Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the United States?

Re:Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the... by SwellJoe on Sunday September 11, 2016 @02:21AM (#12472236)

Or, just buy an old one. Renting costs ~$100/day (and that doesn't include the cost of RV parks, fuel, etc.). You can buy a travel trailer for not much more than a month of renting, if you don't mind an older one.

Buying a new RV would be madness, of course unless you're really sure you want to live this way and have a lot of spare cash laying around. They depreciate at an incredibly high rate. My first motorhome cost a bit over $30k when I bought it (it was 7 years old when I bought it), and I sold it last year for $12000, after living in it for most of the six years that I owned it. If you take your time, and shop carefully, you can find really great deals.

But, yeah, it's definitely a major life change, and one that maybe shouldn't be dived into without careful consideration.

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Re:Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the... by sanswork on Sunday September 11, 2016 @05:07AM (#12472576)

Yeah but then if you don't like it you're stuck with an old travel trailer or RV to try and sell(hard) or store until it rusts away(space/money).

Spending $3000 to validate a pretty huge lifestyle change isn't that much really.

We got lucky that we really enjoyed it when we bought ours but I could understand a lot of people finding the lifestyle ultimately a lot different from what they expected.

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