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Making Room for Baby in an RV

February 16, 2017 by BrittanyHighland 6 Comments

Babies are associated with stuff, lots and lots of stuff. If you’re an RVing couple considering a new addition, or have a baby in the family already and are weighing the pros and cons of RV life, you may wonder whether your dreams are remotely realistic. Can you even wash the dishes without waking the baby when your home is 40 feet long or less?

Eric and I have a two-month-old son, Caspian, and are beginning our fourth year of full-time RV travel. We had a lot of discussions about making room for baby in an RV. Some things we could plan for, but other times we couldn’t do much better than, “We’ll figure it out.” We’ve always said the RV lifestyle requires flexibility, and that’s never been more true. Hopefully this rundown of…

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Welcoming Baby Nomad Into the World

January 3, 2017 by BrittanyHighland 6 Comments

Our lives changed forever on Dec. 3, 2016 when Baby Nomad made his grand appearance. Since we’re celebrating his first month of life tomorrow, it’s about time we shared him with you here on our blog. [Read more…]

Quick Hello Before Baby Nomad Arrives

November 29, 2016 by BrittanyHighland 6 Comments

Capturing the moment at 37 weeks

Well, this is it. Baby Nomad’s due date is this Saturday–only five days away. He seems pretty cozy in there, so I won’t be surprised if he shows up late. But one way or another, I expect to have a little boy in my arms this time two weeks from now. [Read more…]

What First-time Pregnancy Is Like for a Full-time RVer

September 22, 2016 by BrittanyHighland 4 Comments

Pregnancy and child birth are two things people tend to picture a certain way. As I anticipated my first pregnancy, I had no frame of reference other than what I knew from word of mouth, limited research and maybe a little Grey’s Anatomy. As a full-time RVer with no plans to stop RVing, my main question was how is this going to work? [Read more…]

Why We’re Cutting Our 2016 Grand Loop Trip Short

June 2, 2016 by BrittanyHighland 17 Comments

We embarked from our home base of Austin, TX at the beginning of January to take our most ambitious RV trip to date. The aptly-named Grand Loop Trip would take us west to California through New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada, then north to Seattle before cutting east to North Dakota and going back south to Texas. It would take eleven months and more than 5,700 miles.

Alas, our epic Grand Loop Trip is not to be. [Read more…]

What It’s Like to Work on the Road as a Fulltime RVer

October 23, 2015 by BrittanyHighland 13 Comments

Not knowing how to earn an income on the road is the number one factor that keeps people who want to fulltime RV from doing it.

I actually made that up, but I’m pretty sure it’s true.

If nothing else, it was certainly true for us. If it’s also true for you, let our story be motivation and inspiration. With planning and courage, you can live in an RV and travel fulltime.

RVing is personalized in so many ways, from the RV you choose, to the types of campgrounds you like to stay at, to the way you earn an income. Rather than providing an exhaustive guide to working on the road, my goal is to share what we’ve experienced. I hope you can relate to the pros and cons Eric and I assessed as we prepared to change our lifestyle, and be inspired by what it’s actually like to be a fulltime, working RVer. [Read more…]

Getting to Know Xscapers, Organization for Working Age RVers

October 19, 2015 by BrittanyHighland 1 Comment

We left the day before this picture was taken, but we did have THIS much fun!

There are numerous membership programs for RVers, each with their own perks. Signing up for all of them is budget suicide, but deciding which ones are right for you can save a lot of headaches. To date, we’ve signed up [Read more…]

RVillage: Platform for RVers We Use Daily

March 13, 2015 by Eric Highland Leave a Comment

To be honest, whenever someone tells us about a new online platform, page or group for RVers, we kind of wince and half heartedly agree to take a look. It’s not that we’re too cool for school, believe me. It’s just that we’re already a member of so many, and most of them we hardly ever use.

Hey, it isn’t personal, we just have a life to live and we don’t want to always be online if you know what I mean. After all, we’re supposed to be out exploring the country, right?

So Many Platforms, So Little Time

But this wasn’t always the case. When we first started full time RVing just over a year ago, we tried to be involved in every group, page and platform we could. [Read more…]

Building Friendships When You Live in an RV

September 6, 2014 by Eric Highland 6 Comments

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that gives value to survival.
-C.S. Lewis

As full-time RVers, we’re often asked, “What is the most difficult thing about full-time RVing?”

I could easily make a list of our standard answers. But one that we feel merits discussion, is building friendships when you live in an RV full time.

Eric and Brittany Highland with Ryan and Michele Newbrough

Our newest RV friends Ryan and Michele Newbrough. We’ve been talking for months and finally met up in Virginia Beach. We’ve already gone out twice and have a third time planned before we leave the area.

We start with the premise that friendship is usually predicated on the fact that you spend time in person with those whom you call friends. [Read more…]

Comparing AT&T Phone Plans After Our Recent Upgrades

April 29, 2014 by BrittanyHighland 6 Comments

New iPhone 5S

Connectivity is almost always a big deal for full-timers. And it doesn’t only matter for those of us who work online. Our retired next door neighbor here in Arlington was just telling us how crazy she gets when she doesn’t have phone or Internet service! We all want to feel connected to our loved ones, current events, and individual interests.

But connectivity comes at a premium. Before getting on the road, we were extremely concerned about our Internet options and the level of service we would have in different parts of the country. Through extensive research, we chose Millenicom’s wireless device for our Internet service. It runs off Verizon’s network, and we’ve been extremely pleased with it (despite the recent price hike). With some advance planning and use of the Coverage? app, I can’t think of a single work day we’ve lost for lack of Internet service.

On the phone side, we’ve had iPhones through AT&T since about 2009. We love our iPhones, and for the most part we’ve appreciated AT&T because of its reliable coverage across the country. But we hadn’t [Read more…]

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