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    How We Rate Campgrounds

    How We Rate Campgrounds (And Why Our Reviews Are Different) One of the biggest frustrations we’ve had while traveling full-time is realizing that campground reviews rarely tell us what we actually want to know. A campground can have hundreds of five-star reviews and still not be a place we’d ever stay again. Sometimes people rate a campground based on the pool. Sometimes because the Wi-Fi worked. Sometimes because they had one bad interaction with the office. None of those things tell the full story. Since we live in our RV full-time, we experience campgrounds differently than someone staying for a…

  • What Full-Time RV Life Actually Looks Like With 3 Kids

    What Full-Time RV Life Actually Looks Like With 3 Kids When people hear that we sold our house and moved into an RV full-time with three kids, they usually picture one of two extremes. Either they imagine a nonstop vacation — national parks, campfires, mountain views, and endless freedom. Or they imagine complete chaos — five people crammed into a tiny space, no routine, no privacy, and a whole lot of stress. The truth is somewhere in the middle. Full-time RV life with kids isn’t a permanent vacation, and it isn’t a disaster either. It’s just regular family life lived…