We have Vinny listed. (laughing) not yet. filling up more and saving. our
wants and needs a little better. i wish we would have done it
a lot earlier. and nervousness goes away. i know one thing we would of...
would have changed. little worries that we don't have anymore. well, with that
being said. noticed a big difference. holy cow, I didn't
know that was our next goal! Here we go, we've got a humdinger of a
video for you today. We decided to take a break from all the
hiking and the traveling, traveling videos and we've had
a lot of questions lately and Michelle spent some time
on that, putting these questions together and uh
we're gonna try to answer them for you. So the top number one question i think
lately has been is there any update on a new rv?
oh is there? no,
not yet! covid hasn't been helping either. no!
um, we still we have Vinny listed. Actually you renewed a listing right
just the other day? yeah we'd like to sell Vinny first. uh huh. it's
a little bit harder to sell... like if you have a motor
home... and you want to trade it in if you go to
a place that doesn't really...umm, if you're not trading it in for
another motorhome, a place that doesn't specialize
in motorhomes... you're not going to get as much. they
usually wholesale that trade-in that you give them,
basically give them. And um, you don't get as much.
And we've been of course you know we've been looking at Airstreams a lot
and that's just what we feel that's going to fit our wants and needs a
little better. That being said, that's why we're trying
to sell Vinny first. Vinny is a very good RV, very good class
a... i love it. another thing the airstream that we want we'd like to
find used because they're way too expensive new,
especially right now with the big boom going on,
everybody buying RVs so that's where we're at with that.
so yeah really no update. um... we've got our list over here. yeah i'm
looking over here. uh so one of the other questions that
we've had come up a few times is do we visit with other rvers
in the campgrounds that we stay at? As much as we can! yeah! haha
um it's really hard for us to do during the week because
as you all know or most of you know we work during the week, we're inside
this rv all through the day i have a 40 hour a
week job so i have to work eight hours scheduled
monday through friday Brian is also working during that time and then
obviously sometimes into the evenings it depends on how the editing is going with
the videos and all the social media i try to help with the social media as
much as i can after my job, so really we have the
evenings. We like to go out for walks so if we run
into other rvers and strike up a conversation, of
course that's how we meet people a lot of times
on the weekends that's when we're going to be out
and about adventuring and shooting video and stuff so
we're not really in the campgrounds very much on the weekends. Right.
yeah so that's the part that makes it hard for us and it's hard for us to sit
in here and watching everybody else outside you know
while we're conversing and then we do come out and they look at us there's
those hermits yeah the vampire people that only come out at
night and covet has kind of made it even a
little harder that covid thing it's still kind of a
hinder to that but we do love to meet people we have met
several people along our journeys and kept in contact with several people some
wonderful friends in fact we just got a text
from a couple of uh friends that we met oh when was that
that was at orlando a thousand trails and then in
the keys like ran into them there too and then we went out
um to a restaurant outside last night with another couple that we
have met just recently in arizona so love meeting people when we can yeah
the community is one of the biggest things that we really love
about this lifestyle yeah but let's get back to the questions questions
has coven made it harder for us to get reservations at campgrounds
not at all we haven't seen that yet no i i want to say like
maybe only in the very beginning when covid first started
excuse me and um things were really shutting down and we had to shelter in
place remember we how did that that didn't hinder any
resonance no but i mean things were things were shut down so
nobody was really traveling i want to say those very first few months like
march the question was has it made it harder to get
reservations at campgrounds not now no i haven't i usually do all the all the
reservations and i haven't had any
difficulties with that in fact we always make our reservations as far in advance
as we can so that something is in place so that we
have something so that we know we have a backup plan
if we want to change our mind and we've done this numerous times we've
we've had reservations way up because we can do 120 days in advance 1000 travels
60 days with encore so we do them as far as we can
and then that was like arizona we decided to get out of the heat and come
up here couldn't take it longer in the mountains
so we changed those reservations and got right in we have not seen anything
that has hindered our reservations so far
for us have our expenses increase or decrease so far
this year i have not been keeping on top of that have you
you know last year we did keep track of all our expenses and then earl
um what was it just this past january we released our
spreadsheet with all our expenses for that first year we do still plan to do
that again after this year we'll get everything all
tallied up and if you haven't seen that video you need
to check that out we share all of our expenses for a full one year
and um great spreadsheet so we'll do that
again so far this year i want to say at the
very beginning we traveled less and we ate out less
again because of covet so the year started out
very much less expenses than the prior year
um but as now we're into this is september beginning of september
um we've kind of really ramped up traveling again but
our fuel costs are less because we're still in the place no oh
yeah but the tsd card yeah the tsd card that's saved a lot we
so when we left i think we shared that in our last week's video where
we filled up one time and at a ta petrol and it saved us over it was over
forty dollars on that one fill up so that as you can see can really add up
um loves switched over to where theirs is just
16 cents is all you saved across the board
you have to look at their spreadsheets and kind of
plan your trip and plan where you're going to stop look at how much fuel you
have make sure you're going to have enough
to get there i always try to use up as much fuel as i can to get to the very
best discount as i can on the way on the
