This week on my channel,
I'm featuring one young adventurous woman's beautiful RV renovation and
spirited lifestyle.
I just love Lindsey's outlook on life and happiness,
especially because she was willing to turn down a well paying job to pursue her
dream of living in off-grid nomadic lifestyle.
Like the age old saying goes money can't buy you happiness.
I'm Lindsay.
We are here boondocking outside of Yellowstone in my
RV.
So I've been on the road full time for a little over a year now.
And I've always been an adventurer. I love rock climbing,
backpacking, hiking, skiing. And I was like, well,
what if I could just kind of like immerse myself in that full time.
Instead of it being Saturday, Sunday,
I rush out and like co and trying to do those things.
What if I could just live in those places instead? And like, after work,
if I want to go do a hike in Zion, I can,
when I'm stationary,
then I feel like I'm settling into something that I don't want by
ripping out my safety net. Every couple of years,
it's put me into positions where I'm opening myself up to opportunities that
you're being presented everyday.
I got an opportunity with a startup in New York city,
and I was like seeing dollar signs, right?
I came down to like a fork in the road in my life. If I go down this direction,
I'm dedicating the next three to five years of my life to chasing
money. The other option is to say,
I can't do it and hit the road and live the life I want to live.
Money is not a motivator for me. Why am I chasing this?
I was going back and forth. Here's the pros and cons. Which one should I do?
What do you think? Almost every single person I talked to told me,
like, Lindsay, it sounds like you already made up your mind. Luckily for me,
I have literally not for one day, not one second.
Wish I had taken that job. I lived in Nashville before getting the RV.
And the last place that I had,
there was a two bedroom duplex with like a full basement and
it was full of stuff, you know, it's like,
that's just what happens when you have the space, you fill the space.
So moving into the RV, it was a bit of a challenge,
but also a little bit freeing, not a little bit freeing, it was very freeing
My decision was to basically buy the newest,
best condition RV that I could instead of buying a house and putting a down
payment on a house. I took that same amount of money and put it into an RV.
So we kind of sped through a lot of the renovations and I had my family helping
me, which was very, very fortunate.
I had a specific day that I had to hit the road to get to a music festival.
I was meeting my sister at stagecoach in Indiana I didn't have new floors down.
I had ripped up the old floors. I didn't have running water.
There was a lot that just like wasn't done yet. But yeah,
the bulk of it was like honestly done in like three or four weeks.
And then the rest of it over the next few months while I was traveling,
this is how my ideal house would have been designed as far as like living in a
big house versus living tiny. I don't honestly miss very much.
I miss normal showers.
I miss a nice long hot shower,
I'm super, super lucky. So my company is fully remote.
Everyone from my company is fully remote.
And so I took on this job at the same time that I was transitioning into the RV.
So while I was interviewing with them,
I told them that I was going to be doing this.
And they were really supportive of it.
Companies are more open to it than you think do planning on your end beforehand.
This is how I think that I can make it work.
This is how I'm going to go out of my way to accommodate the business.
I think a lot of employers, especially nowadays with people working from home,
a lot more companies, are really responsive to it.
This isn't any different from working from home. A lot of people ask me,
do you have a solar setup?
How do you charge your devices when you're working from the road?
And I'm one of the people who boondocks a lot,
who doesn't actually have solar panels on my roof.
But what I do have is I have this little daiquiri power station and a solar
panel. And so anytime that I set up camp, I put these things out.
It's like the first thing I do, I put the solar panel out.
I start charging the daiquiri. I'm able to power my laptop,
my phone and my projector, which I have inside.
I watch Netflix and things like that.
So it's really been all that I need.
This is my RV. It is a 28 foot class C motor home.
It's a 2006 and I got it a little over a year ago when I got it.
There was I think, 45,000 miles on it.
And I've put another like 25,000 on it in the last year,
just traveling around. We've got two slide outs on the other side,
which gives me a lot more space.
And we've got a bunch of storage on the outside as well.
So I'll show you guys around.
So this is on a Ford E450 super duty. So I think that's a van chassis.
I get about eight, eight and a half miles to the gallon right out.
When I first started out,
I was driving a little bit too fast and I was carrying a lot more weight before
I got rid of a lot of stuff.
And I was only getting around like five ish miles per gallon at that point.
So by dropping weight, by driving slower,
you can just improve your gas mileage a lot. Also,
you might notice that I've got this little black antenna on the front,
that's a cell signal booster. So when we're camping out in these remote areas,
that's going to take whatever cell signal you're getting and it's just going to
amplify it.
And it enables me to take video calls and work remotely while an out in these
kind of dispersed camping areas In here,
we have our generator. So anytime that I'm not connected to shore power,
which is most of the time, cause I'm usually doing docking out with no hookups.
