you shouldn't stand on these rocks they're like extremely slippery all this
stuff is like some type of algae but anyway it's about 7:00 in the morning or
so I'm out on the ocean right now it's a beautiful day just got some exercise in
today I'm going to be looking for a RV park so I'm probably going to Florida so
I'm be looking in that area I'm gonna explain the whole process I go through
to stay tuned
all right before we start looking into campgrounds and where I'm gonna go next
I'm gonna go eat some donuts for the last time this is gonna be my last
Sunday doughnut to this campground it's sad to leave all the cool people that
I've met here but we got stuff to do we got places to be and I'm trying to make
it to Virginia to meet up with my brother by like May so I gotta get
moving I'm actually getting pretty good at this
whole skating and vlogging thing not too bad
alright those are some awesome donuts and coffee I do love donuts as you probably
already know but now I want to talk about how I choose my camp groundling
the process that I go through to pick a campground to find a campground I pretty
much got it down to a science at this point it doesn't take me very long it's
really quite simple so here it is ok so the first thing I do is I go to google
for this example I'm going to Florida next I'm thinking about going somewhere
near Pensacola so I'm gonna be looking in that Pensacola area so I'm at Google
right now and I'm going to search campgrounds in Florida with Wi-Fi I
always use all stays to look for campgrounds that's like the number one
thing I use when I'm looking for campgrounds the only reason I type that
into Google is cuz I just find it easier than searching around the all stays
website and like clicking all the different things to get to where I want
to go if I google that then the first link will say campgrounds in Florida
with Wi-Fi click on that and boom right there
you're already here it shows you all of the campgrounds in Florida with Wi-Fi
now I say with Wi-Fi because that is an extreme stipulation for me I need the
campground that I'm at to have Wi-Fi that might not be the case for you you
might want to search for something else if you're looking for pet friendly or a
pool or fishing or casinos or whatever it is that you want to look for you can
just type it that in I personally the main thing that I care about is Wi-Fi so
that's what I always search after that I scroll over here to the Pensacola area
and I find all the camp grounds surrounding Pensacola with Wi-Fi they're
all listed here and when I click on each one they show me the dollar signs and
the more dollar signs the more expensive how many sites they have when they're
open if their RVs only or if they also have tent camping and things along those
lines and then all ages in certain places I've been
they have senior campgrounds that are only 50
plus I believe I believe that's the age and I'm not 55 so I can't go there it's
stupid it doesn't really make much sense to me from a business standpoint but I
get it if they want to have a retirement community and you know now that I'm
staying at places for a month at a time rather than daily or weekly the rates
are substantially lower for a month substantially so I don't have to worry
about the dollar signs too much because a lot of times something that may cost
fifty dollars a night and something that costs $20 night will have the same
monthly rates so you really have to dig in and go to the websites and find out
the rates and kind of disregard the dollar signs if you're gonna do monthly
stays the dollar signs are pretty accurate if you're doing daily or weekly
especially daily I believe the dollar signs are supposed to mean one dollar sign
being up to ten dollars two dollars signs being up to twenty dollars three
dollar signs 30, 4 40, 5 50, 6 60 per night all right so we're gonna click on one of
these this is avalon landing campground its east of pensacola it looks like it's
in a pretty good location scroll down here and you can see the reviews it's
got four stars on all stays which is a pretty accurate description you really
have to look at the number of reviews though and you can read the reviews here
on the right side this will show you a lot it will show you what amenities they
have and things of that nature but to really get a good idea you have to go to
the website so you click that website button right there and then it will pull
up their website alright so once you get to the website it's not fully loaded yet
but you're gonna go ahead and click rates that's the most important thing
that's what we're looking for first we want to see what the cost is prior to
even considering the place and there we go it lit up so waterfront it looks like
it's forty-five dollars per night if you're gonna stay on a nightly basis I
would looks like off water is about what I would do and then weekly rates off
water would be two hundred and thirty-four dollars so a small savings
from the daily rate 234 dollars for a week or
for a monthly rate and it is currently the winter months October through
February the off water rate is four hundred thirty five and four hundred
