How RVing Modified Our Lives – Episode 1: RVing with Joe & Kait

Within the first episode of our podcast, ‘RVing with Joe & Kait,’ we discover how RVing modified our lives, delving into the transformative journey of full-time RVing. Be a part of us as we share our private narrative, detailing how the RV life-style reshaped our views and led us to a path stuffed with sudden challenges and fulfilling triumphs. From the preliminary spark of inspiration to adapting to life on the highway, we open up in regards to the pivotal moments the place RVing considerably altered our lives.

We hope you take pleasure in this episode as we intimately recount the important thing moments and experiences that underscore how deeply RVing has influenced our lives.

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Joe Russo The second that RVing modified our lives. Welcome to the very first podcast of RVing with Joe and Kait. We figured this may be the right matter to sort of introduce you to the podcast, who Joe and Kait are, and actually sort of our backstory. And on the finish of this, we’ll sort of get into why we’re doing the podcast and what you may count on from it.

Kait Russo So welcome, welcome to our very first episode. I’m very excited.

Joe Russo So am I. So I’m gonna begin with you as a result of neither of us have advised one another what that second was that modified our lives in RVing. So I’m actually curious to listen to what your second is. And it doesn’t must be one second. You probably have a number of, however.

Kait Russo Okay, so I’ll begin with the primary second. And perhaps we will work to the opposite moments. My first second on the subject of RVing and the way it sort of modified my life, then our lives, is Mom’s Day weekend, 2014. It’s Saturday, we’re sitting at house.

Joe Russo And I ought to make clear, it is a 12 months and a half earlier than we hit the highway, earlier than we had an RV.

Kait Russo Sure, so we’re sitting at house and we occur upon a film known as We’re the Millers. And the gist of it’s this man who’s a small time drug trafficker decides to create a faux household and journey in an RV right down to Mexico to make his drug run. And someway that film left an impression in me of, hey, we may load up our household, so the 2 of us, our canine on the time, and journey across the nation in an RV. And there’s one thing about that film that left a seed about RVing in my thoughts.

As a result of I grew up tenting all all through the Sierra Nevadas in California, and I do know there have been loads of RV campers round me, however I used to be very targeted on tent tenting on the time, and by no means had I ever even thought of RVing up till that second we watched the film collectively.

Joe Russo Ah, I see. In order that second of watching that film is what planted the seed as a result of later that afternoon, we went over to Kait’s dad and mom home and I don’t understand how in-depth Kait needs me to get with this story if you wish to add some extra particulars, however in brief, she was having a tough day. Her boss, otherwise you inform the story.

Kait Russo Mom’s Day weekend. We determined Saturday we might spend with my dad and mom after which Sunday you’ll spend together with your mother. And that day, I used to be simply all issues sort of aligned the place I used to be having a extremely tough day on the subject of work. And at last that night I simply, I hit a breaking level and I checked out Joe and I stated, let’s simply promote every little thing, purchase an RV, hit the highway with the canine and journey.

Joe Russo Yeah. And her father and I are sitting on the sofa watching TV collectively and we each have a look at her and we’re like, you’re loopy. After which went again to watching TV. It wasn’t till later that night time that I used to be leaving to go to my mother’s and Kait stopped me and stated, are you able to critically take into consideration this? I wasn’t joking.

And on the experience house, I begin desirous about it and one thing my father advised me was proper earlier than he handed away, I requested him if he had any regrets in life, any final minute items of knowledge he needed to move alongside. And he considered it for a minute and he checked out me and stated, take dangers and have quite a lot of youngsters. He wished he had taken extra dangers in life and had extra children. We’re not planning on having children.

Kait Russo No.

Joe Russo However in that second, I used to be desirous about it and I used to be like, , that is a kind of occasions in life that may be a threat, an enormous threat, however let’s do it. So I known as Kait up and I advised her.

Kait Russo Yeah, and the remaining is sort of historical past. We began planning for a couple of 12 months. So the preliminary concept, as soon as Joe got here on board to this full-time RV life, was we have been gonna do it for a 12 months. Strive it out and sort of take a break, hit the reset button on our hectic life that we actually wanted a change. So we’re planning, buying, determining what is that this RVing factor all about as a result of neither of us have ever RV’d a day in our lives. And we’ve primarily went full commit on this plan to full-time RV for not less than a 12 months.

