okay so you guys know with us it's all about the people and the places and we've been sharing with
you one of our favorite places is the florida keys and so while we were here enjoying the place
we met the people people
so welcome tom from enjoythejourney.life well thank you i mean this is like uh should be a
permanent residence for us absolutely i keep trying for some people he will not
go he thinks it's too hot here i'm perfect for a month out of the time out of the year right
yeah and it's really been a couple years since we've been here but it doesn't feel like we ever
left this is one of our favorite places so that was something i wanted to ask you was what is your
favorite favorite place favorite well there's the rv like don't say europe or something
like in the rv and i mean with what's really cool about it is our very favorite campground
baya honda is right down the road from here that'd probably be overall favorite campground
and it's it's probably the hardest campground to get into oh this is getting harder to get into
this is hard to get into but this is great sunshine key rv resort and marina big pine key
maybe you've already shared this location but i mean probably one of the best thousand
trails parks there is yes and you know people are paying over a hundred dollars a night to stay here
they're staying 20 for 20. yes for 20 a night this for 20 bucks yeah what more could you ask for yeah
it is amazing and uh i think this is a good time of the year to get in before the first quarter
it's december and we're all some of us are in short i'm always cold so you're right people know
this about me so i i didn't have to put on pants but i had on shorts earlier today it was beautiful
i'm cold i don't like it when it's cold outside there are a lot of uh people probably saying oh
i wish i was there you know if i were on the other end of this i would wish i were i mean we kind of
chased the flip-flop barometer i'm all about that i mean and if we have to put on coats anything
more than a light jacket i think we're in the wrong place i agree i could just travel with y'all
you can enjoy their journey well so where do you guys typically travel so
i prefer to stay warm like this makes me happy okay he can take it a little bit cooler the older
he gets not so much snow but like this i could stay here year round i have worn jeans since we've
been here it was really which is weird for me it was it was cool the first couple of days so right
the temperature doesn't vary much it's all about the wind right it's like 69 70 degrees
as a low and a high of 75 to 77 i mean yeah this place is phenomenal and of course i'm switching
into interview mode so i want to interview you but you guys are interviewing me it's awesome it's all
about it it's so good because it's all about the journey it's all about you know the the places
and the people and the the things you get to see and do and it's like programming so yeah it is
so where do you like to go i know this is my happy place i'm still want to change the chase of 70s
that's our next goal we want to hit that that chase the seven you see that map no i haven't
oh it's like a map of the u.s and if you follow it by the calendar it keeps you on an average of
70 degrees really it's like a 5 000 mile trip in a year okay so it's worth for virginia i know we'll
head out to virginia in may may time frame sure average average temperature is 70 degrees and you
stay for a couple weeks and you move on up north as the temperatures you know temperatures get
hotter now south you move up there and you head out west when it goes but you basically stay into
you stay in the average average temperatures of 70 degrees for a year to me there's also one that's
taking i'm saying i'm kind of torn between the two yeah i think 80 would be a little hot for me
i think cherie would love that she's all about the heat and uh i love i love this but i also love the
mountains so how long have you guys been on the road full time i've been full time
for a little over seven years rving for over nine years uh and then sheree joined me uh almost five
years ago you know actually she's she's four and a half years full-time okay right now
so so the big question that everybody asks us i'm gonna ask you and i've only had one person tell me
different uh pressure if you had to do it all over again tomorrow would you buy an rv
and start over again and do it again or would you go buy sticks and bricks and and go off the road
well i would definitely start over and yeah buy another rv sure what would you do differently um
well i think by keystone right oh yeah we were talking about this like yeah what rv is better
than another one and uh i think like the advice i hear and i kind of believe that a little bit
like is find your favorite floor plan and buy that and just know that every rv is gonna have
issues right because it's just like a car or a house right what what do you buy nowadays that
there's not something something's gonna happen right i think there are a few culprits that
are maybe worse than others uh but or by gently used which is what we did and for the previous
owner everybody generally lose it's already worked all the bugs already worked out right
