Pros and Cons of RV Life

In this episode of the TravelEssary Podcast, we’re diving into the Pros and Cons of RV Life — the good, the bad, and the beautifully unpredictable!

We’re sharing: The freedom and flexibility that comes with life on the road
The challenges nobody talks about (like breakdowns in the middle of nowhere)

Whether you're dreaming of hitting the road full-time or just curious, this episode is packed with insights, laughs, and helpful tips.

Transcript

 We're the Essary family and we're exploring America one destination at a time. On this episode of TravelEssary, we are going to share with you our pros and cons of RV Life. Let's chat.

Welcome and thank you for joining us on this episode. We are super excited to get into the pros and cons of what RV Life is for us.

Now this list may not be for everyone in every situation. , this is pros and cons that are specifically kind of for our family itself and. Without taking up too much time , we have five pros and we have five cons.

. That we definitely want to talk about. Yeah. And I like to start with the cons 'cause I wanna end on a positive note. Uh, so let's get right into it. First con that we could think of, which I feel like everybody would say this is like one of the most major cons is I think so. Small space, lack of storage, lack of space, a small, tiny living area.

And this is from everywhere, from a class A all the way down to your, you know, the,  little buggies that you can pull on the back of your vehicle.  RVs are small. Yeah, they're just small. I mean, they're about, depending on what size you get, but it could be roughly the same size of your typical hotel.

A hotel room. Yeah. And as far as like the average house in America, it's like a quarter of the size. Right.  Even apartments, especially in our area,  apartments are going to be bigger than what an RV is. Yeah. And so that is a definite con whenever you start either.

RV life or you're even traveling on vacation in a rv, you're gonna be in a small, closed in space. Yeah. A small, closed in space. , lack of storage. You're not gonna have room for a lot of things. And if you don't get along with the people that is in the RV very well, that might become an issue of having such a small space.

Yes. Because no matter where you go, no matter where you turn, someone's gonna be there.  So that is definitely the first and probably the biggest of all the cons. Small space. Small space. And for us it's not so much that we're on top of each other, it's more of the lack of storage, I think. Right. And that there's five of us.

Yeah, there are. There's five of us. If it was just you and me, we could probably totally get away with it. Yeah, well we're gonna get away with it with five of us, so we better figure it out quick. Um, I would say the second. Biggest con is they are very maintenance heavy. Yes. , you're gonna run into this no matter what RV you get, you're gonna run into maintenance heavy.

And the reason that they're maintenance heavy is because usually the typical things that break, like such as awnings or , slide outs, , whenever those go out. It's, it's almost an all day repair. Yeah. Just to get those fixed and you have to order parts because not every auto part is gonna Yeah.

Our auto store is gonna have 'em. I was gonna mention that not only are they maintenance heavy, more so than your typical, you know, sticks and bricks home, it's harder to get those parts. It's harder. Absolutely. Find someone who knows how to do those repairs. And if you can't afford it, you're gonna be YouTubing it and figuring out how to do that.

Repair yourself and just pray you're doing it correctly. , most people who do live the full-time RV lifestyle, they say like. Their biggest finances every year goes to like repairs and maintenance. Right. And people try to do preventive maintenance as much as possible. And it definitely helps. Yeah. But it's still a lot of maintenance.

 Just like your vehicle. You're gonna have transmission problems, you're gonna have engine problems if you drive it long enough. Those things are just typical gonna have to do. But you do prevent a maintenance of like change the oil, check the fluids. Mm-hmm. Check the tire pressure, you do all that kind of stuff, but you're still gonna have issues.

And , the same thing with the rv. It's just gonna be kind of on a more specific scale because you are having to order those parts in and it could not only be timely, but it could also be costly. Yeah. I feel like, you know, a normal sticks and bricks home. There's really not a lot of maintenance that you have to do on a weekly or monthly basis.

Like what? Clean out your gutters, mowers, mow the lawn, change , the ac. The air filters. The filters, yeah. Other than that, like what, what else do you do? I mean, until it breaks, there's not a whole lot that you do. Right. And even the repairs of doing that. I mean, home Depot, Lowe's. Any hardware store.

