In today's video, we're going to tour Rachael's fully renovated
2007 keystone mountaineer.
good morning i'm rachel i am 38 years old i grew up originally in western
kentucky and i full time in my 2007 keystone
mountaineer you may have seen the inside it was renovated by
a really good friend of mine renee from wisco flip it was featured in rootless
living magazine in the september october issue
i purchased it from her back in june and knew that this was the place i
wanted to live unfortunately the outside hadn't been renovated
so that's a project that i took on a lot harder project than i thought it was
going to be originally it had all the original
stickers or what was left of them and the adhesive luckily my
brother-in-law my sister and my nieces chris tara amy micah all helped me this
summer and we really did a lot of work to this thing so we
stripped all the stickers we cleaned all the residue
and took out all the old caulking all over the whole rv
and then we painted everything just simple nice and bright and clean i kind
of wanted it to look like a house and went around and re-cocked
everything after that so after days on ladders and tons of caulking we finally
got this whole thing resealed when you know how important that is in an rv
don't want water getting in but now i finally feel like it
looks really cute and kind of lives up to what the inside looks like which is
absolutely gorgeous one of the reasons i love the fifth
wheel is it does have a lot of storage and i was transitioning from a
house and i knew i couldn't give up everything just yet and so now
let's go check out the inside of the rv which is my favorite part
so welcome to my kitchen it's definitely my favorite room in the whole rv because
i love to cook as i mentioned i didn't renovate the rv
myself but my friends at wisco flip did an amazing job i couldn't have
picked better furnishings or better paint colors or
anything they have everything exactly the way i wanted it so for me it all
starts in the morning with the espresso machine
have to have that to get started my propane stove which is awesome i can
cook anything on it even my regular pots and pans that i brought from home
one of the things that i absolutely adore is this deep farmhouse sink
there's tons of room for dishes and prep work in here
and then you have a dometic fridge now i was super excited because it's not as
small as some rv fridges and which wasn't gonna work for
me because i love to cook not as big as home but it's the perfect
size really for me traveling by myself so
that works out great for me and this is like one of my favorite spots too i
sit here and work the table can be turned sideways if i have guests we can
fit on both sides or i usually leave it this
way to work i sit here and work i sit here and eat
and just take in the view wherever i'm at and watch my neighbors
so let's take a look at the living room welcome to my living room this is my
cozy little space i love to hang out in as you can see i have this awesome
little sectional sofa behind me one of the things i love about it though is it
does fold out into a full-size bed i have a 19 year old daughter that's
away at college so when she comes her mom to cook dinner she can crash on this
afterwards and i can have guests stay here too
my absolute favorite thing in the living room is this fireplace i mean how many
rvs do you see that has a fireplace i mean it's beautiful but it also puts out
heat so to set in here at night on the couch with my feet up
in a book in the fireplace the ambiance is just amazing and i adore it
another feature of this rv that i absolutely love that definitely gives it
that farmhouse vibe that is just so awesome
are the faux beams on the ceiling i mean obviously they're not real it's an
rv we can't tell that much weight but they're so gorgeous and they just give
it such a comfy cozy feeling especially at night
um over here it's just an awesome little space i have another
chair for guests so we can conversate and then
i have a ton of storage under here you know i have so much storage for shoes
it's ridiculous these are pretty much all full of shoes
let's just be honest so all that all that kind of stuff just goes there
so all right let's head up to the bathroom
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welcome to my bathroom i love this tiny little space
a little tiny has a nice huge shower actually a little tub in the bottom i
mean i can get in there take a bath if i really want to
um i love the skylight in there all the sun coming down on you
it keeps you from getting too cold and we all know that you know you don't have
much warm water in these little tanks and rvs
there's obviously a toilet my favorite part is the vanity
isn't this gorgeous the sink the bright lighting
we have led lights everywhere everything's just
so bright in here um so that's the bathroom
take a look at my bedroom though it's just such a cozy little spot right up
here in the front of the rv i love the fact that we were able to fit
a full-size queen mattress in here i mean i have all the room to sprawl out
and you guys do you see the storage space
i have like a full-size cabinet here and this closet
get over here this closet look how deep that is like a girl's got to keep all
her clothes i was able to and this harvey
it's pretty amazing to get in here at night and just get cozy
have my little twinkle lights and just relax and my absolute favorite feature
of this bedroom is this barn door
isn't it amazing you guys so that's my rv
so i heard you have some questions so we're gonna head down the living room
and get those answered for you what made you decide
to live full time in an rv well unfortunately i
lost my husband to cancer two and a half years ago
up until then i'd never considered living a nomadic lifestyle
did travel a lot and camp a lot after i lost him
i really lost the feeling of home i moved from michigan
to utah to washington and never really found a place that
i felt like i could put my roots down and i wanted to come home to every night
then when my daughter went to leave to go to college i couldn't talk her
into staying in the west to go to college she had to
come to tennessee and so then i knew that the traveling life in some way was
going to be what worked best for me so i could work
on the road and i could travel and i didn't have to go back to a home that i
was paying a mortgage on how do you fund your full-time rv
lifestyle so i work remotely as a social media manager and i also do
marketing for some small businesses and i sold my house i sold everything i
owned to be able to live this lifestyle as well
a lot of my female viewers are concerned about
safety how have you dealt with the safety issue
as a full-time solo female traveler you know i haven't
had really any issues i've had a couple like creepy times but
i found you just follow your gut if something doesn't
feel right go with it and get out of that situation or get away from those
people but i've honestly had a great experience
everyone's been super nice and super helpful
you wouldn't believe like all the people that try to just help you out
and want to talk to you it's been it's been great what kind of campgrounds
do you stay at well i've only been on the road three months
so part of that time so far has been spent
mooch docking at my sister's or other family members houses my nephew
thank you chris and um some koas
and a state park campgrounds if you could change
one thing about your rv what would that be it would have solar
and that's something that i'm hoping to install soon
after the renovation this year i just wasn't ready to dive into another
project just yet but solar's next on my list because i want to be able to go to
all these awesome places like kevin goes what size are your
fresh water gray water and black water tanks in your rig
that's something that i love about this rig
i have about 70 gallons of fresh water so that lasts
quite a while i have almost 70 gallons of gray water storage as well
and about 40 gallons of black water so i can be on the road for i can
live in this rig for a couple weeks fine without having to empty any tanks so
that's really awesome if you could give one piece of advice to
someone that's considering this lifestyle
but it's a little apprehensive what piece of advice would you give
it's gonna sound so corny but just follow what you feel like is gonna make
you happy don't let anyone talk you out of it or
talk you down from it you can really achieve anything you want
i knew nothing about rving about camping about driving a big truck
about hauling anything before i bought this rv
and i was just determined that this is what i wanted to do and this is how i
wanted to live and when you have that passion you can
learn and you can make it work so don't let anything hold you back
just follow your gut and get out there all right that was awesome
thank you so much rachel for letting us in your home
and opening up to us and sharing your story it was really great if you enjoyed
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and i hope the wrong one slip right through your magic fingers
and i hope we find some way to fall in love like we were
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