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 part of us as we share our private narrative, detailing how the RV life-style reshaped our views and led us to a path crammed with surprising challenges and fulfilling triumphs. From the preliminary spark of inspiration to adapting to life on the street, we open up concerning 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 may be the proper matter to type of introduce you to the podcast, who Joe and Kait are, and actually type of our backstory. And on the finish of this, we’ll type of get into why we’re doing the podcast and what you may 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 instructed 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 should be one second. When 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 type 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, it is a yr and a half earlier than we hit the street, 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 faux household and journey in an RV all the way down to Mexico to make his drug run. And one way or the other that film left an impression in me of, hey, we might 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-about 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’d spend together with your mother. And that day, I used to be simply all issues type of aligned the place I used to be having a extremely tough day on the subject of work. And eventually that night I simply, I hit a breaking level and I checked out Joe and I mentioned, let’s simply promote the whole lot, purchase an RV, hit the street 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 evening that I used to be leaving to go to my mother’s and Kait stopped me and mentioned, are you able to critically take into consideration this? I wasn’t joking.

And on the experience dwelling, I begin occupied with it and one thing my father instructed 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 thought of it for a minute and he checked out me and mentioned, take dangers and have lots of kids. 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 occupied with it and I used to be like, you recognize, that is a type of instances in life that may be a threat, an enormous threat, however let’s do it. So I referred to as Kait up and I instructed her.

Kait Russo Yeah, and the remainder is type of historical past. We began planning for a few yr. So the preliminary concept, as soon as Joe got here on board to this full-time RV life, was we had been gonna do it for a yr. Strive it out and type of take a break, hit the reset button on our hectic life that we actually wanted a change. So we’re planning, procuring, 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 basically went full commit on this plan to full-time RV for no less than a yr.

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

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

Joe Russo Okay, so I’ll inform my second. And you probably 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 street?

Joe Russo As soon as we hit the street. So we hit the street in September 2015. And a few month later, we had been at some extent the place the honeymoon was over. So there may be this era of, I’d say, per week between after we give up our jobs and after we truly left.

And that was one of the crucial superb 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 yr that we had been presupposed to spend on the street touring the nation. And there was completely no worries. Effectively, not worries, however no commitments, nothing that needed to be completed.

It was type of like while 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 your entire summer season and it’s so stress-free and free. Then we received on the street. And I’d say the honeymoon on the street most likely lasted like three, 4 days of us simply stress-free and having fun with. And to me, I’d been at my firm for 10 years and I believed this was simply gonna be like a large trip for a yr.

Effectively, a few days after we begin, Kait right here begins eager to get on her laptop computer and go to the native espresso store to work. And I’m like, okay, properly, I suppose I’ll go together with you if you wish to use Wi-Fi as a result of we had began a weblog to type of sustain, assist household and mates 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 telephone browsing the web, no matter, simply stress-free, having fun with a cup of espresso whereas Kait was busy typing away.

Effectively, quick ahead to a few 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 fallacious or she did one thing and we might simply be getting in these arguments for no purpose and I used to be considering to myself, you recognize, if this continues on, I don’t wish to proceed RVing. This sort 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 happening the street, as a result of it was this beautiful 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 type 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 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 of bit shorter than that.

Joe Russo It was some time. Anyway, she doesn’t discuss to me your entire time, though I’m asking her what’s fallacious, nothing. And we get all the way down to type 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 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 that they had the picnic tables and stuff. And I mentioned, uh-oh, right here it comes.

Lengthy story brief, mainly 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 interested by 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’d say in a short time as soon as we hit the street full time, I simply fell in love with the liberty and the flexibleness of RV life. And a yr was not going to be lengthy sufficient. And I feel for me, it was much less of a, hey, we’re gonna take a yr off and journey full-time in RV round the USA with our canine and switch in additional to a brand new life-style, a brand new approach of 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 preserve 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 yr with none revenue. And so the again of my thoughts goes, okay, we will lower prices, have a look at methods to earn an revenue on the street. And the way will we make this work in order that we will preserve going?

Joe Russo Yeah, however the factor is, Kait didn’t share any of this with me. This was simply type 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 yr is. Why are we going to love, why trouble posting to a weblog or an Instagram account? I’m like, positive, our mates can comply with us, however I actually don’t care. I simply wish to loosen up and simply let me do my factor for a yr.

