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So You Wanna GoFull Time RV NOW WHAT live series - YouTube
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In today’s show, Adrian and Ruth from RV Life with Adrian and Ruth join us to discuss their full time RV life. In this episode you’ll hear all about:
👶🏻Making sure you are still spending time with family/children when you go full time
📃Some important steps to take when choosing your RV
📽️How they combined their passion for filming and travel to make money
And More!
Music:
Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/rocky-mountains
🔗Links
🐶Dog Apps
BringFido on the App Store (apple.com)
Waggle Pet App-RVing with Ease on the App Store (apple.com)
📗Books
The Adventure Challenge - Your scratch-off guide to adventure.
📺YouTube Channels Referenced
Traveling Robert - YouTube
Changing Lanes - YouTube
AirStreamer - YouTube
⛽Fuel Rewards
Get fuel rewards in the myRewards Plus app | Pilot Flying J
Best Rewards Program On The Road (loves.com)
The Fuel Rewards® Program | Shell United States
Good Sam-Club Discounts, Roadside Assistance, Insurance
🛜Internet
Starlink
Reliable 5G Home Internet service | T-Mobile 5G Home Internet
Applicable Blogs: The Importance of Mobile RV Techs: https://atravelpath.com/mobile-rv-technician/
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Transcript:
all right Adrian and Ruth thank you for joining hope and I in the travel path podcast oh thanks for having us thank you for having us yes our pleasure so we know you on YouTube and Instagram you're RV life with Adrian and Ruth you cover videos on content creation RV life tips and tricks youve traveled all over the country and you've got content from Puerto Rico why don't you start by sharing a little bit about yourself and then letting the audience know what your current travel lifestyle looks like all right so I'm Adrian and that's my wife we lived in Florida close to Miami about an hour north of Miami and we decided to sell everything sell our house almost everything we should have sold everything but sorry my job I've been with them for almost 13 years so position came open uh to cover Georgia and Eastern Tennessee so that gave us an opportunity to travel even more because I had a bigger territory so we decided to pack it up and keep and just move GRE youve been down the road for about three years now I know you sold your house in 2020 so you're working full-time you want to tell us kind of what your travel work life looks like and how you're balancing your work and your travel life because I have such a big area of a territory um that I cover um it's it's wild it could be 250 300 miles with between one point to another so a lot of times like when we go to Tennessee we'll take the whole RV with us and we stay there for the week I work I just come home there um and then we do the same thing um throughout Georgia we and and it gives us a good way to learn the area so I work you know throughout throughout the day and then you know in the afternoon I'm home I'm just home somewhere somewhere different uh every couple weeks which is pretty cool we were actually when we lived in South Florida we were basically weekenders or sometimers now the job you have right now currently Adrian was that something that opened up because of Co and there was more remote work allowed or you're actually going two job sites it sounds like when you're driving back and forth yeah so what I do is I'm I'm in I'm in I'm a technical sales rep I go to Distributors that sell my product and I go to job sites so like construction new hotel new mall stuff like that they're using our products the product we manufacture is uh cement mortar that you use to install tile or stone like let's say the tile in the mall um or in a hotel lobby all that we sell this the cement to stick the Towes down with or the gr that goes between them or the waterproofing for like the showers and the rooms I deal with Distributors on one end I deal with the contractors that are installing it and then I deal with like Architects or Engineers or whatever on the actual job sit but uh you know it's pretty cool job because it's different every day very cool Ruth I know you touched on earlier you work you do a lot with the content creation the video editing but you also have your own business um how what does that look like and how are you able to work your own business while traveling full-time I guess you could call it a side hustle that's what some people call call it I uh sell makeup and skin care I am a licensed ascian in two states MH about to be three here in Georgia that will be my third state and that I have been doing for a long time since 2014 I did just recently change it from Ruth for beauty to the RV esthetician ah you know we live in an RV so so it's a little bit harder you make it work you know skin care tips for on the go we're skin care beauty tips on the Go I mean what woman who lives in a small space doesn't want skin care and beauty tips so I do that and because I have had that for a little while I'm able to supplement our income um but the channel does and our other RV channel does keep us me pretty busy um so I help him because he still does work full time he's a major bread winner I do basically all of the social media and all have time for it sounds like a good team then yes it is it is a good balance it is it was a it was at first was like trying to figure it out but um but we got to the point where we're good now so yeah I know in a previous video you mentioned Adrian that you've been making videos