RV Servicing

A collection of 34 posts

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

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

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

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 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

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

RV Servicing

May-hem

On the first day of each month, we share a "one clip a day" video recap on Instagram and Facebook, along with a short caption to summarize the adventures had that month. On May 1, while sharing the April recap, I wrote about the polarizing craziness that was

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.

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

All our mods and upgrades in 25,000 miles

💡We did it. We listed out every single broken and problematic RV component that we've had in 25,000 miles of travel. Read it here and let us know, is it more or less than you expected? This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Shopping through these links gives

RV Life Season 3

25,000 mile check-in: Everything that has gone wrong in our ATC Gamechanger Pro

This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Shopping through these links gives us royalties, which we use to keep this blog alive. We appreciate your use of these links when doing your Amazon shopping! One of our favorite parts of the Florida RV SuperShow was talking with other RVers about our

RV Life Season 3

The aggravating and unexpected start to Season 3

💡Continued from Our plans already got derailed ALREADY?!?! Yes, that's correct. On our very first drive day of Season 3, we ended up with a broken part on our trailer that needed to get repaired as soon as possible. Two bolts holding up one of our fresh tank

RV Life Season 3

Our plans already got derailed

On our first day of Season 3 of travels, we drove almost 380 miles from Massachusetts to Delaware. It's a much longer drive than we would typically take, but if you read our last blog post, you know that RV camping options in the Northeast are scarce, especially

RV Life Season 2

The crappiest situation: An overfilled black tank, while stationary, with no way to dump

Heading into our third year of RV living, we have camped without sewer hookups too many times to recall. It's safe to say that when we decided to park at our home-base for the holidays, overfilling our black tank was not one of our worries. Fresh tank freezing

Harvest Host Stories

Going nowhere fast: Three weeks to get back home

The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta was the absolute best Season 2 finale we could have asked for. We already knew when we snagged camping reservations that we would be more pressed for time getting back across the country to Massachusetts. You may know that we travel opposite to many RVers;

City Life

A rocky start to our Rockies adventures

Our Airbnb stay was coming to an end and our trailer would be ready for pickup later that day. When repairs are part of the plan, things can go awry quickly, and so we're always hesitant to book anything big right before or after service appointments. The last

City Life

Displaced in Denver

When living the full-time RV life, there will inevitably be times where we need to leave our trailer and find other accommodations. It's much easier when it's planned, but sometimes it's an emergency situation. Either way, things can get stressful, so we've

RV Life Season 2

Catastrophic failure of our batteries! No power in 90-degree heat

💡We attempted to travel through the entire state of Wyoming entirely self-contained, with no campground hookups! If you missed those stories, we'll link them here and here. We took all the necessary steps to ready our RV for a life of freedom: We installed a hefty solar system

RV Life Season 2

Big losses and even bigger gains in Utah, Chapter 4: "I'm a baby bee!"

We had such a traumatic situation occur, that we did something we only do in the most dire circumstances. We recorded ourselves on video! So, if you'd like to watch our video recaps, they will be listed at the end of each blog post when applicable. Read Chapter

Utah Flood Series

Big losses and even bigger gains in Utah, Chapter 3: Rescuing Buggy

We had such a traumatic situation occur, that we did something we only do in the most dire circumstances. We recorded ourselves on video! So, if you'd like to watch our video recaps, they will be listed at the end of each blog post when applicable. Read Chapter

RV Life Season 2

Big losses and even bigger gains in Utah, Chapter 2: From bad to worse

We had such a traumatic situation occur, that we did something we only do in the most dire circumstances. We recorded ourselves on video! So, if you'd like to watch our video recaps, they will be listed at the end of each blog post when applicable. Read Chapter

RV Life Season 2

Big losses and even bigger gains in Utah, Chapter 1: Nature's dark side

As much as we love Las Vegas Bay Campground, we were ready to leave after staying twice as long as planned. We braved the 90-degree heat and got a whole list of repairs and modifications done. We had high hopes that, as we left the heat and went north into