#living in a rv

[passportkings]

Tips for Selling Your Home to Live in an RV as a Digital Nomad

Living on the road in an RV as a digital nomad is a dream for many individuals looking to find new opportunities and experience alternative lifestyles. Whether you’re looking to pursue your career remotely or enjoy the freedom of the open road, to live in an RV can be an exciting and gratifying experience. Here are a few tips for anyone looking to sell their home and hit the road as a digital…

[backroad-life]

Credit: Backroad-life

[zivazivc]

I came up with Floyd's (other) ex band mates and then I went a little insane about them. . . Anyway they're all alternative trolls who adopted him into their group. They play nu metal at underground gigs but mostly they just go to raves and get stoned out of their gourds.

original photos under the cut

I googled "90s rave photos" and had such a hard time choosing which to draw. i might make more of them in the future...

[promiseofanewday]

TastyInteriors

[cheaprv]

Zion National Park, Springdale, Utah. Photo by Calvin Ma.

[cyb3rpvnk]

SEULGI ❧ 'CHILL KILL' Countdown Live

[puppppppppy]

is this your card? ♦️♣️♥️♠️ it isnt but you dont wanna hurt his feelings

[ratisangy]

Realities Of RV Living

I feel this needs to be discussed as sadly it may become more of an option for many people as the cost of living increases. I want to provide a realistic look into this life. Unless you are well off with a luxury RV, what you typically see on social media is not even close to reality.

Traveling and Long Term RV Parks

Ask about rates monthly and compare multiple parks. Make sure to ask if the rate is the same all year long. Also, ask if utilities are included. You can save a lot of money by not having to pay electricity. Some parks don't have one of the main hookups, so make sure eletricity, water and septic are all available.

This is only good when you have a new properly functioning RV. When you live in something older and in bad shape, it means a broken part, packing up your entire life, and finding a new park friendly to long-term stay. I've moved 3 times in 2 and a half years.

The first RV park was $750 a month plus electricity ($100 in summer $200 in winter) and had multiple times were we were without power or had no use of our septic. Many of the times without power it was single digits or in the negatives. We got 120 inches of snow and had to make a homemade rv skirt of a tarp and pack the snow like an igloo around the rv to stay warm.

The second RV park was $350 plus electricity ($150 summer). This park was more affordable but had a lot more issues. Our neighbor had frequent septic issues and we often had it leak onto our rv space. We also were next to the septic for the whole park. So basically the smell of shit was ever present. It got to 110 F here and we basically ran the AC until it broke as heat exhaustion always felt right around the corner.

Third park arguably the nicest park is $550 utilities included only catch is $1200 a month in summer months. (No I don't live in a high value area either most of the town and houses are literally abandoned). It's a franchise park and the owner isn't even supposed to offer long term but deals with it for the insane price he gets in summer. I haven't had issues with electricity or other people's sewage here. Basically one good employment place here and my fiancé gets retirement, so that made it worth the move.

Extreme cold

Frozen septic and frozen water lines are a huge and common issue, especially in older, less insulated models. You can put insulation around the pipes and drip water all you want its going to happen if it's cold enough. So get comfortable with the idea of taking warm buckets of water and a rag to your septic pipe and pouring warm water down into your septic. A smell you will never forget ❤️.

Insulating the rv is very important from being almost 3 years in. Here's the best way to avoid hypothermia. Get R-tech insulation board and stuff it into your windows then cover it up with a blanket. Put this behind your pillows as well so heat can stay in the bed area. Find pre-owned carpets and cut them to fit in your rv so the floor remains warmer. Get socks or cozy slippers to wear most of winter. Your floor will most likely never be a comfortable warm and you may be at risk of hypothermia depending on tempature. Dress in layers put on two pants a shirt and a sweater and socks and slippers. If you need to gloves and a hat as well. Put a blanket over your door. Making a rv skirt out of a tarp and super gluing velcro to the tarp and rv can be useful. Use concrete blocks to hold down the ends. Depending on wind speed this can be hard to keep in place though.

As much as this may sound like a joke it's currently saving me. Xbox 360 consoles make ALOT of heat if you run a DVD that replays itself in the background all night it will warm your sleeping area. If I die I will fade out to the Do The Mario theme song I guess 🥲.

Extreme Heat

Just pump up your AC and have alot of ice packs and cold water. This is going to suck and may kill your AC. The smell oh god the smell will make you want to die. Your septic will boil in the heat and make BAD soup. Less things will break on your RV than extreme cold.

