Meet Becky After extensive planning and saving to afford her dream of full time RVing debt free, Becky hit the road as a solo female RVer at the age of 28. Her career as a laboratory vet technician was missing something, and she wanted more adventure and to see the country. To afford her lifestyle, […]
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Healthcare & Health Insurance for Full Time RVers
No matter how you look at it, healthcare, and specifically health insurance, is a headache. The US healthcare system, for all of its advancements, is painfully expensive and a complicated mess. This is an update to our previous healthcare chapter to integrate in the added challenges and benefits of the Affordable Care Act (ACA – […]
Winning the Storage War!
Storage units are like security blankets for baby nomads. So many of us head out on the road with the core bits of our former stationary life crammed into a big “climate controlled” box somewhere, ready and waiting just in case nomadic life doesn’t work out. For others, it is more about punting – putting […]
Ramblings: Tales from Nomads – Breaking Up With Normal
Meet Brenda & Karin A random idea around the pool lead to Brenda & Karin starting to downsize their lives to full time RV so they could see their family more often. In December 2012, after 2.5 years of planning, they hit the road. We caught up with them 2 months later for this video […]
Tips and Tricks for a Versatile RVing Wardrobe
More than likely, your RV is going to have less storage space than you had in your more traditional home. Assembling a versatile wardrobe to take on the road is part of almost every nomad’s journey. This was a tough one for me. Before I hit the road I had a huge dresser, a huge […]
Ramblings: Tales from Nomads – Our Odyssey
Meet Sean & Louise Sean & Louise hit the road full time in 2004 after Sean was forced into early retirement in their early 40s. By managing their investments, living within their financial bounds – they’re able to live a fulfilling mobile lifestyle. The two have found a great balance of rolling slow back and […]
Volunteer Lighthouse Hosting at Cape Blanco for RVers
After a major surgery a few years ago, my doctor read me my post-op instructions. The pain medicine I was on probably didn’t have me thinking the clearest, so I was confused as to why he was saying it was ok for me lift pails of oil up many dozens of steps so soon after […]
Our 10 Most Surprising Things about Full Time RVing
A recent question asked in a RVing group: ‘What has been some of the most surprising things about RVing that you discovered?’. That’s a great question, and I thought this might make a fun little blog post. So here goes… in our experience, some of the most surprising discoveries of our full time RVing lifestyle […]
Ramblings: Tales from Nomads – Intense Lives
Meet Gillian We met Gillian, a nomad at heart, at the NuRVers April 2010 gathering in Gonzales, TX. When we caught up with her for this interview, she had been RVing the US for about 9 months. As a single woman. With her two kids. In this interview she talks about living on the road […]
Ramblings: Tales from Nomads – Pace & Kyeli
Meet Pace & Kyeli Smith Last summer, Pace & Kyeli got bitten by the full time RVing bug and jumped head first into the lifestyle. Inside of a few months they went from never having stepped foot in an RV to selling most of their stuff, acquiring a truck and 5th wheel and hit the […]
