Anthony C Vicari

RV Life Season 4

Real-time update! How are our axles holding up?

💡Along our travels, we have been sharing the seemingly never-ending issues with our axles. After replacing our first pair with an upgraded version, we began hearing loud creaking sounds while towing and leveling our trailer. We spoke to several professionals and got an array of tentative diagnostics, which led us

RV Life Season 4

The shocking outcome of our axle appointment

Fancy seeing you here! Before you read this post, let's quickly catch you up on our years of axle problems. It all started when we needed to have our stock axles replaced after both busted just 1.5 years into owning our RV. We were dealing with some

RV Life Season 4

Did we come at a bad time? Amarillo, TX and Roswell, NM

After a quick 3-week jaunt across the US, we were only hours away from the New Mexico border, the state where we would officially catch up to our plans after unforeseen circumstances caused us to delay our launch. We made great time, so great in fact, that we had about

RV Life Season 4

Exactly what you need to know about RVing to and from New England

Ah, New England. Our little corner of the country, boasting miles of rocky shorelines along the Atlantic and lovely Granite peaks of the Appalachians. Land of lobstah and clam chowdah, fluffernutters, Hoodsie cups, and Mrs. Fields cookies. It's a great place to visit, whether you're a

RV Life Season 4

No heat → no water: The rabbit hole of winter repairs

Read it first: This was our RV's worst winter. Here's what we learned. This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Qualifying purchases through these links help support our blog, at no extra cost to you. Simply click the link and make your purchases as usual. Thanks to

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This was our RV's worst winter. Here's what we learned.

This post contains Amazon affiliate links. We may receive a small commission for qualifying items purchased through these links, at no extra cost to you. Thank you for using our links and helping to support our blog. We first moved into our RV in the wintertime, and then proceeded to

RV Life Season 3

An unexpected end to Season 3 and full-time RV life

This was definitely not the way we expected our year to end, on the immense high of finding and purchasing our dream land, then crashing to the lowest low of needing to say goodbye to our beloved cat Lily right before the holidays. We look back at the year and

RV Life Season 3

Common plights of RVers that we've yet to experience in nearly 3 years of full-timing

At the end of December, we will be celebrating 3 years of living full-time in our RV. In that time, we've hit 43 states and 3 countries, traveling as far east as Maine, as far west as California, and (mostly) everywhere in between. Along the way, we'

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Winter camping this year? You need to know this about your propane!

This blog post contains Amazon affiliate links. We receive a small commission for qualifying items purchased through these links, at no extra cost to you. Thank you for supporting our adventures! We've had an interesting history with winter camping. In fact, winter was the first season we camped

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The evolution of our toyhauler patio setup

Some of the links in this post are Amazon affiliate links. We may receive a small commission for items purchase through these links. Thank you for supporting our adventures! We made the decision to purchase a toyhauler as our full-time travel rig for an unconventional, yet common, reason. Toyhaulers are

RV Servicing

The race to get our furnace repaired before temperatures drop to freezing

Continued from Camping in cold fall temperatures...with no heat! To people who live in houses, nightly lows in the 40s might not sound too cold as long as everyone stays inside. The insulation on houses is much better than RVs, especially our RV. Despite the added steps we'

Country Life

Camping in cold fall temperatures...with no heat!

Fall is our favorite season to camp in our RV. We love how the campgrounds grow quieter with each passing week. We love feeling all warm and cozy when the air gets cool and crisp. We love watching the leaves change color around our campsites. This summer was hot and

RV Life Season 3

Common RV advice we're glad we never took (tanks edition)

💡In our last post, we covered a whole lotta advice we didn't take about our RV and our travel life. Today, we continue our rebellion! This time, we're covering all of the tank-related advice that we've put a lid on over our years of

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Common RV advice we're glad we never took

This blog post contains Amazon affiliate links. We may receive a small commission for products ordered through these links. Thank you for using these links to help support our blog! We recently passed our 2.5-year mark of living in our RV, and to think we were total novices when

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Constant axle issues! We feared a faulty trailer frame was to blame.

We often have fellow RVers ask us when we purchased our RV. We tell people that we custom ordered it in 2020 and took delivery in 2021. Questions immediately follow: "Oh wow, how has it been so far?" "Ooph, have you needed lots of repairs?" They

RV Life Season 3

Unpopular opinion: Michigan's Lower Peninsula is better than the Upper Peninsula

Even though we checked off Michigan as a state RVed in 2022, it came with a disclaimer: We had hit it during our RV travels, but we hadn't actually brought our RV up there. How did this happen? We dropped our RV off for repairs in Indiana and

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I RV UP

When we decided to travel the Midwest this year, we set the goal to visit the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the summer. This became the "big dot" on our travel route, aka the sought-after destination that we would plan other travels around. We knew we wanted to

Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome Challenge

Recapping our great success! (HH/BW Challenge Series Finale)

💡We're summing up our Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome Challenge! Catch up on all the blog posts in this series. Want to try Harvest Hosts for 15% off? Click here! When we committed to staying at only Harvest Hosts and Boondockers Welcome locations for 27 straight nights, we knew

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Challenge accepted! 4 weeks of ONLY Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome

We don't know if this is statistically true, but someone on Instagram mentioned that the 3rd year of full-time RVing seems to be the "slump." This is the year many RVers quit and find a place to settle down, or at least start thinking about it.

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"They're trying to kill us!" Tree retaliation at Village Creek State Park

We set up camp at Village Creek State Park in Arkansas, after experiencing an online booking SNAFU outside of Memphis. The experience was a pleasant surprise. We enjoyed the peace and quiet of our forested campsite, hikes on the nature trails, and games of tennis. However, not everything was sunshine

Foodie Fun

Coming in hot! Our quest to find the best hot chicken in Nashville

Let's start at the very beginning, and we mean very beginning: July 7, 2012. Two 20-something Bostonians met at a lunch gathering and hit it off, which resulted in a long afternoon of strolling the city, talking and getting to know one another. One conversation topic of the

KOA Rankings 2024

Our favorite KOA! But where does it fall in the ranks?

💡We shared our story of how we went from being KOA party poopers to being KOA lovers! Then we created a scorecard to definitively rank all of the KOA Kampgrounds we have stayed at in just over two years of travel. Today, we post the remaining scores and crown the

KOA Rankings 2024

The definitive ranking of all the KOAs we've stayed at in two years

We've had quite an interesting history with Kampgrounds of America (KOA) in our two years as full-time RVers. It's a typical rom-com love story, where we thought we hated them, got to know them, and then fell in love with them...well, at least with some

KOA Rankings 2024

We were grossly mistaken about KOAs

Before we set out as full-time RVers, we had some predictions of what kind of campers we would be. We expected to love the nature feel of rustic campgrounds, state parks, and federal lands. We were right about that. What we were grossly mistaken about, however, was the variety that

RV Life Season 3

Are we failing at our RV life mission?

On February 22, we hit a major milestone in our life as full-time RVers: Our travelversary, aka nomadversary. We had officially marked two years of being on the road. If you feel like we celebrate a lot of anniversaries, it's because we do! December 30 is our official