RV Problems

A collection of 64 posts

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

Winter RVing tips and tricks: Our hacks for frozen water lines

This post contains Amazon affiliate links. We may receive a small commission for items purchased through these links, which helps to fund our blog. Thank you for your support! Well, here we are again, parked stationary in the North while most of our fellow RVers have sought warmer climates down

RV Problems

The big pivot

Last year on November 6, we made a huge leap towards our next chapter of life. We bought land in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the place that we always considered end-game. Since then, even though we continued traveling full-time, we stayed honest on the blog. Nomadic life is

Truck Problems/Servicing

A whole host of RV problems as we camp our way through fall

Fall is our favorite time to camp. We love when the temperatures get cool enough to not run our AC all the time. In our 4 years of RVing, this has been the best season to camp without full hookups. Not running the AC means less generator time when we

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

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

RV Life Season 3

An unexpected end to Season 3. Is full-time RV life over?

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

Country Life

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.