What’s next in the scheme to live, work, and travel in an RV full-time? The remote positions have been acquired so work is taken care of. Now we need to talk about living in an RV. Can we really pull this off?
Our apartment lease would be up at the end of June, it was now March. We made our list, our prayer list. Also, our to-do list. If this was going to happen by June, we need at least an RV and a plan to transition from the apartment to RV.
Two years before, we purged our five-bedroom, two-car garage house to move to a 1500 square foot two-bedroom apartment. The second bedroom was for our youngest daughter, Anna. It was heart wrenching at times to sell or give away the stuff you have accumulated from years of raising and homeschooling 5 girls. Now we will do it again. To move from the apartment to an RV was going to take even more brutal reduction of personal items. It’s not just the quantity of things we need to be concerned about; we need to consider the weight of what we do decide to keep. At same time
Besides purging, we need to find the right RV. By right I mean we need to be able to both work in it with two standup desks and be able to be still married at the end of the day. We have tried working in the same room before. It is not a pretty sight. Tracy’s job takes tons of focused concentration reviewing legal real estate documents and I like to talk to my wife. Working in the same room wasn’t going to work so we needed an RV that had another space that could act as office space for one of us while the other of us worked in the main living space.
Enter the bunk house. It’s an RV that has an extra room. That room has a bunk on the wall and a loveseat that turns into a bed. We figured we could pull the bunk and the love seat and put in a desk. In all our research we found this is a common layout. This was what we needed. It’s like realizing that you need a 5-bedroom house or a house with a basement. It really helps to focus your search, but It also makes you realize that an available used RV with a bunk house is not that common. To keep our expenses down, we wanted to by a preowned RV. Do you think the praying continued? It did.
The prayers were answered. We looked at three in total and the third one was it. It had everything we needed, it would be available before June 1st, and was in our price range. Yay, well almost. Where are we going to put it.