Hi everyone!
Ken & I sold our Signarama franchise in January 2022 and retired at that same time...yeah for us!!
Sold our home in Peoria, AZ and most of our possessions and hit the road in late June of 2022.
This blog, which is a work in progress, was started so that Ken & I could remember all that we experience while full timing in our RV as we explore North America.
Hopefully you will follow along and enjoy some of our travels and experiences as much as we do.
Thanks for being here!
--Ken & Fran
Full Time RV Travel Life!
As of June 27, 2022, we live full time in our Travel Trailer, (yikes!), pulled by our gas 2020 Ford F250. (the "Godzilla")
We are fortunate that we have good health at this time so this is the perfect opportunity to travel and see North America. For us, the best way to do that is by navigating and driving the roads; Fran on navigation and Ken on driving! Small back roads and small towns will be experienced and we hope to get out and enjoy hiking, biking and continued service with Rotary.
We sold most of our home possessions and at some point (who knows when), we will purchase a home base somewhere in the warm winter south when we want to slow down our travel. Until then, let the adventure begin and continue!!
Home on the Road
We purchased a lightly used 2019 Outdoors RV (ORV) - 4 Season - Travel Trailer and made it our own!
The 24RLS model trailer that we have chosen is meant for more of an off-grid camping experience and should be good to live in full time (here's hoping!).
It is 24 ft long on the inside and is about 8 ft wide when travelling, allowing us a generous 200sf of living space (haha). The dinette is in the slide out which gives us a little more room to move about, thank goodness!
We painted the original interior brown wallpaper a light grey and added peel & stick backsplash tile to the kitchen and bathroom. Ask Ken how much he enjoyed installing that!
I have used Museum Putty & Command Strip Velcro to temporarily hold all of the knick-knacks in place so that they do not need to be moved on travel days. It is working out amazingly well!