RV Life Season 1

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RV Life Season 1

Feels Like Home

We had our fair share of problems to ring in the month of August: * We ditched a campground due to bad electric and even worse attitudes * Our generator started leaking oil just when we needed it most to power our AC in a tremendous heat wave * A fierce bolt of

RV Life Season 1

Taking Our Problems to New Hampshire

💡Continued from Lightning Strikes! The Universe spoke once again, and bad weather delayed our departure from Massachusetts. This can only happen so many times without us wondering, what gives? Why do all the big problems tend to happen when we're in MA? The plus side to that is,

RV Life Season 1

Lightning Strikes!

This is one of those stories we wish we didn't have, but now that we do, it's quite the story to tell. During the mayhem, Nicole took as many photos and videos as possible, both for insurance claims and so we could share this story later.

RV Life Season 1

Making the Best of a Bad Situation

Continued from Massachusetts: The LEAST RV-Friendly State?! We had quite a long drive day, considering we only went 45 miles. We left Wompatuck at 11AM and found ourselves finally setting up camp at 6PM. That's what happens when things don't go as planned. We were fortunate

RV Life Season 1

Massachusetts: The LEAST RV-Friendly State?! (Our Worst Travel Day Since Hitting the Road Full-Time)

Our time back home in Massachusetts was refreshing, thanks to our state park stay at Wompatuck. Our shaded, wooded site kept us out of the sweltering heat, we stayed busy visiting beloved people and places, and we made a big purchase that upped our level of fun on the road.

RV Life Season 1

Nomadic in Massachusetts

You'd think that 5 months on the road wouldn't be enough time to have culture shock coming home, but when so much of that 5 months is spent in places much more leisurely than Massachusetts, the intensity can hit you like a ton of bricks. We

RV Life Season 1

Mid-Year Mods

This post contains affiliate links. We may receive a small compensation for items purchased through these links. Before we launched, we did a pretty good job at figuring out what our day-to-day life was going to look like. We spent nearly two months living in our RV at our home

RV Life Season 1

Going Home

We had planned 2022 around a few big destinations. We wanted to visit family down in Florida. We wanted to get some repairs done to the rig in North Carolina. We wanted to spend some time in the Smokies. Beyond that, our plans were flexible until the holidays, when we&

RV Life Season 1

Spacious Skies: Celebrating 4th of July at an Aptly-Named Campground

Driving up I-81 through the Shenandoah Appalachians, we couldn't believe that just 9 months before, we were towing for the very first time along this same road. Thankful that those awkward days were behind us, and equally thankful that the weather was less gloomy than in October, we

Country Life

Summer Days in a Summer Town

Our quest to escape the heat had us doing some last-minute rearranging of our campsite bookings. We were originally planning to spend 4th of July weekend in West Virginia, but everything got bumped earlier has we shortened our stay at Dale Hollow Lake in Kentucky. Making last-minute changes during a

RV Life Season 1

How KOA Became Our Go-To "Regrouping" Campground

Before we hit the road, Anthony and I thought we knew exactly what type of RVers we'd be. We weren't really the RV park type because we wanted nature instead of amenities. We wanted space and didn't want to be parked an arm'

RV Life Season 1

We Visited the Longest Cave System in the World!

We had a strange reason for traveling to southern Kentucky, but one of the best parts about RV life is getting to create our own journey as we go along. To our pleasant surprise, the Dale Hollow Lake area was fantastic. Granted, we could have dealt with less hot, sticky

Country Life

You'll Never Believe Why We Chose This Campground!

During the pandemic, when many of our hobbies got locked down along with our souls, our only solace was finding ways to pass the time indoors. We missed traveling. So when we discovered a way to "travel" from within our own home, we became slightly addicted. The game

Product Reviews

Product Review: The Camco Rhino Heavy Duty 36 Gallon Portable Waste Holding Tote Tank

This product review is our opinion of a product that we purchased. However, if you would like to use our affiliate link (in this post) to purchase the product, we may receive a small royalty. Ah, the ins and outs of wastewater management in RV life. We’ve talked before

Campground Reviews

Campground Review: Honeysuckle Meadows RV Park (Great Smoky Mountains)

Most places we travel in the RV aren't big destinations. We can book a campsite weeks, or even mere days, in advance, and be just fine. The Great Smoky Mountains, however, was our biggest destination in our 2022 travel itinerary, so we needed to plan ahead. We started

RV Life Season 1

We heard about the crowds in the Smokies. So where were they?

You can't hear about Great Smoky Mountains National Park without learning that it's the most visited National Park, and that trailheads fill up at the crack of dawn for the popular hikes, and that driving anywhere will take you extra time due to cars parked alongside

RV Life Season 1

Day Hiking the Smokies

We love hiking and thought the RV life would bring us ample opportunities to lace up our boots. However, between the relentless heat that seems to catch up to us wherever we go, and the fact that this is just normal, busy life, we haven't hit the trails

Country Life

Scenic Drives: The Best Way to See the Smokies?

Great Smoky Mountains National Park covers over 522,000 acres of land. That statistic alone is bound to be overwhelming to visitors spending only a finite amount of time in the park. We had three weeks to explore the area, but we opted to not just venture into the park,

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Fireflies, Deer, and Bears: Oh My! Wildlife in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

There's something oh-so-satisfying about adding a new National Park pin to our pin board, and we just had to choose a black bear pin to represent Great Smoky Mountain National Park. After all, they are the ambassadors of the Smokies. But did we actually spot any in the

Smoky Mountains Series

Celebrating in the Smokies: Gatlinburg

Pigeon Forge's next-door neighbor, Gatlinburg, is the other touristy mecca that serves as a gateway to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Less Vegas Strip and more Atlantic City Boardwalk, Gatlinburg integrates the natural feature that the area is famous for, which in this case is mountains! While you

RV Life Season 1

Celebrating in the Smokies: Pigeon Forge

RV life gives us lots of gifts. I was born on Memorial Day, which means that my birthday weekend is always a weekend full of prior engagements and traffic jams. Birthday trips are few and far between because who wants to travel on one of the busiest travel weekends of

Campground Reviews

We Cut Our Trip Short!

I can't pinpoint anything tangible, but somewhere between the bookings we made in 2021 versus those we made in 2022, we seem to have gotten a much better sense of what to look for in a campground. We've always known the necessary essentials, and of course

RV Life Season 1

Displaced From Our Trailer

After leaving Asheville, NC, it was finally time to go get our trailer serviced. We headed east to Trailers of the East Coast. This would be our first time not living in our trailer since we started, well, living in our trailer. I worked really hard to make sure the

RV Life Season 1

Mods and Additions Update: What We Wish We'd Done Differently

Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. If you purchase a product through our link, we may receive a small compensation. Before we launched full-time in our RV, we had a long list of modifications that we wanted done in order to make our trailer more functional.

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A Day in Asheville, NC

If there is one city that has been recommended to us time and time again, it's Asheville, NC. We weren't sure if we'd hit it during this first year of RV travels, but the flexibility of this lifestyle pays off. Asheville ended up being