Posts Tagged ‘retirement’

How to Enjoy Extended Trips in Your Class C Motor Home

Monday, March 29th, 2010

Enjoy your retirement in a Class C motor home. This can actually be truer than you think. The Class C has plenty of room for a couple and is very easy to drive. Read on for some tips to enjoy your retirement in a Class C.

Plan Short Get-a-Ways

The best way to ease into retirement in your new or used RV is to plan a small trip or two—just a few short weekend trips to get you used to using your RV. During this time, you can get used to any quirks your RV may have and quirks you may not have known you had!

To optimize these trips, take a pad along with you to start a checklist of items you need. Once you are in the RV, you will start saying things like, “I wish I would have brought this,” or “It would be great if we had that.” When you discover these little things, write it down for your next tip.

Take Part in Longer Trips

Once you have mastered the weekend trip, you will want to start taking one to two week trips in your RV. This will give you the opportunity to really get to know yourself and your RV. You will still want to take a notebook to write down things you wished you had. The more you travel, the more you will discover the comforts you want to take with you.

It is always best to take these “pre-trips” before you start extended road trips. You can quickly lose your enthusiasm for RVing if you are out for a month when you discover you forgot your favorite slippers.  Or worse yet, you get on the road and you discover you have no way of refilling your medication.

Plan the short trips and slowly extend them,and you will find extended trips in your Class C motor home goes a lot smoother.

3 Reasons 5th Wheel Trailers Were Made for Retirement

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Retirement should be enjoyable. It should be relaxing and it should be fun. 5th wheel trailers were designed to make retirement enjoyable. If you have questions on which RV is best for you, then here are three reasons 5th wheels are ideal for retirement.

#1 Full Kitchen for Long Trips
Anytime you go on vacation for more than a few days, fast food can get old fast. Even going out to restaurants every night gets old, not to mention expensive. With a full kitchen, you can eat out when you feel like it and cook when you feel like it. Your fifth wheel trailer will have:

  • Refrigerator
  • Cabinets
  • Stove
  • Microwave
  • Outlets for Additional Appliances (coffee pot, mixer, toaster)

#2 Extended Road Trip Capabilities
When you retire, you have the option of going away for a month or more and a 5th wheel makes it easy. First, you can detach your trailer and take your truck around town. This makes sightseeing and grocery shopping so much easier.

Next, you can add a washer/dryer to your fifth wheel. This means when you go on extended road trips you don’t have to stop at expensive laundry mats. Better yet, you don’t have to find one at all. Plus, you can take as little or as much clothes as you want since you can do the wash whenever you have hookups.

#3 Your Own Room
Whether you are camping or staying in a hotel room, each new destination requires packing and unpacking. When you travel around in your very own RV, this is not an issue. You take your bed, clothes, food and everything else with you. The most you have to do is stow the stairs, put away the awning and replace the sliders. Still this is nothing compared to waking up early to pack everything in the car because check out is at noon.

These are just three reasons why the 5th wheel was made for retirement. Come down to Beaudry RV and find out for yourself why they are ideal for retirees.