Mm-hmm. You can go down and pick up any kind of water or electrical part that you need in your backup and running in a couple hours, and if you don't know how to do it, there are contractors and handymen all over, over the place, anywhere you go that do know how to do those things. But  with an rv, .

It's harder to find, there's less people and way, way more maintenance and, and the location that you could possibly  be at. Yeah. What if you're in the inside of the, the interstate middle nowhere or like in nowhere, the middle of a national park. Yeah. And you have to fix it on site. 'cause something just happens to break.

Yeah, I mean, not only now you're looking at travel time and then well, and a lot of  RV parks don't allow to do any maintenance on your RV or vehicle while you're in their parks. And so if you can't do any kind of repairs. In their park. You have to get that thing towed out if it's not towable. Right.

And then you have to find somewhere that you can do those maintenance and repairs. And that's actually a problem. Sometimes it is, and, and I understand it because they're looking after their park. They don't want the oils and the hydraulic oil and stuff like that, or you know. An RV to be dismantled for two or three weeks while they're trying to, you know, wait for their part to come in.

So, I mean, I can totally see that. And that's just, you know, that's just one of those things that is gonna happen and it happens all the time. , but number three is something that is unavoidable.  The walls are way thinner in an RV than a typical house or even apartments. And I do know some apartments that have paper thin walls and you hear everything. 

In an RV even, it's like a whole nother scale. It's a whole nother scale because everything from the outside gets in and everything from the inside gets out.  The closer you are to your neighbors, especially if there's , a party, a celebration that's going on.

I know there's been several times where we've been in parks, you know, uh. A couple of campgrounds down from us, three or four of 'em are all kind of getting together, having their family reunion or having some type of 4th of July celebration, a memorial celebration or something like that. And it gets a little rambunctious.

And although there's quiet times inside those parks, whenever it's not quiet time, they kind of get away with whatever they want to get away with. Yeah. And you can't escape that sound even inside. Rv, you're still gonna hear that noise. I remember a few times when we lived in our travel trailers when a storm would blow through.

It sounded so much worse. So much worse in your trailer than it does Oh my goodness. Like in our home now. Yeah. Like you thought , the bottom fell out. And it was just raining cats and dogs and the wind was blowing and about to blow you over. Yeah. And then you walk outside and it's a nice gentle rain with like five mile hour winds.

Yeah. It definitely sounds much worse in an rv and like we're not gonna be able to, I. Have private conversations as much I feel like in the rv as we do in our home. In our home. We can go in the bedroom and shut the door and if we wanna have a conversation that we don't want the kids to hear, you know, maybe we're planning Christmas or something like that, we can do that.

But I don't know if we're gonna be able to get away with that as easy in an rv. 

But in the rv, especially if you're dealing with a mid bunk . If you're having a conversation in the bedroom, you're gonna be heard mm-hmm. Throughout the rv. , and I feel like at night, , I was raised in Dallas as most of you know, and it was so noisy. Mm-hmm. And we,  lived in a lot of apartments and duplexes and things like that.

So noisy. You can hear every siren, every. Dog barking. The cars, you know, it's just so loud. And then I moved more to the rural part of Texas, and the nights are silent. Silent. Like when we lived on our farm, , you might would've hear a coyote or a cow. Yeah. You hear the owls, you hear the crickets.

The crickets, right. And it's silent. But I feel like when you're in an RV park at night, no matter where you are, whether it's a state park and there's people around you or some sort of resort, there's so much noise. There is, and that's because there's so many people that are, there's people and so car traveling, you know, , you hear all of it?

 Living in the country, well, we'll call it the country, although we do have a lot of neighbors where we live here at the lake, but I have to sleep with a sound machine. I can only imagine that once we're in the rv. It's gonna be even worse. Yeah. She might even have enough sound noise to not only keep us nice and quiet, but even the neighbors nice and quiet.

