
Thanks for sharing so much information. It's very helpful in helping me make my next decision. Hope to see you on the road.
I really appreciate your day-to-day experiences from a full time RV life style perspective. Keep up the good work on delivering valuable informative videos.
Thank you for taking time to provide valuable, real experience information.
Jeez fine job chronicling your experience ,incredibly valuable to people considering this lifestyle .Hope you guys are enjoying some kind of benefit from putting this together .Again great job thank you
Most excellent advice. We appreciate your words of wisdom. Keep up the fantastic videos.
This is the tribe I’ve been looking for, I follow several RV channels, some bcuz of the type of rigs they have that appeal to me, some that have similar philosophies, some bcuz of where they prefer to travel, and so on. I can’t wait to learn from you and the channels you’ve mentioned here in this video. Thanks so much!
Hi Pearl and Bob! I found you guys from I'm not lost, I'm RVing. Glad to see your point of view on things and this lifestyle.
Love the info and the video. Hope someday we can do this. Safe travels.
We just came across your video and are new subscribers. We plan to retire and start rving full-time in 5 years. Thanks so much and we look forward to watching all your videos. You guys are great!!:)
Another informative video. Thanks so much.
Safe travels and good health.
Just found you....best site ever. Thank you for all of this information. Very helpful!
Thank you for taking the time to produce your videos. I find the information you offer to be helpful and well thought out. My wife and I are about 2 years from retiring. While we plan to keep our house, it's 100% paid for and in a location that will continue to appreciate, we plan on RV travel 6+ months per year. Your information is very helpful as we plan our retirement. Thank you!
Such wonderful videos with such great information. Sure appreciate you guys and your willingness to share.
Loved it! I clicked over here from "I'm not lost I'm RVing". My husband and I live fulltime in a travel trailer and traveled around here and there in the West in our first 2 years and spent quite a bit of money on campgrounds, but we did some boondocking too. This year we came home and are sitting stationary for a year to pay down debt and watch my granddaughter since my son needed help. We hope to get traveling again next year and are upgrading to a fifth-wheel. I am very interested in your info about Thousand Trails. I am going to check that out! Thanks for a great informative video about the costs of fulltime rv living.
thank you great info we are ready to start our full time next year safe travels
Great video, thanks for sharing.
LOL, I absolutely adore you both! My husband and I are starting the information gathering process to prepare for retirement, I'm 58 and hubby is 62. We are looking at retiring in 6 years. Your videos are such a blessing! Thank you!
Great info, thanks!
Real people with real finances . Thanks
Just subscribed, and am so pleased to find your site..My wife and I are planning in 2 years to take off..We are working RV budget now and trying to live within those amounts to prepare and tweek amounts..Will be following you on your adventure.
Full of great information. Lots to learn here thank you for the great video, subscribed to you. 👍
Thank you so so very much 💕
Have fun 😍💃🏾💃🏾
I really appreciate this 😄
Great Job! There are so many alternatives you won't live long enough to try them all. That is why sharing your experience is so helpful.
Right On, and we love our RV Adventure so far.
This is so awesome and encouraging. Im in the beginning stages of my research on RV retirement life. Its looking quite positive and im liking what im finding
Awesome video!!! Thanks for all the info. We are 62 and are just looking into what we want to do.
Nice to see you both doing well.
Your information was very useful and did not know a lot of it so Thanks
Good morning. Love the video and all your helpful info. We are excited about our goal to rv and hopefully soon. We are currently in the process of trying to sell everything. This is more to do with my husband's work and our financial hardship, and my need of a heart transplant, and bad prognosis. We just want to spend as much time as we have left, together and see some places too. You both are an inspiration, thank you so much. God bless you, and many safe travels, maybe we can meet you both one day, when we finally have our rv. Thanks again.💜
Nice video with a lot of good points to consider. I really like you your down home easy going style.
We found ya by I'm not lost. We have the Class A. Retired and ready to travel next spring (we live in FL). Now we have been trying to figure out a budget and how to afford it. This is a Godsend. Thanks!
Just found you guys! Love this video! I am not ready to retire yet but looks like you have the info I need to start planning. Definitely following you guys!
Just found your channel and will email for your spreadsheet. So good of you to share! Hubby and I are 5-7 yrs away from giving this a go but with your helpful info, we may be able to push that up-or at the very least, position ourselves for the best chance at succeeding! Going to start binge-watching your vids now. 😊
Hi Jett, well hopefully you got your fill of Next Exit videos and found some of interest. Good Luck with planning your RV Adventure
Enjoy Our Oregon.