Mail

If your RV park doesn't allow you to get mail at the park its going to suck ass. PO Boxes are the most annoying things on earth. UPS and certain FedEx mail will not deliver to them. Most companies will not ship to them. Even if they say they do. You will often get packages shipped all the way to your post office only for them to be rejected and sent back to the seller. The crapiness is exemplified if you live in a very rural area like I do. Just ship to a family member and pay them to ship it to you in a USPS box only!

RV Common Issues

Too high of water pressure

Get a pressure gage/regulator a park with to high of pressure can cause your lines to burst

Electricity Surges

Get a surge protector a bad surge with no protector can permanently fry your eletricial system. The protector saved me on a bad surge that literally set my plug on fire 🔥.

Eletricity Constriants

Older 30 amps don't have much power. Depending on the appliances you may have to choose to use one at a time. Want to use the heater and your Ninja to cook? Well, enjoy tripping your breaker. In fact just get comfortable with your breaker you'll be spending alot of time with it as you figure out what appliances aren't friends.

Septic

You will spend way to much time with your septic. Whether it be unfreezing, unclogging, general emptying or trying to find a product that doesn't harm it but keeps the smell down during hot summers. Get Scott thousand ply tiolet paper or just cheap thin tiolet paper. It's very similar to the rv specific tiolet paper and way less money.

Water

Pex pipes are cool and easy to repair replace your lines with them. With cold your water lines of course have the chance to freeze or burst. Keep them insulated and use the warm water wash cloth method to unfreeze. Just make sure not to leave wash cloths on the pipes for to long or they will also freeze.

Propane

Please please please check your models history with propane if you plan on using it. Some were built with manufacturing issues that cause them to blow up. There's not many left of my model due to this. It also means I have no central heating or use of the oven.

Laundry

If your park has a laundry mat awesome but this not usually the case. Locate your nearest laundry mat and take that into consideration when looking for a park.

[jadiaashley]

my favorite part of my rv

[oneknightstand-if]

Merlin's reaction to hearing the thoughts of a very kind and gentle MC that is constantly thinking about killing the harbingers.

Like, MC's going to the kitchen in the middle of the night to grab something to eat and can't help but think how easy it would be to slit someone's throat while they sleep, looking directly to, let's say, Broderick and then to the kitchen knife, only to finish eating and go back to sleep. Or MC paying attention to Gwen's favorite drinks and thinking about offering them poisoned to her after a very physically demanding day, they never go after the poison, but they do go through the thought process of how to get it and hide it from the other. MC passes by Adrian in the RV and thinks about smashing his friend's head against the corner of the countertop multiple times, but they wish him a good morning and go read a book instead.

This would happen constantly, like every day, these very loud and expressive thoughts going through their head, but MC never follows any of the thoughts and just goes about their day normally.

Would Merlin ignore it? Just roll with it? Do something drastic?

If Merlin is hearing this, then it's a superficial thought that the MC is loudly broadcasting and thinking about very hard... yeah, this gif about sums that up.

Merlin already had the Second Lesser Circle sabotaged and wiped out on them. No need to purposefully go out of their way to court a potential Harbinger who has a "I'm a traitor here to kill you all!" bubble floating above their head.

[daisycoloredsims]

rv living - still taking advantage of ulta & sephora deals

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Trailer Coach Manufacturers Association, 1947

[kcrabb88]

One thing that I find really aggravating about people who have never lived in Florida talking about hurricanes is when they're all "WELL JUST LEAVE FLORIDA NOW" bro do you know how long it takes to get out of say, southern Florida? Hours and hours and hours. Florida is so big! My family lives on the east coast closer to the GA border so it's simpler for them to leave. If you live in the south of the state it takes AGES on a good day! Evacuations come down to whether or not you are in a flood/surge prone area and have been told to evacuate. It's actually better to stay put if you haven't been told to go so the roads are clear for those who HAVE been told because unless you take back roads, there's (1) way out to up north pretty much. Impacts vary widely depending on elevation, how far from shore you are, etc. Like, in Saint Augustine, where I lived, the downtown is below sea level so during a bad thunderstorm it flash floods about a foot or so. You don't wanna be there if you're told to evacuate (Hurricane Matthew made this clear). But not every single area is like that. It can make a big difference for people who live right by the water just to go a little inland. I lived in Florida for 5 years and I would never do it again, but it does bug me when people outside the state think they know everything about the it. Not every person in Florida is the guy on his sailboat saying that God will save him. A lot of weird and frustrating stuff comes out of Florida, I get it, but there are actually normal people there who know what they're doing, and this is not even to get into the people who should evacuate and can't. They deserve our sympathy too.

[fragonreal]

eastern lubber grasshopper

[miiilowo]

the corner grows more powerful and more cozy day by day

[cheaprv]

Aspen, Colorado. Photo by Connor DeMott.