since you were 14 years old so it's nothing new to you just probably so there there's probably a lot of were you showing Ruth kind of the Reigns and editing we we started it actually as a way to document our travels which a lot of you know content creators tell us that that they start as a way to document their travels and share with their family and it evolved as we we we went to fulltime it evolved to meeting people and then posting on then we became monetized and then it it became something else and from there we started um getting all these opportunities and we were like you know what we can make this work I was always so busy working you know like I love doing video stuff um they having picked up a camera in so long like it was cool to be able to just practice again or like just do what I love you know so very cool it was a way for me to get him to do what he loves but also document our adventures we'll do both it once right absolutely yeah and you can revisit them at any point and rewatch your videos yes so we'll backtrack a little bit so you were Weekend Warriors like you mentioned before um and then you made the decision to travel full-time so at some point there was that decision and there was a gap between when you were actually able to do it how long was that time frame and what were some of the biggest obstacles you faced in getting there it was about about a year was about a year because I was actually afraid to because one we had just started um we had just got an RV at the beginning of covid and literally January 2020 we bought our first RV we would go along with a lot of other people right we would go um on the weekends and I didn't even know if we would like it and to me it was a big commitment I took care of my grandson basically raised him since he was a baby till four all day long every day and it was I I couldn't fathom the idea of leaving my grandkids behind and not being able to see them every day so that was really hard at first and then the thought of living in different places and not my house yeah she she was attached to the house and I get that you know like that's you know the other side of that is we you know my job Florida it was such a small condensed territory compared to what I have now and there's not many campgrounds or places to stay in South Florida so it kind of limited us to like doing what we're doing now so we we looked at all those things and those are all factors that kind of delayed or made us you know kind of have a pause on on doing it so my colleague that did the same thing I did in South Florida up in this area was retiring and I've known him for years so he called me and then told me hey I'm you know I'm going to retire if you want you know put in for the for transfer so that's what we did and uh that's how I ended up here so so everything kind of aligned I was like oh this is fate yeah we won't get We're not gonna get this chance when he said you know I have another opportunity I'm like we have to do this because this is supposed to be this way like this is the universe saying do it now or you're never going to get the chance it sounds like the stars lined up there so in terms of I know you mentioned Ruth briefly the the challenge it sounds like was more of an emotional challenge in letting go of the home life and you had your grandkid you were raising for his entire life what advice would you give somebody who was in that same position who they're not sure what to do they want to travel fulltime but they're thinking the same thing you were thinking I would say to First do small trips rent an RV if you can't buy one at first borrow one if you're able to you may not even like the lifestyle yeah you may not even like going into a smaller place if if you had told me 10 years ago that I'd be living in a 300 square foot less than a 300 square foot RV fulltime I would have told you you were crazy yeah but um here I am and I couldn't think of he keeps asking me are you ready to look for a house and I'm like yeah that was at the beginning I listen I wanted to make sure she was happy she was comfortable you know it's a big step so as far as the emotional yes it was a big factor and um we discussed it and I said as long as I am able to see my grandkids minimum of every 3 months truth of the matter is I probably spend more quality time with my grandkids and my family now than I did when I was there all the time because I now am present I put my phone down you know if I'm going to post I'll post in the morning I won't pick my phone back up until a certain time I schedule out my time I make sure that when I'm with them I am present and before I didn't realize how much I valued and missed that and how short life was that's a great point I'm glad you're bringing that up Ruth and it's coming up with a plan first of all that you're going to be able to see these people whether it be once a month every three months and kind of reassuring yourself that okay we're traveling full-time but this isn't goodbye we're going to be you know continuing to see each other and then yeah like you said I mean I'm sure when you were living with them previously there were there were routines it just became normal looking at your phone and now you're able to activities more memorable experiences so that's a great way to look at it yeah well and then the other thing is like our grandkids get to come with us so like my daughter came up last year for my birthday we went to Stone M they came camping with us and it was my birthday but I got to spend it with my grandkids like it was the best best