View Poll Results: How do you use your Montana?
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Full Timer
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134 |
17.29% |
Long Timer
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177 |
22.84% |
Weekender
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169 |
21.81% |
Vacationer
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226 |
29.16% |
Set up on Seasonal Site
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50 |
6.45% |
Do not own a Montana yet
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19 |
2.45% |
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02-24-2008, 08:06 AM
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#41
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New Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Soddy-Daisy`
Posts: 7
M.O.C. #8069
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We use it as a weekender of sorts. We are retired and go when we want. We have friends that we go with on weekends.
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04-12-2008, 08:39 AM
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#42
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Established Member
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Daphne
Posts: 19
M.O.C. #4969
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We are Full Timers since Feb 06
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04-22-2008, 09:42 AM
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#43
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Montana Master
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Shore
Posts: 6,009
M.O.C. #7110
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I must have voted on this before because I only see the results. However, we like to take one or two vacation trips a year and we also enjoy the weekends.
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2011 GMC 4X4 dually CC, 6.6 Duramax with Allison Transmission. Formally 2001 Montana,2007 3400RL Montana, presently 2018 3401RS Alpine.
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11-09-2008, 02:18 PM
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#44
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Powell
Posts: 250
M.O.C. #7880
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We do vacations and weekends and anything we can fit in between.
Jon
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05-09-2009, 09:35 AM
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#45
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Montana Master
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Murrieta
Posts: 5,816
M.O.C. #9257
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Hello all,
I realize this poll is now locked (can no longer vote) but it's fun reading all the comments from many of you. I believe a better description of a Full-Timer would be "Life-Timer" because I have only run into ONE person that was not happy with their decision. The word Life to me depicts a chosen decision to LIVE in your rig which is vastly different that someone who lives in a trailer because they have no other choice in order to survive.
Honestly, I hear some of the members joke of being trailer trash, but with the investments in their rigs and their efforts to keep them working and the toys and conveniences they buy for them, is not the mentality of a trailer trash resident who is unable to accomplish this. But I think we all know what is meant.
We have a stick house and we are retired. But we use our Monty often; more than a vacationer; way more than a weekender; but we have not spent more than about 12 days in it so I don't consider ourselves long-timers. We go out about every 1-2 months as an average. I thought we could call ourselves Part-timers but that's not quite descriptive enough. How about Any-Timer, meaning we go out when we feel like it for up to two weeks, more often than a vacationer, but not as long as a long-timer? Our friends or family with rigs come up with a camping date and we'll add days in front and in back and we meet them wherever they go. Or we get away from the stickhouse just because it's been a while and I want to USE our Monty, not watch it sit in our driveway.
We live in Southern California and we've towed lotsa places around where we live (California, Nevada, Arizona, that's about it) and mostly within a long day's drive away. However, we have driven (no trailer) or Amtrak'd to all but 10 states of these United States and tented, cabined, Amtrak'd or motel/hoteled it, because we choose not to fly. That means we've been to 40 states!
My hope is that one of these days we'll tow where it will be several days drive away, then we will have the experience of boondocking or overnighting at Walmart or someplace else using all the equipment I have invested in. I am now well prepared for travel especially hearing from fellow members who had the same concerns and solutions that I had and have given me the knowledge and confidence that we can travel and overcome "bad" events and get around new ones.
Thanks for all your help!
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04-26-2010, 02:45 AM
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#46
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New Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Gaylord
Posts: 9
M.O.C. #10344
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My wife, two daughters and I spend weekends camping around Michigan and get in one or two longer vacations during the summer months. You can't beat camping!
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04-26-2010, 12:42 PM
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#47
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Warwick
Posts: 172
M.O.C. #10211
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Weekender/Vacationer......Looking to go long timer in about six years.
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04-27-2010, 07:13 PM
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#48
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Kamloops
Posts: 337
M.O.C. #9238
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I guess we are long timers as we Snowbird in winter and have an RV lot in BC for the summer, and a small stick house we spend less and less time in for the rest of the year.
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04-28-2010, 03:55 PM
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#49
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Established Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Diamond Springs
Posts: 31
M.O.C. #8787
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Missed the poll, due to being a 'long timers, with sometimes limited internet'. We spend 3 months in Baja for the winter and have a unlimited Thousand Trails membership. I guess we log about 5 months or more a year in the coach. Still cann't get rid of the stick house. Guess we realize that as we age it will be harder to travel, and I don't want to buy a house when I'm 75 or more.
