You may be wondering how you can make the transition to living fulltime in an RV, and still be able to support yourself.  How can you live the life and still be able to afford to eat, travel, and just... well, live?

The ideal life would be to have an excellent retirement income, and just be able to travel from one place to another, without a care in the world. But, Jim and I have been doing this since I was 48 and he was 51 -- nowhere old enough to retire. So, how do we do it?

Living fulltime in an RV is not all fun and games. Occasionally, we do have to take care of the business end of things, just as we used to do living in a house.

How do you get your mail? How do you pay your bills? How do you keep in touch with friends and family? How do you get your medications? Those are some of the most asked questions we get.

When you look at all those RVs, you soon find out that the kitchens all have something in common. No matter if the kitchen is the front, the middle, or the rear of the unit, it is SMALL.

Even the largest of motor homes usually have a much smaller refrigerator than ones you will find in a regular house, and the ovens are all just about the same.

My first uh-oh moment came not long after we moved in. I wanted to cook a baked ham and the dang thing wouldn't fit in my oven! After 8 years of living fulltime in an RV though, I have learned how to shop for food, how to prepare it for storing, and how to cook it in the confines of my small kitchen.

Many of you have asked how I manage to sew and quilt in an RV. To paraphrase an old adage, my answer has always been "Where there is a quilter, there is a way."

Here are some fun ideas for finding space inside your RV for all of your hobby and craft supplies.

So you have moved into your RV, and you're feeling like you're sitting in a carbon copy of hundreds of other RVs sitting on the dealership lots and RV parks around the country. What can do you do next?

I have always felt like it's MY HOUSE, and I'm going to decorate it to suit my tastes.

There really is no rule on what the right RV is for fulltime living.

Deciding which RV is right for you may be easier if you think of it as buying a HOME instead of thinking of it as buying an RV. After all, if you're going to be a fulltime RVer, your RV will be a home.

Making the decision to live fulltime in an RV was the easy part.

Getting ready to go was an entirely different story.

While we knew we wanted to go on the ultimate roadtrip, we found out in a hurry just how hard letting go would be.

When we decided to sell our house and live in an RV fulltime, the responses we got from family and friends fell into two very different and distinct categories:

• The "Oh, I wish I could go with you" jealousy response.

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• The "Are you out of your mind?" horrified response.

Those from the second group were the people who suck joy from every happy occasion -- the naysayers -- the ones who just knew we would be back in a house before the year was out.