RV Life Season 5

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RV Life Season 5

A major curveball no one saw coming...not even us!

Continued from We need to talk about this. This past year has left us wading through a sea of crises, of both literal and existential form. Sharing our emotional arc in the last post exposed some vulnerabilities, but it was the only way to provide context for what we'

RV Life Season 5

We need to talk about this.

We're going to speak candidly here. Season 5 has been hell on wheels. We started the year at our home-base in MA, unexpectedly back in our RV after our winter rental fell through. We didn't know how long we'd stay, but we felt

Campground Reviews

Child-free couple at the #1 family campground: Ocean Lakes Family Campground, Myrtle Beach, SC

So far, Season 5 had taken us all the way to the southern tip of the east coast, and now we were on our way back north. The goal: get back to New England as soon as campgrounds started opening for the season. This would give us the flexibility to

RV Servicing

All-day displacement while our trailer gets repairs

In the RV life, it's a known fact that, at any given time, something will need repairs. We barrel down the road, and things shake loose and break. We take our homes through all different climates and terrains. And let's face it – most RV components are

RV Servicing

Inverter goes up in smoke!

So far, season 5 has been a tough year. We seem to be on the dark side of cosmic intervention, a road we wish we could get off. First, we got stranded at our home-base in MA during their snowiest winter in over a decade. Then we finally escaped,

RVing With Pets

Dog-friendly St. Augustine

Continued from An impromptu vacation to St. Augustine. Thanks to a very long, grueling trolley tour, we had run out of time to do most of the things we wanted on our 2nd day of exploring St. Augustine. We ended up abandoning our tour, getting our truck, and driving closer

RV Life Season 5

An impromptu vacation to St. Augustine

We had a drive day where tire observation took priority and our destination remained unknown for hours. Over many, many miles, we began trusting that our tire was holding air, and we could finally shift our priority to finding our home for the night. "You know where I'

Wildlife

4 years to complete Wildlife Bingo!

💡Before you read... Catch our last post, where we talk about our long wait to spot the final animal on our Wildlife Bingo card. We were shocked that this was the last holdout! Before we launched on the road in 2022, we created a wildlife scavenger hunt – 12 animals that

Wildlife

This was the last holdout on our Wildlife Bingo card

Before we set out for our full-time RV travels, we made a board for our fridge that had a few different configurations: a dry erase board, various seasonal "Rollin with my homie" posters, and our Wildlife Scavenger Hunt. We thought it would be fun to check off

RV Servicing

Tired of tire troubles

💡We got a flat tire right before crossing over into the Florida Keys. Did you miss that blog post? Read it here first: This could have been really bad (2 flat tires 2 days apart) We were enjoying the Florida sunshine in luxury at our oceanfront campsite in Key West,

RV Life Season 5

Bluewater Key Resort: financial irresponsibility or mental health investment?

This is our 5th year of full-time RVing, which just saying out loud, sounds insane. We never planned to be on the road this long. Lots of RVers have the plan to hit the road, and if they enjoy it, keep going indefinitely. We are not those RVers. We

Truck Problems/Servicing

This could have been really bad (2 flat tires 2 days apart)

After we launched back on the road for Season 5, we took a few weeks to reach our first "big dot" on our itinerary: Fort Myers, our jumping off point for visiting Anthony's family. Of course, "big dot" is a loose term this year,

Campground Reviews

A major reset after being excavated from our campground

Continued from Blythe Island left a literal hole in our travels On the morning of Monday, March 31, we found ourselves exiting Blythe Island Regional Park in Georgia, trying to register the sheer absurdity that had just occurred. We were into our 5th year of full-time RVing, and that

RV Life Season 5

Blythe Island left a literal hole in our travels

Since we launched, we had mostly been traveling with no big plans, instead just rolling along and staying flexible. We have our reasons for this type of travel; grand adventures are not what will bring us joy right now. What has brought us joy is getting out of winter, returning

Weather/Natural Disasters

Avenues over Chesapeake Bay

💡TRIGGER WARNING: Sorry, gephyrophobes, but today we're talking about bridges, more bridges, and tunnels. If the topic causes you anxiety, you might want to skip this one. Or it might give you tips that will put you at ease. I can't really say. I'm

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RV Life Season 5

The deeper reason for our recent spontaneous travel

Enjoy posts about the psychology behind travel? Read these: RVing and Achieving Self-Actualization The adaptable mind and how it impacts full-time travel Returning to places of trauma On Monday, March 23, I woke up in our campsite on Assateague Island, our home until Wednesday. Wednesday night was a

Campground Reviews

Returning to Assateague Island 9 years later

We've now traveled to 47 states and are into our 5th year of full-time RVing. We've covered tens of thousands of miles and stayed in hundreds of campsites and overnight parking spots. So when a place that we visited way back in 2017 still stands

Weather/Natural Disasters

We launched right into a severe weather outbreak. Here's how we stayed "weather flexible" and "weather aware."

Continued from One more delay, one more launch. We delayed our launch one extra day so that we could avoid high winds and finish a few more repairs. It was a good choice, except for one little issue. "What are you going to do about the severe weather?"

RV Life Season 5

One more delay, one more launch

Continued from The Great Thaw. As soon as we made the decision to aim for a March 14 launch date, we kicked into high gear. We overhauled our entire rig, decluttering and reorganizing every corner. We jumped on repairs and projects, especially attempting to stop the leaks we incurred during

RV Life Season 5

The Great Thaw

A historic blizzard dumped over 2 feet of snow on us, but worse than the snow accumulation were the winds – some reaching over 70mph. Our parking spot at our MA home-base is surrounded by trees, and those branches couldn't handle the gusts. Our RV came away with

Weather/Natural Disasters

Travelversary Blizzard! (Things went from bad to worse)

A historic blizzard hits New England, while we're parked stationary in coastal MA, one of the hardest hit areas. We battle 70mph winds, heavy snow, and power outages. Then afterwards, we assess the damage to our RV and go on a Starlink retrieval mission.

RV Life Season 5

Our most unique and special RV sites (Seasons 3 and 4)

We sat stationary through winter, patiently waiting for a viable Season 5 launch date. We didn't have a plan, given that we were 3 months out from a surprise lease break and into continued full-time RV life. After last year's fast travel, we said we

Weather/Natural Disasters

Snowed in

Continued from Things got even crappier (our first poo pyramid) We were lucky for a while, sitting tight through winter in MA without many problems. We had heat. We had easy solutions for the cold days when we would lose running water. Most importantly, we had 4 years of experience

RV Life Season 5

Weathering Winter: Arctic blast and loads of snow

We're no fools; we knew that if we stayed in MA into the depths of winter, we'd face some gnarly weather. That's what happened when we stayed until February 22 the year we first launched on the road, and it wasn't pretty.

RV Life Season 5

Celebrating 100,000 miles of Clyde!

During our RV-to-rental home-to-RV whiplash, we needed to take a few trips back and forth to move all of our belongings out of the house. Some of it went into a storage facility, and the rest made its way down to our home-base in MA.