Effectively, after we sat down, Kait lastly defined all of this to me and like, you recognize, I really feel the identical approach. I don’t wanna return to a job or let me rephrase, I don’t wanna return to type of the company life-style that we had been dwelling 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 again and again. And the one actual time the 2 of us had collectively was you recognize, 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 completed.

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 revenue and type of offset our prices and keep on the street longer and all of this stuff. I used to be like, all proper, you recognize 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 finally what ended up taking place was we began getting actually severe with the web site. That was first. After which we began the YouTube channel and received the YouTube channel going. And that’s actually when issues began to type of take off for us.

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

Kait Russo I had a superb 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 affect 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 occupied with the subject for this episode, which is the second that our RVing modified our lives, it very properly might have gone the opposite route, 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 positively wouldn’t have had the YouTube channel, the web site, the rest. I feel we might have gone our separate methods, offered the RV and figured issues out from there.

Kait Russo Yeah, and I feel we might go most likely do a deep dive on a separate episode of the affect that RVing has on relationships with the individuals that you just’re touring with. Type of much like the talks that we’ve completed round how do you thrive and survive as a pair in a small house, whether or not it’s an enormous 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 street 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 type 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 of teardrop.

So with the kind of RVing that we’ve completed now for therefore a few years, I really feel like it’s such a powerful a part of my id now. Each time I take into consideration touring, even internationally, I take into consideration, hey, might 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’ve 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 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 street 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 received 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 last 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 street 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 follow me, as a result of they had been my first experiences with RVing and so they had been wonderful.

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

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

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

Joe Russo No, now we have loads of wonderful instances on the street. 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 after 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 might transfer into the RV and dwell out of it.

Effectively, we didn’t have any type of hookups at dwelling. So when the grey and black tanks stuffed 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 primary streets. Rapidly, the entire drawers and the whole lot flew open as a result of we forgot to verify they had been locked in place. As soon as all that noise and the whole lot occurred, the canine freaked out. I had Leo our husky crawl below my legs the place clearly the gasoline pedal and brake pedal and the whole lot, 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 happening. I had her take the canine, took a second to place the whole lot away, after which we drove to the factor. The subsequent time the canine had 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 creating positive the doorways are locked and the whole lot else in between in order that we’re able to go after we hit the street.

So I feel that’s type of a superb lead-in to type of what individuals would possibly 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 best way and just like the information that we’ve gathered and sharing that with all of you.

Joe Russo Yeah. Except for towables, we’ve been in nearly 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 completed it abroad. Now we have lots 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 lots of nice mates at lots 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 matters and issues, tell us down within the feedback beneath what these may be. What issues would you prefer to see out of this podcast? Are there matters you need us to cowl? Sure individuals you need us to attempt to discuss to about RVing and what it’s like and the whole lot else.

Kait Russo I’m actually excited concerning the podcast. I do know that is one thing that Joe has needed 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 virtually eight years.

Kait Russo Effectively, 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 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 type of do present notes and the whole lot too on the web site so you may 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 pleasant or the factor that you just like essentially the most about RVing?

Joe Russo Ooh, I’d say that adjustments over time. Once we first hit the street throughout that honeymoon part, it was simply the, like with the ability to loosen up, being away from issues, however on the identical time whereas touring, you’ve your house and all your stuff with you.

I feel for me that’s been one of many key issues in RVing. We get lots of, I’ve seen lots 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 might be individuals who pop in and say, properly, for the price of that, I might do X quantity of days flying and staying out of inns and the whole lot else. And I agree with that. You completely might.

The distinction is while you’re RVing and what I discovered and what I like about it’s while you go from one place to a different, while you fly, you go to the airport, you rise up within the air, you fly over the whole lot and you then land. Whenever you drive, you get to see the whole lot that’s in between. We discovered lots of wonderful locations throughout that drive.

And we, except we completely should get someplace for a reservation or one thing now we 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 by way of 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 lots 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 essentially see and expertise that place which is one thing you don’t get while you’re flying.

After which in fact there’s the inns. Lodges are nice, however on the identical 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, after we had been dwelling full time, we had the whole lot with us.

