July 10th, 2011 
Ralph
When we first started to RV full time it was a bit rough.
It was tough to get used to the tiny living quarters, the bathroom smaller than a telephone booth, long drives on boring interstates, figuring out how the cable TV works at every campground, oh-so much fun black water drainings, extremely chatty “RV” neighbors, missing friends and family back at home….
But despite all that after the first week or so, we started to realize how well RVing fit our lifestyles, how comfortable it actually is and how the small space actually improves your life and how liberating the travel really is.
But by far, the best part of living in an RV full time is the complete and utter freedom from “the scheduled life”.
If you have kids, you know what I’m talking about.
Its the constant running to baseball practice, lacrosse practice, swimming lessons, chess club, drum lessons, various family events, endless birthday parties, play dates and every other activity that takes up the majority of a suburban family’s routine schedule.
It’s exhausting…(and I didn’t even do most of it in our family)!
Although all of those things are great and are fun to do, when you’re RVing, you are totally free from that lifestyle and you are free to live life “unscheduled”.
When you are RVing full time, you go where you want to go and at whatever pace that pleases you. Not that we don’t have a schedule, because we do.
In fact, you have to have RV park reservations with two kids in the heart of the summer time. This is because RV parks fill up fast and you have to reserve in advance or you’ll be shut out.
Sure, there are tons of RV bloggers that talk about how living in an RV you are your own boss, there’s no reliance on hotels, airports, restaurant reservations and being “at one” with the great outdoors.
Don’t be fooled by any of that. The best reason of all is freedom from the scheduled life.
Freedom and “location independence” is what drove both of us to build lives that would support a full time RV lifestyle for a year…or longer. After I read The 4-Hour Workweek
But for me there’s no other freedom that tops it. Maybe at some point in our odyssey I’ll miss all that scheduling, all the parties, all the activities but for now I am not. It’s a fabulous break and for me its the top reason to consider RVing full time.
Tell us what you think and comment below. What are the things you most want in life?
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hello son,
we love what you have written so far …especially the part about independence and freedom …
we look forward to being with you and the fam soon !!!
luv you,
mom
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The same reasons i love full time RVing is the same reason it don’t do it all the time, although each time i do it I go a little longer. the lack of a schedule, smaller living qaurters and something new everyday!
Amen to that! Thanks for your comment!
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