thing ever they had the most fun I took them fishing or right by the lake like it was awesome yeah those are memories your grandkids are going to remember forever yeah the yep before because we saw them every day it was a mundane everyday kind of thing okay they're here you know I'm on my phone most some most of the time I'm not pring I'm not um making every minute count I'm not um making sure that we're making memories and now that is our number one priority to me and I am with them y I think that's a good reminder for people just everyday living in general I mean you you fall into routines whether you are traveling full time you know you're living together um we ended up we purchased a while back this book called the uh what was that book called The Adventure the adventure challenge book where it's just like you you scratch off a a challenge and you guys do a challenge together like we ran like we one day were doing um I was I had to bake a cake blindfolded while she told me what to do just some like really you know fun silly things that you yeah that you really wouldn't have done um in your everyday life but just a memory that stands out so we'll put a link below to that Adventure that is awesome that is awesome I've heard of stuff like that and I it's it's something that I'm sure we would enjoy doing um you know people ask us like how do you guys like stand like being in such small spaces for days out of time to tell you the truth it probably made us closer because you know we go on our adventures together we do everything together but we do have two bed two rooms he has an office in the back I have the bedroom if we need our own time then we each go into into our own home a couple a couple days a week so like I I made a desk area because there used to be a bed a bunk bed but nobody you know the grandkids don't come with us anymore really so I made it you know workable space where now I have like my own little office there so I can close the door go behind there ways to make it work absolutely all right so we'll fast forward a bit to the day you actually got on the road and you're currently full-time like we mentioned before what are some of the biggest frustrations that you still currently face I don't have many many but my biggest frustration is in my refrigerator we have a small fridge like a cubic foot and I need I need at least a 10 cubic foot I know that doesn't sound like a big difference but it is what happens is it's so small that you know you live here so you buy groceries you can't buy a bunch and things go bad faster because the air doesn't circulate as much but that's my only grip that I would uh look and redo if I could got have have a unit with a bigger fridge if if we were doing it again and I know what I know now I would say I would want not necessar neily a fifth wheel but an RV with um more slides we only have one I love the the size of our RV it's perfect for both of us the space is limited and I would definitely definitely definitely want a washer and dryer we thought many times about buying a new one and we just said why don't we just make this the way we want I mean we listen we We Own It All right we don't owe it to anyone it's ours and so you know might as well your own you bought brand new and I watched a video a while back where you you had a pretty substantial issue like pretty immediately do you have any advice for people who are buying brand new RVs and maybe to something to have their expectations definitely hire an inspector to to even if it's brand new even if it's brand new because especially if it's brand new seems like especially with ours the one you're referring to we bought it brand new we upgraded from the first one we bought right before Co happened we did a trip up here South Carolina everywhere it didn't leak other than when the slide was out because what happened was I mean was in which is usually opposite it would leak the other way around but because the slide would come in it would put all this weight was so big it was bad design and basic and and it moved the walls on the outside of the RV enough to where the seals opened up the water would come in and we had the hardest time dealing with that basically so basically you know just do your homework check on reviews go to go on YouTube there's a lot of like we made a video about it yes um definitely you know and then try to reach out to someone that that's been doing it for a while right they can give you some good advice because the hardest thing is to try to jump in with two left feet and then find out that there's no yeah whatever company you decide you go with like let's say you you you narrow it down to three research those companies you know Google those companies Google their custo more importantly Google their customer service because if somebody has had a bad experience with them I can tell you you're going to find a Google review on that customer service and that was the very thing um that when we started after four months of owning it and only making one big trip with it we they this company this manufacturer stopped taking our phone calls yes just just deal they wanted to basically give us a cover a Band-Aid it had been Le we didn't know what kind of mold and most importantly go to a reputable dealership because at the end of the day even if the manufacturer doesn't stand by the RV the dealer will the place where we got ours they gave us 100% of our money back we tell people that and they're like what and that's so having a good sales rep kind of helps too because right you got those one guys