We're talking with Shawn here we've met here recently at the current resort
We're staying at it's interesting listening to some of the stories from everybody and why they went full time RV
Since we came to
California and came up to the coast to the San Francisco Bear and they don't yeah a lot of stories
We noticed have changed why they went full-time RV. I've been full-time are being for a few weeks now and
Everything's going pretty smoothly. There are some cons and a lot of pros I can tell you
I'm a lot more relaxed with this lifestyle. I come to the park. I can go swimming
There's basketball courts. There's pool tables. You're kind of living, you know and living working day to day life stuff
But you're still partly on vacation too, which is really nice with our tour. Outlaw 37 RB
We're planning a lot more vacations as well. We're gonna be doing a big vacation up to Colorado and Utah and the brass bed
So it's gonna be a nice trick. I was just you know, regular nine-to-five job in Silicon Valley and
Had a nice home
And so just living the regular life but
Silicon Valley is getting so crowded a few years back. I started
Really wanting to get out and I wanted them be more in the country have some acres
Have some dirt bikes and just be able to go on my dirt bikes and go out riding
Silicon Valley lifestyle and what I call the rat race just really wasn't working for me and during that process
Unfortunately, I'm going through a divorce - so we've sold the house and then me and my ex-wife were splitting up the proceeds
Of the house and I took some of the proceeds from the house and bought this RV
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So, yeah, I bought the RV and
Bucks and dirt bikes I go on it
so now I have dirt bikes and we do build dirt bike riding often and
I still have a little bit of money in the bank. We bought this house
it's
1,650 square feet in San Jose. It's in a neighborhood called Willow Glen. Good bye for
560,000 in
2009 March 2009 exactly 10 years later we sold in April from 1.3 million
It's insane insane now along with that
Appreciation the rents have gone sky-high
so that 16-under square-foot helps we could have been renting it out for
4500 easily a month Wow. Yeah to be honest to do
You know, I'm I work for a small parks department and in the harbor so pretty much a blue-collar worker
I'm not making two three four hundred thousand a year like some of the engineers in Silicon Valley, you know
It's another reason why I want to exit Silicon Valley, you know, it's not just housing prices
registrations expensive
Electric expensive waters expensive sewers expensive and you can just go down the list
Gables expensive food is much less. It doesn't matter if you make a lot of money in Silicon Valley
You're still almost living paycheck-to-paycheck
Personally, I didn't want that lifestyle or so
one of the changes that I've personally made is to do the RV lifestyle because oh
We're all once you actually have your unit
It is it is a less expensive lifestyle and you get a lot more enjoyment and freedom
Yeah
Because hey, you can really pick up and go and be in another state in your home and if the market crashes again
You're not stuck in that home or in a pressure situation where you can't go anywhere exactly I weighed
and cons pretty heavily and
Crunch some numbers and thought about the because I bought this brand new and thought about the depreciation
over two years plus
space rent which I'm doing the Thousand Trails membership and it's working out pretty good, but the depreciation
Is still less than what I would be paying for an apartment as housing
yeah the cost way out to you know, you know this human it's a pretty nice unit and it's
Probably much limits working great your something like it. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yeah
Have you talked to me regret many families with the kids and yeah, a lot of people you get
That haven't done this before I think oh, you know your kids don't have any live out there
They don't need all these other kids but what we found we keep meeting all these other full-time families. We found complete opposite
yeah, we homeschool my son and then
Actually just a couple spaces over we met a family the other day that has three dogs
Two kids and they're staying in the fifth wheel when I was talking to them
they stayed in this park for about two weeks and
Then they just took off to Yosemite for a week and stayed up there for a week and then they came back to this park
They also homeschooler kids
But I can tell you as a homeschooling father
There's nothing better than to spend time with your children, yeah and one-on-one time of
Educating your child is huge. It's huge. It beats a teacher
Trying to educate 30 children on the spectrum curve
It gets good one-on-one education and as many of you know being on the road
There's a lot of Education on the road. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
I know a lot of people think when your kids are home-schooled
There's that myth out there that they don't have any interaction with other kids. No, that's completely untrue
Oh, here's my son right here. And this is our dog. Woody. He's in a cottage bulldog
Yeah, Eric, how is it the socialization of school do you feel you have more
socialization
Fool when you were in school or now in your home school was it with anybody just in general?
Yeah more socialization home school. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, cool. Well, thank you for that. Yeah. Thanks Sam the gamer stud
Like I said a few weeks, but I'm the joiner like, okay
Yeah, we did too approaching seven months now coming up. Okay?
Doesn't sound like long but you do learn a lot in the short amount of time, don't you? Yes. Yes
And there are downsides, you know
It's kind of like
Exactly, you talk to any millionaire a billionaire. There's downsides about hugging millions and billions of dollars. You know, right?
