well it's official guys we've been full-time are being for 30 days and of
course we've made before really big RV newbie mistakes that we're gonna share
with you and number four gave both of us more brain damage and frustration than
anything else but we did find a solution so watch to the end I'm John I'm
Mercedes and we are the RV Odd Couple yes we are long story short we sold all
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video we've compiled a list of 4 things newbie mistakes that we've made in the
first 30 days so the first one was why don't you do this one honey okay and you
know it was such a roller coaster getting everything ready we lived in the
RV for 4 months but we still had a sticks and bricks and the minute we
crossed the line of full-time knows more sticks and bricks I thought that we had
already sufficiently practiced but something had happened that let me just
put it this way if you don't ask yourself at least once in this journey
what have I done you're not human because society tells
you you have to have sticks and bricks you have to get a job we're good 9 to 5
we have to do this you have to do this and it's okay to question it but we
found the solution to that to get out of the house and go explore yeah and the
truth is the first decision would come when you make this decision to go RV
full-time and there's a lot of fun in the process
why in the RV buying the toys buying the tools accessory the accessories a new
dish is a new everything right well we did that for what four months you know
we sold the house we we Mirage say Garage Sale we saw pretty much most of
everything that we that we have ever owned and we now have a ten-by-ten
storage unit holds the rest of our stuff in Florida
but you know luckily for us we hit the wall at different times you know it's
just that idea when you know everything's gone you're on the road and
you realize oh my god what have we done yeah we don't have a final destination
anymore it's just to the next place where we going next where are we going
next where we going next so Mercedes and I did deal with that in the in the last
30 days yeah and and the other thing though to the solution like get out but
also remember that you're not gonna be wherever you're at you're not going to
be there that long so you really want to capitalize and see as much as you can in
that spot so that's one thing that we did that really helped us get out of our
agent and we're both high achievers both of us so when we were in our funk we
just got out we kept busy you keep moving so number two we were not
prepared for the weather and we ran out of propane twice yes within one week
mm-hmm so we left Florida and we started heading up to see my daughter in Sun up
in North Carolina we had acclimated for four years in Florida and the
temperatures dropped in the 20s and 30s and we ran out of propane so one of the
reasons why we ran out of propane in our defense we were staying in Florida in
the summertime and we were only using the propane for cooking and it lasted
months so we assumed that propane would always last from my propane is great
yeah we got to 30 gallon tanks and we had never ran out of it before it had
lasted four months I think right just the grill and just the stove inside the
RV but we get to North Carolina that what the the temperature drops and we
run out of propane now luckily it didn't run out until morning yeah went down I
refilled I had never done that before it was a new experience for me so it with
two 30 gallon propane tanks I brought them down to where I needed to get them
filled I filled them thought we were done you know they're gonna last another
month well to three days I'd he was three days three days later it's 2:30 in
the morning we ran out of propane it's 28 degrees out right so my wife is
sleeping the baby is sleeping and I'm freaking out
about just keeping them warm in even more that our pipes might freeze so I
joined a group on Facebook called RVing full-time and I went in and I said it
this is 2:30 in the morning I said hey guys is it normal to run out of propane
within three days of filling them you know when the when the temperature is
twenty-eight thirty degrees and it was funny it's 2:30 in the morning but we
got responses from about 50 people yeah and they were extremely helpful you know
and they said yeah it is normal actually if you know you need to have redundancy
you know so that's when we learned about the redundancy yeah so our two solutions
number one join a group because you're gonna get a lot of help and then number
two redundancies and they taught us about the space heaters versus the other
kinds of heat oil radiators so we learned on but we didn't consider that
before we had left Florida yeah but the other thing that I think is
really important if you are an RV veteran could you please share what
you've done because we couldn't find the right kind of space heater at Walmart so
or the what's it called the oil radiator is our solution because the other ones
the space heaters is a fire danger there so we still haven't gotten there yet you
what you did yeah tell us what you did you got any ideas for us that would be
fantastic number three okay I thought that by 30 days the RV would be
perfectly organized because I figured if it doesn't take that long to organize
your home organizing your RV should be really simple and something about living
in such a small space that where you put everything really truly matters and
efficiency is really important but at 30 days I thought everything would be done
it it's not and it's driving me crazy but here's the solution number one easy
does it you know enjoy the journey sometimes it's not so much about the end
result as it is getting processed exactly and ask for help that's so I'm
gonna ask you guys if you guys have been doing this a long time what suggestions
do you have for organizing because I think I'm just gonna go piece by piece
instead of trying to have everything organized all in one day and number four
number four is huge this is huge if you RV full-time you know this and it's
about the internet right data and this has
been an extremely big struggle for us we actually have I think seven total
devices we've got an account with Verizon we've got an account with AT&T
yeah and and it you know what's what's interesting there is no one solution no
there is none no one provider no one provider yeah it's all about redundancy
and just depending where you are in the country you're gonna you know some
things are gonna work better than others and so the solution to this it's called
the mobile internet Resource Center and this was started by Chris and sherry
they are absolutely amazing they provide so much information in this space for
full-time our views full-time boaters people nomads people that are out there
and they started this website and it is a wealth of information most of their
information is free they do have a premium service
it's called mi a mobile internet offici on doze and we join that mainly I found
most of their information for free in the internet I joined that just to
support them because I'd ask a question and they would respond amelie they're
just they're just absolutely amazing people they live this life and they
understand it they're always up to date on new products and new solutions they
actually sent out a notice that Verizon had just released the 8800 L which is a
hotspot with Verizon and it's truly unlimited data we pay 65 bucks a month
for that and so far that's been working great except for in two locations so one
thing we'd really like to ask if you are an Army veteran is what newbie mistakes
do you remember making because we can't be the only ones and I think it would be
really helpful if you're new and watching this video to read comments
from people that say oh don't do this or remember to do this and and knowing what
we know now these mistakes could have been avoided but but that's the thing
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