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July 3, 2025

🤔 RV Curious? What You Need to Know Before Renting an RV (AARP Article/updated)

  • July 3, 2025
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FROM THE ARTICLE.

 

Get some pointers on how to rent an RV, with tips on where to look and how to research.

 

By Heather Mundt, AARP.

 

Published May 03, 2024.

➡️[*** Updated June 30, 2025.

 

Albuquerque, New Mexico, couple Debbie and Max Kush had never considered RVing until a group of friends invited them on a camping trip in fall 2022. As a retired military officer, Max, 72, could rent an RV for the trip from the Kirtland Air Force Base for under $200.

The available units were well-maintained, he says, but they showed some wear. Debbie noticed bloodstains on the couch, for instance, probably from hunters who often rent the travel trailers. And the bed was little more than a thin mattress on plywood.

 

USE LINK BELOW TO READ THE ARTICLE.

 

https://www.aarp.org/travel/vacation-ideas/outdoors/rv-curious/

8 replies

SummerOnTheWay1
SummerOnTheWay1Author
July 22, 2025

📎  Luv your picture @fffred !!!  ‌👍‌  Yes, please continue to post = lol, I can PRETEND I am "brave" enough to do this. SAFE travels my friend, Nicole  ‌💛‌

 

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@fffred wrote:
t’s funny that you asked,


Bonjour! Today is the four week anniversary of my long motorhome journey across Canada, my new home. It has been, and is, quite an adventure, with good and bad. Good experiences come along with inconvenience and discomfort. 

Our travel is not typical. We are my wife and me, wuth her brother and his wife. And their geriatric mid-size dog. And our three cats. Very crowded in our 23 foot Class C motorhome, not even 3 feet each!

We are in Gaspe peninsula of Quebec, Canada. Driving along the seacoast through occasional small towns, a d up and down the mountains.  Beautiful countryside! Thus us our third day here and will be our last. Today we travel west at the top of the gaspe alongside the mammoth St Lawrence river.

I will try to put up a photo from a rest stop just now

More on our adventures later!

 

    fffred
    fffred
    Conversationalist ⭐⭐⭐
    August 13, 2025

    t’s funny that you asked,

     
    Bonjour! Today is the four week anniversary of my long motorhome journey across Canada, my new home. It has been, and is, quite an adventure, with good and bad. Good experiences come along with inconvenience and discomfort. 
     
    Our travel is not typical. We are my wife and me, wuth her brother and his wife. And their geriatric mid-size dog. And our three cats. Very crowded in our 23 foot Class C motorhome, not even 3 feet each!
     
    We are in Gaspe peninsula of Quebec, Canada. Driving along the seacoast through occasional small towns, a d up and down the mountains.  Beautiful countryside! Thus us our third day here and will be our last. Today we travel west at the top of the gaspe alongside the mammoth St Lawrence river.
     
    I will try to put up a photo from a rest stop just now
     
    More on our adventures later!
     

     

      SummerOnTheWay1
      SummerOnTheWay1Author
      September 6, 2025

      📎  [9/6/25] Gail @GailL1 I am in Virginia & @fffred in Canada (lol, well I "think" he is, waiting on an UPDATE from him). I have NO idea about Florida. Sorry, Nicole!

       

      ‌➡️‌[*** GAIL 

      @GailL1 wrote:
      Is it still the residence of [forced] choice by many seniors living in Florida?

       

      Does it meet the definition of “tiny” residence?  

      I have seen some that are really big - then they pull out for even more room.  I had some friends whe were jewelers by trade and lived (and worked) in one but it was about the size of a large greyhound bus with pullouts.  

       

      I asked them once where they had to buy their tag cause to my knowledge other than a P.O. Box in some state they had no official address at the time.  Laughingly they told me, whatever state catches us. 

       

      You certainly know your living expenses when living in such a vehicle - I assume they still categorize them as vehicles even though some never move.

      GailL1
      GailL1
      Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
      September 6, 2025

      Is it still the residence of [forced] choice by many seniors living in Florida?

       

      Does it meet the definition of “tiny” residence?  

      I have seen some that are really big - then they pull out for even more room.  I had some friends whe were jewelers by trade and lived (and worked) in one but it was about the size of a large greyhound bus with pullouts.  

       

      I asked them once where they had to buy their tag cause to my knowledge other than a P.O. Box in some state they had no official address at the time.  Laughingly they told me, whatever state catches us. 

       

      You certainly know your living expenses when living in such a vehicle - I assume they still categorize them as vehicles even though some never move.

      IT‘S ALWAYS SOMETHING . . . . .. . . . Roseanne Roseannadanna
        SummerOnTheWay1
        SummerOnTheWay1Author
        September 6, 2025

        📎  [9/6/25] Gail @GailL1 I am in Virginia & @fffred in Canada (lol, well I "think" he is, waiting on an UPDATE from him). I have NO idea about Florida. Sorry, Nicole!

         

        ➡️[*** GAIL 

        @GailL1 wrote:

        Is it still the residence of [forced] choice by many seniors living in Florida?

         

        Does it meet the definition of “tiny” residence?  

        I have seen some that are really big - then they pull out for even more room.  I had some friends whe were jewelers by trade and lived (and worked) in one but it was about the size of a large greyhound bus with pullouts.  

         

        I asked them once where they had to buy their tag cause to my knowledge other than a P.O. Box in some state they had no official address at the time.  Laughingly they told me, whatever state catches us. 

         

        You certainly know your living expenses when living in such a vehicle - I assume they still categorize them as vehicles even though some never move.

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