Thoughts on the RV lifestyle

This is something I wrote in response to a daughter who was worried because her mother was thinking about living in an RV:

I will be 64 in a couple months and started RVing full time last summer. I am a single woman. I have met MANY women my age who tell me they would love to do what I am doing. I say go for it. You only get to do this life thing once. I sold my 5 bedroom house and all my belongings except for a few pots and pans and 7 changes of clothes. Now I live in a 21' motorhome. I go where I want. I go when I want. Freedom is what it is all about for me. And lack of worries and responsibilties. I have never been so relaxed or slept so good as I do now. Financially, I am living on $1500/mo, half of what I used to spend. I have a reliable RV, I put most of the house money in CD's and government bonds. I have a cell phone if something happens, help is only a call away. My fellow RVers are a friendly and trustworthy group, I feel extremely safe. I get to visit family and friends I haven't seen in years. I get to be warm in the winter. I bought a bicycle.....a first for me.....last one I had was when I was a child.....I ride on the beach with the wind in my hair. I buy fresh shrimp, they still have their heads on, from the boat at the dock. I meet new people every day, people I would have never met. Back home I knew everybody. Back home I had baggage. Here I am an unknown quantity/quality. Life is what you make of it, never make decisions based on fear. People watch too much TV with all doom and gloom, if it bleeds it leads, no one can be trusted. Well, it just isn't true! 99% of people are good and decent and your chances of something bad happening are just about the same no matter where you live.