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My wife is a member of quite a few Facebook groups related to travel and she tells me about things people discuss sometimes. Typically she tells me the sort of stories that make us shake our heads, like the person from Britain who wanted some advice on getting RV to travel the U.S. and was told it would be simply impossible without a massive rig with twenty slide outs and every conceivable gadget. Obviously, as our lives show, not the case.
Getting too big of a rig is one of the huge mistakes you can make when setting out to live this way.
The problem with big RVs is that -- aside from weighing you down with a ton of crap you don't need, offering up more places to leak water and more things to break -- they limit where you can go. I can count on one hand the number of campgrounds we've stayed in that could accommodate a rig over 35 feet. If you go big, you're restricting yourself to RV parks and Walmart parking lots.
We're 27 feet long bumper to bumper and honestly I wish we were bit smaller so we could get into some places that we can't (for example I know we can't do the main road into San Miguel De Allende because we're a foot too long and I also know we can't drive the road into Natural Bridges, among others).
Then there's the part where these rigs cost about 200K, which is enough to travel the world like we do for about eight years. But of course no one actually owns their RVs. I already know we're anomalous in the fact that we like to own things rather than rent them from a bank.
Now if you get a smaller rig you may not have room for the five or six TVs I see in some RVs. And yes, predictably, I don't own a TV. Which reminds me of a joke, how do you know someone doesn't own a TV? Oh don't worry, they'll tell you.
I really don't understand the TV in your RV thing, but hey to each their own. Except. Except that people regularly ask how we're able to live this way. Round about answer? We don't watch TV. I haven't in well over twenty-five years. Instead I do other things, for example, I taught myself how to program computers in my spare time, evenings, late nights and so on. The times people watch TV. I got pretty good at it after putting a few years into it. And now I can work from anywhere. So yeah, not watching TV is how we're able to do this.
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