route and this time we found that ta petro had
the best deal and we ended up finding one
got there with plenty of fuel left and uh that way you're
filling up more and saving more money yep
yeah we're thankful for that i wish we would have done it a lot earlier
yes it would have it would have saved us all that very first year but um and then
also um we you know like i said we didn't eat
out or do any kind of entertainment in the first part of this year but um
we kind of have started to eat out a little more again
yes excuse me while i suck this in yeah um again just trying to
be cautious you know a lot of places we can only
sit outside or take out but it hasn't stopped us for
ordering food and going there that's the hardest part about this
yeah is when you go to a new place especially palm springs michelle's
sherman's deli you think they paid us for mentioning
their names so much
no they don't no then they don't but maybe they should but that's that's hard
yeah and you're always wanting to try new new places
these little hole in the wall places that as always yes
and ty says we like those more so than we do the chain
places right the chains come in handy if in a rush haven't planned for a day
and we're still out doing something that's like oh let's
stop it here and get a burger or something
yeah i do love you know cooking out using the grill that's something about
camping campgrounds this is our you know full-time lifestyle we don't really
consider it camping anymore but
love to cook out love to use our blackstone grill
it kind of depends on where we've been lately because in arizona where
it was getting pretty hot there it was too hot to grill
even in this early evening at least at the site we were at because we didn't
really have any shade right enjoyed the heat for a while
because basically because it was a dry heat and we're used to
iowa where it's just like a swamp when you walk outside
it doesn't even have to be 110 and you're feeling horrible
next question is there anything that we would have
changed in the beginning that we now know
gosh well kind of uh this was part of my my vision is to have
a class a i just love the class a's but there's
also that part of me that wishes we would have started from the
beginning with what we found out that would work best for us
with our wants and needs but regrets no no because i feel that
fulfilled that dream that's kind of like trying to decide whether you should go
full time rving and some people are you know you're afraid
everybody's afraid to do it yeah in the beginning of course
but if you don't do it you're always going to have that regret of what if
if it's your dream or your vision to do that
then yes absolutely you should otherwise you're going to live life regretting
you're going to blame i mean all these things come into play
whatever it is your vision or your dream is just do it go
for it because if it doesn't work out you can
always go back i know one thing we would would have
changed what's that so we've mentioned in the past um the
reason we had to tow our car is because we had just bought
the car six months prior to us deciding to
living full time in an rv so we didn't want to trade
the car in and take a hit right i mean we'd only had it six months
we had to purchase the dolly because it can't be towed four down
four wheels down we would have probably taken the hit and traded it in
um because anything to not have to deal with that dolly would have
helped hence is the reason we got rid of our problem child dilly-dally
but um so that we would have changed that sound is so bad
it is what it is can you move on nobody has hindsight two years into this this
coming thanksgiving that is the day
thanksgiving of 2018 is the day we left our sticks and bricks can't
believe it when i first started mentioning this
lifestyle to michelle she had absolutely zero
interest whatsoever and we haven't talked about this yet but
i'll just ask you right now in front of everybody
i've noticed a lot of increasingly uh excitability throughout the time like
you're i can see that you're enjoying this more
and more and more it could be because she can go sit in
comfortable clothes and work and not have to put her high heels on it yeah
that is part of it so that is true um i want to say you know starting out
we were nervous as anybody would be so as you get used
to things and the way you're living and
um you just i don't know those worries kind of go away and
nervousness goes away everything becomes normal yeah
exactly and then it's like looking forward to the next destination and
where are we going to go that we've never
been before and right so everything in life is what you get used to
right everything that you get used to it becomes normal yeah
they say it takes what two two or three weeks before something becomes
a habit i think it took michelle a little longer
it took me a little longer um but um the crazy thing
is i feel i adapted so we both actually adapted very quickly to living in a
smaller space than a house that had nothing to do with which i'm
very surprised for both of us yeah that was not hard at
all so that part we adapted very quickly to
i want to say like you know just the whole travel day
nervousness and stuff like that that that hasn't gone away from not really
no um that just you know is always kind of a nervous thing you always want
things to go smooth um we still worry about
are the slides going to go in and out okay are the jacks going to go up and
down okay you know or are we going to have any
issues with the rig so you know you still have those kind of
worries yeah there's there's little worries that we
don't have anymore that you don't even think about
when you start this lifestyle like when depending on where you live
we lived in iowa we had really bad weather in the winter
yes and we would have to commute for work i
i drove a lot for work so i always had to drive
in that weather long distances a lot of time
continuously we avoid that weather now yeah we take our home
to we try to chase 70 degree weather that didn't work so well in arizona but
but the prior year we did that and we went up the oregon coast
and we were finding weather pretty chilly yeah
it gets pretty chilly along the coast in oregon and washington
because of that wind that comes in mainly but
um but yeah noticed a big difference in michelle
and how she's enjoying it i just i love to see
her excitement yeah nature and the new places that we go the pie
which i need to stop or or brian will be rolling me down the road instead of me
following him in the car well with that being said i think that's
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