RV Life Season 4

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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

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Testing 3 new temperature monitors for our pets (and why Waggle isn't one of them)

This post contains Amazon affiliate links. We receive a commission for qualifying items purchased through these links. Thank you for helping to support our blog! To live safely in an RV, we rely on a lot of equipment. We often talk about the big things, like our axles and our

Weather/Natural Disasters

Our last drive to get home was a doozy

In our first season of travels, we prided ourselves on not falling into the trap that many newbies do, which is moving too quickly due to the excitement of new adventures. We planned a shorter travel distance, set aside time to work, and booked most of our reservations ahead of

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Traveling back in time in Sturbridge, MA

For the first year ever, we traveled all the way across the country and back in an abbreviated timespan. In 2023, the only other year we went out West, we committed to 10 months on the road before venturing back to New England. We assumed this would always be our

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Travel days with the new cats

We lucked out big time when our two new cats, Piccolo and Mac, warmed right up to us, Tanner, and the RV...well, at least the RV while it was stationary. We still had one more big obstacle to tackle, and that was their first travel day. They were trailer

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We turned our RV into a cat palace!

This post contains Amazon affiliate links. We receive a commission for eligible products purchased through these links, which we use to help fund our blog. Thank you for your support! The cat's out of the bag! We deliberately and expectedly foster failed and now have 2 new adorable

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We added to our family...but the story isn't what you think

We're returning from a hiatus that was forced upon us by bad internet and even worse life obstacles. Now, we're playing catchup, and we'll be starting with a big announcement that we thought we would be making weeks ago. The initial plan was to

RV Servicing

Swamping ATC with repairs AGAIN

This post contains Amazon affiliate links. We receive a small commission for qualifying items purchased through these links. Thank you for helping support our blog! We were on the fast-track east, going from one repair appointment to the next. In early June, we stopped back at our axle manufacturer to

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We celebrated 4th of July 2025 in...

In our full-time RV life, we often feel like we celebrate the freedom of America every day. We know the roads and landscapes better than we ever thought we would. We embrace local cultures and the histories from which they were developed. News outlets paint our country in a negative

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Shipshewana, IN: An unlikely coming together of two different cultures

Last year, we spent several months journeying around the Midwest, and one of those months consisted of hopping among local businesses as part of our Harvest Hosts challenge. A state we visited during this challenge was Indiana, the location of many RV and RV supply manufacturers, including our manufacturer, Aluminum

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Pass or fail? Severe weather tests our meteorological skills (continued)

Continued from Pass or fail? Severe weather tests our meteorological skills We should have had a good drive day. 40 minutes of easy roads, and a border crossing into our 45th state RVed and my 47th state overall. Instead, we drove straight into a line of thunderstorms and found ourselves

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

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We camped on a bison ranch in Wyoming!

We were more indecisive than ever as we tried to figure out our route east. Should we stop at some favorite destinations, or should we cover more distance faster? In the end, we had to face the fact that our cups were overflowing with all of the grand adventures we

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Season 4 in the West: Concessions and Confessions

We recently got into a conversation with a bunch of other RVers on Instagram, all talking about whether or not we publicly share our thoughts and concerns about our decisions to get off the road. We, of course, chimed in to say that we've been talking honestly about

Outdoor Adventure

The Wasatch Mountains Underground

Continued from Utah Redemption: Wasatch Mountains Edition. We got into a groove with Utah this year, dealing with the hard stuff like axle repairs and then countering it with epic adventures in some wonderfully scenic parts of the state. After our first axle appointment, we headed south to Red Rock

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Utah Redemption: Wasatch Mountains Edition

It is true that we got a little sick of being in Utah for several weeks on end, back when we went straight from surgery and repairs to an epic Utah Redemption Tour in the red rocks. But that had nothing to do with Utah and everything to do with

RV Servicing

Axle appointment 2: Are we any closer to finding answers?

This post contains affiliate links. Purchasing qualifying items through these links grants us a commission, which we use to upkeep our blog. Thanks for supporting our adventures! We planned our entire season of travels around an axle appointment in Utah. What happened? You can read all the posts below, but

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A Great Basin Birthday

We traveled America's Loneliest Road with a long-awaited destination in mind: Great Basin National Park. We initially thought we would take a winter trip to the park before landing ourselves in Utah for our axle appointment in March, but we ended up going to Utah early to get

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RVing America's Loneliest Road, Part 3

Continued from Part 1 and Part 2. After a successful first overnight outside of Austin, NV, we were ready to hit the Loneliest Road once again. Day 2: Austin to Ely Our journey would take us another 3 hours without stops and end us in the town of Ely (pronounced

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RVing America's Loneliest Road, Part 2

Continued from Part 1. We sailed smoothly from Carson City to Austin on our first day on America's Loneliest Road. Austin, the halfway point on the road, would be our stop for the night, but two challenges awaited us. First, we were running on less than 50 towing

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RVing America's Loneliest Road, Part 1

The Backstory As you probably know by now, we set out on Season 4 of travels with Utah as our main destination. We needed to get our axles repaired south of Salt Lake City and then planned to head to the Mighty 5 national parks. What happened before and after

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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

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Chester, CA: Gateway to Lassen Volcanic National Park

We've been flexible as we've journeyed through the state of California. The biggest dot on our itinerary, and the only destination we planned ahead of time, was Yosemite National Park. We also assumed that this would be our last stop in the state before heading back

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The pin made us do it! Checking off Lassen Volcanic National Park

We have a unique way of tracking each National Park we visit. We don't do passport stamps or stickers. Instead, we collect pins and add them to a pin board, which we use as a decoration, first in our house, and now in our RV. I can'

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Dog-friendly Yosemite adventures

💡We're exploring Yosemite National Park! If you missed our last post, we hit the ground, rrr....climbing...with an epic hike to 2 waterfalls. We also found many reasons why Yosemite might just be our favorite National Park so far. See the post here. We were blown away