Nicole Anderson

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Our last day left us completely winded (HH/BW Challenge Series)

💡We're coming to the end of our Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome Challenge Series! If you need to catch up on the posts, you can find them all here. We set our alarms for before dawn, but I had been up since 3:30AM, unable to fall back asleep.

Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome Challenge

More problems we can't escape from (HH/BW Challenge Series)

💡Don't forget about our link to get 15% off your first year of a Harvest Hosts membership! We spent three nights living in the land of magnificent sunsets. We were happy to have clear skies for a few days, but springtime is a season of extremes, and soon

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This was so disappointing (HH/BW Challenge Series)

💡We challenged ourselves to stay at ONLY Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome locations for 4 weeks! Catch up on the series here. We had successfully completed 18/27 nights in our challenge, and so far, this was the breakdown: * 12 nights at Harvest Hosts: -4 at vineyards -3 at farms -2

Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome Challenge

We just had to go back! (HH/BW Challenge Series)

When we told our fellow RVers that we were doing this challenge, we had resounding positive reactions to Harvest Hosts, and rightly so. We also had a few people tell us it sounded more like a fun adventure than a challenge. We always try to have fun when we challenge

Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome Challenge

Is this cheating? (HH/BW Challenge Series)

💡Here are all of the important links before we jump into today's post: We've got your 15% off Harvest Hosts link. We've got the link to all our posts in this series. And we've got the link for you to subscribe to

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We crossed state borders for this alpaca farm (HH/BW Challenge Series)

💡In this post, we cross the halfway point of our challenge! If you missed the first 2 weeks, catch up on all the posts here. In doing this Harvest Hosts challenge, we've come to realize that we need to strike a balance between shorter and longer drive days.

Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome Challenge

A tale of three cheesecakes (HH/BW Challenge Series)

💡Fancy seeing you here! If you're just joining us, we've been recapping our challenge to spend 4 weeks at ONLY Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome locations. You can read the whole shebang right here. Harvest Hosts is an RV membership program that allows you to stay at

Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome Challenge

The heat that almost killed us (HH/BW Challenge Series)

We are convinced that our RV is thermophobic. Every time the temperatures rise, we end up with a whole list of problems, as our components start shutting down one after another. Remember this? View this post on Instagram A post shared by Brighter on Wheels | Full-Time RV Travelers (@brighter_on_

Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome Challenge

Finagling our way south (HH/BW Challenge Series)

We are challenging ourselves to stay at ONLY Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome locations for 4 weeks. On one hand, it's an exciting prospect! On the other hand, we didn't realize how all-consuming this would be. It seemed like every free minute we had, we were either

Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome Challenge

The surprise jousting tournament (HH/BW Challenge Series)

💡First things first: Let's catch you up! We are in the middle of challenging ourselves to camp at ONLY Harvest Hosts and Boondockers Welcome properties for 4 weeks. This means overnighting only at designated businesses and private properties, and trust us, it ain't easy! But it

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Passing through Uranus (a subscribers-only bonus post!)

The beginning of our Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome challenge was intense, to say the least. We went from a season of slow travel and suddenly thrusted ourselves into a month of traveling almost every single day. Planning our schedule while including factors like work and weather was daunting. However, we&

Harvest Host Stories

We were declined! (HH/BW Challenge Series)

The weather was looking dreary in and around St. Louis for the first weekend of our Harvest Hosts challenge. Chances of rain and wind meant we needed to stay diligent with our travel plans. We booked our locations so that, if we did need to drive during bad weather, the

Harvest Host Stories

Hitting immediate obstacles (HH/BW Challenge Series)

💡We have challenged ourselves to stay at ONLY Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome locations for 4 weeks! If you missed our last post, read it now. Want to try Harvest Hosts for yourself? Use our link to get 15% off your membership. In our days leading up to our Harvest Hosts

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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.

Country Life

The most majestic corner of the Ozarks

We had been bouncing around and between two National Forests in Arkansas: Ouachita National Forest and Ozark-St. Francis National Forest. We can't explain the feeling of getting back into mountains and highlands. The mountains are where we belong, and even though we were thousands of miles away from

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The ultimate showdown! Branson mountain coasters

We've developed some interesting traditions since we started traveling full-time. We love to spot eagles and their nests. We made up a song to sing every time we cross the border into Ohio. And, we ride mountain coasters. This last one probably stems from the fact that we&

Outdoor Adventure

Branson bound!

Our biggest event of the year had come and gone, and the fire in the sky had lit a fire under us to keep the excitement rolling. Thankfully, we were headed to a place that would match this energy: Branson, MO! This was one of our most anticipated Midwest destinations.

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Totally unreal! Camping under the solar eclipse path of totality

Approximately 44 million North Americans resided in the path of totality for the 2024 Great American Eclipse, and hundreds of thousands more traveled to the area. It was the most anticipated event of the year and kicked off camping season early. As full-time RVers, we have the privilege of parking

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Is this National Park the perfect getaway?

We are National Park purists. We think that in order for the National Park Service (NPS) to categorize somewhere as a National Park (capital "N," capital "P"), that place needs to meet certain criteria. All national park sites in the US are special in their own

RV Life Season 3

Visiting Tanner's Hometown

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RV Problems

We're not getting away that easily!

💡We were victims of treetaliation at Village Creek State Park. If you missed the post, read it here first. As frustrating as it is to incur damage on our RV, we woke up the next morning feeling grateful that things weren't worse. We were mere feet away from

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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

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Returning to nature in the Natural State

We learned a valuable lesson, which was to think twice before booking the last available site online, the night before the start of our booking. Luckily for us, being forced out of Serendipity Brownsville RV Park led us to a gorgeous state park in Arkansas. Village Creek State Park is

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Our travel day turned into an episode of Seinfeld

In the RV world, we often get into conversations about whether we're planners or spontaneous travelers. We've met all kinds, from those who book months ahead of time, to those who never book ahead and instead fly by the seat of their, errr, trucks. We lie

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