Joe Russo Yep. In order that’s your second?

Kait Russo Effectively, the film sort of was the primary second that led to all of that.

Joe Russo Okay, so I’ll inform my second. And if in case you have extra, we will get into that. I might say my second was a month into our journey.

Kait Russo Okay. As soon as we hit the highway?

Joe Russo As soon as we hit the highway. So we hit the highway in September 2015. And a couple of month later, we have been at some extent the place the honeymoon was over. So there’s this era of, I might say, every week between after we give up our jobs and after we really left.

And that was one of the crucial wonderful weeks of my life as a result of we’d give up our jobs, we had no jobs on the horizon, we had cash saved up within the financial institution for this 12 months that we have been imagined to spend on the highway touring the nation. And there was completely no worries. Effectively, not worries, however no commitments, nothing that needed to be accomplished.

It was sort of like once you have been a child. And it was that first day you’re strolling out of faculty for summer season break and also you don’t have homework or something. You simply know you’re about to take pleasure in the whole summer season and it’s so enjoyable and free. Then we obtained on the highway. And I might say the honeymoon on the highway in all probability lasted like three, 4 days of us simply enjoyable and having fun with. And to me, I’d been at my firm for 10 years and I assumed this was simply gonna be like an enormous trip for a 12 months.

Effectively, a few days after we begin, Kait right here begins desirous to get on her laptop computer and go to the native espresso store to work. And I’m like, okay, properly, I assume I’ll go together with you if you wish to use Wi-Fi as a result of we had began a weblog to sort of sustain, assist household and buddies sustain with what we have been doing. And we’d go to the espresso retailers and I might simply hang around and be on my cellphone browsing the web, no matter, simply enjoyable, having fun with a cup of espresso whereas Kait was busy typing away.

Effectively, quick ahead to a couple of month in and Kait and I are getting in all these arguments about nothing. So it is likely to be like I hung the dish towel up fallacious or she did one thing and we’d simply be getting in these arguments for no purpose and I used to be considering to myself, , if this continues on, I don’t wish to proceed RVing. This type of sucks. And we have been up in Pagosa Springs.

We’re driving out of Pagosa Springs towards Durango, Colorado. And Kait requested me to take a photograph as we’re happening the highway, as a result of it was this attractive mountain view. And I take the picture. She needs me to put up it on Instagram. I’ve no real interest in posting it on Instagram. I simply sort of return to what I used to be doing. And she or he will get upset with me. And I do know she’s upset as a result of she gained’t discuss to me.

Kait Russo The silent remedy.

Joe Russo Sure. For the following hour and a half, two hours, no matter it was, Kait was driving the RV.

Kait Russo In my recollection, it was a bit bit shorter than that.

Joe Russo It was some time. Anyway, she doesn’t discuss to me the whole time, though I’m asking her what’s fallacious, nothing. And we get right down to sort of the underside of the hill, and Kait simply pulls over right into a relaxation space. We go to the lavatory, Kait comes again and says, we have to discuss.

I stated, okay, sure, we do want to speak. And she or he says, however not right here, the RV. We have to go over there and it’s to the place they’d the picnic tables and stuff. And I stated, uh-oh, right here it comes.

Lengthy story brief, mainly what it was Kait and I have been on totally different pages. I used to be in trip mode and Kait was extra in work mode. She was upset as a result of I wasn’t all in favour of working. And the rationale for that’s Kait had gotten to a degree the place she needed, she had realized that this life-style was nice. You didn’t wish to return to company life, proper?

Kait Russo I might say in a short time as soon as we hit the highway full time, I simply fell in love with the liberty and the flexibleness of RV life. And a 12 months was not going to be lengthy sufficient. And I feel for me, it was much less of a, hey, we’re gonna take a 12 months off and journey full-time in RV round the US with our canine and switch in additional to a brand new life-style, a brand new approach of taking a look at life.

