RV Problems

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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

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,

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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,

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,

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.

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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!

This blog post contains Amazon affiliate links. We receive a small commission for qualifying items purchased through these links, at no extra cost to you. Thank you for supporting our adventures! We've had an interesting history with winter camping. In fact, winter was the first season we camped