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Boy, this seems awesome. I wish I could pack up my family, live in an RV, and travel the states. Why would anyone see this as a bad thing??
I wanna live on the road...

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Dad lost his job, so this family lives on the road
In a tough economy, many are trading their houses for RVs and the highway

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Dave Dudley and his family used to have a house; today they roam America in an RV. And they are only one of many families who have taken up an itinerant lifestyle to cut costs in difficult economic times.
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By Michael Inbar
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updated 8:11 a.m. CT, Wed., Nov . 4, 2009
When Dave Dudley lost his plum job as a vice president of a software company, he knew it wouldn’t be long before his house mortgage became unmanageable. So he changed his address — to Anywhere, U.S.A.

Dudley gathered up his wife, Joleen, and children, Justice, Adriane and Jayden, and hit the highway. But it’s far from a Jack Kerouac “On the Road”-style life; the Dudleys live a pleasant, relatively roomy life in their 41-foot Heartland Cyclone trailer, towed by a beefy GMC Topkick truck.

As they travel, they’re likely to pass similar families along the way. According to the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association, some 400,000 Americans live full time on the road. And while some of them are retirees seeing their golden years through a windshield, the stubborn recession has made what seems like a vacation life a necessary, full-time proposition for many. Kimberly Goza, a 20-year veteran of the nomad life who runs a Web site for on-the-road families with her husband, says they have recently seen their traffic increase tenfold.
Home, home on the road
TODAY profiled the trend of families pulling up stakes in a tough economy on Wednesday, telling the story through the eyes of the Dudley family and their search for adventure — as well as a cheaper lifestyle.


Joleen Dudley told NBC that when her husband lost his job, “I panicked. I saw six months down the road and my husband still not having a job and having a mortgage that we wouldn’t be able to pay.”

Dave and Joleen had long dreamed of ditching their high-maintenance lifestyle and living free as birds. But the idea really hit home when Dave started to crunch numbers.

“Just taking care of the house, with the mortgage and the insurance and the utility bill and all that, we were probably looking at around $3,000 a month,” he told NBC. “Now we’re looking around $300 a month for the same thing.”

Joleen told the Web site momlogic.com the reaction from friends was mixed. “One stated, ‘What a beautiful thing to do with your kids — they will learn so much,’ ” she said. “My other friend’s comment was, ‘What, you’ll be homeless!’ ”

Lots of togetherness
But the Dudleys are far from homeless: Their home just rolls. Justice, 14, Adriane, 10, and Jayden, 8, do their schoolwork online, but the whole of North America has become their classroom. One week the family backyard is a beach in Mexico; the next, the Santa Ynez Mountains.


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To save money, the Dudleys sold their house. In the tighter confines of their RV, they have less space — but more togetherness.
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In fact, there’s little between the two coasts that the Dudleys haven’t seen during their nearly one year on the road. They’re currently taking in the fall foliage in New Hampshire before they head south to beat the cold.

The Dudleys are living in the relatively cozy 400 square feet of their trailer, but Justice, the family’s animated eldest, says he doesn’t miss the family’s sprawling former home in Washington state: He’s learning the joys that can come with close-quarters family togetherness.

“In a big house you’re not really with your family at all,” Justice told NBC. “You’re just everywhere: You’re at a friend’s house, they’re at a soccer game, school.” When asked if he missed the sedentary lifestyle, Justice beamed and said, “Nope! Not at all.”


The road goes on forever
Things recently took an uptick financially for the Dudleys. Dave landed a new job that allows him to work from his trailer home on the road. Joleen told momlogic.com that she and Dave gave their gypsy life a two-year timetable, and are currently eyeing the spots in their travels they like best for a possible nesting place when they retire their trailer.

But, she admitted to NBC, any solid plans they make could go up in smoke in an ever-changing world.

“Who knows when the economy is going to turn around?” Joleen said. “It could be next year, it could be five years, or 10 years. So we’re just making our plans with the best that we can go on right now.”

In the meantime, the Dudleys stick with a tried-and-true format for travel: Husband Dave drives, wife Joleen handles directions.


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Rise of the gypsy!

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Living on the road my friends, is gonna keep you free...


Thanks. Now I'm gonna have Pancho & Lefty stuck in my head for the next week.

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Thanks. Now I'm gonna have Pancho & Lefty stuck in my head for the next week.


:mrgreen: Been humming it all morning...

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Weren't your momma's only boy, but her favorite one it seems. She began to cry when you said, "Goodbye," and sank into your dreams.

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Thanks. Now I'm gonna have Pancho & Lefty stuck in my head for the next week.



That song used to be part of the set I played when I was doing my solo thing.

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Living on the road my friends, is gonna keep you free...


Thanks. Now I'm gonna have Pancho & Lefty stuck in my head for the next week.


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The road goes on forever


And now I've got this one stuck in my head.

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And the road goes on and on into the sunset.
And my destiny is bound to move me on.
Never find the one to satisfy my soul, yeah.
Girl I want you, but I just gotta go.


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I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin' cracklin' cauldron
In some train yard
My beard a rustlin' coal pile
And a dirty hat pulled low across my face
Through cupped hands 'round a tin can
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
That you're waitin' from the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind

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Ya know, I am kinda glad I have no idea what song you guys are talking about.

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Raell wrote:
Ya know, I am kinda glad I have no idea what song you guys are talking about.
Neither do I, but I find myself unable to refrain from Googling/Youtubing it to find out.
Here, enjoy:
[youtube]JxzJAF1BxP4[/youtube]

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It's Willie Nelson! How can you not like Willie Nelson??

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Mine was Glen Campbell. There are a lot of road songs in the worlds of both country and rock.

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The Eagles, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins.. all had some great travelin' tunes too...


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Monte wrote:
Talya wrote:
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Living on the road my friends, is gonna keep you free...


Thanks. Now I'm gonna have Pancho & Lefty stuck in my head for the next week.



That song used to be part of the set I played when I was doing my solo thing.


Mine too. I was going to go home and record and post a video of me and my guitar, but I ended up having to stay at work late last night.
Do you have one of yours available? I'd like to hear your version. See if its better than mine. ;)

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I just want to point out that Pancho and Lefty was written by Townes van Zandt. A lot of people don't know the original artist of that song.

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I just want to point out that Pancho and Lefty was written by Townes van Zandt. A lot of people don't know the original artist of that song.


I knew that. Like Willie's better though.

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