And this sense of being in additional management and actually actually dwelling the life that I needed. And my mind instantly switched to, okay, we love this, how will we hold this going for so long as we wish to? And the limiting issue on the time was cash as a result of we had deliberate to have the ability to do that for a 12 months with none earnings. And so the again of my thoughts goes, okay, we will lower prices, have a look at methods to earn an earnings on the highway. And the way will we make this work in order that we will hold going?

Joe Russo Yeah, however the factor is, Kait didn’t share any of this with me. This was simply sort of behind her head. And right here I’m on trip mode as a result of I used to be like, that’s what this 12 months is. Why are we going to love, why trouble posting to a weblog or an Instagram account? I’m like, positive, our buddies can comply with us, however I actually don’t care. I simply wish to chill out and simply let me do my factor for a 12 months.

Effectively, after we sat down, Kait lastly defined all of this to me and like, , I really feel the identical approach. I don’t wanna return to a job or let me rephrase, I don’t wanna return to sort of the company life-style that we had been dwelling earlier than, which was, you stand up within the morning, you go to work, you spend all day at work, come house, sit down, perhaps watch some TV, have dinner, hang around for a pair hours, fall asleep, after which rinse and repeat, simply do this again and again. And the one actual time the 2 of us had collectively was , actually that couple hours at night time. And even then that was simply spent decompressing from work after which time over the weekends. And even then we have been nonetheless on our telephones and dealing remotely and making an attempt to get stuff accomplished.

So I needed to have the ability to spend time with Kait, our canine. I needed to have the ability to dwell the life that we needed to and listening to Kait say all of this and like, hey, perhaps we will make an earnings and sort of offset our prices and keep on the highway longer and all of these items. I used to be like, all proper, what? I’m in. And it was that second for me with RVing that basically modified my life as a result of it made the entire course of that rather more, it’s the fallacious factor. It modified me as a result of it was that second the place I used to be like, we will make a change in our lives to dwell the lives that we wish.

And in the end what ended up occurring was we began getting actually severe with the web site. That was first. After which we began the YouTube channel and obtained the YouTube channel going. And that’s actually when issues began to sort of take off for us.

We had talked about doing a YouTube channel earlier than we even hit the highway and on my final day of labor Kait filmed me and it was an absolute like practice wreck. It was simply not figuring out for me So we stated yeah, let’s by no means do this once more. Right here we’re.

Kait Russo I had a great guess that will be your second. As a result of I do know that particularly that relaxation cease in Colorado I feel left a really deep impression or influence on you on the subject of our relationship as properly.

Joe Russo Yeah, I imply it was additionally a second the place I used to be like, this is likely to be the place we break up. As a result of issues weren’t going properly.

Kait Russo No, they weren’t. And I feel, in desirous about the subject for this episode, which is the second that our RVing modified our lives, it very properly may have gone the opposite path, which is we’re not collectively and there’s no We’re the Russos.

Joe Russo Precisely.

Kait Russo
It’s a you’re the Russo or I’m a Russo.

Joe Russo Effectively, I don’t, I imply, we undoubtedly wouldn’t have had the YouTube channel, the web site, the rest. I feel we might have gone our separate methods, bought the RV and figured issues out from there.

Kait Russo Yeah, and I feel we may go in all probability do a deep dive on a separate episode of the influence that RVing has on relationships with the individuals that you just’re touring with. Sort of just like the talks that we’ve accomplished round how do you thrive and survive as a pair in a small house, whether or not it’s a giant RV or a small RV. As a result of we’ve been in all various kinds of RVs.

Pondering again to our very first RV in 2015 after we hit the highway full time, we had a category A motorhome, towing a Jeep Wrangler with two canine. After which we downsized to a Class B RV on the ProMaster chassis with one canine. After which that morphed into sort of testing out various kinds of campers, like a small Class C to then going full-time, simply the 2 of us in a pop-up truck camper, and now again to a van, and not touring full-time in an RV, however doing it part-time.

So I really feel like we’ve skilled fairly a variety of various kinds of RVing. The one factor we haven’t tried for long-term is a tow behind, like a fifth wheel, a journey trailer, or like a bit teardrop.

