My RV Life: The Real, Everyday of RV Life
We’re lucky to have this remote spot in Golden, Colorado
I enjoy sharing the ins and outs (and ups and downs) with you this month in this blog series on my RV life. During the first few posts, I talked about why we chose this life and the logistics of making it work for us. Today, let’s look at some of the realities of living full-time in an RV (the good and the not-so-good).
Seeing the Country From The Road Is Amazing
First, I’ll tell you that the best part of this fantastic adventure is all the beautiful places we’ve been able to see. Some of our favorites are Everglades National Park in Florida, Moab, Utah, Sedona, Arizona, and Estes Park, CO. When we visit a place, we generally live there for anywhere from five to ten days to up to four months. It’s an entirely unique way to experience a place, and I feel we’ve been able to truly take our time and discover each place we visit.
Just Because We Live In A Recreational Vehicle, We’re Not On Vacation All The Time
Because we live in an RV, people tend to think we’re on one long, extended vacation and that we get up every day and play.
I wish.
That’s absolutely not true. We’re each working a full-time job, and technology means we’re blessed to be able to do that from the road. But we’re still working all week long, just like we did when we lived in a house.
That being said, the best part of RV life is that, after work and on weekends, we get to do amazing things that make us feel like we’re on vacation. I wouldn’t trade that for anything.
It’s Actually Easy to Get Our Mail Delivered
We’re officially residents of Florida and have a Florida address through an RV mail service. I was delighted to discover that these services existed. They scan our mail and send us only the items that we request. So RV life means we never get junk mail!
There Are a Few Horror Stories
As I said in a previous post, there are challenges to living in close proximity to total strangers. Once, in Texas, we were parked near people with dogs that barked incessantly. We’re talking, non-stop barking. The owners left the dogs alone all day, and we could hear them barking and trashing their RV. I had to work with the campground management to remedy that situation before we lost our sanity. There were also feral pigs in the area that would tear up the campground. We often saw big dead pigs in the middle and on the side of the roads during our evening bike rides!
We also once stayed in a park in East Texas where the sprinkler system would come on in the evening. No big deal, right? Well, we called it a stinkler system because they would spray liquid from the black tanks (which contain nasty human waste from RVs). When we went for walks in the evenings, it would stink like poop. I wasn’t sorry to leave either of those parks, and needless to say, we haven’t returned.
So, there you have it. Some of the reality of living life in an RV. Next week I’ll wrap up this series by talking about what I’ve learned from two years of living full time in an RV.
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