Hi, I dont normally post over here but I read the first page of your post and decided to respond. Im sorry if I repeat anything anyone else has said because I didnt read pages 2 and 3.
About college...you cant make him want to go right now. I was a huge difficult child as a teen and young adult. Heck, Im still a difficult child! I had all the grades and SAT score to get into any university I wanted to and my parents would have gladly paid. I had different ideas. I was completely into partying and never thought further than the next week. I ended up pregnant at 18 to a no good man. I left him when my oldest son was just about a year old. 2 years later I met the man I am with now and we had two more boys. Everyone is all grown up now. Oh by the way...I grew up when I had kids to raise. When my second son was a month old I started back to college and did it all on my own.
Personally with your son, I dont think you are going to have much influence on him. If he wants to move to CO, let him go. I would even give him his student loan money to travel on. He is going to find out he cant buy an RV that cheap though. Maybe a very old pop up camper. It might do him some good to have to make his own way. He will get cold and hungry. He is used to having nice things. He wont have them in a camper in the middle of the woods.
I am probably not in the majority though.
