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A (sad) update on our trailer axles

This blog post contains Amazon affiliate links. We may receive a small commission for items purchased through these links. Thank you for supporting our adventures! In the debate of "leaf spring vs. torsion axles," we have basically become the poster children for torsion axles not being superior. We

Country Life

Sometimes in the nomadic life, you just need to sit and do nothing

The month of September had been a whirlwind. We started the month in Long Island, New York, without our rig. Then we ventured back to Massachusetts to get the rig (and Tanner), and two days later, we were in New Hampshire. In our first week and a half in NH,

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Nature's gifts in New Hampshire

We were so close to needing to halt our plans to travel north through New Hampshire, which would have been a real bummer. Not only is it our favorite state, especially in the fall, but we would also be repeating history. Back in 2022, we were supposed to be in

Campground Reviews

Our go-to campground in New Hampshire is under new management. Was it worth going back?

At the end of our first year of full-time RVing, we returned to New England to spend November in New Hampshire. Lots of campgrounds close for the season in mid-October, so the pickings were slim. As the camping season grows longer and people brave the winter to enjoy rugged outdoor

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

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RVers React: RV Influencers traveling to our home state of Massachusetts

In a lot of ways, we feel like we did the RV life thing backwards. We decided to go full-time before ever even traveling in an RV. We began in the Northeast, a place that, compared to other regions of the country, is not RV-friendly. The roads are twisty and

Challenges

We let Gemini decide our bike route (100 miles of ebiking conclusion)

💡Continued from Mistakes Were Made. Or read our entire Summer to Remember recap here. We had fallen way behind in our goal to ebike 100 miles during the summer, and to make matters worse, we had just gotten ourselves stuck in a thunderstorm, attempting to haul 130lb of ebike through

Challenges

Mistakes were made! 100 miles of ebiking

💡Read it first: Our Summer to Remember recap and our other 100-mile challenge. Last year for our Summer to Remember list, we challenged ourselves to hike 100 miles between Memorial Day and Labor Day Weekends. Some of it was enjoyable, but we noticed that when we had opportunities to recreate

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We're never doing this again.

Continued from A Summer to Remember in 2024. For the second year in a row, we set out to hike 100 miles during our Summer to Remember challenge. We don't exactly know why we thought this would be a good idea. Last year, we practically melted on most

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A Summer to Remember in 2024

Three years of Summer to Remember goals during our RV travels! See the blog posts below to catch up on previous years. 2022 A Summer to Remember in 2022Before we set off on the RV life, we learned a lot about RVing by watching YouTube channels. One channel is Keep

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We took our cat on a ferry!

This blog post contains Amazon affiliate links. We may receive compensation for products purchased through these links, which helps us keep our blog up and running. Thank you for your support! Traveling full-time in our RV has given us more opportunities to see family and friends all over the country,

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Why we chose a state park instead of our home-base when we were back in MA

Back in February, as soon as reservations opened for Massachusetts state parks, we jumped on Reserve America to book our home-close-to-home, Wompatuck State Park. It's not a sought-after state park like some others and rarely fills up, but we wanted to get our site etched in our calendars.

Outdoor Adventure

Home Turf

This post contains Amazon affiliate links. We may receive a small kickback for items purchased through these links. Thank you for supporting our travels. Followers of our blog and social media know that we are avid day hikers. We enjoy a variety of outdoor activities, but when given the choice,

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We finally RVed Vermont! What town did we choose?

Being New Englanders, it might come as a surprise to hear that, 41 states into our RV journey, we had not yet checked off Vermont. We passed through it heading from New Hampshire to New York in 2022, but because we didn't stop, it remained a void on

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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

Outdoor Adventure

Watkins Glen hikes - the famous Gorge Trail and more!

Watkins Glen, New York. We have had our eye on this place. In 2022, we set our sights on Watkins Glen State Park, with plans to stop there on our way back from Niagara Falls. We didn't have solar yet, so we tried to grab one of the

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An unforeseen return to one of the most comforting places in the US

After leaving Michigan, we had hoped to get our axles replaced down in Fort Wayne, but our timing didn't line up with the axle build. Living with constant worry that our suspension will fail and force us off the road is not fun, but so far, these axles

RV Servicing

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

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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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A Very Merry Cherry Fest in Traverse City, MI

Our northern Midwest "loopy" was almost complete. We traveled up through Wisconsin, made a stop in Door County, then went from west to east in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, before crossing the Mackinac Bridge back down to the Lower Peninsula. The loopy was a bit of a

RV Problems

What our bidet taught us about our RV's black tank

One year ago, we were looking for ways to boost our morale in Wyoming. We ended up at Longhorn Ranch, an RV park that turned out to be a welcome regrouping stop, and a stay that brought us a lot of dear memories. One of those memories was the purchasing

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We got had on Mackinac Island

Our travels took us across the UP from west to east, landing us at Straits State Park, right along the Straits of Mackinac (pronounced MACK-in-aw), where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron meet. The must-see feature of this area is the Mackinac Bridge, a 5-mile-long towering spectacle that takes vehicles from

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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