There is an old story about a young mother who cut the ends off her Christmas ham before baking it in the oven. When her daughter asked “Mommy, why do you cut the ends off the ham?” She replied “It’s what my mother did. It makes the ham taste better!”
The little girl thought about that and went to her grandmother and asked the same question. Her grandmother replied “It’s what my mother always did. It makes the ham taste better!” The little girl was not convinced. She moved on to her Great Grandmother. “Nana, why have you always cut the ends off the ham?” The old woman replied, “Why dear, my oven was so small, the whole ham wouldn’t fit!”
I feel this story living in an RV. The oven is small, the stovetop is small, the grill is small. You can’t do BIG meals. Combine that with the fact that we have no interest in spending all of our time creating meals and you find ways to simplify. I love the fact that cooking has become so simple when you live in a tiny house.
When it comes to cooking in the RV, we find simple one-pot type recipes that we really like and use those as a basis for our meals. We also do a lot of slow cooker meals and easy RV meals in the stove. We can get creative as we want, but we always try to keep it simple. Our RV and Camp Cooking area is loaded with recipes and ideas for the RV kitchen.
This is a wonderful overview of some of the drawbacks as well as the many benefits to RV life! I think #15 might be one of my favorites, ha!
I know it’s my husbands lol. Thanks so much for contributing to it 🙂
My husband and I, along with our three goldens, traveled the country for about a year. While we did stay 2-3 weeks in some locations, we mostly fast traveled because we took a year off and wanted to see as much as we could. Several months after resettling (yes, buy everything again) we realized how liberating traveling full time was. We are not tech savvy so we couldn’t work virtually. If we had had a steady source of income I have no doubt we would’ve kept traveling. At a more relaxed pace. We miss it.
Hi Candy,
It is really a wonderful way to live. Try looking for travel applications of you and your husbands careers. You may be surprised to find a niche just for you. Glad you had the year you did!
The Foleys,
Sorry, I meant the above email for you! Any insight into the reality of limited RV sites in the US, or difficulty in booking a place to stay is greatly appreciated. It seems that a huge number of people have purchased RVs since COVID-19 and I’m concerned that if we make this investment we will have difficulty in finding RV sites to stay that are in more popular locations. I don’t want to be forced to stay in a place/state that has no real attraction because, it’s the only place available.
I’d appreciate any thoughts you have with this!
HI Kathleen, I understand your concern. We took a break from full time travel last year partly because of the COVID crisis so we have not been making bookings. We have heard a lot about difficulties booking sites as you mentioned. My thinking about that is that the increase may die down just as quickly as COVID dissipates later this year so that pressure will probably let up as many people return to their traditionally forms of travel. We have ALWAYS had a tough time booking for 2 reasons. First, the size of our rig (38ft) and second our length of stay. We have usually tried to book a month at our locations so that we could relax and explore. Finding 30 days in a site in busy campgrounds is tough. We usually have found that looking 30-60 minutes away from the attraction would get much better results. We also found some great campgrounds and good value by doing this. If you have not joined RV’ers Facebook groups I highly recommend doing that- you can get a lot of great info from folks about specific areas. Maybe do some calling around to campgrounds in the areas you want to visit and ask them directly how far forward you need to book. I ALWAYS strongly recommend speaking to campgrounds in person- you will get MUCH better information.
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