RV Problems

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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

RV Servicing

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

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Utah Redemption Tour Series

Utah Redemption ≠ Dispersed Camping Redemption

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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

RV Life Season 4

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

RV Life Season 4

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

RV Life Season 4

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

RV Problems

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

RV Life Season 4

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

RVing With Pets

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

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'

RV Life Season 3

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

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Country Life

The luckiest infestation we've ever had

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RV Life Season 3

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

Country Life

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,

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'

Country Life

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

RV Servicing

Constant axle issues! We feared a faulty trailer frame was to blame.

We often have fellow RVers ask us when we purchased our RV. We tell people that we custom ordered it in 2020 and took delivery in 2021. Questions immediately follow: "Oh wow, how has it been so far?" "Ooph, have you needed lots of repairs?" They

RV Problems

What our bidet taught us about our RV's black tank

One year ago, we were looking for ways to boost our morale in Wyoming. We ended up at Longhorn Ranch, an RV park that turned out to be a welcome regrouping stop, and a stay that brought us a lot of dear memories. One of those memories was the purchasing

Challenges

Our last day left us completely winded (HH/BW Challenge Series)

💡We're coming to the end of our Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome Challenge Series! If you need to catch up on the posts, you can find them all here. We set our alarms for before dawn, but I had been up since 3:30AM, unable to fall back asleep.

Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome Challenge

More problems we can't escape from (HH/BW Challenge Series)

💡Don't forget about our link to get 15% off your first year of a Harvest Hosts membership! We spent three nights living in the land of magnificent sunsets. We were happy to have clear skies for a few days, but springtime is a season of extremes, and soon

RVing With Pets

The heat that almost killed us (HH/BW Challenge Series)

We are convinced that our RV is thermophobic. Every time the temperatures rise, we end up with a whole list of problems, as our components start shutting down one after another. Remember this? View this post on Instagram A post shared by Brighter on Wheels | Full-Time RV Travelers (@brighter_on_

Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome Challenge

Finagling our way south (HH/BW Challenge Series)

We are challenging ourselves to stay at ONLY Harvest Hosts/Boondockers Welcome locations for 4 weeks. On one hand, it's an exciting prospect! On the other hand, we didn't realize how all-consuming this would be. It seemed like every free minute we had, we were either

RV Problems

We're not getting away that easily!

💡We were victims of treetaliation at Village Creek State Park. If you missed the post, read it here first. As frustrating as it is to incur damage on our RV, we woke up the next morning feeling grateful that things weren't worse. We were mere feet away from

RV Life Season 3

Our travel day turned into an episode of Seinfeld

In the RV world, we often get into conversations about whether we're planners or spontaneous travelers. We've met all kinds, from those who book months ahead of time, to those who never book ahead and instead fly by the seat of their, errr, trucks. We lie