Traveling alone with just your family could mean you're missing out on some great benefits and
we're going to tell you why in this video we are Charity, Ben, Dakota and Trinity we decided we
didn't want to wait for a life of adventure so in 2017 we bought our first RV and set off to live a
life of travel in the USA we've visited over 38 states in three years and have many more to go
follow along to learn all the best places to see RV and travel tips and much more
welcome back to the channel we named our channel Grateful Glamper because we are so grateful to
live this life of travel and location freedom and we try to practice gratitude by thinking about one
thing each day that we're thankful for so we invite you to take just a moment practice some
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we've traveled alone meaning just our family for the last four years that we've been rving and
every once in a while we've just by happenstance been able to meet up with other families
that happen to be staying at the same campground at the same time that we are we've traveled alone
meaning just our family for most of the four years that we've been out here living RV life and every
once in a while we've run into families that we've known or connected with at campgrounds but
it's never been something that was planned it's just something that happened by chance but we've
noticed a huge dynamic shift when we've been able to connect with other families in the same
campground some of the things that we've noticed that just completely change is friends for our
kids to play with now it used to not be so big of a deal when our kids were three and four and they
could just run up to another three or four year old and say hey wanna be my friend but now that
our kids are nine and eleven they just don't seem to be willing to do that as much anymore
i have no clue why i mean that's not weird right like if i ran up to you in a campground you would
be my friend right right babysitting swapping is something else that you can do when you have
another family that's in the same campground that you are now this would be amazing on multiple
levels because we know some of you have got some littles out there and i know you don't want to
take your two-year-old on that kayak trip but you'd really like to go on that kayak trip right
or maybe that art museum that's in that area that you're staying in that's just world renowned but
you just know that your kids aren't going to have that same appreciation that you would and
just means it's not going to be a fun visit for anybody if the kids aren't having fun
so being able to have those resources with families that are in the same campground and
be able to have the kids stay and play and mom and dad go get to do something fun and then vice versa
the next day would be a huge benefit to being able to arrange travel with other like-minded families
plus being able to make memories with friends just make those memories a little bit different
this last year when we were at glacier national park our daughter met another travel family on the
trail as we were going on a hike and on the way down her and this other little girl were just chat
chat chat chat the whole way down and it just completely changed the dynamic and
when we left glacier national park that was our daughter's highlight of the trip
was being able to make a friend and have a friend to finish that hike with let's not even talk about
road trip support shall we because with a few of the breakdowns that we've had it would have been
so great to just have somebody along there even for moral support let alone logistical support
like hey can you let my kids sit in your car while we call this tow truck be so fun to have a caravan
where if something does happen with a member of that caravan there's other people around there to
help support them along the way in the journey we know thinking about caravanning and meeting
up with other families wouldn't necessarily all always be rainbows and unicorns all of the time
but we're willing to bet that with some advanced planning it could be pretty darn fun
so here's some things that we're thinking about in making our travel plans for summer of 2022.
our friends brian and aaron over at five to go did a summer caravan this last summer and we've picked
their brains a little bit about how they did it and how they made it work and they absolutely
loved being able to spend the summer with rv families so here's what we're thinking right now
if you go over to grateful glamper and hit up our blog and i'll leave a link below to this specific
post we're going to have some information for you on what we're planning for the summer of 2022.
so now we don't have the answer yet and how this is all going to logistically work out but we
wanted to give you a heads up now so if you head over to our blog on grateful glamper and we'll
leave a link to the post for this particular blog post down below we'll have some preliminary
information that you can take a look at so we've realized that life on the road can be a little bit
lonely for our family and this whole like ideal of being a nomad works great for some but not
as great for others so we still want to be able to travel we still want to be able to be those
nomads but we want to do it in the community with others so while this video is more of a video of
just putting these ideas out there and putting those concepts out there and giving you a little
bit of a heads up we'd love to hear more from you and what your thoughts are in the comments
below so let us know below have you ever done a caravan would you be interested in doing a caravan
where are you at in your season of life do you travel with kids grandkids how does this whole
dynamic of RV life and family and being nomads but maybe not being nomads how does it work for
you let us know in the comments below we would love to hear your suggestions and your feedback
okay i know i got it ready except for the chickens me some chicken dinner traveling alone could you
and bring this
i have sweat dripping off my nose too
Florida it's Florida i am getting bit oh no it's not how i want to do it
you do this again with a few of the breaks down let's
so just be watching one second let that plane go by well it is what it is now all right all right
i'm going to start that part over it's right here i'll tell you when okay
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