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Mark Douyard

Mark Douyard

Retired Delaware physician-recruitment executive (Bayhealth; now Intuitive Search Partners) and RV full-timer who appeared on the RV Podcast with his wife Barb about retiring into full-time fifth-wheel travel.

Sep 23, 2026

6:28
Walk us through that conversation, the decisions, and the whole process, 'cause that's a big change.
6:37
Yeah, so this is our fifth summer camping with a fifth wheel, and a couple years ago we went for almost 12 weeks and decided that was a bit of a budget buster, 'cause we still have a home that we maintained.
6:52
And last year I looked at Barb and I said, "What do you think if we did this full time?" And she said, "I don't wanna sell the house." So when we got home, we met with our realtor, found out that we were in a market that would be easy to rent, and so we made the decision to go on the road.
7:11
Originally we were thinking about going on the road for one year, and then the realtor recommended that we take all of our personal stuff, empty out the house, put everything in storage, which meant that we'd have moving expense.
7:27
So we decided that we needed to amortize that cost over at least two years.
7:33
So we started out-

10 MINS LATER

17:07
Save them some worry, and flag what they need to be putting on their radar.
17:14
It, it probably took us a good six months of planning from the time we met with the realtor to determine renting the house, what we were gonna rent the house for.

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