So with the kind of RVing that we’ve accomplished now for thus a few years, I really feel like it’s such a robust a part of my identification now. Each time I take into consideration touring, even internationally, I take into consideration, hey, may we lease a camper? As a result of I like RV life a lot, the comfort of it. It’s simply, it’s actually modified the best way I have a look at journey.

Joe Russo Now, going again to the start of this, there was your one second. Do you have got another important moments all through our RV journey that stand out to you, that modified your life?

Kait Russo I feel they’ve all modified my life. There have been so many key moments in RVing, from switching campers to simply realizing what RVing brings to my life. I do know it’s totally different for everyone, however I feel going again to 2015, earlier than we even hit the highway full-time within the RV, we took the RV, we did a weekend take a look at run.

So we packed up the RV, the canine, and we obtained this epic seaside tenting spot in Ventura. California. We parked our RV proper alongside the seaside, open the door and stroll proper onto the sand, go swimming within the ocean. T second would be the most impressionable second for me as a result of that to me was the final word RV expertise. And that was our first journey out in an RV.

After which we adopted that up with first day of hitting the highway full-time, driving to a vineyard in California, parking on the winery, going for a wine tasting, coming again to the RV, cooking a meal, sleeping on the winery. It’s simply, these moments at all times persist with me, as a result of they have been my first experiences with RVing and so they have been superb.

I imply, RVing hasn’t at all times been superb, however these moments actually modified my life as a result of I do know that RVing can provide that sort of second for me, and I like it a lot.

Joe Russo These have been good occasions. Yeah. These have been the honeymoon days.

Kait Russo Wait, are you saying we don’t have honeymoon days anymore?

Joe Russo No, we now have loads of superb occasions on the highway. Yeah, I might say these are very impressionable. There was one, the very first time we, regardless of or past simply driving the RV again from the dealership after we first purchased it, there’s the one occasion the place we had, it was parked within the driveway of our house. We have been promoting our house and we determined we might transfer into the RV and dwell out of it.

Effectively, we didn’t have any type of hookups at house. So when the grey and black tanks crammed up, we needed to go to a neighborhood dump station to dump it. Effectively, we determined to take the canine with us. Kait was gonna comply with behind in our Jeep. I used to be gonna drive the RV with the canine so they may kinda get a really feel for it. That was a catastrophe.

We pulled out of our little cul-de-sac and as quickly as I made a proper hand flip onto one of many most important streets. Abruptly, the entire drawers and every little thing flew open as a result of we forgot to ensure they have been locked in place. As soon as all that noise and every little thing occurred, the canine freaked out. I had Leo our husky crawl below my legs the place clearly the gasoline pedal and brake pedal and every little thing, he’s down there. And our 80 pound Belgian Malinois Duke jumps in my lap.

And right here I’m making an attempt to drive down a significant avenue in Los Angeles in a 30 foot Class A motorhome. I simply stopped, I put the hazards on, Kait jumped out to see what was happening. I had her take the canine, took a second to place every little thing away, after which we drove to the factor. The subsequent time the canine have been within the driving down with the RV was after we went to that seaside tenting spot.

Kait Russo And that have led us to create a pre-departure guidelines of constructing positive the doorways are locked and every little thing else in between in order that we’re able to go after we hit the highway.

So I feel that’s sort of a great lead-in to sort of what individuals may count on from RVing with Joe and Kait. The podcast is actually sharing our experiences from full-time RV life to now part-time RV life and the individuals we’ve met alongside the best way and just like the information that we’ve gathered and sharing that with all of you.

Joe Russo Yeah. Apart from towables, we’ve been in just about each different kind of RV and we want to strive towable in some unspecified time in the future, however we’ve had all of the experiences. We full-timed for six and a half years. We proceed to journey in RVs. We’ve accomplished it abroad. Now we have quite a lot of expertise that we want to share with you, however I feel on high of that, with the entire time that we’ve spent in and across the RV trade, we’ve made quite a lot of nice buddies at quite a lot of firms and issues on the market associated to RVs that we want to have these individuals come on and share their experience with you.

