If you enjoy making new friends, then you will love being an RV’er!
In general, RVers are outgoing, friendly people and are always willing to help a fellow RVer out.
Let them know you are new to RVing and you will probably have more advice than you need!
You will make friends for life in this lifestyle.
There is nothing like sitting around a camp fire with like-minded people and sharing stories about your travels.
RVs are made to be social vehicles.
Whether you want to share your stories with new friends or offer your help, you will find people who will become your buddies for life!
Sylvia, from Hertfordshire in the UK, bought her RV following a painful divorce after having been married for over 30 years.
“I found myself alone in my fifties, getting up, going to work and returning to a big empty house every night. Our boys were grown up, my husband had left me for somebody else, and I was just left there, rattling around. I didn’t really know what to do with myself, ” she writes in her article,
“Then one day our youngest son, Harry came home to stay for a couple of days and asked me why I was still hanging on to our large family home, when it wasn’t really needed anymore.
I must admit, he was a bit blunt, but he was right: why was I still there, when everyone else had gone? “
Sylvia goes on to write how that conversation gave her the momentum to change her life, by fulfilling a lifelong dream to go traveling.
A few months later she sold the house, retired from her job and bought an RV.
First, she traveled through Britain, and later she explored Europe.
“I was worried about how people would perceive me: a middle-aged woman, traveling by herself, but everyone was so friendly and welcoming that they really restored my confidence.
Now I have friends who I can visit all over the UK and Europe, and I’ve never been happier.”
Writing in The Washington Post, Lornet Turnbull writes how a long road trip across the USA with her husband Steve in their rv helped them both cope with cancer.
” We needed a break from cancer. So we drove an RV across the country and learned some unexpected things. ”
Lornet’s husband, Steve, had just recovered from successful surgery to treat prostate cancer, and Lornet herself had just finished a course of chemotherapy for cancer in her lungs and liver.
Before she embarked upon another round of punishing treatment, Lornet decided that she needed a holiday.
Their journey was to take them 43 days, crossing from Maine to Seattle and back through almost 30 states and 10 national parks.
In her article Lornet writes warmly about the kindness and friendliness she and her husband experienced at every turn on their trip, and she marvels at how willing people were to share their own stories with her.
She finishes her article with these words:
“The whole adventure felt like a detour, in fact. For those six weeks, we could focus on the expanse ahead of us, and new and old friendships — and leave behind the doctors, treatments, and uncertainty of my health.
Now that we’re home, I can close my eyes and travel back there in my mind, reabsorbing all that kindness and humanity we encountered on the road.”
You can read Loret’s article yourself by clicking here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/12/30/cancer-rv-cross-country/
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