We’ve spent over five years living on the road full-time. We hope our experience will help educate and inspire those interested in pursuing this incredible way of life.
Welcome to post 8 of 26 in the A to Z guide to full-time RV Living!Find all A-Z articles here. H is for Having a Home Base You may find that living and traveling full-time in an RV is a constant juggling of your desire for adventure and exploration vs. the conflicting desire for stability and community. In other words, you can’t have roots and wings, so they say. I’ve wrestled with...
Welcome to post 7 of 26 in the A to Z guide to full-time RV living!Find all A-Z articles here. G is for Great Expectations Mark & I have always believed that expectations often lead to disappointment. Our human brains have a knack for painting a picture and often times reality doesn’t align with that picture. I feel like this is even more true when living on the road. When you live in a...
Welcome to post 6 of 26 in the A to Z guide to living on the road full-time.Find all A-Z articles here. Living on the road full-time means being constantly on the look-out for places to stay. If you know what you want and what to look for, the search can be fun. However, if you’re indecisive by nature, aren’t sure how to find places, or have a tendency to overextend yourself on travel...
Welcome to post 5 of 26 in the A to Z guide to living on the road full-time!Find all A-Z articles here. There are many catalysts that may prompt a couple or individual to pursue full-time RV living. Everything from a desire to explore the country, to the ability to follow the weather and travel with the seasons, to the desire to live with less stuff and less expense. While we set out...
Welcome to post 5 of 26 in the A to Z guide to full-time RV living.Find all A-Z articles here. Downsizing from a house to an RV is no easy feat. And there’s nothing more effective at making you face the reality of what material items in your life are truly important. This process, for us, proved to be so much different than a traditional move. Instead of packing our...
Welcome to post 3 of 26 in the A to Z guide to full-time RV living.Find all A-Z articles here. This post is all about how we maintain relationships with friends and family while living on the road full-time, how we socialize and meet new people, and how we thrive as a couple that is together 24/7 in a 100 square foot living space. Part One: Community Maintaining Relationships Mark & I...
Welcome to post 2 of 26 in the A to Z guide to full-time RV living. Find all A-Z articles here. When people learn that Mark & I live on the road and travel full-time, the most common question we’re asked pertains to safety. “But aren’t you scared out there?” is what seems to most naturally roll off of people’s tongues. The short answer is no, not in the slightest...
Welcome to the first post in a 26 part series on how to live on the road and travel full-time.Find all A-Z articles here. Since living on the road doesn’t happen overnight, I thought I’d kick off this series with a post about dreams. Over the years Mark & I have had the good fortune of turning not just one, but a few of our dreams in to reality. And we’ve started to discover patterns in...
As many of you know, RVing has grown exponentially more popular since the start of the pandemic in 2020. We previously lived on the road full-time back in 2018 and as we embarked on this second chapter of full-time RV living in 2020, I couldn’t help but wonder if it would be more difficult. Not only are there more crowds, additionally everything is getting more expensive, and dangerous...
We managed to get a pretty sweet campsite here at Valley of the Gods. We had an okay spot for the first two days we were here but when the guy left the site we’re at now, we jumped on it and moved the mile or so down the road to snag it. We’re perched up on a hill, at the base of Rooster Butte, with panoramic views of Valley of the Gods and Monument Valley in the distance. A lot...