are just trying to get paid and don't really care what you buy but if you get a good one they're actually you know so it's really imperative to do your research and I think research is the biggest thing right I think that's great advice and we would definitely we couldn't agree more with hiring an rvtech we've had great experience with RV techs multiple RV techs and one of the reasons we bought new is because we didn't really have any education or any knowledge on RV so if we bought used we wouldn't know what to look for I didn't want to buy from someone privately um so I figured if we bought new there'd be no issues and we were definitely in for a rud Awakening but um as great advice I thank you for sharing that so we'll switch gears a little bit to the finance aspects of living on the road so you've been on the road since 2020 um if you could put kind of a ballpark number on what you're spending monthly what would a budget look like with us it's kind of different right because we travel but we also keep a home base so our home base is where we're at now and and this is a space that we that we don't own we rent this space um and it's it's there's everything here we we have a residency here we have get our mail there's but we did that because if something happened we could always have somewhere to go to well perfect example like right now I know everyone's probably wondering why she's in the ne yeah we were in car accident coming back from the the Thanksgiving holiday luckily I had my hitch that I used to you know tow my trailer with in the on the truck that got most of the impact the reason why we keep a home base is like right right now if we were in a campground we would be paying it through our eyes right because be so expensive or we'd have to figure out because I don't know if I could tow with my truck because I have to get it inspected insurance it's been a week a week and a half we're still battling that trying to get it somewhere to get it looked at so that's all that stuff takes time so so we have a home base and this is one of the reasons why told too I'm not I'm not I'm GNA be transparent part of the reason why we got a home base and I'm glad now we did was also fear fear of what if we don't like being on the road so now going back to the cost part of it yeah 2500 3,000 a month give a take sometimes more if we're more on the road right and if we travel outside of his area uh for work and um and or or even less because remember we don't we we own R RV so that's that's not a month so we have our truck you know like just the basics Bas everybody else has the big spending part of of the whole thing is our we have storage units right our our Nemesis so we have three of them because originally we had one in Florida and we had one up here I went to get the stuff from Florida the UA truck was full and nothing else fit so I still have a pod down there and we have two up here need us to say we're we're slowly going through things and and and we're going to make it to one and then thinking of going full time sell it all sell it all all but yeah don't you don't have to save everything no because that's just you're throwing money away we found that out the hard way if we have if we would we have added up how much we have paid on storage jit and pots and we could have bought a whole another RV no we could bought new furniture if we doy we could have we could have brought home a Furniture three times well that is a good lesson to learn that sounds like a similar conversation we had with Jim and Michelle from Air streamer last week where they were in the same position weren't sure what to do and they ended up selling everything but thank you for picking that up and including that in your monthly payment because a lot of people probably wouldn't have considered that since it's not technically an expense you're facing every day but that's a very good point to bring up just think we spent almost what $800 600 $700 on pot and and storages just think we could do more traveling we could do yeah I mean it's there's something to think about and I I know you mentioned it was kind of a fear thing I think it's a smart thing to have that fallback plan and have that home base um because like you said you never know when you're going to want to use it and you treat it like insurance it's something yes you're paying for when you aren't using it when you're traveling but it's a fallback plan and in this case you needed to have it so you're thankful you had it well prime example too like we have had really good experiences with most campgrounds but there was a campground we went to that was I I was sick with Co and I didn't know at the time it was Co I was seriously sick we had just come from a Meetup I'm typically the one who plans everything and I didn't look on the website I'm typically good about looking at space size everything and I didn't just do research on that one and it was a no it was it was built in the 40s right my our rig is 35 feet it was built in the 40s like I could barely fit down the roads to get into the spot was this weird real weird uh angle against I'm like yeah so we ended up just leave it was what a couple hours away from our home base so we ended up just making the decision for our own safety to just go and if we didn't have that security of a home base scramble and like you know where you going to go next so so it's kind of nice to have yeah then you're probably paying more for home base because you're desperate at that point so yeah great Point have you discovered any travel hacked money-saving tips so far in your full-time Adventures pilot loves they all offer for you know for using their apps they all if you have diesel um there's tons of apps uh there we also do you know good sams good sams um good sams gives you a nice discount now we're both veterans so that also helps veterans just whenever we call uh uh campgrounds we always ask any kind of discount that they have good sams military um I just turned 55 so I always ask now hey take advantage of it right yeah she's
