After our very long honeymoon trip, which was fabulous, we had to get back and jump right into getting caught up again with life. There is so much I should have blogged about during that trip. How much I loved the western side of Canada, and how great Victoria was. How we swam in so many cold places, seeing the Olympic National Park, Calistoga, San Diego, Tijuana, Moab, The Grand Canyon. I seriously could write for days about each place. After our trip, we had a couple weddings to attend as well, so we were very busy. I had a couple trips planned as the MOH to my bestie's wedding. All of this made our 2017 packed with trips, and since we own our own business, it's hard to take time off of work. So ALL of these trips involved leaving the RV and going by plane.
This is where it gets hard for the both of us. We are the biggest dog lovers around, and leaving them behind is extremely hard. The first time we left them for a few days, we used a company called Rover. We had used them in the past when we both were working the shutdowns all over the country, but this was the first time we had someone stay in our RV to take care of the boys. It all went wrong. she never updated us on how they were doing, and when we returned our neighbors said she left the door open all night and didn't stay with them at all. This truly upsets me...how can someone who works for a dog company be this cruel to animals?? I don't get it. The biggest problem was that we had to leave for my best friend's wedding two weeks after this happened. I really didn't want to leave them again, but thank goodness one of our friends helped us out big time and watched the dogs. This was a HUGE relief!
We just went on a trip to Mexico for Rich's 30th birthday, and after meeting this nice lady from Rover, we decided to give them another try. She was great with them, but the RV is extremely tricky to work on in winter temps. Needless to say all the problems the furnace could have had, happened while we were away. So here is the problem...how do you explain all of the little things you learn about living full time in an RV to someone that has never been in one? It's impossible! To this day, we still find new things we are learning about the RV and it's a never ending care.
We've been full timers for almost 3 years, and this has been one of the hardest winters to deal with. We are starting to have to replace a few parts of the RV, and our RV park has been having many issues of their own. One of the crazy moments we had recently was when we went away for New Years, and we came back to our furnace not working, a mouse fried inside of it, all our water pipes completely frozen AND a busted toilet. By 7pm that evening we had replaced our toilet, had the repair guy fix our furnace, and our water was running again. In those hectic moments you wonder why you live in a tiny space with so many moving parts, but after it's all fixed and back to normal, there is no place I'd rather be. The RV life is for sure not for everyone, and as we have lived in it for this long and have seen SOOO much of this country and Canada, I feel very blessed to have had this opportunity.
In the next couple of years I think we will be getting ready to settle down into a house and have our RV for travel. We have so much more we want to accomplish and living a nomad life can be very hard with not having a physical address. BUT the journey of our RV life still goes on, and my goal will be to blog more this year and start vlogging too.
Stay tuned!
