For some people who personally know at least one of us, full-time RVing would be the last thing you'd expect us to do. This is something we've seen when talking with other couples as well: One wants to sit at home with the IT job and just do gaming, while the other wants to live in the RV. But how would you ever consider actually going on the road with a life like that?
The most important mindset to have about full-time RVing is that it's all about wanting to travel and see the country. We've always had this in mind, and is ironically why we first started going together all those many years ago. She likes to road-trip but hates being behind the wheel, while he likes to drive on road trips. It only seems natural to want to head out into the vastness of the good ol' USA. Full-time RVing doesn't have to be seen as your traditional camping trip anymore, although you can certainly make it that if you want it to be. You could be a hobby gamer and live in an RV these days if you really wanted to, as well as telecommute your job, have all the basic comforts that a traditional house or apartment would have, and the only thing that really changes is what you see outside your window every now and then.
For us wanting to do the whole full-time RV thing, it's actually been years in the making. Although we both grew up not too far from each other and still have connections to those areas, we weren't necessarily the happiest with our region; we simply tolerated it. In fact, we almost started the adventure five years before we actually did. It's a bit of an interesting story, where his job was considering the possibility of everyone working remotely. Unfortunately, the high-ups believed that people working remotely wouldn't actually do their jobs, so the idea was nixed. If it had panned out, we'd have already been on the road, probably testing out some of the latest technologies of the day, but alas, we'll never know. Fast forward a few years, and the disillusion with the region, coupled with the settling of certain affairs, reached a point where the opportunity to escape presented itself, so we took it.
So the next time one of the Internal Compasses wants to take you on the road, don't rule it out because someone is a home-body. There's something for everyone out here.
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