gotp you got to take what you can get right yes yeah just those those couple little things over time yes will help because like like so we always do a big trip um we went to actually to Connecticut Niagara Falls Ohio all that stuff um West Virginia Pennsylvania Maryland and we we took about two and a half weeks and did that trip and a lot of these things help help the cost of that especially when you go up to the Northeast so so basically if you see an app on whether it's on a gas pump or it's in a store just download it you can save some money and then just ask there are ones specific for diesel but we have regular gas but um loves has them um shell has an app yeah and shell is good because typically you can save like five cents per gallon yeah and we'll put a link in the show notes for those apps we talked about so switch Gees a little bit to the work aspect uh obviously you need sell service and data when you're working full-time how do you set that up originally being in a home base it was like a DSL kind of thing and it was like I don't know 55 bucks a month it was terrible plus we had the hot spot at the time and we had the hot spot which if you you ever use those things they're good for emails or something like that but soon as you watch a movie it's done G starlink we I had signed up for it way back when it first was announced and it was great until too many people had it right um and in Georgia became an area where it wasn't available yet so I paused it because you know it got to the point where it kept going up there was a RV plan there was a travel plan it was well with the RV plan you can pause it with the other you can't which is a nice thing right so we were able to pause it we still have our account and then whenever we want we just reactivate it and then we get charged for that next month but primarily we just used it right now but right now T-Mobile T-Mobile home internet um and it works great that trip that I just about 50 bucks yeah awesome going up north and all that like all the way in N everywhere it works we take it even when we're going on a trip in our car we take it stop at at you know well we could just plug rest areas we could upload videos it's it's awesome that's good to know and that's that's been the the hotspot plan and the T-Mobile home in and that's been kind of the fan favorite so far we downloaded that or we tried that once in our house and we had like really bad service but I think now that I'm thinking can have we probably did something wrong because everyone if you're getting good service when you're on the road so here's a hack that I found out right I have a I have a friend um he has a YouTube channel it's called J Christina and he does a lot of these reviews especially Starling stuff with the home T-Mobile home internet there's four antennas on if if you got the block there's four antennas on either side the one with the screen is the main one you got to point that one out window app yeah so then the app you can actually look to see where the antenna is and then you point that towards that antenna in the nearest window and it works pretty well we're getting ready to order an external antenna and they have a new version of the modom that you can actually just plug it in because the old ones don't um and that's going to just make it a lot a lot faster perfect cool okay all right so you have honey with you and uh the question I wanted to ask was what would you say to somebody who says they can't travel and commit to a full-time travel lifestyle because they have a dog I would say in all the the time that we've been full time I have maybe found one place that um didn't allow a specific breed but I would say 90 probably five% of places our V parks are pet friendly and allow you to to bring them as long as you have them on a leash yeah and adhere to their you know pickup after them um it's it's awesome now if you have I will say sorry if you have a a smaller RV or or you're traveling in a van then don't travel with a German Shepherd yeah I mean then you want to stick to a smaller breed but absolutely we love traveling with her and she she loves it she sits at the windows you know and she just loves it this is her home it's weird because no matter where we are she knows to go back in here the other thing I would say is like let's say you do travel a lot and then you go on an adventure making sure that your AC's working if it's the middle of summer yes or if it's cold out make sure you got heat you know like you don't want the pets to suffering anyway because you forgot something um so we're or they have pet apps like waggle or monitoring systems tells you temperature that you can keep track of them but um she pretty much goes everywhere with us if we are going like we just did a trip to to Tampa in our um in just a truck um thank goodness or that could have been bad we have and this is another benefit from having a home base we have found a um pet sitting where we board her so don't be scared it's you can do it you can do it again that goes back to that testing the waters right practice