If there are subjects and issues, tell us down within the feedback beneath what these is likely to be. What issues would you wish to see out of this podcast? Are there subjects you need us to cowl? Sure individuals you need us to attempt to discuss to about RVing and what it’s like and every little thing else.

Kait Russo I’m actually excited in regards to the podcast. I do know that is one thing that Joe has needed to do for years. In all probability over 5 years. That’s that sounds about proper. I bear in mind in all probability from the primary podcast we have been invited to be on.

Joe Russo It’s undoubtedly been longer than 5 years. I feel it’s been virtually eight years.

Kait Russo Effectively, it’s occurring.

Joe Russo It’s occurring. I by no means I by no means did plan to do in a video podcast. So this can be a video and audio podcast in case you’re within the audio portion of it you’ll have the ability to discover it I feel on most if not all podcast internet hosting platforms and clearly right here on our channel on YouTube.

Kait Russo And we’ll sort of do present notes and every little thing too on the web site so you may simply discover the totally different episodes. However this can be an thrilling journey.

So I’ve a query for Joe. What do you discover most satisfying or the factor that you just like probably the most about RVing?

Joe Russo Ooh, I might say that adjustments over time. Once we first hit the highway throughout that honeymoon part, it was simply the, like having the ability to chill out, being away from issues, however on the similar time whereas touring, you have got your property and your entire stuff with you.

I feel for me that’s been one of many key issues in RVing. We get quite a lot of, I’ve seen quite a lot of feedback on our YouTube channel on that after we talked about the price of an RV. We’re doing a walkthrough. And inevitably there can be individuals who pop in and say, properly, for the price of that, I may do X quantity of days flying and staying out of lodges and every little thing else. And I agree with that. You completely may.

The distinction is once you’re RVing and what I discovered and what I like about it’s once you go from one place to a different, once you fly, you go to the airport, you stand up within the air, you fly over every little thing and then you definately land. If you drive, you get to see every little thing that’s in between. We discovered quite a lot of superb locations throughout that drive.

And we, until we completely must get someplace for a reservation or one thing we now have which we strive to not do, we will take our time. And an ideal instance was the primary time we went to Flagstaff, we drove via and it was simply imagined to be, I feel, for an evening. We ended up spending 10 days there as a result of we simply so loved the city. And we’ve seen quite a lot of locations like that all through the years the place even when we don’t keep for an prolonged period of time, we get to actually see and expertise that place which is one thing you don’t get once you’re flying.

After which in fact there’s the lodges. Accommodations are nice, however on the similar time, I like having all my stuff with me. Having our personal mattress, having our personal pillows, and having the ability to overpack. I imply, after we have been dwelling full time, we had every little thing with us.

We had our winter garments with us, our summer season garments, our climbing sneakers, our flip flops. Every part. So no matter you felt like sporting or doing that day, you have been geared up for it. And also you had your snacks and also you had your kitchen and your entire stuff. You don’t get to do this once you’re touring by aircraft to a resort and every little thing else until you’re bringing large quantities of baggage with you. And even then you may’t even convey that quantity of stuff.

And I’ve advised Kait it’s tough for me to journey now by way of aircraft as a result of in my head, I’m considering, okay, you need to bear in mind every little thing you want to convey with you. It’s important to plan it out and also you’re not going to have the ability to convey every little thing that you just wish to, however you may in an RV, inside purpose, in fact.

And I feel what I like about it’s we will additionally tailor the RVing expertise round what we wish to do. So there was a time period after we had our truck camper and we may go off-roading out in the midst of nowhere, which is one thing we couldn’t do after we have been in our Class A motorhome.

And we may sort of decide and select the life-style that we needed to dwell at the moment.

So does that reply your query?

Kait Russo It does. It makes me giggle as a result of I bear in mind your mother telling me a narrative about the way you had this blanket that you just wish to take in every single place with you. That lends itself so properly to RV life since you get to have your blanket, your pillow. All of your little comforts.

