Living on the Road: Motor Homes & RV's The New York Times 8.14.08

Would you give up your New York City apartment to live and work in a mobile home? What if the RV's kitchen was a huge improvement over your NYC kitchen? The New York Times investigates the "life on the road" of Lisa Wade and Trudy Lundgren in their 1985 Blue Bird Wanderlodge...

The couple have made many sacrifices to make a mobile life work for them, including the high price of gasoline:

“We’ve done 15,000 miles in nine months and have spent $5,571 on gasoline, an average of $619 a month,” Mr. Read wrote in an e-mail message. “Here’s the way we look at it: Most people have a regular job and spend about $400 a month seeing the same 20-mile route day after day. We spend slightly more than that seeing of all of North America.”

See the full story: At Home on the Road.

Pics: Kevin P. Casey for The New York Times

Comments (8)

I forwarded this article to my folks this am...

...They sold their homes and nearly everything in them over 5 years ago to purchase a new 40' diesel motorcoach and have been traveling through North America ever since - It's the best thing they ever did.

It's my ultimate nightmare: Doomed to spend my remaining years in an RV.

I'm w/u Lily. Always on the go in an RV is my idea of Hell.

TheoJ: That's really unfair. RVs and sailboats suggest wanting lots of stuff, and putting four wheels and an engine on the box that contains your stuff so you can take all your crap wherever you go. How about donning a backpack and sticking out a thumb?

Sticking out a thumb? How suicidal is that?

I would love, love, love to do this someday, and I plan to.

yeah, I would do it for a month on vacation, I need a real address.