The the neighbors will hear my sound machine and they'll be like, oh, is it raining outside? Uh, but I mean, unfortunately it's one of those things that no matter which one you get mm-hmm. No matter how nice and fancy that it is. Yeah. That's just part of the life.  I think I'm gonna have to get sound machines for each of the teenagers too, because they're like me. They're very light sleepers, especially Ariel. Yeah. And just put sound machines like all over the RV at night and maybe we can all get a decent sleep if we do that and just.

One more thing that kind of separates , and is a con to RV life, , especially if you own your typical house, is the depreciation value, right? We were talking about this earlier , when we were planning our podcast out today. Um, so there's actually no. There's no investment.

No investment. You're not gonna get your money back once you purchase an rv, right? Like you're investing in memories, you're investing in experiences. But as far as like financial investment, it's not there, right? We're, as a house, you can typically purchase a house, maybe fix it up, modernize it, wait for the market for a couple years, and then you're going to sell it for a profit.

Yes, it's very rare you sell. For lower than what you purchased it as. Right. Both of our homes , we sold for significantly higher than what we purchased it, especially this last one, but I don't even know if that's possible with an rv. No, because actually , I talked to one of the guys that was , a salesman, and I'll keep his name and company anonymous, but he even told me, he goes, once you drive this thing off.

It's like 30% depreciation. It's something like that. But his, for what we were looking at and the number that he gave me, it's almost 15 to 20,000. Just pulling outta the driveway. Just pulling it off the lot. Yeah, like if you were to turn around, pull it off the lot in the street, turn it back around and pull it right back in and try to sell it.

You just dropped 15 to $20,000. Yeah, and not only that, most full-timers like to customize, right? Their space. You know, they wanna take the furniture that's in there out, they wanna switch the mattresses, they might wanna do a paint job. And do you know, by doing that, you're depreciating it even though it feels like an upgrade.

Right? And it probably. Is an upgrade 'cause you're not getting the cheap RV mattresses and furniture. , it makes it depreciate as well. , anything you change on it will decrease its value. Right.  If it's not the designated floor plan for that model. Mm-hmm. Anything you do.

Even if you upgrade the sink and or upgrade the Yep. The dishwasher or anything, it actually depreciates the value. You're not gonna get your money back from it. Yeah. And like in our home , when we purchased it, we, you know, replaced lights with chandeliers and we replaced ceiling fans 

and , we did a bunch of upgrading that increased the value of our property, but in a RV that would decrease it in that. Blows my mind a little bit. Yeah. Because even at our house, we replace the roof. If you replace on the roof on a rv, does nothing to the value. Yeah. Same thing with ac. We had to replace our ac, but if we were to do that on the rv, it doesn't raise it.

. It doesn't  hurt it. Yeah. But it's not gonna raise it to make, you know, oh, you have a new system with a new colon and everything else. Because on RVs that doesn't matter. It's the wear and tear on the axle and the frame, and you can never get that back.  So let's go to our last con. This is a big one. I don't think it's that big. Well, we'll see. We're gonna talk about it more.

This one's very interesting.  We're gonna be talking about the minimalist lifestyle, which in my opinion is a huge con. , we're gonna go over to the pros in a minute, and I'm gonna talk about, in my opinion, how it's a pro.

,  so we're gonna do it from both perspectives. Both perspectives. Yeah. It's one of those, you start, it's one of those things that , , it is big depending on your lifestyle and what you're used to and how you want to live, right? , so how is it a con for you? It's a con because you're getting rid of a lot of stuff that.

, you could possibly want to hold onto for not only future uses, but even, um, heritage wise, spoken like a true hoarder. I'm not a hoarder. I know it runs in your family, but I am one of those people that, you know, if I have a two by four that is over two feet long, I can use those all day on any project.

Yeah, you will literally. Like you just did this. I just did it. You held onto that board and was for like eight years and I cried. And you finally used it the other day. I did, yes. That two by six I was, I did, was I was like, I'm getting frustrated. I'm like, why do we have all this crap from old projects that's just sitting in the storage Yeah.

