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
RV Life Season 3 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
RV Life Season 3 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
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
Country Life 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 (HW/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
Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome Challenge 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
Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome Challenge 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
Members only RV Life Season 3 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
Harvest Host Stories 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.
RV Life Season 2 Drives, bikes, hikes...and a cold plunge?! Summer to Remember 2023 Continued from A Summer to Remember in 2023 From Memorial Day through Labor Day, we set out to complete 20 summer goals in order to keep excitement and adventure at the forefront of our season. Some goals were easy to check off, while others met some adversity, usually in the
Foodie Fun A Summer to Remember in 2023 For the third year in a row, we have joined up with other members of the RV Community to tackle a summer bucket list challenge. It's headed up by full-timers Keep Your Daydream, and the beauty of the list is, you can make it anything you want! Of
Country Life We gave up! What happened next? We experienced a lot of ups and downs during our trip across Wyoming. The ups? Unbelievable campsites with some of the best views we've ever had, where we could bask in the beauty of nature. The downs? Horrendous heat waves that trapped us inside most days and eventually
Country Life Boondocking across Wyoming was a lot harder than we thought Before we started RVing full-time, we tried to take as many trips as possible, many of those being road trips. When travel wasn't in the cards, I used to like planning "trips for the future," as I would call them, and I had a little pink
Country Life We hit our breaking point After leaving the Grand Tetons, we had plans to travel across the state of Wyoming. We were well equipped with everything we needed for a summer of boondocking. We had our solar setup, new toilet, and with the exception of a few minor issues, everything in the RV was working
RV Life Season 1 We Hiked 36 Miles on the American Side of Niagara 💡Did you miss our earlier Niagara posts? Never miss a post again! Sign up with your email address and we will notify you every time we update our blog. Just look for the "subscribe" button anywhere on this page. During our time in Niagara, we made sure to