RV Life Season 4

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RV Life Season 4

Real-time update! How are our axles holding up?

💡Along our travels, we have been sharing the seemingly never-ending issues with our axles. After replacing our first pair with an upgraded version, we began hearing loud creaking sounds while towing and leveling our trailer. We spoke to several professionals and got an array of tentative diagnostics, which led us

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The shocking outcome of our axle appointment

Fancy seeing you here! Before you read this post, let's quickly catch you up on our years of axle problems. It all started when we needed to have our stock axles replaced after both busted just 1.5 years into owning our RV. We were dealing with some

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Returning to places of trauma

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Tanner needed surgery

Our travels around the western US were well underway. We were moving quickly, checking off new bucket list destinations and visiting old favorites from our last trip to the region. All this time, we were waiting for mid-March. We had an appointment in Utah to get our axles replaced. While

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Squeezing in 3 days at Valley of Fire State Park

We've sung the praises of Lake Mead National Recreation Area, exclaiming that it has some of the best views we've seen anywhere in the country. As such, typically when we travel around Las Vegas, this is where we end up. We're content basking in

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We consider this campground our "Home of the West." Where it is may surprise you.

One of our favorite parts of RVing is that we plant our "home" literally anywhere we want all over the US. We have lost count how many places we've parked our RV, and many of those camping spots become lost in the sea of memories. Others

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Back-to-back stays at two of the most renowned RV resorts in the country

We're now into our 4th year of full-time RVing, and we've learned a thing or two about how we like to travel. The RV resort isn't always our sought-after camping spot, as we usually opt for more rustic sites in nature. However, when word

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We went nuts on Anthony's birthday

What is a road trip without stops at roadside attractions? Those little places that no one actually plans as a destination, but rather passes by on the way to something greater. Yet, somehow these places unite all those who choose their vehicle as their means of transportation. We're

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We did White Sands wrong (and how you can do it right)

If you missed our last post, we hit 2 adjacent National Parks on back-to-back days. The actual plan, however, was to hit 3 National Parks 3 days in a row. Weather forced us to shift our plans. During our overnight stay at Guadalupe Mountains, a big windstorm blew in, and

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Two days, two National Parks: Carlsbad Caverns and Guadalupe Mountains

When we delayed our Season 4 launch back on the road, we canceled all of our January bookings to give us some leeway. We'd stay flexible through the month, launching when we could, and booking campsites as we rolled along. However, we still had February reservations that we

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Did we really travel 2,700 miles scot-free?

When we meet fellow RVers on the road and tell them about our blog, we always say the same thing: "We don't seek out the drama, but somehow the drama always seems to find us." The drama does make for some good stories, but sometimes we

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Did we come at a bad time? Amarillo, TX and Roswell, NM

After a quick 3-week jaunt across the US, we were only hours away from the New Mexico border, the state where we would officially catch up to our plans after unforeseen circumstances caused us to delay our launch. We made great time, so great in fact, that we had about

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Camping in a Canyon! Our adventurous welcome to the West

One of the driving forces behind launching out again this year was the call of the West. We hadn't been out there since Season 2 (2023) and, to be honest, we missed it. During our travels, we've found places along the way that have captured our

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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

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Repeated history? Another wet Louisiana State Park stay

After a delayed launch and a wintry jaunt south, we had made it to Alabama and positioned ourselves to venture west. We had two weeks to catch up to our plans out in New Mexico and chose I-20 as our route. This would be new territory for us, and so

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A ghost town or a goat's town? Camping on Jackson Lake Island

We couldn't deny that Season 4 of travels was feeling very different from years past. For the first time ever, we hit the road as a family of 3, feeling the massive void that Lily used to fill. For the first time ever, we couldn't escape

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Where do we go from here?

By January 21, most of the US was experiencing temperatures well below average. The Gulf Coast was heeding blizzard warnings. We hunkered down at our lakefront site on the northern border of North Carolina, assuring ourselves that we made the right decision by staying put until these weather patterns subsided.

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Exactly what you need to know about RVing to and from New England

Ah, New England. Our little corner of the country, boasting miles of rocky shorelines along the Atlantic and lovely Granite peaks of the Appalachians. Land of lobstah and clam chowdah, fluffernutters, Hoodsie cups, and Mrs. Fields cookies. It's a great place to visit, whether you're a

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Winter pros or snow woes? New problems as we attempt a travel day between snowstorms

Continued from The Reluctant Launch. On Sunday evening (January 19), we watched a Nor'easter bring snow, ice, and wind to our campsite in Delaware, as we pored over our travel planning websites in one browser window and viewed Max Velocity's latest weather update in an adjacent

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The reluctant launch

For the past two years, we spent our holiday season stationary in Massachusetts, before launching back on the road just before New Year's: * In 2022, we set up stationary on November 19 and launched back out on December 30. * In 2023, we set up stationary on November 5

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No heat → no water: The rabbit hole of winter repairs

Read it first: This was our RV's worst winter. Here's what we learned. This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Qualifying purchases through these links help support our blog, at no extra cost to you. Simply click the link and make your purchases as usual. Thanks to

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This was our RV's worst winter. Here's what we learned.

This post contains Amazon affiliate links. We may receive a small commission for qualifying items purchased through these links, at no extra cost to you. Thank you for using our links and helping to support our blog. We first moved into our RV in the wintertime, and then proceeded to

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3 years of RV living: How it started vs. how it's going

Have you heard of the Power of 3? It's the idea that whatever energetic force is being put towards you at a given time, that force will return to you 3 times. It's the belief that bad luck comes in a string of 3 events in