For like eight years and like, I recycle screws as long as the head's good. I absolutely do. I mean, I haven't had to buy screws. Oh, okay. I think I bought my first package of screws sent in in 10 years. So it's a con to you because you can't do stuff like that in an rv. Well, yes, because you're limited on the storage space.

Yes. Because you're limited on the weight that you can carry, which is a big thing as well. Mm-hmm. And so whenever you do that, you know, if you want to keep Grandma China. And a RV is not the place to keep Grandma's China. Yeah. That sucker will break the first time you go down a Texas highway. , but , even  if we're out and, you know, we're going to all these markets and we're going to garage sales and, and just festivals and other things, and we see somethings like that is super cool.

I would love to get that just for a reason. If we don't have the room for it, there's no way we can take it. 

, you gotta start trimming off all the extra stuff and really getting down to the basics, which.

I guess it's not always bad. Yes. Because I actually look at it as a pro. So that'll be my first pro, which all the rest of the pros and cons we agree on. This was the one we didn't necessarily agree on, and I think that it's because of the different lifestyles that we grew up on. I was about to say the exact same thing.

I had a very different childhood than you. Yes. You, um, lived in the same. County, the same area, the same town. Your whole life. Whole life. And until we met. And you only lived in what, three homes? I think by the time I met you. And that was at age 19,  and whereas I moved sometimes several times a year. Yeah. And so because we moved so much, um, we didn't keep much.  There were times we moved like in a day. Yeah. And it was like what we could fit in our vehicle.

That's what we moved with. 

Whereas you being more stationary  until , after we were married, , your family was able to accumulate things Correct. And store things. That's how and stuff. Like that's how we put it. Yep. And so my family, it was completely opposite of that and I'm.

I'm not gonna say I am an extreme minimalist. I thought I was at one time until we started downsizing. Until this process, absolutely. , I can attest to that until we started downsizing, but I really think it's because when we got our first home, our last home that we purchased, and the kids were small.

We really financially weren't set up to just like, get new furniture for it. Um, to deck it out to, it was like whatever our friends and family could give us for free, and that's what we furnished most of our stuff with. Whereas this time I. Financially, we were in a much better place and we bought all new everything because we could, for the first time in my life, I could have something that I chose.

Yes. Something that wasn't secondhand. Right. . And so it was the first time that I was able to choose what I wanted in my home. And so maybe I got a little carried away. I don't know. But you know, even still, when people would come over, they would walk in my living room and be like, whoa, your living room's so empty.

Because like, I am the kind of person, like you have a focal wall and I decorate the focal wall, and then there's nothing on any of the other walls. It's completely bare. I am the type of person that, um, for my clarity of mind, peace of mind, I like simplicity. I like organization and decluttering. I don't wanna see a bunch of stuff. I don't wanna be surrounded by dark or bright colors. I want, I'm the one who opens up the windows in the morning and they stay open until it gets dark.

And sometimes it drives Jeremy crazy, like as soon as I get up, I want the light shining in. I want everything to be open and clean and. Fresh and light. And so I actually see that lifestyle as a pro because it encourages you to simplify and declutter and focus on what's important. And I don't feel that items are important at all.

I mean, there's so many times in so many stories with so many friends , and people that we know that whenever you listen to. Whether they move or just how much stuff they've accumulated. Like the kids moved out. And then just the stuff that they accumulated in those rooms because they had extra storage space.

Yeah, I mean, you would be flat out surprised going through your house of all the things that you have accumulated. Going through this declutter process and kind of going into the mindset of the minimalist , has just opened up our eyes. Yeah, I have realized during this whole process that things that I thought I really liked or really wanted, I actually don't, because as we've had to downsize, it's become clear to me that I would much rather. Make the choice of getting out of here and moving into the RV and get to traveling than I would keeping the things, and the only things that matter to me are like you and the children.

Nothing else  in this house is important to me, and I've realized that. So to me, total pro, to go as minimalist as possible. Which takes us up into the next thing of living in an rv, the family bonding. Okay. I, I know I've done this so many times, but I have to apologize for our 1-year-old. I don't know if you can hear him.

