Hello to the campfire

[patagoniadave]

Although I am new to rving, I am not new to forums. In fact, I call myself a recovering addict. I cut my teeth on a forum called "Take Five", which was for burned out people in the Autocad profession, and have been a member a few since. Met my best friend on a backpacking forum. Hopefully over the years I have learned how to be a good member of a group, and will be able to contribute long term to this one. For now I am just reading through old posts and threads trying to absorb all of the information that I can. It does not leave much time for socializing, but I am hoping to get caught up someday, be a little more relaxed, and contribute as much as I can.

My girlfriend and I (and pups) are about to take off on a "full time" adventure, and I am thinking that will lend to a much more immersive membership for me.

Thanks to all who have helped to this point. See you on the road.

[Javi]

Howdy "bouncey:

[FullTimer]

Howdy Dave, pull up a stump and join the conversation lol. :)

[Steve S]

Welcome and what's your full time adventure going to consist of?

[fla-gypsy]

Welcome from Sunny (sometimes) Florida

[patagoniadave]

Welcome and what's your full time adventure going to consist of?

Well, my girlfriend runs a small software company from home, and a lot of her clients are universities. She also business related conferences around the country. One of those is in Ohio in June, so will probably be the lynch pin of our first trip. In a month or so, after some local trips and we have all the bugs worked out, we will take off, out on the road.

One route is Denver, Kentucky, Ohio, Massachusetts (my boss is in MA), Michigan via Canada, Montana, Vancouver, Santa Barbara, and return to home base for recovery.

The other option is to stay on the west coast, and fly her to the Ohio Conference, but I am hoping we can pull off the first route.

[SAABDOCTOR]

Wow when your all done with that trip You will be a seasoned pro at this camping stuff!!:cool: If you have time and don't fall asleep on that stump pass along the tales!

[patagoniadave]

Wow when your all done with that trip You will be a seasoned pro at this camping stuff!!:cool: If you have time and don't fall asleep on that stump pass along the tales!

You know, I have been meaning to look into that. I know I am going to want to document the trip, take pictures, tell stories and what not. Family and friends are going to want to hear from us, especially the worriers. I am not really into facebook, or other social media. A blog has been suggested, but I have never written one before. Knowing my history, I will be wanting to spend a lot of time on the forums, but that cuts out the non members.

I am very curious as to what other people do for long trips?

Maybe some super app that pushes the same content out to different mediums.

[Steve S]

Well, my girlfriend runs a small software company from home, and a lot of her clients are universities. She also business related conferences around the country. One of those is in Ohio in June, so will probably be the lynch pin of our first trip. In a month or so, after some local trips and we have all the bugs worked out, we will take off, out on the road.

One route is Denver, Kentucky, Ohio, Massachusetts (my boss is in MA), Michigan via Canada, Montana, Vancouver, Santa Barbara, and return to home base for recovery.

The other option is to stay on the west coast, and fly her to the Ohio Conference, but I am hoping we can pull off the first route.

Your plan sounds good and it's very doable.
I have a friend in the Tear Drop club who lives in my town and he got sick of all the flights and hotels back east to spend time with his clients so now he tows and lives in his TD off and on for 6 months out of the year.
He says he's saving lots of money plus he gets to move around and gets to see some very beautiful places in Canada.
He runs his business via the interweb while on the road and he says it works very well for him.
As for a blog, I notice that a lot of my friends that are like me and have chosen to live live out of the norm have blog spots and it's a nice way to check up on them and see how they're doing and what they've been up to.
When I was building my TD I created this blog for people to follow. http://wintercoveservices.blogspot.ca/

[patagoniadave]

I absolutely cannot wait to get started. So many benefits. New places, new people. I think just life itself will be more stimulating. I will own my home such as it is. I can park on the beach and work. I can run from bad weather. I just cannot see a bad side. And to top it off, home base is one of the more scenic areas I have been to, although I could be biased ;-)

Ill check out some blogs, it will probably be the way to go. Maybe I can automate it to send updates to peoples facebook accounts or something.