[rara_drop_cap font_size=”rara-drop-cap2″]H[/rara_drop_cap]ello! My name is Tyler and I’ve recently decided to purchase a RV in order to travel all around the US. I often wonder why we go off to some exotic places all over the globe, when we have some of the most amazing, hidden places here in the US.
I have a background in technology infrastructure and I currently work from home. Working from home simply means I can work from anywhere I have a phone, internet, and power. Sure, I have some occasional needs to be at an airport or on-site at a client, maybe even back to our company offices for a visit. But, there are multiple means of getting to an airport or other transport facilities fairly quickly these days.
Having grown up with camping a second nature in our family, from our pop-up camper for family of six (yikes, thinking of that now!) to my dad doing a bus-to-RV conversion several years later, being a Boy Scout until age 18, having my own pop-up camper, to tent camping over the years, I thought it would be an awesome opportunity to do some full time RV living. What better time to do this? Life is short. For all I know, I could take another job in six months that requires living in a house within a few miles of an office. How boring would that be 🙂 ?
Our family purchased into the Thousand Trails Camping Network back in the early 80’s. One really nice thing about doing such is the limits for camping were less restrictive back in those days than they are now. A lot of the rules and restrictions have changed over the years with Thousand Trails, and at least once my parents were able to upgrade the membership. This membership allows an unrestricted number of days per year of camping, but, they do have some restrictions. For our membership, those are:
After a bit of confusion, and some phone calls, what that really means is we are able to stay in a park for 3 weeks, and then need to leave. When we leave, we can go immediately to another park and start 21 days over again. We just can not return to the last park we were at until we have been away for a minimum of 7 days. That’s a really nice deal! The good and the bad is at least once per month I need to find a new place to go. However, I don’t think that’s a bad thing – it will keep me moving and on the go. Thousand Trails has quite a few parks in their system as well as works with several other systems to provide ample camping facilities across the US.
Thousand Trails also offers for most of their sites free electricity, water, sewer, and in some parks WiFi. Thankfully, I also still have my truly unlimited data plan so I shouldn’t have any issues connecting to the internet.
Here’s a quick video I put together as an introduction to my adventures. Let me know your thoughts below!
RVworking is a blog I’ve put together in order to keep in touch with friends and family. I hope that through this blog I am able to capture the beauty of my adventures, the struggles, challenges, and rewards of being a working, full time RV’er.
Through this site, I hope to map out all of the places I’ve been, the places I’d like to go, and pictures, videos, and people I met throughout my journey. My goal is not a destination, but the journey. I plan on taking slow trips and enjoying wherever it is that I go!
I hope this site will become interactive, and that you will follow along, comment, leave questions or recommendations. I’d love to hear from you!
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