How can you transport a bicycle if you own a Mini-Cooper? The answer is simple: purchase the right bicycle.
Mini-Coopers are tiny. I own one and love it. I pull mine behind the Winnebago on a tow dolly and it makes a great runabout vehicle when the RV is parked for weeks or even months in a campground. After 18 months of almost daily use, I have averaged 36 to 38 miles per gallon around town, 38 to 42 m.p.g. on the highway.
Of course, the Mini-Cooper is small, but I don't care. It has lots of headroom and more than sufficient leg room for my 6-foot, 1-inch body. The back seat is tiny with almost no legroom. Since I have no children or pets to transport, I usually leave the back seat folded down all the time. For me, the Mini-Cooper is more than big enough. Most of the time...
Money-Rates.com has published a list of the ten worst places to spend your retirement years, along with explanations of why each state was so poorly rated. I was surprised to learn that Maine was the worst. Hey, that's my home state! I was thinking of retiring there!
The third worst state is Massachusetts, the state where I have lived for years.
Now I know why I purchased the motor home. I can now live where I want and, if I don't like where I am, I can easily disconnect and move on.
As mentioned in my earlier article at http://goo.gl/aJjdk, I plan to live in a motor home for the rest of the winter and much of the spring. This week, I drove to Florida and retrieved my motor home from the storage facility where I left it earlier and have now moved on board. I am presently in Jacksonville but plan to move every week or two. I'll be in Florida for about two months, then will move to Texas for a few weeks.
If you have an interest in moving into a recreational vehicle full time, you do have to realize that you need to give up filing cabinets and bookshelves. There's no room! I would suggest that you also give up paper. I did so and I wrote about my experiences in my genealogy newsletter at http://goo.gl/qvmy7
Live, work, travel, enjoy gorgeous nature sceneries, try mountain hiking or sunning on a beach while sampling exotic cuisine. This could be the motto of modern American nomads. Living full-time in a motor home or camping trailer is the preferred way of life for many modern Americans, myself included. I am in the process of moving into a motor home, and I plan to live "on board" for at least six months a year, possibly longer. Many "full timers" live in a motor home or camping trailer 365 days a year.
NOTE: Those in the U.K. and several other countries refer to recreational vehicles as "caravans" and to those who live in them as "caravaners." Whatever the terminology, today we all have options that were unavailable to our ancestors.
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