RV Life Season 3

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RV Life Season 3

An unexpected end to Season 3 and full-time RV life

This was definitely not the way we expected our year to end, on the immense high of finding and purchasing our dream land, then crashing to the lowest low of needing to say goodbye to our beloved cat Lily right before the holidays. We look back at the year and

RV Life Season 3

We've been keeping a BIG secret

When we launched out for our third year of travels, we had a few things on our BINGO card. We were going to spend more time down South so we could be in prime position to see the total solar eclipse. We were going to tackle the Midwest, and in

RV Life Season 3

The 12 Gifts of Christmas that make RV life more luxurious

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This campground is rated as one of the best in the country, and it's right in our back yard

This blog post contains Amazon affiliate links. We may receive compensation for qualifying items purchased through these links, at no additional cost to you. Thank you for supporting our travels! We had a 10-month wait between ordering our RV and actually taking delivery. In that time, we tried to be

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A campground owned by criminals?! New obstacles when finding open campgrounds in the off-season

Since we've been RVing in New England this fall, a theme has emerged that has been pervading our blog: The lack of campgrounds open late into the off-season. In 2022 when we returned to our home region, we spent the beginning of November in New Hampshire and had

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Common plights of RVers that we've yet to experience in nearly 3 years of full-timing

At the end of December, we will be celebrating 3 years of living full-time in our RV. In that time, we've hit 43 states and 3 countries, traveling as far east as Maine, as far west as California, and (mostly) everywhere in between. Along the way, we'

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Winter camping this year? You need to know this about your propane!

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The evolution of our toyhauler patio setup

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What we learned about the northern lights after seeing them twice in 3 weeks

Just after 6PM on Thursday, October 10, I sent this message to my mom: An hour and a half later, we had this exchange: As I stood under the pink sky sending those pictures, I wondered how we had gotten here. We were still in New England, now in western

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Save this secret hiking trail for your next trip to the White Mountains!

For those who may not know, Anthony and I got married in Bretton Woods, NH with Mount Washington as our backdrop. We've sung the praises of our wedding venue before, when we called out a certain other hotel for its boastfulness and money-grabbing tactics. Nevertheless, we had a

Campground Reviews

Another NH campground, another management change. Is everything ruined?

When we first returned to New Hampshire this fall, we stayed at Meredith Woods Campground, a park we had called home for nearly three weeks back in 2022. Only, now named Hunter's Run RV Park, new management had taken over and we noticed unfortunate changes even before we

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The luckiest infestation we've ever had

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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

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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'

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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!

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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.