He's teething and he's being very clingy and he's doing his fake whining because he wants me to hold him and I don't know if that's coming across or not, so if it does, I apologize. But yeah. Um. I guess this goes with the  small space, which is a con, but kind of a pro because , it forces you to bond with your family.

It does, because it's gonna put you  in a tight space.  If it's raining outside, then you're inside the rv, but you're making memories and , that's kind of what RV life is all about.  Even if you're just going on vacation for the weekend or for the week, or if you're living in it full-time or you know.

Whenever you're in those situations, it's all about bonding because you getting away from each other really isn't an option unless it's nice weather outside. I will say that if you don't have a good family dynamic, it may actually be a bad thing for your family. Oh, absolutely. The forced bonding, 

but I feel like if you are forcing a family to be together, that doesn't really get along very well, then I think that would hurt your family more than help your family. 

But from what we gather, especially for us and the people that we've talked to,  it's usually that way. If you have a good relationship, everything's gonna be great. Yeah. , it just helps build those connections even more. Because like we said, you know, there's not as much, you know, space or privacy in an rv  like when you're with your  coworkers or you're in the military with someone having that forced proximity all the time, it can either build strong relationships, right? Or, you know, going through all the things that you go through together, or it can make you absolutely hate each other.

Yeah. And so on that point, uh, especially being ex-military in all the different units and all the different people. It was definitely one of those things , you learn to,  get along a whole lot better . 'cause you have to. Right? Because you, you didn't like someone.

You, you still worked with them, you still had that relationship. You still found out about their families and everything else because , you did have that forced proximity and. For us. We're looking forward to that. Although  we have great family bonds right now. We can't wait till we get on the road to have even more and be closer together. Yeah. The closeness isn't really new to us , the kids being homeschooled, living in an RV in the past. , but now we get to do that with new adventures and so yeah, I'm really excited about that.

, and with every new adventure , . We're gonna have to clean the rv. Mm-hmm. And cleaning the rv, especially with the toddler. Oh my goodness. 

You gotta do dishes, , you know, laundry's gotta be put in certain places. Everything has a certain place and it needs to go in that place to declutter. So you don't feel like the walls are closing in. Mm-hmm. But an RV is so easy to clean. Yeah, so easy. Because everything has a space. So it's real quick to be like, oh, that goes here, here, here.

And you pick up three or four items, it's clean. And it's clean. You're done. I feel like that can be a pro and a con. A lot of people will say, well, they get dirty or faster 'cause it's a small space. But I'm like, yeah, but it takes 10 minutes to clean it up. Right?  In a rv, like Misty said, 10 to 15 minutes, maybe half an hour, depending if you're gonna do like some deep cleaning and you're done and you're moving off with the rest of the day.

When we get up in the morning, I want that to be our adventure time, right? I want us to be getting ready to go do whatever we're gonna do or to get work done.  Go hiking, to go on adventures, , to make content , for anything that we're doing while we're on the road, doing it in the morning is just gonna be that much simpler. And if we don't have to worry about. Getting everything packed away and put back in its spot.

Mm-hmm. Then that's just less heartache and less stress on us. Yeah. So having a small space that's super easy and quick to clean is definitely gonna make, um, our adventures a lot nicer. Give us more time and energy for all the adventures we're gonna have. Absolutely.  The adventures that we're gonna have, that's what is our number one pro with an rv. Mm-hmm. Because we can literally go anywhere we want to go. Yeah. We can take it wherever we want to. And it's all of our stuff, it's all of our items, it's all of our household, and we're driving down the road to wherever we want to go.

Mm-hmm. Like you have your cake and eat it too. I mean, if you get the whole shebang,  I mean , like we said, there are definitely cons to the lifestyle, but. I think being able to go wherever you want to go with all your comfort items. You know, like your mattress. I don't know, my mattress is one of my favorite things that we had in this house at the end of the day, but that to me is absolutely worth it.

And the biggest. Pro, biggest pro. And I believe it's one of those things where now I did not used to be this way. I used to be total opposite. I used to be all about the destination. Mm-hmm. I used to be, you know, Hey, we're going to Six Flags. I don't care about the drive there. Get me to Six Flags as soon as possible.

