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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: Anderson
Posts: 2,596
M.O.C. #22835
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My wife and I are not full timers, but we full time in our camper, meaning we have our stick n brick home, but use our camper 24x7 all year round, even at home.
We travel long term. Currently, I am serving as a camp host at a state park in North Carolina for 2 months. It's all volunteer in exchange for a full hook up campsite.
We travel extensively, spending a couple weeks here, a couple weeks there, a few days here, an over night there. We are not stationary in one place long term.
I retired a year and a half ago. Before that my wife and I both worked full time remote for our respective companies in computer Information Technology code development. Primary for us was cell phone reception so our phones worked as hot spots for our computers. We never, ever depended on campground wifi. Campground wifi is never reliable, and it's never, ever, ever a secured network. For both of our companies, they required a secure network to work remote. That mean supplying our own internet connection. This was always our biggest challenge, making sure wherever we camped at, we had good phone service. We turned down many, many locations because of this.
If you are also working remotely, you are best to secure your own wifi system, phone cell, Starlink, AT&T, Verizon, Visible, T-Mobile, any avenue like this for reliability AND security. Surely, no matter what company you are working for will want you to be connected a secure network. And really, this is the only way you should do it when working remote.
Just for an FYI, my wife is still working full time a bit longer, remote and I'm retired, thus enabling me to work as a camp host. (A dream I've always wanted to do).
About socializing. RVing is a transient lifestyle, even if you are locked into a seasonal campground, people came and go. It's like water flowing in a stream, someone is always coming, someone is always going. You are also always coming and always going to. You are not at a forever location. The people you meet are often times a one-time, one moment association. Most of the time, it goes no deeper than that. If you do develop a friendship that sticks, the connection is often held together because of social media, like Facebook, and occasionally your paths cross again. When that happens, it's a happy moment and fun sharing experiences from the last time you were together.
About day-to-day humdrum? It's pretty much exactly like a stick n brick home situation. It really IS a matter of what YOU make of it. You can be a couch potato and sit in front of the television all day and do nothing. Or you can find activities in the location you are at and for a moment, get involved.
Again, if you are depending on the campground to provide a grocery list of activities, that is probably a myth too. Activities are very taxing on campground management, especially private campgrounds. Some are better at it than others. The activities may not fit you specific likes. They may offer a movie night on the lawn, and you find out is a movie perfect for first-graders.
Depending on the campground, they may have organized activities, like Sunday morning worship services where they have an extension church service of a local church. Or may have a Saturday night band or music group come in. It all depends on the ability of the campground to provide these things.
So, as far as your personal entertainment, here again, you provide your own. Hiking, bicycle riding, bowling, museums, swimming, sporting events, local orginizations that are National, like the American Legion, Shriners, VFW, denominational churches that are across the country you can fellowship with. YOU have to make your way, you have to seek out our activities just like anywhere.
One more thing, as far as Florida? Florida is nice if that's where you want to hang out. But don't forget about the Florida Pan Handle area. Don't forget about Alabama (especially the Gulf Shores area). Don't forget about Georgia, South Carolina, Southern Virginia, Texas, and Louisiana as possible long term winter destinations. And you will find, working this late in the year, you are more likely to find a really nice, good, and reasonable priced seasonal site away from the tourist areas, and more in-land, rather than along the Gulf waters or the Atlantic seaboards.
There are thousands of possible campsite locations other than Florida that are equally as rewarding and no danger of Hurricanes either.
Full timing is what you make of it. Like everything in life, you have to pursue it and pursue your own interests. There's no magic button.
Check out Cullman Campground, Cullman Alabama...
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