How RVing Modified Our Lives – Episode 1: RVing with Joe and 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 full of 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 get pleasure from 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 is able to be the proper subject to form of introduce you to the podcast, who Joe and Kait are, and actually form of our backstory. And on the finish of this, we’ll form of get into why we’re doing the podcast and what you’ll be able to anticipate 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 need to be one second. If in case you 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 form of modified my life, then our lives, is Mom’s Day weekend, 2014. It’s Saturday, we’re sitting at dwelling.

Joe Russo And I ought to make clear, this can be 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 dwelling and we occur upon a film referred to as We’re the Millers. And the gist of it’s this man who’s a small time drug trafficker decides to create a pretend household and journey in an RV right down to Mexico to make his drug run. And by some means that film left an impression in me of, hey, we may load up our household, so the 2 of us, our canines 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 centered 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 know the way in-depth Kait desires 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’d spend with my dad and mom after which Sunday you’d spend together with your mother. And that day, I used to be simply all issues form of aligned the place I used to be having a very 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 mentioned, let’s simply promote every thing, purchase an RV, hit the highway with the canines 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 evening that I used to be leaving to go to my mother’s and Kait stopped me and mentioned, are you able to significantly take into consideration this? I wasn’t joking.

And on the experience dwelling, 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 wished to cross alongside. And he considered it for a minute and he checked out me and mentioned, take dangers and have numerous kids. He wished he had taken extra dangers in life and had extra youngsters. We’re not planning on having youngsters.

Kait Russo No.

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

Kait Russo Yeah, and the remaining is form of historical past. We began planning for a couple of 12 months. So the preliminary thought, as soon as Joe got here on board to this full-time RV life, was we had been gonna do it for a 12 months. Attempt it out and form of take a break, hit the reset button on our hectic life that we actually wanted a change. So we’re planning, purchasing, 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 Properly, the film form of was the primary second that led to all of that.

Joe Russo Okay, so I’ll inform my second. And when you have extra, we will get into that. I’d 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 had been at a degree the place the honeymoon was over. So there may be this era of, I’d say, per week between once we stop our jobs and once we truly left.

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

It was form of like whenever you had 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 get pleasure from the complete summer season and it’s so enjoyable and free. Then we acquired on the highway. And I’d say the honeymoon on the highway most likely 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 a large trip for a 12 months.

Properly, 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 along with you if you wish to use Wi-Fi as a result of we had began a weblog to form of sustain, assist household and pals sustain with what we had been doing. And we’d go to the espresso retailers and I’d 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.

Properly, quick ahead to a couple of month in and Kait and I are getting in all these arguments about nothing. So it may be like I hung the dish towel up improper 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, you realize, if this continues on, I don’t need to proceed RVing. This type of sucks. And we had 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 taking place the highway, as a result of it was this beautiful mountain view. And I take the picture. She desires me to publish it on Instagram. I’ve no real interest in posting it on Instagram. I simply form 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 received’t speak to me.

Kait Russo The silent therapy.

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 speak to me the complete time, though I’m asking her what’s improper, nothing. And we get right down to form 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 speak.

I mentioned, 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 mentioned, uh-oh, right here it comes.

Lengthy story brief, principally what it was Kait and I had been on completely 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 concerned about working. And the explanation for that’s Kait had gotten to a degree the place she wished, she had realized that this life-style was nice. You didn’t need to return to company life, proper?

Kait Russo I’d 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 canines and switch in additional to a brand new life-style, a brand new means of life.

And this sense of being in additional management and actually actually residing the life that I wished. And my mind instantly switched to, okay, we love this, how will we maintain this going for so long as we need 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 reduce 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 maintain going?

Joe Russo Yeah, however the factor is, Kait didn’t share any of this with me. This was simply form of at the back of 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 hassle posting to a weblog or an Instagram account? I’m like, positive, our pals can comply with us, however I actually don’t care. I simply need to chill out and simply let me do my factor for a 12 months.

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

So I wished to have the ability to spend time with Kait, our canines. I wished to have the ability to dwell the life that we wished to and listening to Kait say all of this and like, hey, perhaps we will make an earnings and form of offset our prices and keep on the highway longer and all of this stuff. I used to be like, all proper, you realize 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 improper 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 would like.

And in the end what ended up taking place was we began getting actually critical with the web site. That was first. After which we began the YouTube channel and acquired the YouTube channel going. And that’s actually when issues began to form 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 mentioned yeah, let’s by no means try 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 may 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 route, which is we’re now 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 Properly, I don’t, I imply, we positively wouldn’t have had the YouTube channel, the web site, anything. I feel we’d have gone our separate methods, bought the RV and figured issues out from there.

Kait Russo Yeah, and I feel we may go most likely 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. Type of just like the talks that we’ve performed 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.

Considering again to our very first RV in 2015 once we hit the highway full time, we had a category A motorhome, towing a Jeep Wrangler with two canines. After which we downsized to a Class B RV on the ProMaster chassis with one canine. After which that morphed into form 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 now not touring full-time in an RV, however doing it part-time.

