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Our nomadic trip [message #327437]

Sat, 23 December 2017 13:27

Jimmy_Bonez

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Registered: September 2017
Location: NH

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So I want to start off by saying I haven't posted on here except to introduce myself so I'm apologizing for that. Quick back story and onto the trip. Almost a year ago my girlfriend and I lost our house in a fire. Pretty bummed out by the whole ordeal we made a life decision to quit or jobs and travel. We needed something new and a change of scenery to move on from our losses. So the journey to find an RV was top priority to make a long story short we looked at a bunch of Class Cs that didn't do anything for us. Car guy at heart and by trade I was turned onto a 1975 GMC Palm Beach owned by a friend in the industry. Drove to Massachusetts (from NH) to take a look at her and it was love at first site. I knew I had to have it and would need to convince my girlfriend that this is what we needed. I brought her a few days later to look at it with me and was worried she wasn't going to like it. Well that wasn't the case at all. We got back in the car to talk about it on our way home, no sooner did we get our seatbelts on and she asked me if we could have it. Yes!!!!
Needless to say I couldn't call my buddy back fast enough to tell him we wanted it. We picked it up in March and flash forward 8 months and several hours of blood sweat and tears later we turned it into our house. We set out on our journey from NH on October 15 and are currently spending the holiday in Alabama. We've traveled down the east stopping at some awesome places along the way. D.C,Outer Banks,Savannah, New Orleans(on Halloween which was a bucket list thing for both us), Clearwater beach, Fort Lauderdale and a ton of places in between. So far we had one mishap no fault to anyone, woke up in Fort Lauderdale and the windshield was cracked. We made a call to Alex Sirum in Okeechobee,FL and set up a day to have the windshield changed which the carry in stock. So we drove over there the night before our scheduled replacement and stayed in the campground next to the shop which was great and convenient for us since we're trwveling with zero plans and the flexibility of this shop is second to none. Ive been around a lot of shops and this place takes the cake. Jeff and the guys over there took such good care of us and our rig. We had spent 2 nights at the shop we ended up with a brand new windshield, new step and an amazing experience. The second night we were there Don and Bob invited us over for BBQ and Jeff and his wife joined us as well. Getting to talk shop and about our love for these spaceships we drive around and how my girlfriend and I are probably the youngest people full timing these rigs they've seen in awhile (30&33yrs). It was a real eye opener on how a business should be run. Since leaving the Florida area we've enjoyed many more places that I could talk about at length and this has already been pretty long winded. We are looking forward to continue our journey westward to enjoy what the rest of this country has to offer. I'll try and keep up with posting our travels as long as cell service permits. Any questions or tips to full time travel is encouraged please. Thanks everyone and have a Merry Christmas

Jim DeMellia and Jen Radefeld and our cat Ickis NH natives 1975 GMC “Palm Beach” ,455, her names Linda Full time RVers exploring the beautiful and unusual parts of the country.