Harvest Host Stories

A collection of 25 posts

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

Country Life

Pass or fail? Severe weather tests our meteorological skills

We had made it to the Great Plains, and that meant it was time to start being weather aware again. June had been a very active month for severe weather, and if last spring taught us anything, it was that the middle of the country gets no sleep this time

RV Life Season 4

Memorial Day Weekend in Lake Tahoe and Carson City, NV

In the RV community, Memorial Day Weekend is much anticipated. It's the unofficial start to summer, which means that many RVers who have had their rigs in storage for the winter finally take their babies out for a spin. Even though the RV season has been getting longer

RV Life Season 4

Reliving pastimes in Paso Robles

One of the best parts about road tripping is the freedom that comes from putting our wheels to the pavement and driving into adventure. We discovered this years ago, when we took to the road to celebrate each of our 30th birthdays, traveling the East Coast in 2017 and West

RV Life Season 4

The travel day that reminded us why we love RV life

We've heard the phrase a million times: "It's about the journey, not the destination." I think anyone who road trips truly understands the meaning of this phrase. Long drives can be taxing, but we often see and experience things we wouldn't if

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 (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

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

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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.

Country Life

The Blitz East, Part 5: Camping at the World's Largest Pitchfork

Our Blitz East had been a rollercoaster so far. 1. We had immediate struggles as we rushed to get repairs done before leaving Colorado. Read Going Nowhere Fast 2. We entered Kansas, and while we had some issues with trucks and wind, found ourselves in beautiful campgrounds, enjoying new sights

Harvest Host Stories

Going nowhere fast: Three weeks to get back home

The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta was the absolute best Season 2 finale we could have asked for. We already knew when we snagged camping reservations that we would be more pressed for time getting back across the country to Massachusetts. You may know that we travel opposite to many RVers;

Country Life

Our Second Harvest Host Stay. No Ditches This Time!

This post contains affiliate links. We're keeping our boondocking adventures minimal until we figure out our water situation, but once in a while we need to have a quick overnight to break up a long drive distance. This is where Harvest Hosts comes in handy. Businesses all across

Maiden Voyage

Maiden Voyage, Day 6: The Delayed Departure

*This post may contain affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, we may receive a small commission. (Continued from The Ditch) Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. That’s the sound that woke us up at 5am the morning after our eventful evening at the ranch. “What now?!” I

RV Life Pre-Season

Maiden Voyage, Day 5: The Ditch

The fresh morning air beckoned us to the rows of Christmas trees. I grabbed my mug of tea, donned my flannel jacket (the one that I bought specifically for mornings like this), and walked the tall grass. We visited the horses, smelled the pines, greeted our neighboring campers, and marveled