I can run anything electrical off of this generator. So that's really nice.
This next one is my camping stove. Sometimes it's hot.
You don't want to cook inside or you have a beautiful view and you don't want to
sit inside during sunset when you could be cooking outside. So I have a little,
two burner camping stove that I can pull out,
set it up on my table and cook outside, which is really nice.
I don't tow a vehicle behind me.
A lot of people with class C will tow a vehicle behind them so that when they
get into a spot like this, that they're able to just take their car,
go into town. They don't have to drive their whole rig there. So I got a bike.
Um, so that's how I get around.
I was parked over in the bad lands up on this beautiful overview a few weeks
ago. And there was just trails for miles and miles.
And I would just take this and I'm like looking over this insane view.
And I'm like, how is this my morning? So yeah, this is my,
my main mode of transportation. Once I'm hunkered down in a camping spot.
Hey guys, welcome inside. Um, we'll start with the kitchen.
So all of this pretty much is original. Um, how I got it,
I just painted it and changed out the hardware.
So we got a tiny little stove right here with my cat towel. Cause you know,
crazy cat lady,
I have not yet found a pan that will fit inside
here. They're always too big, but I do cook things in there,
like in a little Pyrex dishes and things like that.
But I honestly use the stove top more and that just runs off of propane.
So it runs off of the same propane.
The heat runs off of and actually the propane powers my fridge also.
So that runs all the time, even if I'm not connected to power.
So that's really nice. This is actually a pretty good sized fridge, honestly,
for what I have when I lived in an apartment,
my fridge was always like a quarter full. This is all the storage that I need.
Pretty good size freezer, got some Otter pops because you know,
you never grow up. I don't use the microwave very much.
Well, there's salt and pepper shakers.
I got those from my mom for Christmas and they just, you feel a little homey,
a lot of this stuff that you see on the counters when I'm driving,
I just move it into the sink so that it doesn't bounce around her fall off when
I'm driving. So a lot of our veers,
that's kind of what we do as we're driving around is that we move and we use the
sink as storage. We're going into the bathroom here. So in the bathroom.
I just have the toilet and the shower and my sink and vanity are actually
outside, which I really, really love gives me a lot of area to, you know,
get ready, brush my teeth, all that good stuff.
Welcome to my very massive RV bathroom, tiny,
tiny, tiny. So we bought a little RV toilet down here,
nothing special. And then in here I have the shower.
So we actually ripped out the shower completely and put up sheet
vinyl around it, replace all the hardware, just to make it a little bit cuter,
a little more homey,
which in hindsight was a lot of work to put into something that is essentially
just a litter box storage area. I keep the cat's litter box in here,
pull it out. When I need to use the shower.
I have a freshwater tank that is 33 gallons.
If I conserve a lot, it can last me like maybe up to two weeks. Um,
but probably around like a week, if I'm not super,
super hard trying to conserve it. Alright. Now,
if you come all the way across the hallway,
we got the sink and vanity area. I love this little corner. It's so cute.
And when I'm laying in my bed, this is what I see.
And I've got my little olive plant it's fake.
So this whole thing is actually a slide out when I'm driving around,
that's pulled all the way in. It feels a little bit more cramped in here,
but once I'm parked, I slide that out. Get tons of space, this bed.
This is what we call an RV queen.
So it's a queen size sideways, but lengthwise,
it's like six inches shorter I think up here,
I've got a little projector and then I've got a projector screen that I can move
between the bedroom and the living room.
I've got my shoe storage all up in here too,
because I still have way too many pairs of shoes.
I have so much storage space. I keep a lot of different clothes in here,
so camp clothes.
And then I've got my professional from the waist up clothes when
I have to do video calls.
And then I have all my hiking climbing stuff down below.
It's really nice that I just kind of had the storage space to have those
options and then all these decorations are all from my old apartment.
So it just feels like home.
So this is my living area. And honestly,
this is where I spend most of my time working remotely.
I work from here on Friday nights.
Once I'm done work about this table out, pop this table out put it in the over cab.
And this just turns into my weekend couch zone. And this,
when I first got, it was super nineties, it was a rounded couch,
turned into a bed. It was not pretty.
So this is one of the things that we actually structurally changed.
And so I reupholstered cushions. We built the bench.
That's underneath here for storage. I have all of my tools stored,
uh, electronic games. And then also there's a piece of wood under here.
That'll slide out and this will turn into a bed so that I have kind of a little
guest room when people stay over.
I don't necessarily think that my priorities have shifted as much
as my true priorities in life have kind of come to the surface,
chasing happiness, being in nature, spending quality time with people.
Money is less important to me than happiness.
I hope you guys enjoyed this week's home tour.
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