Joe Russo Yeah, once I was a child, I at all times needed to, I at all times requested my dad and mom why I couldn’t convey my mattress with me.

Kait Russo Effectively, now you may.

Joe Russo Yeah. See, it was excellent.

Now, for you. Since you’re a huge foodie, at all times have been, like what issues with RVing have actually modified you in these methods, like having the ability to see new meals, new cultures, new kinds of issues?

Kait Russo Effectively RVing undoubtedly modified the best way I prepare dinner as a result of going from a home to a Class A RV, which is pretty giant to what we now have now, you have got restricted house when it comes to how a lot cooking gear and devices you can convey. And so being extra artistic and discovering like multi-purpose cooking instruments that can be utilized for a wide range of issues. And now that we’re part-time, I get to have the total ovens and extra cooking devices.

I really feel like I’m extra environment friendly with my cooking of hey, what’s the least power draw to make this and make it properly and the way can I make a number of issues or one pot meals with out having 10 pots on the market to make one dish? So extra environment friendly, however extra simply totally different. Cooking is totally different now.

I wanna return to your huge second of how RVing modified your life. I feel that can be a really huge second for me as a result of I used to be very a lot part of that relaxation space dialog and sort of the issues that obtained us there.

And that second, I feel actually modified the best way I talk with you within the sense that it made me understand extra I’m not speaking properly and I can’t count on you to learn my thoughts. So how do I higher talk how I’m feeling and what I’m considering, but in addition figuring it out for myself first. And I feel that second has made our relationship a lot stronger as a result of we did make it via. And we’re nonetheless right here collectively. We simply celebrated being collectively 18 years. And yeah, I feel issues may have gone the opposite path.

Joe Russo They may have. Talking of the opposite path, have you ever had any detrimental moments on the highway which have actually impacted you?

Kait Russo Oh, detrimental moments.

Joe Russo And this could be a detrimental second that impacted you in a constructive approach?

Kait Russo Almost about RVing?

Joe Russo Yeah.

Kait Russo I’ve to consider that one for a second. Do you have got one thing that involves thoughts for you?

Joe Russo Effectively, I feel that huge second you simply referred to was sort of a mixture for me as a result of there was quite a lot of detrimental rolled into that with how we have been round one another. As a result of I feel after we sat down and talked, what I introduced up was the truth that, , we will’t be on this RV, this small house collectively 24/7 in case you’re not gonna discuss to me.

I additionally introduced up the truth that it appeared such as you and I had been arguing loads. And the stuff main as much as that was very detrimental for me.

I can’t consider any actual detrimental moments. I don’t suppose, you and I’ve not had quite a lot of dangerous moments on the highway. I imply, there are undoubtedly days the place issues are tough. We is likely to be in a foul place, we get up on the fallacious facet of the mattress, we’d have a bit argument or one thing, however exterior of that, every little thing has been superb.

The one, , we’ve had moments on the highway the place issues have sort of modified the trajectory of the place we have been going and what we have been doing. I feel a kind of moments was my bike crash.

Kait Russo Oh sure.

Joe Russo Again in 2019. And I might contemplate {that a} very detrimental second in addition to shortly, not too lengthy thereafter, my backpack getting stolen which had for many who, I don’t know if we ever actually talked about this a lot in a video or the rest, however we have been touring to go have a look at an RV we have been contemplating shopping for and it was late at night time. We have been on a practice from the airport into city and I, properly, I can’t actually say it was stolen. It was my fault. I left my backpack behind on the practice. Rapidly realized it turned again round and the backpack was gone.

In that backpack was passport, money, there was my laptop computer with all of our laborious drives and backup information and every little thing else and all of that stuff was gone. And that basically sort of impacted each of these occasions which have been very shut collectively, the bike crash and the backpack, sort of impacted our trajectory of our lives and what we have been doing.

It in all probability modified the RV that we have been gonna get. It modified a few of the various things that we have been gonna do. And though on the time, that felt like a really detrimental factor. It actually made quite a lot of constructive impacts on our lives and taking a look at a few of the issues we have been doing, the RV we have been contemplating shopping for and quite a lot of different stuff.

