so my husband Lloyd and I have now been living in our RV full time for one month so today we want to
share seven things we wish we knew before moving into our RV full-time as complete newbies [Music]
okay so the first one is kind of embarrassing actually a lot of these we feel like we probably
should have known or should have done more research on but we sort of bought this RV
pretty quickly we didn't have a lot of planning beforehand we kind of just jumped right in and
figured everything out on the go after we bought it so the first one is that you can't
always trust the RV water to drink and a lot of people probably know this who are
watching this and shaking their heads uh we didn't know we thought potable water was just
potable water and if it's coming out of a tap in Canada it must be good quality Water right
that's what I thought I did have like a flashback just recently like after we had drank the water
out of the RV and we started not feeling well that I was never allowed to as a kid and now I know why
so everyone using the wrong house no wouldn't recommend it so just keep that in mind
um you can get a filter for your water I do believe but we just got big five gallon water
bottles and they've been doing the trick just like we did in Mexico and all over southeast Asia so
we've just stuck to that yeah so there could be a number of things that are wrong with the water it
could be your tanks that haven't been cleaned in a long time maybe there was water sitting
in there for a long period of time or it could be the lines that you're using to fill up the
water or it could be the water that you're getting from the gas station or the RV park you just don't
know where that water's coming from so to play it safe we've started using bottled water we get the
big five gallon bottles and we refill them for like two dollars is it yeah and it's not it's
not a problem it's really easy but we learned the lesson the hard way we both got pretty sick the
first week yeah don't make the same mistake as us make fun of us in the comments also
uh so number six is moisture control so I have mentioned this in a couple videos but
it's definitely something that was a bit more of a challenge than I thought it would be because
we were on the west coast in Spring it was very very rainy it was very hard to keep the
moisture controlled inside of the RV while you're cooking or running the heat it just was creating a
lot of moisture in here and I was wiping down the windows like up to seven times a day I did manage
to find a few things from Canadian Tire that were really helpful you can watch a couple of our other
Vlogs if you're interested in seeing us how we managed to handle that we did find this really
handy little thing uh it's just meant to help with controlling how much moist excess moisture
is in the RV it doesn't have to be plugged in or anything found it from Canadian Tire it's about 30
for all the crystals and everything that goes into it it's been um it's really awesome actually so
it's basically like an air filter as the air comes in through the top um it gets filtered through
these little crystals you call them and then uh it fills up with water down below and it actually
works yeah we didn't think it would work but since we got it we haven't really had any moisture on
the windows or anything and the reason we want to avoid moisture is obviously because we don't want
mold in here yeah number one that'll make us sick again we don't want to get sick but also it'll
ruin the Caravan like once we start getting mold we're gonna have to re-seal everything
probably give it a really deep clean and if mold goes too far you can't really reverse it
number five and I probably should have known this I just didn't really think about it too
much is that it kind of sucks in the rain all of a sudden the RV feels really small
when you're trapped in the rain and you can't really go outside I mean you can
still go outside if you've got like rain gear and an umbrella but it's not very fun and it
gets mud everywhere and it just makes you kind of really hate RV it's okay for a night or two
or like a day or two but it does actually really drag on if it's any more than that
and we got stuck probably our first 10 days almost in the RV with just really heavy cold
rain yeah it was a bit it really pushed us a little bit right at the beginning yeah we
we decided pretty quickly that we don't want to really hang around in the rain but that's
the beauty of having an RV you can go anywhere you want so we just headed Inland where it's a
little bit drier and it's made it a completely different experience being out of the rain
so number four would be about finding places to sleep or Park the RV is a little bit more
challenging than we thought it would be we knew we were giving up uh stealth camping
a little bit with getting an RV over say like a discrete camper van like a sprinter or something
but we wanted something that felt more like a home and had everything that we needed that we
could actually hang out and like work in here and there'd be enough space for us to do it long term
so we kind of sacrificed it that stealth side so it's a little bit harder for us to find a park
but so far we've had pretty good luck yeah I mean I kind of pictured just being able to pull over
anywhere and sleep the night but once you're actually doing it you realize how obvious it
is and you just don't really get a good sleep when you know someone's going to come and knock on your
door at any moment we have uh managed to find a few good places but you really have to do your
digging around there's apps like eye Overlander that do help a little bit but we actually weren't
that happy with the app completely because a lot of times it would tell us there was a campsite or
water available or propane and there just wasn't or it was closed or it hadn't been updated in
years I think because of covert it might be a little out of date maybe just for like where
we've been in Canada the area that we've been in but yeah all the destinations that we've tried
going to on eye Overlander hasn't really worked out as well as it being winter and down season
at the moment a lot of the Taps and things that we've tried to find have all been shut off which I
