what we've realized is that we're actually doing it all
wrong
hello and welcome back to the channel if you are new here my name is Charity
and I'm Ben and in 2018 we bought our very first RV
and we set off to travel with our kids and explore the United States
so we are taking kind of a real-time interruption
on our channel for you today to give you an update on
where things are at and kind of just what's going on with Grateful Glamper
and also to let you know what you can expect from us and this channel in the
coming months a lot has changed a lot has changed
so for those of you that are maybe new or new to following us on youtube
our content all of the videos that we put out of all of the places that we go
and really what we want to do is share with you some of these places and give
you some tips and some inspiration for trips you can
plan with your family or for your next rv or camping adventure
all of those videos that come out are usually a month to a month and a half
kind of behind in other words when you see our video
say on monument valley or when you see our
video on Sequoia National Park those types of things
we're not there at the time that you're seeing those videos come out
we've been there in the past and it takes us some time to put all of that
footage together and bring a great video for you guys to
watch so as of right now as of this taping
this is going to be a little bit more real time we're taping this today and
we're going to put it on the channel today
so when you see this video published and it shows the date
this is the day it was recorded and we're taking a little bit of a break
to give you an update about what is going on with our home
base what we've realized is that we're actually doing it
all wrong completely wrong so what we're doing now is we're wintering
in Colorado and what we call suffering through the winter
and just to leave beautiful Colorado during the summer time
so a little bit about our situation and this is what I love about the rv life is
that you meet people that have different
situations and so they live the rv life in different ways
and how we choose to live the rv life is that we
full-time during the summer only so we don't homeschool our children
although everybody was homeschoolers at the end of this last
school year but we want to give them a traditional
type of school experience and also our children
are involved with extracurricular activities and sports and things like
that that require being in one physical location for a longer period of time so
we choose full-time rv life only during the summer months and
because of that having a home base in Colorado meant that for us to
go adventure away from our home state and explore more of the united
states is really leaving during the most beautiful
time of year here in colorado and we're not big snow sports people
so during the winter we have you know eight
seven long months of cold and snow and shoveling and we just
don't enjoy it we don't get to get out we have to winterize
our rig and put it into storage for the winter
and pretty much unload everything to reload it in the spring and we
realized we have been living the rv life in a
very inconvenient way for us and we wanted to change that so this
summer during our travels we were sitting on a beach
in California and we realized something didn't we yeah we did
we realized that we want to sit on the beach more often
than just in the summer exactly and if we want to sit on a beach
that means that living in Colorado and having our home base in Colorado
ain't gonna work it's not gonna work long term and so
we decided to make a pretty major life decision and i think
that living the rv life and some of the best conversations we have
is you know sitting on a beach the kids are playing or
driving down the road on travel days where we're just kind of in that side to
side space dreaming mode and yeah we just we're
talking back and forth and so these types of discussions
happen often while we're out rving but we pulled the trigger and we decided to
sell our home base here in Colorado and pack it on up actually get rid of
everything so we're we're packing it up we're
selling the furniture all going away desks selling the grill selling
everything stuff that I we're selling it all I have deer in my heart
and we're packing the few photo albums and sentimental things that we want to
hang on to long term and we are giddying up on
out of here we're moving to Florida Florida that's right sunny Florida
we had so much fun during our travels in Florida and traveling all over the us we
found out what we like and what we don't like and this is the beauty of the
rv life is that you get a chance to go explore the United States and you get a
chance to say you know what I could see myself living here or I
could see myself living here or I really can see maybe I like this
particular area or the people here feel so friendly
or all of those different dynamics and then being the digital nomads that we
are means we can work from anywhere that we
have an internet connection which is pretty much globally at this point
except for maybe in the north pole probably not good
reception there right that might not work but that means we've
got the freedom to go wherever we want to go with our
businesses and live wherever we want to live
and so we have chosen to go to the land that most of you vacation in
and that is sunny Florida so just be aware for the videos that you're
going to see on the channel in the coming weeks are going to continue to be
kind of our summer travel series and then we're gonna keep you posted
guys this has been quite the adventure yes it has trying to sell
everything that we own and then trying to talk this guy
right here into the fact that we don't even need as much as he thinks we do
yeah and really it's it's been freeing so I was a little
reluctant at first you know I have a lot of crap
and I didn't realize how much crap that I do have and
how freeing it is to get rid of it all it is freeing just keep telling yourself
I have to keep telling him it's spring as he's crying on the porch
curled up in a ball curl up in a ball asking for his mommy
no no really just kidding we're only gonna load up the jeep
the minivan as I call the swagger wagon and the motorhome the motorhome and
whatever doesn't fit in there you know we're gonna
have to sell yeah and you need to know this right now because
as of right now the list the pile yeah it's getting big he's getting
probably bigger than what I think is going to fit
so you probably need to start right now figuring out what is in that pile that
can get sold right now I also have to replay this video over and over again
so we're gonna keep you posted we're gonna tell you how this goes because we
know that a lot of you maybe are considering going full time
um and if you go full time you're gonna go through the same process that we're
going through right now if you have gone full time we would love to hear some of
your tips and things like that in the
comments for downsizing for deciding what is necessary what's not
we do not want to put anything into storage here because we don't want to be
paying for a storage unit in a state we're not going to be living
in so putting something in storage is not an option
it has to come with or get sold so if you've got some tips we'd love to
hear those below in the comments and let us know maybe what are your tips
for downsizing but we'll also keep you posted on how
this process goes for us so that maybe we will hopefully come out
of this with some tips for any of you guys that are considering it that maybe
haven't gone down that path yet whether you're downsizing into something
a little bit smaller whether you're downsizing into an rv for full-time
living so if you haven't checked out any of our
recent videos make sure that you check those out we'll put the link
here above so that you can check out our latest videos with some of the national
parks that we've been to most recently this summer
and also hopefully you can get some tips for planning some of your visits to our
wonderful national parks this year