Lived on and close to coast for 25 yrs. Grows on you.
We are retired 1 year and RV full time now and LOVE this RV lifestyle. We see in the video your at Whalers Rest. We are heading there tomorrow. Hope we get to meet you before you head to Mt. Hood.
We have learned so much watching the info you are posting on retirement. It has been a great help in our decisions along the way.
If we don’t get to meet you this time, always remember to Enjoy Life!
It looks like we were gone from Whalers Rest before you arrived but we did enjoy our stay there and I am sure you will as well. Thanks for stopping by our channel and glad you are enjoying the videos. Enjoy You Travels as this is such a great lifestyle.
As a professional financial planner, it's wonderful to see the sharing of costs versus lifestyle for different ages and stages of life. Great advice and candour!
I had good friends named Bob and Pearl they RVed all over the USA too, they also used the RV as a tow vehicle for their USAC Midget race cars. Had a lot of good times going to the races in the back of the 1970s RV, when racing ended they retired and up graded to a new RV.
Another helpful video and you are both looking great! I think you two just took your channel up a notch. I really hope people thinking about living this lifestyle find you because you really pulled all the hot-button issues together. Pat and I are still trying to figure out our style and hope to learn a lot more about ourselves the next several months by trying some boondocking. Still planning to catch up with you in Arizona. Safe travels!
We always love reading your comments as they are so positive and inspirational (Thanks). We are real anxious to hear how your boondocking goes, we are on the fence with the whole solar thing but I am sure we will go to the desert for a week or so several times boondocking with Jeff and Laurie and with you two but we may just have to run the generator a bit each day. We have done it for a week or more a couple of times in Quartzsite in years past and 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the evening works just fine. Winter will be here way too soon enough I am guessing, so we better get ready for it.
Bob, we really enjoy watching your videos and the wealth of information that you guys share.
I’ll be retiring at the end of this year. Been part time RVing for 15 years and planning on full time. Would appreciate a copy of your spreadsheet if possible.
Keep it rolling !!
Don
Thanks for the info, great videos.
THANK-YOU so much. Love the videos
I very much appreciate your perspective on full timing from the way you like to travel. Most of the YT travel vids I watch are younger folks with small rigs and modest means, but it is refreshing seeing folks like you who enjoy larger rigs/comfort and have the money to spend. I'm sort of in the middle. I simply don't want to deal with the cost and maintenance of a large rig so I have a small travel trailer and enjoy part timing in state parks and small campgrounds and I will never sell my home nest to travel full time. Different strokes for different folks...but it's always fun to see how other people like to travel both part and full time. Thank you both for your effort in sharing how you are enjoying your lives in your Golden Years. :-)
Thank you for your videos! Just found you. Travelers I can actually follow and learn from. I like other people’s videos too but you break things down for people that would love to do this lifestyle. Can’t get my husband to do it. We did go last year for a year🎉. I think he’s afraid to let go of the house. We did stress over the house and ran back and forth. I would never settle down until I absolutely had to! Too much to see in our beautiful country!
I got here watching Our Journey in Myles, they mentioned you guys. I'm 37 and planning my exit plan, thanks for all the advice you guys are awesome.
I got here via Our Journey in Myles as well. Now going to check out Im not lost Im Rving :)
Such valuable information. Thank you.
We love the RV lifestyle! We’re far from retired, but work remotely so we can work while on the road.
Thanks for all the great information in a great format! I still have about 10 years to go so it is great information and advice!
Thanks Mike, we really do enjoy Retirement and the Full Time RV Lifestyle
First time watching ya'll. We are 2 1/2 years from retiring and really looking into RVing in retirement. Finally a set of videos that don't talk about all the places you can hike to 20,000 feet LOL. We want to relax and just SEE places. Really enjoyed watching.
Thanks for your encouraging words Tina and we hope you are able to find more of the answers to your thoughts and questions about Retirement and the RV Lifestyle in some of our videos. The RV Lifestyle and Retirement go hand in hand and we are truly enjoying these years of our lives. Good Luck and Safe Travels
New subscriber, thanks so much. Your site looks so informative. I am 49, single and considering full time rv lifestyle in next year or so. I figure where ever my daughter ends up it will allow me to be closer to her :). She'll be 16 in May and wants to try school in FL so we'll see how it shakes out. Still figuring out all the remote work details. Pages like this are super helpful for planning and budgeting!
