- Either the horrors of The Great Purge are ever before you, or the memories of it still plague you in your nightmares until you wake up screaming, “NEVER AGAIN!!! I’ll NEVER accumulate this much STUFF ever again!”
The Great Purge
- You have to inquire about every new acronym or bit of RV lingo you see or hear. What does RL stand for? FTF? What on Earth is an S & B? A toad? What’s the difference between a Class A, Class C, TT, and a 5er? (It won’t take long before it becomes a natural part of your lingo.)
- It doesn’t yet make sense that people speak almost reverently about stabilizers or refer to them as “happy jacks.” Don’t worry. You’ll figure it out soon enough, if you’re lucky. 😉
- You’ve just about gotten yourselves killed in a variety of unique and creative ways. Don’t recognize that funky smell? RUN!
- A few poles, posts or fences have met their demise as you’ve attempted to drive your rig so far this week.
- Your kids still keep each other awake half the night talking like besties but act like they are going to kill each other during the day. Never fear; your little zombies will eventually fall into routine, even in this lifestyle.
- Mastering Tetris, if you’ve never done so before, now seems like a reasonable investment of time. Someday, you may find want to find a way to take down a plate or cup from an upper cabinet without inadvertently transforming the rest of the cabinet’s contents into deadly projectiles targeting any unfortunate soul who happens to be within range.
- You stand in awe of the Instant Pot, but you don’t own one yet. Surely though, based on what you keep hearing, it must be on the level of manna from Heaven. Perhaps it even grows the food for you just by tossing in a few seeds for an hour or two. Whatever it is, you know you need one.
6 in 1 instant Pot
- An odd realization has just dawned on you that 99.9% of all RV designers must live in homes without garbage cans or laundry hampers. What else could possibly explain the lack of foresight in planning layouts that leave zero space for these items anywhere except in the middle of the floor or in the shower?
Because everybody wants to have laundry in their shower…
- You dream big about the places you’ll go… but haven’t yet managed to leave your zip code, let alone your state, yet. Repairs happen, sometimes extensively, even in brand-new RVs. (If this statement is inaccurate and is just our personal experience, please, for the love of all things, let us go on believing we aren’t alone. We need that comfort; it’s all we have left.)
Our USA sticker map is rather blank (we’ve traveled 1.3 miles from “home”)!
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Learning so much from you guys. It would be nice to know if your experience, so far, is unique or normal. Time will tell. Keep writing.
That’s great to hear! From all we’ve seen and read, our “need-to-repair-everything” experience, though common, is not the norm. Many people hit the road and take issues one at a time, as they come up. Some, like us, get an onslaught of difficulties all at once (even with new rigs). But everyone, whether buying new or used, ought to be prepared to expect repairs here and there. And it’s never easy when living in your RV. We have been fortunate to have found a great dealership for service. They allow us to remain in our RV, even overnight, and are gracious about it.
#10 LOL.. Hope you get out of “dodge” soon!
Haha! Why, thank you! We fully expected to have several state stickers up on our map by now. Alas, we will get there at some point. I think we can. I think we can. I think we can. I think we can.
You guys have the patience of Job.
And to think you were trying to talk us into getting an RV. We think will will just live it through reading your emails, posts, and blog. It’s less stressful for us!
Haha! We are getting there! And not everyone goes through long lists of repairs like we did. It will be worth it, Bob! God has a bigger plan than we could ever imagine- I feel it! Right now, though, it seems His plan involves endurance training!