The newest and most comprehensive book on Fulltiming has been updated!!! Only two years old, the 2nd Edition offers more solid suggestions to make your transition smooth and easy whether you finally sold the house and really fulltime or are planning that extended trip. Reading
Fulltiming for New and Used RVers will make your life easier.
Written by a veteran RVer, it begins with advice for everyone thinking about or starting fulltiming. Author Ron Jones presents the pros and cons of traveling in a motorhome, fifth wheel, or other towable and includes sections on...
Thinking About Fulltiming
Who Are Fulltimers
Why Fulltime
No RV Experience to Fulltime
Help Me With this Decision
How Much Will It Cost
Can We Afford To Do This
Calculating Fulltiming Costs
RV Purchase
Associated Expenses
RV Parks or Campgrounds
Fuel
Food
Maintenance
Miscellaneous
Make the Decision
What s Next
What Do We Do With Our Stuff
How Do We...
Stay In Touch
Handle Finances
Protect Ourselves
Deal With An Emergency
Know What to Take With Us
What Else Do We Need To Know...
Where is Home Base
Where Can We Go
How Can We Get There
RV Etiquette
RV Events
Boondocking
This is one well-organized, valuable, easy-to-read book.
The basics are still here but all websites, phone numbers, and pertinent information as been updated in this 2nd Ed.. No, you don't need this copy if you have the 1st Ed., but tell your friends about it. Visit our website at aboutrving[dot]com for the latest updates.
Ron Jones has been camping on wheels since 1962 and has owned pick-up campers, Class C, Class B (homemade), and Class A coaches. Plus, Ron has camped in tents, tent trailers, pick-up campers, and travel trailers everything but a 5th wheel. He and Sandy (spouse) are fulltimers and meander just about anywhere in their diesel pusher across the USA and Canada.
Ron has retired (several times). He is retired Army, retired Senior Professor of Engineering Technology at the University of North Texas, and a retired publisher. Ron s hobbies are traveling, cooking, photography, writing, and eating out and enjoying a good microbrewed beer.
Ron writes (a lot). He was a columnist for Coast to Coast RV magazine, has written features articles for Motorhome, Highways, Family Motor Coaching, and Escapees magazines, was a contributor to the Good Sam Website (Weekly RV Tips), and wrote a monthly article for CyberSam (the Good Sam digital newsletter). He has written ten books including numerous textbooks for public schools and colleges, how-to books, co-authored the best-selling RV book entitled All the Stuff You Need to Know About RVing (ISBN 1-56870-514-X), was a collaborator with Sandy on Wrinkle-Free RV Laundry (ISBN 978-156870-590-3), and released his new book, RVing to Alaska (ISBN 978-0-9825682-0-0) in January 2010. Ron currently handles the new RV How To website... aboutrvingdotcom
Ron and Sandy present a variety of RV educational seminars nationwide at rallies, shows, and various gatherings. From Driving Topics to Hand Signals to How to Pack your Cooking Liquids to the now famous Sewage 101, their seminars are filled with great information, use professional-quality media, are laced with humor, and based on the idea that You don t know what you don t know.
