With temperatures soaring to the low 100's here in South Texas, we knew it was time to stop procrastinating and get to work on our do-it-yourself window shades. Our goal was to create something that not only kept the heat and the sunlight out, but also looked appealing and professional.
Using room-darkening curtains, we made our own RV-darkening, heat-suppressing curtains for our tiny home.
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Welcome to our final list of RV essentials for full-time RVers. If you are brand new, we hope these lists have been helpful as you prepare for your leap into the world of full-time RVing. For those of our visitors who are seasoned veterans, we hope you've found some inspiration for your travels as well.
Some of the items you'll see in this list are items that you may be able to live without, but we include them because they have been incredibly helpful for us.
Welcome to the second installment of our "Full-Time RVing Essentials" list! We hope you found some inspiration from part one, and we hope part two is just as helpful.
When we first started on this journey, we were excited about the prospect of seeing the country, moving at our own pace, and learning new skills. But we, or at least I, had no idea what we were getting ourselves into, and quite a bit of on-the-spot learning occurred during those first few months. Of course, we're still making new discoveries every day, but now that we have a better idea of what is needed for full-time RVing, we want to share our acquired knowledge with you. Today marks the six-month anniversary of our sojourn in our tiny home. In the past six months, we have traveled through five states, spending the majority of our time in South Texas. During the past six months, our main teachers have been our own mistakes, others' mistakes, and trial and error. We have discovered several items that have made RV life much easier for us, and we would like to share those must-have items with you so you can learn from our trial and error.
The decision to uproot your life and move from the comforts of a house or apartment to an RV can be a daunting one. Marvin expressed his desire to travel the country in an RV a few years ago, and over the years, we discussed it at length more than once. But it wasn't until 2016 that we decided to take serious steps to make this dream a reality.
The decision itself was intimidating, and the steps we had to take to reach our goal were extensive, but in the end, it was all worth it. Below are our ten reasons that you should cast off the drudgery of your 9-5 job and travel full-time in a recreational vehicle. Technology and Travel: How One Couple Bridges a 6900-Mile Gap to Stay in Touch With Their Children2/28/2017 What do you do when you have four adult children living in four different time zones, spread across nearly 6,900 miles? You travel, of course!
My mom's twin sister, my Aunt Sandy, and her husband, my Uncle Michael, are just such a couple. Their oldest son, the student, along with his wife and their daughter, live in Glasgow, Scotland. Their only daughter, a secretary for a lawyer, and son-in-law, and their daughter live in Wyoming. Their police officer son and his wife and daughter live in West Virginia. And their "baby" the Marine, along with his wife and their son, have been in Hawaii for the last few years. Keeping up with kids and grand kids presents challenges, but it also affords them (currently) a dozen reasons to travel across the country and even across the pond. Curious about their recent travels, I asked Aunt Sandy some questions about those opportunities and obstacles. Taking the PlungeIn September, we decided to take the plunge and buy a travel trailer so that we could pursue our long-time goal of hitting the road and exploring the good old US of A. We knew our lease would end October 31st, so we sold everything we could, carefully selected the tools, clothes, and household items we would keep in our camper, donated a tremendous amount of general household clutter, and put the rest into storage.
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