LOLOLOLOL
not what you had in mind when you talk of
traveling in our retirement years, right hun? ;)
A good friend of mine offer some advice on buying a nice sailboat (pre-internet)
Go to Panama he said. Most of the couples never make it thru the canal. The wife is tired or sick of the small boat, or no kids/grandkids/no shopping/bad food/storms/no mail or telephone and so on.
And she gets on the first thing smoking headed North. Dad can’t continue on his own as the boat is too big - so they sale at a loss.
Your gain.
OTOH, many have done this quite successfully - Jim and Molly Moore, Kellogg and Diana Fleming, Suzanne & Jim Macfarlan (and family), Paul Howard and Fiona McCall, Alvah & Diana Simon ( a year frozen in the Arctic ice), and on and on.
http://www.cruisingworld.com/index.jsp has many of the stories and is a good magazine, lots of recipes great for RVs.