We Moved Into An RV // EP 1

We're Tyler and Madison. Last year we flew across the country to buy an RV that we would end up renovating for 11 months to make it suitable for off-grid living. We sold most of our things and found remote work so we can travel full-time across the U.S. In 2020 we realized that working the 9-5 just isn't what we wanted in this season of life. We wanted to live differently. We don't know what the future holds and that's what's exciting. It's a leap of faith but we know that this is just the beginning of our new life on the road. We drove out of Nashville, Tennessee on a foggy Tuesday morning across the Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri state lines. For one week we stayed in my parents' front yard. Dad helped me put our new awning up. I pushed my nephew on the tire swing, rode bikes with a friend, and finally he left the driveway to hit the open road towards Colorado. We don't have AC on our cabs so when the Kansas heat set in at 3 o'clock we felt it. We were relieved to get to our Harvest Host for the night. We're probably going to leave here at like 6 or 6.30 right when the sun's coming up and try to beat the heat and drive as much as we can to Colorado. I think we got like a four, maybe five hour drive, something like that. Cheers to our first day! May tomorrow be cool. Finally made it to our destination for the night. We're here at a Walmart parking lot. Then tomorrow we're gonna leave and go to Arapahoe Bay campground and hopefully it's only gonna be a three-hour drive. In this thing it'll probably be four because of the motor and how slow we go. Good morning. Finally driving into some mountains today. We made it to Estes Park, finally. Finally. So we are in Estes Park right now and the place that we're wanting to stay at is in a place near Grand Lake and in order to get there you have to go through Rocky Mountain National Park on a road called Trail Ridge Road which goes over the Continental Divide and a little over 12,000 feet. Right now we're about 7,800 feet I think so we're gonna have about 4,000 foot climb in order to get to where we're wanting to camp for the rest of the week. So we'll see what this RV is capable of. Well let's pack up and go. So we got our America the Beautiful pass and that includes all national parks in America you can get into for $80 for the year. So the first time we went through we got the pass then he told us we had to turn around and get out of line and go make a reservation to get into the park because apparently they can only let so So it just delayed us probably 30 minutes. He liked our RV though. Campsite in Colorado so I'm making us dinner. I'm making some pork chops with broccoli and some rice and Tyler's outside with his dad but this spot is only $11.50. We could not believe it. It also helped that we have the America the Beautiful pass so it's already kind of paying for itself but look at this beautiful view. We have the lake over there and you can hear the sound of the creek. He's on FaceTime. It is just so beautiful there's barely anybody around so it is definitely a blessing. But unfortunately we didn't have enough cash to stay here as long as we wanted to. Unfortunately they only take cash or check which we don't really have either one of those so what we're having to do is we'll stay here for two nights. We have enough for two nights and then we'll have to go out of town get some cash and then come back if we want to come back. That's the beauty of this lifestyle thankfully but we do really love it so it's pretty cheap for what you get. I was paddling. I'm not making this up. Our inflatable kayak held up pretty well I think. Yep it's just kind of heavy. It helped us stay afloat which is important. Tonight we are having chicken and rice and we're probably gonna eat outside because it's really hot in here and it's a beautiful sunset. For our last night in this location we are going to take the kayak out and go watch the sunset on the lake. I'm gonna be your roommate. Probably got another 25 minutes till the sun goes down we're just gonna wait and then the wind will take us back real fast as soon as it goes down. We had some noisy neighbors the last two nights so it's nice to have one. One quiet night. But it's so peaceful because there's nobody out here on boats or anything and it was full about six hours ago. Do you see something? Well let's paddle back. This is a good place to end the video. There'll be a lot more videos to come so thanks for watching. Is that a good ending?