As a result of that put us in clearly a really dangerous psychological house after we went to go have a look at that RV. And neither one in all us, we in all probability, we have been going there to purchase the RV. Fortunately I’d stored the cashier’s examine in my pocket, not my bag. However that stated, it was, we in all probability would have purchased the RV that will have been our subsequent RV. And I don’t suppose it will have been the factor that we needed or the factor that took us to the, or modified our lives in such a approach just like the truck camper did.

Kait Russo 2019 was fairly a 12 months for us.

Joe Russo Very transformative 12 months.

Kait Russo Sure, very. After which comply with that up with 2020, taking supply of our truck camper that we constructed for Alaska journey. And everyone knows what occurred in March of 2020. That modified lots of people’s lives world wide. That second additionally in all probability was the start of main us to the place we’re as we speak, part-time RV vacationers with a house base.

Joe Russo Yeah, as a result of on the time we have been full-time in our truck camper that we had simply taken supply of January of 2020. As Kait talked about, we have been planning on going as much as Alaska. We’re additionally planning on delivery that out to South America and going round South America. And with COVID, we couldn’t do this.

When issues begin shutting down, particularly proper after the pandemic sort of actually hit, quite a lot of the companies that we and plenty of different RVers use have been shut down. And people being like RV parks and campgrounds weren’t permitting individuals to return in or they have been simply closed. All of the gyms and issues we use for showers, quite a lot of these companies have been not out there to us. There was discuss that they have been going to cease or not permit individuals interstate journey, which may have remoted us in a single space of the nation and all of those various things.

It was a kind of moments the place we stated, , now shouldn’t be a great time to be utterly reliant on this truck, the camper, and what we now have round us. We want our own residence base. And that’s after we actually critically circled and stated, I feel now could be the time for us to begin trying.

Whereas we had at all times in some unspecified time in the future deliberate to have a house base once more, it was that answered the why. Why get off the highway? Why calm down once more?And it was actually so we may have a spot we may name house. And if one thing ever occurred, we at all times had a spot we may come again to. Did I did I sort of nail that?

Kait Russo Sure. You nailed it.

One last item I’ll share of how our being modified our lives, as a result of going again to having a house base now, I really feel like the bottom we now have now shouldn’t be a base we might have ever picked if we didn’t expertise our life. Within the sense that.

RVing full-time made me understand and reevaluate the issues which are necessary to me, like bodily gadgets, but in addition location. And the factor that I like a lot about RVing, particularly within the get-go, and the rationale we stayed in Flagstaff for 10 days as an alternative of 1 was this, I beloved tenting within the forest amongst the timber and being so related to nature.

All of that have actually helped us sort of decide the place our base is, as a result of I wish to be related to nature. But additionally reevaluating sort of like what issues we’d like within the base. So I feel in that sense, RVing additionally modified my life.

Joe Russo Earlier than we even began speaking in regards to the RV, we knew we needed to get out of Los Angeles. And I bear in mind us simply searching for properties and across the nation and making an attempt to get an concept of what issues have been like. We at all times regarded within the metropolis. We needed to be near every little thing. We needed to be within the metropolis. You recognize, if we obtained jobs or after we obtained jobs, we might be near our jobs. We wouldn’t be driving in and now we dwell out within the nation. That’s by no means one thing we might have accomplished earlier than.

And to Kait’s level, not solely has RVing modified it, however so has this life-style. We’ve been capable of sort of create and mildew a way of life through which we will dwell the place we wish to.

As soon as Kait got here up with the concept to do that, it’s all been about dwelling the life we wish. And that’s what we’ve been making an attempt to impart and assist with all of you watching and listening to that is what can we do? What sources can we share? And the way can we make it easier to dwell the life you need? Like that’s, in its entirety, that’s what this podcast is all about.

And I feel that may be a good place for this to finish.

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If you happen to’d wish to be taught extra in regards to the 12 months and a half that we spent prepping for this life on the highway, you may take a look at my first e-book, Take Dangers. And in case you’re searching for extra of a style of the adventures and misadventures of life on the highway, take a look at my second e-book, Tales from the Open Street.

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