so hello everybody and welcome back to our channel I am Charity
and I'm Ben and in 2017 we bought our very first
rv and set out to travel with our family and our kids
this week we wanted to kind of give you a real-time update if you've been
following along on our journey and if you need to catch up you can
definitely go back and check out some of our videos that we've released
in the prior few weeks but we decided we were living the rv life
the wrong way didn't we we did and that is because
we had our home base in the state of Colorado and
we would leave Colorado in the summer months to travel with our family where
our kids were out of school and explore the US and come back to the
Colorado during the school year which meant
spending the winter months in a cold weather state
yeah we were doing it all wrong we're like why are we
suffering through the winter of cold Colorado just to leave beautiful
Colorado in the summertime so we switched it up a little bit so it
just didn't make sense for us to live in a cold weather state during the
winter months when I just personally feel so much better
when I was suntanned yes and we are loving the Florida
area so we sold everything we owned for the most part
and we packed up what would fit in here what would fit in the jeep in my minivan
and we decided to move our home base to the
state of Florida so this is where we are as of today
but in getting here it was quite the adventure wasn't it
yes it was a lot has happened a lot has happened
first of all driving from Colorado to where we're at in central Florida was
just under 2,000 miles it's a lot of driving it was a
lot of driving and unlike when we travel in our rv
where we tow our jeep and we can switch drivers we didn't have
that luxury because ben was driving the rv towing
the jeep and I was following behind in my minivan
so we didn't have that option to switch off
like we normally would when we're traveling so it was a lot of driving
and since we couldn't switch drivers it was a little fatiguing at times yes
and we were actually ready to get here fast because time was of the
essence and why was time of yes time was of the
essence because we had to get the kids in school right we didn't want to go
through this transition with the kids of let alone moving a new
state and switching schools and them not being able to start
on the first day of school with everybody else and you know coming in a
month after the fact or anything like that so
that gave us five days to get here and so that meant most days we were
driving between seven and eight hours a day which is not our
typical driving style and so the thing is with that like
I would be interested in hearing from some of you guys leave us a comment
below on what is your typical drive days look
like because typically when we're traveling
it's not an eight hour or a seven hour driving day it's like maybe
four or five like six is really like the max
of what we normally want to do when we're like
doing our travel days and we're driving and so
to do you know an eight hour or seven hour driving day was
pretty difficult and here's the other thing too so we're still working we're
still working from the road and so um you know we're not checking
out of the campground until check out time like at
11 noon and then still trying to drive for another seven or eight hours so most
of the campgrounds we stayed in on the way here
we're still pulling in sometimes after dark right
which will tell you more about our experience at the koa
in apopka a little bit later it was crazy
video um never had this experience before
pulled into that campground after dark so you'll have to stay tuned
and uh we'll cut to the footage that we actually filmed that day
wowzers so we're finally here in Florida we are fed up with being discriminated
against and we are being discriminated against
at this campground right now because we have children younger family
and because we are currently living in our rv
now let's back this up we love to travel
um we travel full-time during the summer months where we do live in our rv during
the summer months and we travel around and we see the country
and we've been I was looking at I think 38
now states out of the 40 40 50 50 we've traveled tons of states
and we've stayed at tons of koas and again watch some of our other videos
you'll see we're very complimentary but this particular koa now we chose
this koa because this is located in Apopka
Florida and this is where we're relocating our home
base to so our home in Colorado is on the market and we expect that it's
going to go under contract any day in fact by the time this video
comes out I'm sure we'll be under contract on our home in Colorado
and we are under contract on a home here in Apopka
and that's why we chose this koa is because it's in Apopka
we wanted to be close to where the kids are now going to school
um where we're going to be living where we're going to be establishing our
residency all of that get to know the town get to
know the area so we wanted to be here in Apopka
and we found that there was a koa and so we decided to stay here because
koa's usually have a great reputation for being really nice places to stay we're
going to need to be in the rv for about a month while
we're in between our Colorado home base and what's going
to be our new Florida home base so we asked the koa here if they had
a weekly or a monthly rate that we could extend and stay
and we were originally told yeah we have a monthly rate
this is the rate plus your metered electric so
um we do require a background check so you need to come down to the office
and do a background check because we do a background check on anybody that's
staying on a monthly rate no problem no problem
so we started heading down to the office and as we're heading down to the office
my phone rings and the gal in the office says I am so
sorry um but it didn't occur to me
that you guys have kids and if you have kids
you can't stay on a monthly rate I'm like
that's kind of weird okay explain explain this to me yeah so anyway we
just you know we're walking to the office we go down to the office
and the gal that's in the office super nice lady
this is not to work camper doing yeah this is obviously the owners of this
particular koa so the owners of this particular koa do
not feel that raising a family in an rv
is the best thing for children therefore they do not want to encourage families
to be full-time with their kids in their rv and so they will not give a
monthly rate to anybody that has children because
they do not want them living here in this park and they don't believe that
it's an appropriate environment for a child to grow up living in an rv
we have plenty of friends that are truly full-time