So I really feel like we’ve skilled fairly a spread 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 performed now for therefore a few years, I really feel like it’s such a robust a part of my id now. Each time I take into consideration touring, even internationally, I take into consideration, hey, may we hire a camper? As a result of I really like RV life a lot, the comfort of it. It’s simply, it’s actually modified the way in which I have a look at journey.

Joe Russo Now, going again to the start of this, there was your one second. Do you’ve got some other 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 only realizing what RVing brings to my life. I do know it’s completely 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 check run.

So we packed up the RV, the canines, and we acquired this epic seashore tenting spot in Ventura. California. We parked our RV proper alongside the seashore, 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 all the time persist with me, as a result of they had been my first experiences with RVing and so they had been superb.

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

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

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

Joe Russo No, we’ve loads of superb occasions on the highway. Yeah, I’d 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 once we first purchased it, there may be the one occasion the place we had, it was parked within the driveway of our dwelling. We had been promoting our dwelling and we determined we’d transfer into the RV and dwell out of it.

Properly, we didn’t have any type of hookups at dwelling. So when the grey and black tanks crammed up, we needed to go to a neighborhood dump station to dump it. Properly, we determined to take the canines with us. Kait was gonna comply with behind in our Jeep. I used to be gonna drive the RV with the canines so they might 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 thing flew open as a result of we forgot to ensure they had been locked in place. As soon as all that noise and every thing occurred, the canines freaked out. I had Leo our husky crawl underneath my legs the place clearly the gasoline pedal and brake pedal and every thing, he’s down there. And our 80 pound Belgian Malinois Duke jumps in my lap.

And right here I’m attempting 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 occurring. I had her take the canines, took a second to place every thing away, after which we drove to the factor. The following time the canines had been within the driving down with the RV was once we went to that seashore tenting spot.

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

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

Joe Russo Yeah. Other than towables, we’ve been in just about each different kind of RV and we wish to strive towable sooner or later, 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 performed it abroad. We’ve got numerous expertise that we wish to share with you, however I feel on prime of that, with the entire time that we’ve spent in and across the RV business, we’ve made numerous nice pals at numerous corporations and issues on the market associated to RVs that we wish to have these individuals come on and share their experience with you.

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

Kait Russo I’m actually excited in regards to the podcast. I do know that is one thing that Joe has wished to do for years. Most likely over 5 years. That’s that sounds about proper. I keep in mind most likely from the primary podcast we had been invited to be on.

Joe Russo It’s positively been longer than 5 years. I feel it’s been nearly eight years.

Kait Russo Properly, it’s taking place.

Joe Russo It’s taking place. I by no means I by no means did plan to do in a video podcast. So this might be a video and audio podcast in case you’re within the audio portion of it you’ll be capable 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 form of do present notes and every thing too on the web site so you’ll be able to simply discover the completely different episodes. However this might be an thrilling journey.

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

Joe Russo Ooh, I’d say that modifications over time. Once we first hit the highway throughout that honeymoon section, it was simply the, like with the ability to chill out, being away from issues, however on the similar time whereas touring, you’ve 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 numerous, I’ve seen numerous feedback on our YouTube channel on that once we talked about the price of an RV. We’re doing a walkthrough. And inevitably there might 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 inns and every thing else. And I agree with that. You completely may.

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

And we, except we completely need to get someplace for a reservation or one thing we’ve 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 by and it was simply presupposed 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 numerous 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 whenever you’re flying.

After which after all there’s the inns. Resorts are nice, however on the similar time, I like having all my stuff with me. Having our personal mattress, having our personal pillows, and with the ability to overpack. I imply, once we had been residing full time, we had every thing with us.

We had our winter garments with us, our summer season garments, our climbing footwear, our flip flops. All the things. So no matter you felt like sporting or doing that day, you had been outfitted for it. And also you had your snacks and also you had your kitchen and your entire stuff. You don’t get to try this whenever you’re touring by airplane to a lodge and every thing else except you’re bringing large quantities of bags with you. And even then you’ll be able to’t even carry that quantity of stuff.

And I’ve advised Kait it’s troublesome for me to journey now through airplane as a result of in my head, I’m considering, okay, you must keep in mind every thing you’ll want to carry with you. You must plan it out and also you’re not going to have the ability to carry every thing that you just need to, however you’ll be able to in an RV, inside purpose, after all.

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

And we may form of decide and select the approach to life that we wished to dwell at the moment.

So does that reply your query?

Kait Russo It does. It makes me giggle as a result of I keep in mind your mother telling me a narrative about the way you had this blanket that you just wish to take all over the 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 all the time wished to, I all the time requested my dad and mom why I couldn’t carry my mattress with me.

Kait Russo Properly, now you’ll be able to.

Joe Russo Yeah. See, it was excellent.

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

Kait Russo Properly RVing positively modified the way in which I prepare dinner as a result of going from a home to a Class A RV, which is pretty giant to what we’ve now, you’ve got restricted house by way of how a lot cooking tools and devices that you could carry. And so being extra artistic and discovering like multi-purpose cooking instruments that can be utilized for quite a lot 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 completely different. Cooking is completely different now.