worked out some kinks and i think i would get i might stick with grand design uh probably get
you know uh momentum with more storage we didn't pick the right model for storage we're just
we got like one little tiny little storage and it just has to do with the frame and driving but
if you've got more storage you'd have to give up something else something else it's a give-and-take
yeah i mean and actually smaller i mean i i don't like being over 40 feet see i want
to go bigger i want to go 50 55 feet i know you can't get them in campsites but right it's just
it's like you said storage and when you start running out of room and you start
stopping that means you need to carry less stuff yeah i know did you see what we picked
up today while we were kayaking and you're trying to tell me to pick up less stuff
did you find some treasures i did and they matched my camera that's why we got the
toy haulers we have 13 foot of stuff those are decorations that's what she calls them decorations
yeah but i mean i love the toy haulers and uh but in terms of we like to we're starting to boondock
more we've got you know kind of a mid-range solar setup now and which is a game changer i mean we
keep talking about solar and it seems so exciting we we love it i mean it completely changed
cherie's mind about boondocking or dry camping i bet and we've been able to stay up to
two weeks you know on one tank of water and you know not dump and i mean that has so that's that's
our next thing we've always been in campgrounds now we're doing harvest house so we're going to
different places and harvest hosting and and we're working our way into serious bandaging
so so sure i mean to me i love the campground don't get me wrong i love meeting everybody
it's all about the people in the places that you know people that we meet at the campgrounds but
the places you get to see when you're booned up oh man yes you get to see places and campgrounds but
we've been to some some some harvest hosts and some boondocking places that are just
you could not be there without an rv you just and you couldn't be there if you needed to be
plugged in you know it's just the things that we get to see now that you never get to see
just yeah i mean i think that is uh i mean this particular lifestyle especially now
um is is taken off even more rvs are being bought and sold and and because it's a safe way to travel
and you're always in your own bed and the things you can do and see right here in our own country
that just kind of blow you away we're getting ready actually our video tomorrow is
about this amazing harvest host location blew us away it's actually the most pampered we've ever
been wow of any rv parker campground but it's a harvest host so it was well whatever watch
yeah free after the purchase of you know we we spent a lot because the stuff was great but
yeah just i have started at harvest host because people say it's not really free if you've got to
buy something so i buy gifts for people that i would buy christmas or birthday gifts for anyway
and then they have a unique gift and i would have spent that money anyway right and so then really
it is free for me because i i mean but then you know you go to some place and it's like i want one
of these and i want one of these and i will and then then it's no longer free but you know yeah we
we've heard that too that uh you know they don't want to pay for the membership or whatever but a
membership 79 at the of the day wow i mean come on now yeah what is your house payment you know
it's just it's minimal and the places you can go and see and i think i i well i i always feel safer
at a harvest host than a cracker like a walmart or cracker yeah we have never done a walmart
we have never done a cracker barrel yet oh it's all been harvested and we just i don't know if i
i don't know if i'm ready for that yet oh yeah we just drive and then we're point a to point b
and there's a harvest house there i'm going to the hospital we're going to cause like at home there's
two walmarts within probably 15 minutes of my house one i wouldn't mind spending the
night in the parking lot one i would mind like i wouldn't stay there and somewhere on the road like
yeah i don't know you can read the reviews on it but that's donuts yeah it just makes me nervous
i'm going to avoid that at all have you done the boondockers welcome yet uh we have it's been a
while but yeah i love that program i know harvest hosts bought them out so i i guess i'm excited for
the changes or improvements if they're gonna roll them all together yeah different things yeah so
far i haven't heard they're gonna do that but uh no i think that's a membership that's worth having
definitely okay you guys do you like longer shorter how do you what what's your typical
length i'm trying to be sure i'm i'm i'm to the point where 14 days is enough for me because i
grew up my dad was an army so i'm an army brat so we moved every three years so i'm used to moving
a lot okay so we've been here 14 days now i'm ready to go he's ready to go i'm ready i could
see another seven or 14. we've done 21 but i'm starting to shake i'm ready to go that's what