We had our winter garments with us, our summer season garments, our climbing sneakers, our flip flops. Every thing. So no matter you felt like carrying or doing that day, you had been outfitted for it. And also you had your snacks and also you had your kitchen and all your stuff. You don’t get to try this while you’re touring by airplane to a lodge and the whole lot else except you’re bringing large quantities of bags with you. And even then you may’t even convey that quantity of stuff.

And I’ve instructed Kait it’s tough for me to journey now through airplane as a result of in my head, I’m considering, okay, it’s a must to keep in mind the whole lot you could convey with you. You need to plan it out and also you’re not going to have the ability to convey the whole lot 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 frame after we had our truck camper and we might go off-roading out in the course of nowhere, which is one thing we couldn’t do after we had been in our Class A motorhome.

And we might type of choose 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 keep in mind your mother telling me a narrative about the way you had this blanket that you just prefer to take in all places 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 large foodie, at all times 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 Effectively RVing positively modified the best way I cook dinner as a result of going from a home to a Class A RV, which is pretty massive to what now we have now, you’ve restricted house when it comes to how a lot cooking gear and devices that you may convey. And so being extra inventive 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 completely different. Cooking is completely different now.

I wanna return to your large second of how RVing modified your life. I feel that can be a really large second for me as a result of I used to be very a lot part of that relaxation space dialog and type of the issues that received 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 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 way of. And we’re nonetheless right here collectively. We simply celebrated being collectively 18 years. And yeah, I feel issues might have gone the opposite route.

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

Kait Russo Oh, destructive moments.

Joe Russo And this generally is a destructive second that impacted you in a optimistic approach?

Kait Russo With reference to RVing?

Joe Russo Yeah.

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

Joe Russo Effectively, I feel that large second you simply referred to was type of a combination for me as a result of there was lots of destructive rolled into that with how we had been round one another. As a result of I feel after we sat down and talked, what I introduced up was the truth that, you recognize, 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 lots. And the stuff main as much as that was very destructive for me.

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

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

Kait Russo Oh sure.

Joe Russo Again in 2019. And I’d take into account {that a} very destructive second in addition to shortly, not too lengthy thereafter, my backpack getting stolen which had for individuals who, I don’t know if we ever actually talked about this a lot in a video or the rest, 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 laborious drives and backup recordsdata and the whole lot else and all of that stuff was gone. And that basically type of impacted each of these occasions which had been very shut collectively, the bike crash and the backpack, type 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 among the various things that we had been gonna do. And though on the time, that felt like a really destructive factor. It actually made lots of optimistic impacts on our lives and among the issues we had been doing, the RV we had been contemplating shopping for and lots of different stuff.

As a result of that put us in clearly a really unhealthy psychological house after we went to go have a look at that RV. And neither one in every of us, we most likely, we had been going there to purchase the RV. Fortunately I’d stored the cashier’s verify 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 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 yr for us.

Joe Russo Very transformative yr.

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 all over the world. That second additionally most likely was the start of main us to the place we’re immediately, 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 transport 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 type of actually hit, lots of the companies that we and lots 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, lots of these companies had been not obtainable to us. There was discuss that they had been going to cease or not permit individuals interstate journey, which might have remoted us in a single space of the nation and all of those various things.

It was a type of moments the place we mentioned, you recognize, now will not be a superb time to be utterly reliant on this truck, the camper, and what now we have round us. We’d like our own residence base. And that’s after we actually critically rotated and mentioned, I feel now’s the time for us to start out wanting.

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 street? Why calm down once more?And it was actually so we might have a spot we might name dwelling. And if one thing ever occurred, we at all times had a spot we might come again to. Did I did I type 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 now we have now will not 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 might be essential to me, like bodily gadgets, but additionally 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 liked tenting within the forest amongst the bushes and being so related to nature.

All of that have actually helped us type of choose the place our base is, as a result of I wish to be related to nature. But in addition reevaluating type 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 concerning the RV, we knew we needed to get out of Los Angeles. And I keep in mind us simply on the lookout for houses and across the nation and attempting to get an concept of what issues had been like. We at all times seemed within the metropolis. We needed to be near the whole lot. We needed to be within the metropolis. , if we received jobs or after we received 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 completed earlier than.

And to Kait’s level, not solely has RVing modified it, however so has this life-style. We’ve been in a position to type of create and mould a life-style wherein 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 attempting 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 assist you 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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