Full-Time RVing: Life on the Open Road

My husband wanted to try full-time RVing, but I was too attached to having a house. Anyone trying to make that decision, needs to read this book. It helps you figure the costs of such a lifestyle and how to deal with mail, licenses, and medical issues without a home base. Two chapters cover selecting an RV for full-timing. Then it addresses adjusting the RV to your special needs and what to do about storage. Five chapters cover the care of the RV (electrical systems, water, sewage, etc.). There are sections on driving, security, and selecting campgrounds. We're talking about more than 500 pages of solid information here. It's essential for full-time RVers and quite useful for even part-time RVers.

This was our "introduction" to the RV world and became our "what-to-do-now" bible on the road. The Moeller's cover everything you need to know about your RV and lots of common sense advice about living on the road. "Live Your Road Trip Dream: Travel for a year for the cost of staying home" was written to help would-be travelers get from dreaming about a long road trip, to actually doing the trip of a lifetime. The Moeller's give you the nuts and bolts of doing it--The Complete Guide is a must-have traveling companion.

Author of DISCOVER AMERICA DIARIES: 50 STATES, 50 STATES OF MINDThis is *the* all-inclusive RV handbook with chapters such as, Getting Started, Selecting the Rig, Driving Practices, Safety and Security, Making the RV More Livable, and a complete cost breakdown of just about everything you could possibly encounter. I bought this book as a reference tool and companion piece while traveling the 50 states and to complement the other RV book I bought, Freewheelin' USA . Where Freewheelin' USA is written in a storytelling fashion to prepare one psychologically for the RV lifestyle, Full-Time RVing is a no- nonsense detailed handbook that guides the reader every step of the way. Neatly categorized, it delves more deeply into what to expect from living in a house on wheels, equipping novice RVers for all that could (and probably will) go wrong. My favorite quote is, "The first day you set off you may think that Murphy's Law . . . was invented just for you."On our first day out, we hit a tornado and the window blew off our brand new RV.

We own and have read a half-dozen of the newer full-time RVing books we have found. This new third edition of Bill and Jan's book is the most detailed and useful that I have yet to find. I can look an books after I am done and can tell how useful they are by how many folded page corners there are and how much yellow highlighting I had done. This one is tops. The latest in communications are covered, some of the best discussion on floorplans I have seen, and more. This one is a must read.Dave Baleria Good Sam Life Member, SKP #53897, AARP, N7DAB

I found this book answered all the questions I had about living on the road fulltime. Somethings that were mentioned I have not even considered. If you love to travel in an RV, regardless of the amount of time you spend Rving, then this book is for you.