sixty five dollars off water and that does not include electric it's important
to note that it doesn't include electric because of that there will be a one
hundred dollar electric deposit required alright so that is four hundred and
thirty five dollars per month so I am going to go ahead and open up a notepad
this is avalon landing RV park which is east of pensacola and it is $435 per
month plus one hundred electric deposit so i just go ahead and i write that down
i just want to make sure that i keep him keeping track of everything so I can
compare campgrounds against each other whenever I'm uh
oh hello Amelia whenever I am looking for a campground I always want to get the
best price I'm not super concerned about where I'm going to be exactly if I can
get within biking distance of a lot of cool places that is like always my
number one thing is when I'm looking for an RV park and I'm looking at the
monthly rates I don't want to spend more than six hundred fifty bucks in a month
like that seems that's like at the high end I don't want to I would prefer to
spend under $500 I'm almost always looking for a campground that is under
$500 per month so what I usually do after that is I lay out all the
campgrounds on that spreadsheet that are within my price range and after that I
look at them all and I figure out which one is closest to the things that I want
to do in the area so I want to go to Pensacola I want to go to the beach I
want to be able to go to a restaurant on the Alabama Florida line I think it's
called Florabama or something like that or I'm not exactly sure but I want to do
I want to do certain things and I kind of take all
the things that I want to do into account I map them all out and I choose
the campground that's closest to all the things I want to do unless one
campground just has far better reviews if a campground is just spectacular if
it's if they do things like this campground does where they offer you
free donuts on Sunday free donuts and coffee and on Saturday they're doing
events and everybody gets together and there's a kind of a sense of community I
really like that so if one of them had that I'd weigh that against the other
one and I just kind of wait like that I look at everything that they have and
then I just kind of choose and you know the big thing is once you do choose you
might choose the wrong one you might call them up and they might say nope
we're booked sorry you can't do anything about it and that's happened to me many
many many times I thought I had the perfect Park I call them and like what
are you doing call it one day before you want to come and I'm like I'm really bad
at preparing and yeah so that's basically what happens so the bottom
line is I list them all the campgrounds that I can afford an area that I want to
go I list them in order of which one I want to go to most and I just kind of
called down the list and as soon as once says they have a spot available for the
30 days that I want to stay that's what I do I stay at that campground for the
30 days and that's it and the last thing I do is I usually go over to Google Maps
and I just go and I scout the area and then it loads in 47 years I'm gonna keep
looking around just because I'm not for sure that I want to go to Pensacola I'm
just that's my thought right now I still have a couple of days to do this but I
just wanted to go over with you guys how I do this how I go about finding
campgrounds and just my process and kind of my thought process but now I've
pretty much got it down to a science I just used all states for if I'm looking
at campgrounds and I tried a book before I leave even though I almost never book
before I leave you should book before you leave it makes for a much less
stressful trip James and brandy invited me to go out with them and check out the
town so I'm gonna go do that I'm gonna book this stuff tomorrow
like I said and yeah so let's just go out and check out Galveston one last
time probably before we have to leave
that's their bus but it doesn't look like they made it home yet
I just found these cool cars in the parking lot of this restaurant that
we're gonna eat at so stand by for cool car b-roll
remember James and brandy they took me out to this cool boardwalk so the
getting some footage of some boats and stuff like that so it should be fun
all right so I had an awesome time tonight thank you so much to brandy and
James for taking me out one last time thanks so much guys
you're awesome awesome but something else happened tonight that I completely
forgot about the contest ended for the Go Go unique scratch off maps so the two
winners are Mark Sheppard and Tom Hurley so I'll be emailing you guys and
figuring out your address so I can mail out the maps as soon as possible with my
upcoming move I might have to mail them out after I get to the next spot so
expect them to be shipped within a week congratulations guys super happy that
you want super happy that you subscribe to the channel and enter the competition
but that's it for tonight guys get ready for some travel days so until next time
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