hi
I'm Mark Koep from CampgroundViews.com thank you for joining us for weekly video
today we are going to take you on an interesting journey where we meet
full-time families on the road these are young families with children
who elected to live their RV travelling the country
great stories great adventures they give us a little glimpse of what it takes
to actually take your family on the road first we start with the Royals
to show us the inside of their RV
We have 4 kids and 2 large dogs and
yes and we are all living in there
together so I will walk you through and show you kind of how it works
the Royals heavily customized this Newmar to meet their needs
with children's areas and better placement of TV's
appliances and even a custom pantry
all made to make their life easier and more efficient on the road. They even have a slogan
painted on the upper wall
Life is Simple Eat Sleep Play and Repeat. What else is there right?
and regarding sleeping how exactly do they make it work by using the back bedroom and all of its space
with custom bunks
that move out of the way for the slides to come in.
so for us to have them all in the same room at the
ages their in works out great for us and at night when everyone is sleeping
we do have this door here
closes and now we can come in here and
close this one and this door closes too. So we do get privacy.
Wow thank you Bryanna for letting us see the inside the RV
and how you make it work with
4 people 2 dogs and a partridge in a pear tree
wait I didn't see a partridge but they are making it work none-the-less
pretty cool. Next we are going to meet Bryan Thomas
and his family a wife and two signs
who hit the road traveling the country to check everything out
they have done the East Coast already and head to the West Coast this next year
we talked a lot about the whole decision to make this leap
what we found interesting was how they went about making the decision to go for it.
We sat down as a family we decided as a family and I explained
what the opportunity was there we could travel the country and
and visit every state spend a few years together as a family
but it would mean selling our home
and leaving our friends and going into the unknown
and they wanted to do it we're all in and so we made the decision as a family
and ... it wasn't always easy selling your house and packing up and saying
goodbye
but together we've got through it and we did it
and now we've been on the road a while nineteen states
and its it's really been a good thing
All right now we get convinced to go and jump in and do it sell everything
hit the road then we asked a few of the families
this the the Holts, Jennifer Drew who are travelling with their two young
kids to talk a little bit about the good bad
First we asked them what is the worst experience they have had so far
Yeah the worst experience we had was coming out of Denver
You actually need to do your homework
like reading about the trip and destinations
and also the type of roads you are going to be on. We did not do enough research
Well I did not do enough research about driving out of Denver
A truck driver rolled by "Your brakes are on fire!" so I jumped out
grabbed the fire extinguisher, new brakes on the truck and the trailer
A couple thousand dollars... we learned the right way to drive out of the mountains
Fire out the back of your RV that is not fun
so what are the best experiences so far?
First of all it is the weather we chase the good weather. So back in Michigan 3' of snow and its 8 degrees
so we love the weather but
all the National Parks are so cool. We do the Junior Ranger Program with our kids and we learn a lot. It is fun
That is the difference it is like a giant field trip that you want to go on
Thank you Drew that is a great way to put it
A giant field trip that you want to be on
So if you want to be on this field trip
too
this lifestyle is so rediculous affordable
the jokes on the rest of the world
go for it jump in. Just do it. .. and if you don't just do you won't do it
such as do it forget everything out so so just do it and forget everything else.
So there's challenges but its a great adventure
enjoy the ride you get one life. Live it. There you have our episode today I hope you enjoyed the ride.
full-time families they probably have it figured out.
they're visiting seeing and experiencing first hand things we only dream about
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