we didn't know that they shut off TAPS in Winter yeah and having said like having said all that
some of these vans that are apparently stealth when you've got like all your solar panels on
the top and you've got curtains at the front that are sharp it's pretty obvious everyone knows what
you're doing yeah I don't think it's really too much difference no we we find ourselves
usually parked by those type of vehicles and we seem to get away with the same places so yeah
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so number three you can't always find water we made the mistake of not filling up our water
tanks before we left the city thinking it would be super easy to just pull into any gas station
and fill up with water not the case we found like three gas stations in a row here in BC just had
their Taps turned off and when we asked them about the water they said sorry they don't have any
so we spent like a whole morning just driving around looking for water because we needed water
to like do our dishes and use our toilet and things like that and we didn't want to just use
all of our drinking water for all that stuff and again some of the apps that will show you where
there is water available not always the case we showed up to a Provincial Park the other day to
try and fill up our water when we realized it was just a little tap in the middle of the park
that we couldn't even get outside yeah there's a lot of messing information hopefully we'll start
updating when we go to somewhere and hopefully other people will start doing the same yeah so
the lesson for us is that we're always going to now fill up our water whenever we get the
chance because we don't know for sure that we're going to find it at the next spot yeah
so number two is about emptying our gray and black water tanks
um it's a lot easier and not as daunting as we thought it was going to be we were really nervous
about it because I feel like everyone's a bit weird about it even other like other YouTubers
and stuff everyone's all like weird about the toilet well a lot of people have told us not to
use the toilet and we thought it was going to be disgusting changing it but I can tell you now like
it's not at all you just connect a couple of hoses up you don't touch anything you don't like smell
anything it actually looks like water and that's because we put a product in called TMT I think
it is it's that blue uh very strong potent blue liquid that you put down the toilet and it pretty
much disintegrates everything and just turns it all into water we have no problems changing our
emptying our gray and black water tanks now no if that's something that maybe you'd be like oh I
wouldn't want to live in an RV because of that I'd be worried about the bathroom situation I think a
lot of people make it a bit more awful than it is and the whole reason we bought an RV instead of a
van was so that we could have things like a toilet and a running shower and a sink yeah definitely
okay so number one this is going to be super obvious to everybody and it's probably something
we wish we did when we bought this RV but take somebody with you who knows a little bit more
about RVs if you're a newbie because we didn't really know what questions to ask or anything
and I'm sure the owners ran through everything with us and told us but we forgot a lot of it
one of the main things was when we realized that we couldn't use any of our power outlets unless
we're plugged in because we don't have a solar or a generator just yet we're going to install one
uh but that was pretty annoying the first couple of nights when we realized we can't use anything
in this RV unless we're plugged in luckily we made some little wiring adjustments and now we can
charge USBS um while we're not plugged in which helps us to charge our computers and our phones
uh this camera pretty much everything we use yeah yeah there's just so much information to take
on complete newbie like we are and you're just learning everything sort of as you go a lot of
stuff sort of like you forget like just flies past but taking somebody that's been around RVs before
we were really grateful to have Lloyd's stepdad that helped us with a lot of like repairs and
um fixing our fridge that type of thing but it would have been really nice to have him with us to
sort of explain what we can and can't do with the RV but um if you don't have somebody to go with
you watch a lot of YouTube videos before as well it's just one of those things if you don't know
you don't know yeah and uh we'd never done any rving in our lives so we're learning as we go but
uh we're getting everything sorted we're learning heaps yeah and just to end on a positive note we
don't want to sound like we're complaining a bunch about rving we absolutely love this lifestyle it's
really suited us so far there are challenges obviously with any type of Lifestyle but we're
really happy and we love having our house with us everywhere we go it's like a luxury that
we've didn't know we were craving yeah I'm not gonna lie the first two weeks we're a bit tough
mainly because it was raining and we didn't know what we were doing we kept running into little
problems like with our plumbing uh the fridge the power as we mentioned just little things that we
didn't really know were going to come up but we've overcome all of those and it's been what a month
now yeah about a month and we feel like we've really settled into it and we get to change places
we go like every few days and it's really cool having like everything come with you you don't
need to think about packing anything and because you're in we're in a motorhome like we don't have
to set up or tear everything down when we leave we just put things in the cupboards and then we
drive off yeah it's so good yeah if there's too much pack up I don't think we would like it as
much so that but that's just us um but we have dropped this camera twice already yeah we left it
off we forget to put things put things away before you drive too which is so obvious but you always
forget at the beginning uh we hope you guys have found this video helpful in some way if you have
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