RV Life Season 4

The lore and legend of our Massachusetts home-base

The time has finally come to talk about the elephant in the room...or shall we say, the elephant on the Andersons' basketball court? October 13 marked the 4-year anniversary of us bringing our trailer home for the first time and parking it at our Massachusetts home-base, on Nicole&

Truck Problems/Servicing

A whole host of RV problems as we camp our way through fall

Fall is our favorite time to camp. We love when the temperatures get cool enough to not run our AC all the time. In our 4 years of RVing, this has been the best season to camp without full hookups. Not running the AC means less generator time when we

Schedule change for blog posts

Hey BOW fam! Once again, the year is winding down, and so are we. As a result, we will be returning to once-a-week blog posts through the end of the year. New posts will be released on Tuesdays at 5PM Eastern Time. Keep an eye out for the next post,

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Beyond Acadia: Excursions in Southwest Harbor, Bar Harbor, and Ellsworth, Maine

In our last post, we covered our recommendations on what to see and what to skip during your trip to Acadia National Park. Now, we're venturing outside park boundaries, to the park's gateway towns. When we took our trip to Acadia in 2019, we chose to

RV Life Season 4

The Acadia itinerary: What to see and what to skip

Acadia was our second National Park visit of all time, and one of the easier to check off the list as New Englanders. We went in late September 2019 for a weekend getaway, back when we knew little about navigating national park visits. Since then, we have gone from national

RV Life Season 4

Our first RV trip?! Fall weather fun in Freeport, ME

After 6 months traveling across the country, we returned to New England and slowed our pace. We spent 7 weeks bouncing between our two home-bases: My parents' driveway in MA and our land in NH. During this time, we were dealing with upheaval, as life threw a lot of

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It's our favorite place in the US, but so many RVers skip it

We've talked a lot about our love for New Hampshire in the blog. Our rivers run deep, as this was the state where I "came of age" as both a young adult and a musician, where we took many day trips when we first started dating,

RV Life Season 4

Nomads: Know this BEFORE you apply for South Dakota Residency

When we travel the country, we always face the inevitable question, "Where are you from?" We started off joking that we're from "Nowhere and everywhere at the same time." After all, home is where we park it in our RV. But most of the

RV Life Season 4

We played cross-country blackout Bingo from California to Massachusetts

For Summer to Remember this year, we opted out of our usual challenges to hike and/or ebike 100 miles from Memorial Day to Labor Day Weekends. We learned our lesson from previous years and didn't want to end up resenting our outdoor time, which was supposed to

Summer to Remember

Past the pivot point: Summer goals amidst a time of upheaval

Continued from A Summer to Remember in 2025 The first 9 weeks of our summer consisted of leaving the West, traveling across the country, stopping in the Midwest for repairs and cats, and then making our way to our home state of Massachusetts. Already, the summer was crazy. We covered

Summer to Remember

A Summer to Remember in 2025

Since 2021, we've partaken in Summer to Remember. Started by the Leach family (Keep Your Daydream), it's a customizable summer goals list to help us remember what we want to prioritize during a season that can get very busy. We've used our list for

RV Life Season 4

Testing 3 new temperature monitors for our pets (and why Waggle isn't one of them)

This post contains Amazon affiliate links. We receive a commission for qualifying items purchased through these links. Thank you for helping to support our blog! To live safely in an RV, we rely on a lot of equipment. We often talk about the big things, like our axles and our

Weather/Natural Disasters

Our last drive to get home was a doozy

In our first season of travels, we prided ourselves on not falling into the trap that many newbies do, which is moving too quickly due to the excitement of new adventures. We planned a shorter travel distance, set aside time to work, and booked most of our reservations ahead of

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Join us live tonight! Meet the cats (and other big updates)

We're holding a subscribers-only livestream tonight, and we hope you will join us! Just sign up for our blog (it's free) and you will see the info below. Sign up here

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Livestream TOMORROW: Meet the Cats (and Other Big Updates)

We're holding a subscribers-only livestream on Monday, September 15 at 7PM EDT! If you aren't subscribed yet, sign up to get all the info.

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Traveling back in time in Sturbridge, MA

For the first year ever, we traveled all the way across the country and back in an abbreviated timespan. In 2023, the only other year we went out West, we committed to 10 months on the road before venturing back to New England. We assumed this would always be our

RV Life Season 4

Travel days with the new cats

We lucked out big time when our two new cats, Piccolo and Mac, warmed right up to us, Tanner, and the RV...well, at least the RV while it was stationary. We still had one more big obstacle to tackle, and that was their first travel day. They were trailer

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Livestream Scheduled: Meet the Cats (and Other Big Updates)

We're holding a subscribers-only livestream on Monday, September 15 at 7PM EDT! If you aren't subscribed yet, sign up to get all the info.

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We turned our RV into a cat palace!

This post contains Amazon affiliate links. We receive a commission for eligible products purchased through these links, which we use to help fund our blog. Thank you for your support! The cat's out of the bag! We deliberately and expectedly foster failed and now have 2 new adorable

RV Life Season 4

We added to our family...but the story isn't what you think

We're returning from a hiatus that was forced upon us by bad internet and even worse life obstacles. Now, we're playing catchup, and we'll be starting with a big announcement that we thought we would be making weeks ago. The initial plan was to

Thanks for your patience! The blog returns on Sept 2!

Dear BOW community, Thank you for your patience as we navigated an unexpected onset of life obstacles. We're not totally out of the woods yet, but the blog is one of the ways we decompress and find enjoyment, so we can't wait to start sharing our

Upcoming radio silence

Dear BOW community, Due to unforeseen circumstances, we have put a temporary halt on new blog releases starting tomorrow, August 8. We had new posts drafted and ready to go, but they revolve around a livestream that we planned to invite subscribers to next week. Unfortunately, we needed to change

RV Servicing

Swamping ATC with repairs AGAIN

This post contains Amazon affiliate links. We receive a small commission for qualifying items purchased through these links. Thank you for helping support our blog! We were on the fast-track east, going from one repair appointment to the next. In early June, we stopped back at our axle manufacturer to

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We celebrated 4th of July 2025 in...

In our full-time RV life, we often feel like we celebrate the freedom of America every day. We know the roads and landscapes better than we ever thought we would. We embrace local cultures and the histories from which they were developed. News outlets paint our country in a negative

RV Life Season 4

Shipshewana, IN: An unlikely coming together of two different cultures

Last year, we spent several months journeying around the Midwest, and one of those months consisted of hopping among local businesses as part of our Harvest Hosts challenge. A state we visited during this challenge was Indiana, the location of many RV and RV supply manufacturers, including our manufacturer, Aluminum