I wanna return to your huge second of how RVing modified your life. I feel that can also 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 form of the issues that acquired us there.

And that second, I feel actually modified the way in which I talk with you within the sense that it made me notice extra I’m not speaking properly and I can’t anticipate you to learn my thoughts. So how do I higher talk how I’m feeling and what I’m considering, but additionally 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 by. And we’re nonetheless right here collectively. We simply celebrated being collectively 18 years. And yeah, I feel issues may have gone the opposite route.

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

Kait Russo Oh, adverse moments.

Joe Russo And this generally is a adverse second that impacted you in a constructive means?

Kait Russo With reference to RVing?

Joe Russo Yeah.

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

Joe Russo Properly, I feel that huge second you simply referred to was form of a mixture for me as a result of there was numerous adverse rolled into that with how we had been round one another. As a result of I feel once we sat down and talked, what I introduced up was the truth that, you realize, we will’t be on this RV, this small house collectively 24/7 in case you’re not gonna speak to me.

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

I can’t consider any actual adverse moments. I don’t assume, you and I’ve not had numerous unhealthy moments on the highway. I imply, there are positively days the place issues are troublesome. We may be in a nasty place, we get up on the improper facet of the mattress, we would have a bit argument or one thing, however outdoors of that, every thing has been excellent.

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

Kait Russo Oh sure.

Joe Russo Again in 2019. And I’d think about {that a} very adverse 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 anything, however we had been touring to go have a look at an RV we had been contemplating shopping for and it was late at evening. We had 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 onerous drives and backup information and every thing else and all of that stuff was gone. And that basically form of impacted each of these occasions which had been very shut collectively, the motorbike crash and the backpack, form of impacted our trajectory of our lives and what we had been doing.

It most likely modified the RV that we had been gonna get. It modified a few of the various things that we had been gonna do. And though on the time, that felt like a really adverse factor. It actually made numerous constructive impacts on our lives and a few of the issues we had been doing, the RV we had been contemplating shopping for and numerous different stuff.

As a result of that put us in clearly a really unhealthy psychological house once we went to go have a look at that RV. And neither one in all us, we most likely, we had been going there to purchase the RV. Fortunately I’d saved the cashier’s examine in my pocket, not my bag. However that mentioned, it was, we most likely would have purchased the RV that will have been our subsequent RV. And I don’t assume it could have been the factor that we wished or the factor that took us to the, or modified our lives in such a means 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 around the globe. That second additionally most likely was the start of main us to the place we’re in the present day, part-time RV vacationers with a house base.

Joe Russo Yeah, as a result of on the time we had been full-time in our truck camper that we had simply taken supply of January of 2020. As Kait talked about, we had 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 try this.

When issues begin shutting down, particularly proper after the pandemic form of actually hit, numerous the companies that we and plenty of different RVers use had been shut down. And people being like RV parks and campgrounds weren’t permitting individuals to return in or they had been simply closed. All of the gyms and issues we use for showers, numerous these companies had been now not out there to us. There was speak that they had 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 mentioned, you realize, now will not be a great time to be utterly reliant on this truck, the camper, and what we’ve round us. We want our own residence base. And that’s once we actually significantly rotated and mentioned, I feel now’s the time for us to begin trying.

Whereas we had all the time sooner or later deliberate to have a house base once more, it was that answered the why. Why get off the highway? Why cool down once more?And it was actually so we may have a spot we may name dwelling. And if one thing ever occurred, we all the time had a spot we may come again to. Did I did I form of nail that?

Kait Russo Sure. You nailed it.

One final thing 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’ve now will not be a base we’d have ever picked if we didn’t expertise our life. Within the sense that.

RVing full-time made me notice and reevaluate the issues which might be necessary to me, like bodily objects, but additionally location. And the factor that I really like a lot about RVing, particularly within the get-go, and the explanation we stayed in Flagstaff for 10 days as a substitute of 1 was this, I liked tenting within the forest amongst the bushes and being so related to nature.

All of that have actually helped us form of decide the place our base is, as a result of I need to be related to nature. But additionally reevaluating form of like what issues we want 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 wished to get out of Los Angeles. And I keep in mind us simply searching for houses and across the nation and attempting to get an thought of what issues had been like. We all the time appeared within the metropolis. We wished to be near every thing. We wished to be within the metropolis. You recognize, if we acquired jobs or once we acquired jobs, we’d 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’d have performed earlier than.

And to Kait’s level, not solely has RVing modified it, however so has this life-style. We’ve been capable of form of create and mould a way of life wherein we will dwell the place we need to.

As soon as Kait got here up with the concept to do that, it’s all been about residing the life we would like. And that’s what we’ve been attempting to impart and assist with all of you watching and listening to that is what can we do? What assets 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 could be a good place for this to finish.

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For those who’d wish to study extra in regards to the 12 months and a half that we spent prepping for this life on the highway, you’ll be able to take a look at my first guide, 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 guide, Tales from the Open Street.

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