Great Vid! We are going to start the RV life soon. I am 71 and my wife is 68. Love you guys.
Great to see some fellow 70 something folks out here on their RV Adventure.
I am 55 and about three years out. I really appreciate your full disclosure. It gives me a great deal of confidence that I can afford this lifestyle without compromise. I’m ready! Happy trails!
That sounds like you have a great RV Adventure in your future. Good Luck and Safe Travels
Great Video...... Thank-you so much. Truly enjoyable listening to you both.
Thanks Terry
Very laid back nice couple, thank you in advance for all you hard work putting these resources together for the benefit of those considering this lifestyle. We will be empty nesters in the spring of 2020 and have some big decisions coming our way! Best of luck and hope we see you at the next exit as you say!
Retirement and the Traveling RV Lifestyle go hand in hand, I bet you will enjoy your RV Adventure
Got it thanks a lot . Your great people. I wish you all the best life has to offer
Thanks Dee, we wish you all the best and hope you find a way to give the RV Lifestyle a trial. Good Luck to you and glad you are enjoying the channel.
Love you guys! Great videos!
Most are on a budget so thankx for this information.
Nice video as usual y’all be safe
Good information! You two are adorable!
Bob / Pearl, y'all are GREAT! Thanks for the very important info!!! Cajun :-)))
Always great information.
Another fantastic video.
Thanks for the great info! We still got a while till we retire. We both 54. For now we just do one vacation at a time !👍👍
A lot of great information, thanks
I appreciate the wealth of information you provide. Thank you so much!
You guys are really refreshing. We are retired and taking care of a parent but are working a plan to do some part time rving and then (I'm hoping) fulltime later. I liked the thousand trails idea - boondocking seems a little too much out of our comfort level. Thanks for sharing your videos!! Looking forward to seeing some of your other ones. :)
Thanks so much for your comment Barbara, it is always nice to hear when someone says they enjoy the channel Hope your Parent is doing well.
Love watching many different styles of rving. I'm going to be a city dweller in a van until I fully retire. Then I may adopt a different rv and try a different style of rving. Great vlog!! Thanks for sharing your lives with is!!
Hi Wally, Retirement and the RV Lifestyle go hand in hand and I hope you have a great RV Adventure in store for you
Looking forward to seeing your adventures 👍
Hi! I love your RUclips channel !
Just came across your RUclips channel. Great video and information. I would love to be able to get your spreadsheets to use in our preparation for retirement end of the year. Thanks
Sorry for not posting our email more times in the video, but if you go to the 20 minute 30 second mark in the video you will see our email address and then email us and I will reply with a copy of our expense spreadsheet. Thanks for stopping by and watching our video
I really like your videos. This one is very good, even though I am only seeing it now. Hubby and I are doing our research to be able to go RVing. We know we want to try part-time. We are excited because I just retired and we can really do extensive research. The thing about us, we have a very heavy anchor. We have 6 kids and 6 grandkids (and more to come). All but one of the kids live within a few miles of us. We see them all the time and they are our world. This is our reason we don't think we could even consider full time. Thanks so much for great info. New subscriber here.! :)
glad I found you this morning
Hello, Bob and Pearl, I just stumbled on your site and watched a couple of your tube videos. Wonderful job. I’ve subscribed and am looking forward to your tales. God Bless. Jimmy G
Thanks for stopping by Jimmy
As always, enjoyed your video
Good video!
Awesome guys. Kudos ! There is a lot of common sense in this video. I'm 58 and considering RV retirement. This certainly helps a lot. :)
This is a great video as an introduction to your channel. I guess I timed coming on-board just right! I am heading out right now to watch the preparing for retirement (I am holding out three more years to maximize my benefit), so I know I have a lot to learn from "them doin'."
I think that is a very wise idea (Maximizing the SS Benefits) and it sure gives a comfort level as we move along in retirement having the bigger SS Benefit checks. Good Luck with your Plans and Retirement. Thanks for Stopping by the channel again
Thank you for sharing your RV journey about the retirement aspect. My wife and I are retired and we have a class A Fleetwood Expedition diesel pusher. We are taking many trips. However, we feel like Patrick McGoohan. When we're gone from our house too long, we get drawn back. Instead of having balloon-based devices capturing us, our adult children, pets and pond fish (koi) keeps pulling us back home...LOL!