'cause I wanna ride the rides. Yeah. Having kids will change that. Well, we took a trip, I believe it was our second time to Disney World.  And we got into Florida and I was like, whoa, this is beautiful. Like actually a time to like enjoy the drive.

Yeah. The first time we went, I think we were just trying to get there. We were trying to get there because we had a, we drove like 14 hours in one day. Yes. And we were just booking and there was a van full of us and it was kind of miserable. Right. And so we really didn't have time to like. Look around.

Mm-hmm. Because it felt like it was so rushed that we, we missed a whole bunch. I feel like that second Disney World trip was the first time we really learned how to slow down and enjoy the journey. Like both of us. Yes. Not only learned that, hey, this is actually better, but learned how to do that. The scenery in Florida, I guess , maybe , it was the time that we went because everything was green.

Because green, we always go in the spring and everything was beautiful. And whenever we went to Hilton Head and we were going over the hills in Alabama and stuff, and I was like, I. This is amazing, like just stopping on one of the roads Miles. Course, of course Compar looking this to central Texas, so anybody who's in north or central Texas, you totally understand where we're coming from.

Well, and even going around the Austin area where it gets really hilly and like mm-hmm. , the city is kind of , stacked on itself. I mean, even those places , are beautiful places and that's one thing with an RV that you can do that no matter where you stop or where you go.

More than likely you're gonna have something beautiful to look at. Mm-hmm. Like your backyard now turns into Mother Nature and some of the most beautiful places that you could ever be. And yeah, there are definitely resorts that are, I don't know what other phrase to use, but, but ugly. But you choose that.

Right. Like you choose that. You can choose where you wanna put it at the end of the day. Yeah. 

You can go on the Rocky Mountains, you can go out into , the desert in the middle of nowhere. There might not be any Airbnbs or, or hotels or motels, and you still have a great and wonderful time , because you can take your house with you and set up wherever you go. Oh my goodness.

South Padre. Mm-hmm. Those people that we saw that were just, they were just boondocking right on the side of the beach. The ocean. Yeah. I mean, as crazy as whenever we first drove by 'em, I was like, this is plumb nuts. I was like, how these people turn around. I mean, they have some really nice fifth wheels and, and RVs out there.

If you have not checked out our YouTube yet, go check that out because that we actually caught a bit of that on YouTube of where like the road ends in South Padre. It just ends, turns, turns into sand. And before the sand part, there's just people parked on both sides of the Yes. Of the road just boondocking out there.

You can go out there. I don't, I don't know if there's a limited amount of time or what, but you can just go park out. There's nothing out there but beach. Right. There's no houses, there's no hotels, there's, there's nothing. Little businesses. Yeah. , you go out there and then you just kind of chill out where you want to go.

Mm-hmm. , that's one of the things is. Not only do we get to travel in our house and we get to look at all , the scenery, but we get to take all the adventures that are gonna be around that area. Mm-hmm. So we're not tied down to one specific place. We have options. Yes. That's, that's the biggest thing for me.

And, and that's the reason why we're doing this. That's the biggest why is because we like to travel, but this gives us more options for our travel. 

. I've actually been thinking about, um, you know. Utilizing , our social medias in specific ways, like our Facebook will be more of a general information and our YouTube is gonna be our vlogs. And I'm working on what to do with Instagram. But for our TikTok, I've literally  been thinking about doing like, um, front door views .

With travel or something like that, just to show you every morning like what we can see out of our front door and like how it changes drastically going from coast to coast.

 I think that people who are stationary, their biggest pro is different than ours. Absolutely. And because, 'cause we've lived that lifestyle. We've done the stationary rv. Yes. And the biggest reason was because financially it was what made sense for our family at the time.

It's so much cheaper. It can be. It can be a vast majority of the time, it is so much cheaper. Yeah. To stationary. RV life than to buy a home, than to buy a home, rinse an apartment. . Anything like that? , it is vastly more cheaper. I'm not even sure if that's even a sentence.

