Family of 4 jumping into full-time

[JustinK]

Hello community. New here and preparing to set out in RV life. Have been lurking on these Forums regularly (amazing resource) and decided it is time to introduce myself.

Family of 4: Wife, Daughter (10), Son (4), and me. We are going to RV full-time starting as soon as our Solitude comes in. Over 18 years of marriage we have always basically been nomads. With kids getting older we felt the right thing to do was settle down somewhere "permanent". Spent the last couple years in Munich and had decided we wanted to live in the United States instead, but then came the tricky part of deciding where! Played with the idea of traveling full time for at least a year and seeing where we land. Previously we had cast this idea away because of schooling for our daughter. But COVID left us doing remote school and really changed our perception. Remote schooling worked great for our family. So we made the decision to leave Germany and hit the road full-time in the USA!

We are new to RVs, but no strangers to traveling or living off-grid. Really jumping in head first but that is our style.

We have an RV ordered, GD Solitude 378MBS-R, should be ready for pickup early June. Did months of research, starting with a Class A, and ultimately decided on a fifth wheel. A big factor in this choice is that I love to do my own improvements and repairs. Have previously built and lived off-grid, designed solar systems for farms, etc. Already learned so much on this forum and look forward to sharing some of the mods I have been cooking up in my head.

Bought a truck (F350 DRW) and got that all setup the way I liked it. Crazy how expensive and hard to find trucks are right now! Couldn't even order one. Will post some pics when I can.

Hoping in particular to meet other families that are full-time with school age children ❤️.

Cheers!

[FT4NOW]

Welcome to the forum and the US. Sounds like you have an exciting time ahead of you, cant wait to hear about it.

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[Redapple63]

Welcome! Glad to have you here. Looking forward to hearing your adventures!

Bill

[Ynot4me2]

Congrats and welcome to the group.

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[Captcolour]

Congrats and welcome. Great to see you bought enough truck so nothing to worry about there.

[Steven@147]

Hello community. New here and preparing to set out in RV life. Have been lurking on these Forums regularly (amazing resource) and decided it is time to introduce myself.

Family of 4: Wife, Daughter (10), Son (4), and me. We are going to RV full-time starting as soon as our Solitude comes in. Over 18 years of marriage we have always basically been nomads. snip

Cheers!

Welcome to the RV life, forum, full timing and the US. Wow really jumping in with both or all feet. I am curious are you German citizens or displaced US citizens possibly US military living in Germany? The younger generation, I am constantly amazed by y'all (Texan), fearless, willing to go for it, try new things! Good for you!
If you're not familiar with it, the USA is a vast land, as different from one place as it is the other, North, South, East, West, and Midwest. LOL's people coming to the US probably think of us as a bunch of squabbling children.

[JustinK]

Welcome to the RV life, forum, full timing and the US. Wow really jumping in with both or all feet. I am curious are you German citizens or displaced US citizens possibly US military living in Germany? The younger generation, I am constantly amazed by y'all (Texan), fearless, willing to go for it, try new things! Good for you!
If you're not familiar with it, the USA is a vast land, as different from one place as it is the other, North, South, East, West, and Midwest. LOL's people coming to the US probably think of us as a bunch of squabbling children.

Thanks for the welcome! We are US citizens, I was born in Denver, my wife is Polish but naturalized some years ago. I did serve in the Navy but got out 15 years ago. Have no fear though, I have learned Americans don't have a monopoly on squabbling LOL. We are not near as familiar with the entire USA as we would like to be, especially the wilderness & national parks, looking forward to experiencing more of it!

[JustinK]

Congrats and welcome. Great to see you bought enough truck so nothing to worry about there.

Absolutely! I know you "can" get away with less truck but I feel like I used up all my luck taking towing risks when I was younger ��

[Steven@147]

Thanks for the welcome! We are US citizens, I was born in Denver, my wife is Polish but naturalized some years ago. I did serve in the Navy but got out 15 years ago. Have no fear though, I have learned Americans don't have a monopoly on squabbling LOL. We are not near as familiar with the entire USA as we would like to be, especially the wilderness & national parks, looking forward to experiencing more of it!

Well hey there Navy! I as well 75-81 Naval aviation A7-E (AE5) deployed most of the time on board USS Constellation. My daughter, from Ohio, just visited Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona. She told me after visiting Pearl and the Memorial she now understands me better/ LOL's

Since your both US citizens it won't be totally foreign to you. Our National parks are a treasure to be sure. The Wife and I are taking a trip this summer starting in May to SD, WY, MT, ID, UT, CO, KS then back to Indiana/Ohio to visit our kids/grandkids then back down to Texas to winter mostly in southern Texas and Galveston.

May your adventures be filled with excitement and wonders!