Yeah
look at all the celebrities and pro football players that get a lot of money and
Can't manage it and then they're broken ten years, you know money doesn't hurt a problem. Exactly unless it's called it
yeah, yeah for me it was living in Silicon Valley was kind of like stop chasing the money dream and then you know
I'm 48 now and then you know, I think a
lot of people
Get to a point where they start realizing that living life is more important than living to gain money
And I've even heard a quote
and said
Americans are crazy because they worked their whole life's to get a lot of money and then the last
part of their life stick spend all that money on their health
I didn't want to be one of those people
you know, I really don't even think about it until you hear it for the first time that statement and you're like
That's true. Yeah. Yeah exactly. But let me ask you this. Yeah, let's say you have that same job
You look somewhere else that had a lot less cost of living
Yeah, would you want to be back in that position? No, it's not
So the other thing I'm trying to transition into is is leave the day-to-day work
So I'm a health coach and what I do is really help people get on track with their health
So I'm not a nutritionist. I understand nutrition. I'm not a nurse or a doctor. I can't prescribe anything
which
Prescriptions I would really give liter vegetables
yeah and exercise more and then
You know start cutting up wheat and GMOs and you know, start eating healthy and even organic
but yeah, that's really what I do is just help people get on track some people lose weight and
Start feeling good about themselves. Again. That's awesome for me at the same time
When I started thinking about RVs and could I do this or anything and really watching a lot of YouTube channels?
on on RVs and full-time our beers and and
but at that same time I realized that this lifestyle is gonna be hard while working a full-time job, you know and
Yeah, you can buy a unit go full-time
Live at a local park and save a ton of money
but
Working 9:00 to 5:00 the regular job. It's gonna be hard to travel around, you know, unless you
really figure out a way to
change and
One of those changes for me is doing what we love to do. Well, I think when you start doing what you love to do
Versus working for the money. Mm-hmm. The money will come and if it's not a lot of money just make adjustments in your life
You'll see for us
It was a little different though, because our cost of living that lifestyle are pretty much about the same as they are now. Oh
Okay, but wouldn't go back to that if that's how we feel right now because we're really I'm doing it. Yeah, you're getting
This seems like you're cheating life a little bit. You're getting a little bit more life. Yeah. Yeah by doing this. Yeah
The best way I can describe it. Yeah, because you are working on the road and on vacation at the same time, right?
yeah when you
Work a regular job and you come home
It's like you got a movie yard and then you know, you know
There's there's repair as an RV and stuff and gotta clean the RV everyone's long
But you don't have that the same commitment and then for me personally
The last few months I was in my house before I sold it. I was kind of coming to couch potato
Yeah, that's exactly what I was getting right said. Yeah now it's it's more of an active lifestyle
You have a nice arguing, but when it's nice outside or I mean you want to go to the for you know?
You want to go take a walk or you know?
Walk the dog with so many people and families around here outside all the time. Yeah, let's just do it. Yeah
Like when we lived in, you know home back back in Iowa, we we didn't do much during the week
We would work all day and then in evening, we were that a couch potato
Yeah, you know had shows that we watched now, we hardly watch any shows on TV which you know
You kind of miss some of those shows, but it's kind of good, too
Because now you know, I always said we work during the week and then our weekends are for you know
Go and enjoy ourselves at the new location rat
I was trying to see everything but a lot of times I have to work really late at night, too
But we can you know
Eat supper and we can go and take off and go somewhere for an hour or two and still enjoy the area
Yeah, and then come back and work if I have to thank you or with the restaurants
Yeah, you just take a two hour drive up to Napa. That's enough of California
It's ready. All right, four hour drive to Yosemite. Yeah exactly right there
What you just said is one of the benefits working from home, but your home is on the road for me right now. I
see very little
Collins compared you'll approach I'm excited to to keep going. Yeah. I haven't seen one family
That seemed like they were just down in the dumps
everybody has things that that's just it at the community and the our review world is just
Amazing. Everybody's always there to help each other everybody so friendly
Yeah, yeah, that's where does that board? Yeah, exactly
But then when you're inside your your RV, you still have your privacy and you know, you don't
You know, you know what I don't miss having a home is all the people coming knocking at my door
Selling candy selling mad subscriptions selling trying to sell my solar
Haven't had that I would have had three sell your soul. Yeah a solar
So, yeah, I don't have that anymore, yes, you know, that's just you can think of a lot of different things
It just goes to shove your life's not perfect. No matter what you do where you're at. Where you go? Yeah, exactly
Yeah, but from done close. Yeah
Alright, so what I ask hey, thank you. And that right there is what makes this lifestyle even more rewarding
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