they've sold their home base or they've rented it out
and they are full-time full-time and even after
doing what we've done on the full-time basis that we've done it this is a
great lifestyle for kids yeah great experience
great learning experience it's a great learning experience
now typically if you are full-time you probably are not going to be asking for
a monthly rate because you probably are going to be moving from place to place
every week or two yeah so there is that but we felt
extremely discriminated against because of the fact we have children
uh we even explained what our situation was that we
are one month in between home bases right
we're selling a house in Colorado we're moving here to
the apopka area we are living in our rv in the
in the meantime it's better than living in a hotel I mean
those of you that are RVers you know you would much rather be in your rig than be
in a hotel right um this is our second home but
anyway point being this is what we were told so we stuck
with our original two weeks and we'll be looking for
a different rv park but wait there's more
no there's a lot more way more to the story
so probably more to come then today we come back after picking up the kids
from school and I run into town and I'm on my way
back and Ben calls me yes I had a knock at the door again
I come out I'm like okay what's going on how can I help you and the guy
you know comes up to me is like hey I was just you know
over by your lot today and I had to move the picnic table a little bit and I
noticed there's a little grease stain on your picnic table from
the blackstone that was sitting on there and now you should see this picnic table
I'll show you this picnic table yeah we'll show you up close
this is not in the best shape it apparently rains every single day here
in Florida so all of the wood picnic tables are out in the weather
which it's fine but they weather just like a wood picnic
table is going to weather when it sits in the rain in Florida
every single day and we're getting all that for a little
grease stain on the wood picnic table yeah I mean I don't know if
these people have just had a series of really bad days for the last week
but I mean we were looking at actually some google reviews and it doesn't
appear that it's just us let's just leave it at that so if you go
to the goog you will see that not family friendly is
kind of the consensus of everybody else that you
know has visited and you know what shame on us that we didn't
really look at the reviews so that's that was kind of our problem
that's on us yeah but um well the hard thing is too
is some people the reviews are a little bit older and so
like usually when I look at reviews if it was left like more than a year ago I
always think well things change and maybe things have gotten better and
so like if it's an older review I tend to not give it as much credibility
in general yeah just because you know there's a lot
of things that can happen over the course of a year or two
and yeah you know as far as people's experiences with the business
we were going for a walk and we saw the owner
you know take his golf cart over to the pool and he started
you know yelling at people in the pool and like shaking his hands and stuff
it's like crazy I'm nuts I need to probably change my perspective because
if this is the first time we run into this in three years yeah we should
probably really consider ourselves we've had it definitely well so as we
were coming into the state of Florida it was
a very late night um coming through
I believe it was was it Georgia that we were coming through I'm trying
to remember exactly how we got here it was Tennessee
Georgia area yeah late at night late at night very dark so you'll have
to watch what happened whoa oh my gosh so I see the fireworks
what happened like did he like I mean they just said it caught on fire
so they just spontaneously combusted somebody lit a cigarette or something
wow that's crazy people that were in there are okay from
what this other guy said um they got out of the car in time but
crazy crazy crazy tonight it's like 10 o'clock at night
we're caffeinated on trucks up coffee just trying to get to Florida
there's a here's a good shot of adrenaline to keep us going for a while
but uh good times in Tennessee tonight so that was a crazy experience first
time that that has ever happened but not the first
time that we've encountered fire on the road because if you watch
our video and you'll put a link above to our video of the wildfire that
we encountered in California not our first bout with fire while
driving but our first bout with seeing a car on fire on the side of
the road right so that was just crazy um but one
takeaway that we definitely took away from that is know where your fire
extinguishers are located right so that you have them if and when
that you need them as you're traveling so and those of you
that have been doing this rv thing for a while leave us a comment and let us know
where you keep your fire extinguishers because like we had some in our basement
compartment the one that we normally keep in the
other compartment wasn't attached because it's not in a
convenient location in my opinion so we moved it to another spot
so you'll have to let us know especially if you are
driving a class a where do you keep your fire extinguisher
because I would like to know where everybody kind of keeps theirs just for
convenience but also to be able to get at it quickly if you need it
we are finding out really fast that we don't really have the space
that we would need if we're going to do this full time
we've got a lot more videos coming up next week we'll go back to our regular
travel vlogs we've got the oregon coast to show you
which is amazing we've got Idaho to show you which is
amazing and plus we've got a lot of central
Florida to show you because we know a lot of you
guys will probably want to head down here when the weather is cooler
and so we'll have some great places to show you that you can come hang out
during the winter months here in central Florida we've already found
some hidden gems that we cannot wait to show you guys yeah we're super excited
about some of these spots that we found that we've been hitting frequently
and we know you're going to love them
stop it so it was a lot actually you know I need to be on
one side of you always what what side have I been I don't know
I just scoot over a little bit does it really matter it keeps things
interesting
that means it was about four or five
five or six hour driving days right four hours
driving days what no four or five six hour driving days is what I said
four or five or six hour drive how many five five six hour driving days
let me just pick it up for you
you