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04-28-2010, 05:08 PM
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#50
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: St.Maries
Posts: 1,010
M.O.C. #7329
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Well since this is about three years old we need to update. We used to be about half and half but now we spend about 9 months in the trailer. So kind of like 3/4---1/4. lol.
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06-22-2017, 06:13 PM
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#51
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Seasoned Camper
Join Date: May 2017
Location: McArthur
Posts: 53
M.O.C. #19916
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working on going fulltime doing some remodeling to the house planing on selling and then staying one step ahead of the law!
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03-09-2018, 04:26 PM
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#52
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Established Member
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Bradenton
Posts: 36
M.O.C. #13855
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Only when work takes me out for more than. 3 months did 4.5yrs in my last Montana it was a 2013 RL3700 it’s time to upgrade want washer/dryer & dishwasher,residential fridge,
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03-09-2018, 04:35 PM
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#53
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Bee Branch
Posts: 2,620
M.O.C. #20693
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Weekends and vacations now. Primarily base camp to support our very active lifestyle
Retire in 8 years then extended trips and some snowbirding but will never sell our sticks and bricks in the Ozark Mountains!
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Bee Branch, AR.
2017 Ram 1 ton diesel duallyCrew Cab/Long Bed
2018 Montana High Country 381TH Garage Full of Toys
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03-09-2018, 10:10 PM
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#54
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Ferndale
Posts: 273
M.O.C. #16033
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Retire in 3 months. Snowbird starting this November until April. Have a HC and it will work.
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03-10-2018, 03:46 AM
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#55
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Bastrop
Posts: 2,892
M.O.C. #20753
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DW refuses to use showers at campgrounds. Catch me around a campfire for details.
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2019 20th Anniversary Edition 3701LK
B&W 20K for Ford OEM Puck
2018 Ford F-350 Lariat CCLB PSD DRW KJ5CQH
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03-10-2018, 05:19 AM
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#56
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Trinidad, TX
Posts: 506
M.O.C. #20746
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We like to just get away even if it's 1 hour out. We like the change of scenery.
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50 Gallon Transfer Flow in bed tank w/ Trax 3
2018 Montana 3121RL
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03-10-2018, 07:56 AM
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#57
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: North Ridgeville
Posts: 20,229
M.O.C. #2839
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This is a great poll. Our first post was in 2007 the year we purchased our 06 3400 and hit the road. We wore that one out and are now in a 2013 3402 Big Sky. We are more than long timers but since we have An S&B not full timers, We spend 6 months in Florida or other warm areas during the winter and for 6 months are based at our S&B were we have a RV pad,full hooks, 50 amp installed. We travel extensively and have traveled over 100K since 2007 so we may be out 9 or 10 months of the year but after 12 years are slowing down.
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03-10-2018, 08:13 AM
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#58
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Livermore
Posts: 321
M.O.C. #17521
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Not sure what category I fall into. When we purchased our 2003 3280RL we hooked up and did a weekend at a lake near our house. Everything was great so for our next trip we went across the country to Florida visiting as many places as we could along the way. That was 3 months. Then next trip was across the northern states to Maine. Visiting as many places as we could. Another 3 months. We have been to 52 different places on out travels. So far we have towed our Monty 26,000 miles. Wanting to trade up next year. Everything in my Monty still works like new. Going to be sad to see her go but we are beating it up a little with all the crappy roads. I keep up with all the maintenance. And fix any little thing so it doesnt become a big thing.
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03-10-2018, 09:06 AM
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#59
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Upstate NY
Posts: 1,789
M.O.C. #14547
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An oldie thread
We try to do a short spring trip, then a seasonal site on Lake Champlain late May - mid August until the kids go back to school in the fall then out on a long trip for 5-6 weeks, Our average nights in our 2014 High Country is about 82/year. We may not make that spring trip if my S&B and 5er projects are stopped by the continuing Nor'easters
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2014 Montana High Country 343RL (Sold!)
2011 Ford 6.7 Lariat CCLB (Went to PU Heaven)
2019 F150SC XLT SE Sport,w/full tow package
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03-10-2018, 09:50 AM
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#60
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Haysville
Posts: 4,261
M.O.C. #3085
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I'll keep the re-awakening of this thread going. Up until the last couple of years after a hard day on the lake water skiing and power boating exploring the shoreline ... we'd head back to the fiver for a nice camp fire, meal, and shut eye for the next day out ... maybe 3-4 weeks out of the year. Since I no longer punch the "ole time clock" ... we've been hitting the road for a month or so at a time revisiting the places across the US that were of no interest to me when I was a kid in the back seat of Dad's station wagon. We've been burning a lot of diesel, but it has been worth every gallon.
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