It is cheaper to live in a RV stationary than it is really to do anything else. Now, there are some of those that. . Like those bougie resorts. Yeah. Or they could be really bad resorts and you're still paying the top dollar for it. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I think, you know, depending on what state you're in, what part of the country, um, for instance, California and Texas, huge difference.

What I see people pay as a monthly rate in California is almost triple the price of what our average is around the area we live now. Right. A lot of our places around here are anywhere from three to $600. Right. A month. And that a month usually includes everything except for electric, right? So you're, you're still having to pay for your electric, but depending on what kind of RV you have, it's not gonna be much a hundred, $120.

So what, seven 20? Yeah. I think that was the max we ever spent. Yeah. $720 to stay at a really nice resort that's gonna have the amenities, it's gonna have the pool in places like that. . However, initially, you know, purchasing that rv and then like we talked about all the maintenance repairs and costs, , that can be very costly. . I feel like once you have that and it's bought and you're a frequent traveler, it's definitely cheaper than, you know, spending $1,100 a week for a hotel, absolutely.  And so, you know, having that. That RV life, whether you're stationary or whether you travel, , depending on your lifestyle. We'll put it that way. It can be significantly cheaper, absolutely cheaper than us owning a sticks and bricks home, or renting a sticks and bricks home.  . And we'll talk about this more in a future episode because I really wanna break it down for you. But the way that we plan on traveling and how we have started preparing and planning, it's actually even cheaper than what we're discussing now.

I was actually blown away with the first number that she gave me. Mm-hmm. Because I watched other people that have done this and then I looked at their lifestyle compared to other people's lifestyle on the full-time travel thing and I was like, oh my goodness, there's no way we're doing this. It's more than what I make now.

We can, we can't do this. And then I looked on the other spectrum of going. Well, they're full-time vacationing. Mm-hmm. We're full-time traveling. Yeah. And just the significance just in that makes a huge difference , in the price. Right. Of how you live. Right.  I know we said this and was it our last episode or episode before last?

I really am excited of. Breaking it down for you guys of how little we actually will be spending in our full-time travel lifestyle.  But for us, the full-time travel lifestyle will definitely be cheaper than like our current sticks and bricks, nine to five job type lifestyle that we have.

So overall pros, cons  to RV life. You just have to take what you want and your lifestyle and see if our pros and cons matches up to yours. I will tell you, whenever we did the list and we were really thinking about, okay, how does this weigh one, one way or another? You know, what's, what's the scale? One being absolute cons.

Mm-hmm. There's no reason to do this. 10 being the absolute pros. Um. We're gonna do this with like no cost and be banking and do whatever we want to. If you kind of put all that into scale  this is at least an eight. ? An eight is, it's not all pros, it's not all gonna be sunshines and rainbows. .

And so eight just runs in one of those places where this is going to be great, but I know that we're gonna have. Some cons. Yeah. So I feel like what I was gonna end and say is very similar to what you just said, but in a totally different way. 

I was gonna say, when we were making the list, it was much easier to come up with the cons than the pros because there actually might be more cons than pros. However, the pros are so big to us, like the being able to go wherever you want and the cheaper too. Like they're so big to us that, you know, one or two of those main pros outweigh 20 cons because of where our priorities lie.

Right? And the cons that you're gonna run into are not something that's. Is totally deleted from living in a traditional house or a apartment. It's still things that you're gonna have to mess with, but in an rv, you're just gonna have to mess with them at like a a on a different scale, which. For us is okay.

Yeah. We can handle it on a different scale. Mm-hmm. Because the pros just, they weigh that much. Mm-hmm. Especially the last three that we talked about, which will actually kind of segue into next week's episode, So make sure that you tune in because we really want to expound more on, you know, .

Our plans our dreams, our aspirations for this entire process. , we're going to be talking about living with less and experiencing more, which is our biggest pro and con, and you will not want to miss it. I mean, we're gonna be going into way more detail than what we did here because it's just, it's that important.

And people need to understand the difference of living with less but doing more. Mm-hmm.

So join us next week.