this is all about visiting new places and seeing new things so right if i come here and i really
like it 14 days is enough and when i come back next year i know i don't want to do this this and
this and that again i've already done that i can start over again and find some other things but
my max is 14 maybe 21 days which is perfect for a thousand trails yes um but
i'm just that's what it's about it's travel it's about getting from point a to point b to see
something new and and he starts itching it it is so funny because we'll stay i'm like we're gonna
be here three weeks three weeks oh goody and after that two week mark after that two week mark like
he doesn't say anything but you can just tell he's like itching to but you know within two or three
weeks you've already done everything in a 15 25 30 mile radius so you've already done everything
around here so why not pick up and move another 100 miles down the road and start working your way
back a little bit and you get to see more and more and more things because you know we're not we're
not we're not going to stay young forever so let's get out and enjoy your life and enjoy what we're
going to do enjoy the journey stay there for two weeks and do everything i can in two weeks i've
done everything i can possibly think i need to do there and i'm ready to go somewhere else i don't
want to drive the 12 13 14 hours from point a to point b which we've done many many times i want to
drive my 200 miles or whatever it is and just draw my circle find something to do two weeks i found
it off go to the next place so how far do you all like to travel in like a day like what's uh oh
happy spot for y'all i would say 200 250 you know not very we're not early risers and take our time
with coffee usually get a little bit of work done so we don't like those 10 or 11 o'clock checkouts
we like noon you know one o'clock checkouts and if we can travel four or five hours a day gets
you know stop and park before it gets dark because nobody wants to park in the dark
so that's what we're playing cause i get up at five or six every morning so
six o'clock i'm going okay let's go but we can all agree that we don't want to park in the dark
we'll drink our coffee and we'll talk about our next stop and where we're going then
we use rv trip wizards so we know exactly how long we're going to go where we're going to go
uh so we'll put it all in the system and say okay it's going to be four hours get to where
we're going check in is at 12. i don't need to be there exactly at 12. especially if you're
not you're going to orlando that's another yeah go to orlando get that but all right
so yeah we do we try to do our three and four hours but i'm just i'm ready to go when we get up
in the morning especially after i've been here for two weeks i'm ready to get to that next spot so
it's like get up wake up wake up wake up let's go and i'm thinking can i just have 20 more minutes
please just let me sleep 20. 20 more minutes turns into three more hours he says i'll make the coffee
right and we are really trying to slow down where like two weeks is we're trying to make our minimum
and three weeks be like the ideal if we can uh staying within thousand trails right now
just being in florida there's enough of them around right you can do the florida
shuffle yeah we're gonna like uh try to save money by just doing the park hopping and but
we're burned out from the summer racing camping season where you hit a couple nights somewhere
on to the next one and just it's a lot to for for it's a lot of work i mean the whole camping thing
people don't realize it is a lot of work to live in an rv because you have to yeah when you when
you go home at work after a day of work and you go home you stick some bricks you go home you
make it dinner you take a shower and you go to bed well now we do that too but we're also going to
think about where we're going to be in 21 21 days can we get a spot in 21 days where we want to go
no that's all booked up because everybody's camping now we got to try to figure out okay so
i've got to drive 25 more miles to get to another camp spot so because it's florida in the winter
but there is some things to think about drawbacks there's other things there are drawbacks but in
my opinion anyway at the end of the day the advantages far outweigh the drawbacks like
i would do it again tomorrow in a month yeah definitely and i i think uh but there is there's
not one way to do it i mean you can be full-time some people hang on to their sticks and bricks
we still understand we spent roughly 23 days there this year so okay but we have it um right yeah so
and i think you can have somewhere where where it's just the one fraction like you guys stay
to you know one month in your rv 11 months in your home i mean i'm not doing it
it can be those days are over until i get too old to start falling hit the road as much as we can
yeah awesome all right well we appreciate the time that you've given us um i know you guys are busy
um but this this is like the journey for you is is the same thing for us same journey the people
in the places that we get to see so um thanks for giving us a future yeah thanks for having me on
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