do the weekends yes those are all parts that that you got to figure out if it's if it's what you really want to do you know get them up to date on vaccinations you know make sure you have all their paperwork with them because God forbid she that was a disaster itself at the beginning of the year last year at the Tampa RV Show she was actually hit by a car oh man because she's a runner she's a runner she does like being if she's off the Le she's gone sounds like do some test runs find out local pet sitters and for everything else there's an app right yes yes there is it you know what there is it also I was watching I don't I don't know the name of it but I can find out there's an app an actual app where you can find pet friendly plac is along your route to let your dog out yeah doesn't surprise me wow they have for everything check that out on our next road trip yeah yeah all swi gears and start wrapping this thing up a little bit what has been the neatest most memorable experience you guys have had while traveling so I would have to say um this past April we went to Puerto Rico I was born there I grew up there for a long time haven't been there in a long time but we rented a Class B a van and we slept on the beach for almost what a week and a half and we went drove all around the island different places went to waterfalls it was the best experience we ever had of all the camping that we have done in the past three years I would have to say that that was my favorite y talk about like being present like there is nothing like waking up and opening your doors and looking at the at at the ocean and listening to the water the and feeling the breeze and and I know sounds kind of corny and being one with nature like I was that I was not that tree hugging kind of uh feet on the sand kind of place but person but I became one when I became a nomad I guess and it was it was definitely but it's something about it it's like just sitting there and enjoying the ocean and walking on the sand and breathing the Clean Air and being able to sleep on the beaches and it was just except for the one night we got beat up by yeah yeah I don't think those were mosquitoes I think those were noos or whatever you call Y they St John those those are no
joke you can't see them but they hurt yeah other than the no seeum it sounds pretty grounding yeah even after that I would still do it again yeah for sure having spent a couple days in a van I guess when you went back to your camp or what you're in now um what were your thoughts for me it told me that I could live in a van for a couple weeks for a month you know a short trip too small I was freaking out like if you could watch our videos like leading up to that and I was like freaking out because I was like I have to go to the bathroom in a van you know I was freaking out because of chophia and it was fine she was fine it was totally fine and I was like that just proved to me like even further more that I could do more to step out of my comfort zone just even the thought of like camping for a couple of days and not showering I was the type of person that was like what she's never she's never been camping other than never I never been 10 so that was the closest so we kind of went backwards in camping right so but I actually loved it I actually LED this van and I told him I could see us buying a van for for short of trips you know yeah because I mean look the this size RV for what we're doing or even just going on vacation is great you got plenty of room the van the cool part with the van is you can pick up and go somewhere like that and get into places fo right rig couldn't you know feeling more stealth certainly pros and cons of each yes yes if you could have listened to this podcast when you were first starting out is there a question I didn't ask tonight that you would have asked how would you answer that now I would say do it because you're not going to regret it because that's the first thought that everyone thinks am i g to regret am i g know what am I doing I'm leaving my family I'm pretty much selling some of my possessions I'm getting rid of my house am I GNA regret this and the only thing I regret is not doing it sooner the other thing I would say is it saves you money right because you don't have the mortgage you don't have a lot more to pay for but is not as cheap as people think either right so make sure that you have income that allows you to live this life so you want to live and then for someone who's listening to this now who wants to start out and set up a lifestyle that you have currently what would be one thing they could start doing today research listen watch YouTube I know it sounds cliche and dumb whatever but that's how we learned a lot cuz like like when I first bought an RV I didn't know how like how do you level an RV how do I do that so I looked it up on YouTube St it and like oh I don't have those little ramp things that to make one side bigger and or higher up or lower so I had to go and buy them and like so like I learned and I did that before we went even on our first trip so like check out there's videos out there talk to someone who has an RV I had one of my Old Navy buddies had one you know I picked his brain a bunch of times so stuff like that I would tell them go watch RV life with Adrian and Ruth look at that playlist so you want to go fulltime now what and do everything they didn't do yeah learn from their mistakes right learn from their mistakes yes that's great did you have any other YouTube channels that you were watching when you were carving