Great video! God bless you and keep you safe. New subscriber here. Much love from Austin, Texas
Hi Jean, thanks for stopping by our channel and glad you enjoyed the video. We have lot s of family in Texas and always enjoy heading down that direction. Thanks for subscribing and hope you find more interesting videos on the channel.
Y'all are the cutest couple!
It’s wisdom to hear from you about the possibility of spending more may well be connected to your age, your interests, and the drive to do them. I seem to agree based on the many RV videos that I have watched. I am glad you are able to enjoy your retirement with your setup. How possible do you get to spend with other family members when you want to with that kind of living?
I really like your videos. I plan to join Thousand Trails when I go full time. Remember TT is not free, you pay up front, but I think it will be worth it. I want to boondock too.
Hi guys, I love watching your videos and keeping up with your lifestyle. I am a 68 year old widow and I have been a full time RVer for 16 months and loving it. I am commenting on this video because I want people to know that I have been enjoying this life style on my social security income and a small savings account and I have been able to enjoy a free and wonderful life. I bought a teardrop trailer because I could pay cash for it at the time and I have a leased car which made my payments lower and I get regular maintenance at no cost to me. My income is 2,121.00. And most months I am able to put some money into my savings. I am a Thousand Trails member and I couldn't do this on my budget without having that membership. I don't do a lot of touristy things but I do save for certain things I really want to do. This winter is my second in Florida and I made a decision to buy an annual pass to Disney this year which was a major purchase but I don't do a lot of other things during the year so I splurged. I live a really full life enjoying retirement and meeting lots of wonderful people. I live simple but happy!! It can be done on a small budget!!
Great Story and thanks for sharing it, we have had a number of single folks inquire about the lifestyle for single folks and you have given them a lot more information that we could. It sounds like you are enjoying the lifestyle just like it is supposed to be done and hopefully you are motivating folks to realize that it can be done in a lot of different rv sizes and types with different budgets and lifestyles. it is a wonderful adventure.
Great video guys, thanks for the shout out too!😀 You have a lot of awesome info on your channel for anyone seeking the lifestyle, that's how we found you.👍 Pearl, you know Cheryl loves driving Maggie. It's to the point where, sh'e driving more that I am. Of course that means I have to learn how to make lunch while she's driving. LOL
I feel your pain, the main thing I have learned is be careful with the sharp knives while back there fixing lunch.
@@JustPassingThru That's funny!! 😂😎😀🙃😆
I love Thousand Trails with the Encore package.
Hi guys! Really enjoyed the video. 🙌🙌 We are looking forward to getting back on the road. We close on our house on 8/16 WooHoo!! Hope to meet you on the road someday. Safe travels! 😊💞🇺🇸 PS: we also like Harvest Hosts
Yall are Awesome
Stopped here because I loved the title.
Am 55 and hoping to start the full timing at 63. Awesome video. Thank you for your thoughts. Subscribed for more.
Good Luck with your RV Adventure, it is a great lifestyle in our opinion.
Interesting video TFS have a great weekend 👍🍺🌺
Good Information - Found you by listening to Stacy & Thomas.
Hello Pearl and Bob. We purchased our RV two years ago and are loving the weekend getaways, I'm about 2 years out from retirement and so looking forward to traveling. Thanks for all your great information, when you get a chance would like to get a copy of your spreadsheets.
Glad to hear you are enjoying the RV lifestyle and looking forward to the Retirement (your going to love it) Sorry for not posting our email more times in the video, but if you go to the 20 minute 30 second mark in the video you will see our email address and then email us and I will reply with a copy of our expense spreadsheet. Thanks for stopping by and watching our video
This is a great video , we are going to be full time when we retire , I’m 56 and my wife is 54 so it’s going to be a little while .
Very informative. I want to RV live when I retire and trying to get a good game plan for the next 10 years before I retire
Another great video....we are currently at Rondout Valley....Whalers Rests is way better:) BTW we started full time 8 years ago back then around 30K a year was ok, now we are between 42 to 45K so things are going up for sure.....safe travels!
We started out in June and our goal is to pray for our country in every capitol of the 48...we are at 32 and counting in Arizona on our way to Austin
We are undecided about full time as our RV is home for now...full time is appealing, but our mileage distorts our concept we are over 13000 miles since June 10, with 30 days off in August...we are having fun living on our retirement breaking even with income...we have 5000 miles to go depending on how many stops we encounter with the capitols...we are covered with insurance coverage plus our health plan and missing grand kids....I love the road lifestyle