How I got into the RV Lifestyle…
Our 32 year old Oregon built Beaver motorhome with my 35 year old Toyota in tow behind
Starting over…
So Why do we choose to live full time in a motor home, a 296 square foot home on wheels? For me It all started around 2011 while I was in my previous marriage. I owned a house in the country with a barn and shop, I had a really nice boat, a Corvette, trucks, RV, horses, and was working hard to achieve that so called “American Dream.” By all outward appearances I had achieved the American Dream but I was miserable, my marriage was failing, I was drinking too much, my back was failing from 3o years of driving truck, I was a quarter million in debt and working 60-70 hours a week to support it all, and I would have had to keep up working until at least age 68 or so to pay for it all. And then what, if I even lived that long. One evening I was standing in my backyard watering the grass and it suddenly it occurred to me, Why? Why am I working so hard to own this tiny piece of the Earth? Why am I working so hard to own a patch of grass and a few trees when there is millions of acres of grass and trees, beaches and lakes I can enjoy for free. Someone lived here before me spending years of their life no doubt to own that same piece of Earth and right now someone else is there doing the same. And besides, how can one “own” a piece of Earth, We are the Earth, we belong to it, not the other way around.
Something HAD to change.
I ended my failing marriage (not after trying to make it work for years), dumped everything, and bought a cheap RV. I was 49 years old, flat broke but I was free! Relief was immediate, Life got better immediately. Instead of fighting and working hard like we are told and conditioned to do to make the Life I thought I was supposed to have, what we are conditioned to work for, I just let go. I surrendered. I just simply could not live like that another day, so I just let go and walked away with no idea and no plan as to where I was headed. It was the biggest, most difficult and most scary decision of my Life.
Turns out It was the best decision of my Life!
I worked for 3 more years living in the parking lot of my employer in my RV with no hookups saving every penny I could. One day my boss called me to the office and informed me that my position was being eliminated and that I would have to go back to driving truck. I couldn’t do it, I quit, walked over to my RV and headed to the beach where I have been ever since! I was so very grateful I was no longer trapped, that I could just tell my boss NO, I’m not doing that, see ya. This was in November 2019, The last six years since then have by far been the best of my Life!✌️
Our Home at Arizona Beach State Park