your path guy out of Miami called traveling Robert we we would watch his his his his uh videos sometimes we would fall asleep he and he has these three hour long ones where he puts like a whole series together and they would just play the whole night so there's and we would joke about it this is like before we even thought about buying an RV and we would be like imagine that you think you could do that and you'd be like I don't know I don't know if I could live on the road for that long and I'd be like I know I don't know man I need I need all my shoes and you don't no no and and here we are like I mean sometimes we sit here and think about it and and say like I can't believe it sometimes I can't believe this is our life um so yeah him changing changing lanes um you know to see that they did it full-time um and that you know that kind of stuff so that that was cool and then you know to come full circle we got to meet those guys at the tar show so it was kind of cool to actually meet the people that kind of inspired you to go do this stuff that's awesome yeah very cool we'll put a link in the show notes for those channels right there and while my audience is checking them out where can they find out more about you our website's currently under the construction but it'll be um RB life productions.com and that us usually has everything on there about us um our Channel you know what we do but I am on social media every single day RV life with Adrian and Ruth Instagram the RV esthetician um uh we're on uh Facebook we're on Tik Tok we're on Instagram and YouTube RV life with Adrian and Ruth we um it's the same everywhere we do lives every Sunday and um we typically do series like right now we're doing vlogmas but next month we're going to do a um Latin rvers series and we had van life in Puerto Rico Series so we try to do a fun little Series yeah um but we also do informative stuff too yeah so we try to help people with some of our experiences like like our serious so you want to go fulltime now what that's a serious because we had a lot of people ask us um you know questions and we were like totally like we'll tell you exactly what not to do you know so it's a good way to to get other people's perspective of those same questions and share with audience that's great and like you said you guys are very active on social media so and I think in about 40 minutes you're jumping on a live stream pretty quickly here so everyone go check him out Adrian and Ruth thank you guys so much thank you thank you for having us thank you
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In today’s show, Adrian and Ruth from RV Life with Adrian and Ruth join us to discuss their full time RV life. In this episode you’ll hear all about:
👶🏻Making sure you are still spending time with family/children when you go full time
📃Some important steps to take when choosing your RV
📽️How they combined their passion for filming and travel to make money
And More!
Music:
Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/rocky-mountains
🔗Links
🐶Dog Apps
BringFido on the App Store (apple.com)
Waggle Pet App-RVing with Ease on the App Store (apple.com)
📗Books
The Adventure Challenge - Your scratch-off guide to adventure.
📺YouTube Channels Referenced
Traveling Robert - YouTube
Changing Lanes - YouTube
AirStreamer - YouTube
⛽Fuel Rewards
Get fuel rewards in the myRewards Plus app | Pilot Flying J
Best Rewards Program On The Road (loves.com)
The Fuel Rewards® Program | Shell United States
Good Sam-Club Discounts, Roadside Assistance, Insurance
🛜Internet
Starlink
Reliable 5G Home Internet service | T-Mobile 5G Home Internet
Applicable Blogs: The Importance of Mobile RV Techs: https://atravelpath.com/mobile-rv-technician/
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Transcript:
all right Adrian and Ruth thank you for joining hope and I in the travel path podcast oh thanks for having us thank you for having us yes our pleasure so we know you on YouTube and Instagram you're RV life with Adrian and Ruth you cover videos on content creation RV life tips and tricks youve traveled all over the country and you've got content from Puerto Rico why don't you start by sharing a little bit about yourself and then letting the audience know what your current travel lifestyle looks like all right so I'm Adrian and that's my wife we lived in Florida close to Miami about an hour north of Miami and we decided to sell everything sell our house almost everything we should have sold everything but sorry my job I've been with them for almost 13 years so position came open uh to cover Georgia and Eastern Tennessee so that gave us an opportunity to travel even more because I had a bigger territory so we decided to pack it up and keep and just move GRE youve been down the road for about three years now I know you sold your house in 2020 so you're working full-time you want to tell us kind of what your travel work life looks like and how you're balancing your work and your travel life because I have such a big area of a territory um that I cover um it's it's wild it could be 250 300 miles with between one point to another so a lot of times like when we go to Tennessee we'll take the whole RV with us and we stay there for the week I work I just come home there um and then we do the same thing um throughout Georgia we and and it gives us a good way to learn the area so I work you know throughout throughout the day and then you know in the afternoon I'm home I'm just home somewhere somewhere different uh every couple weeks which is pretty cool we were actually when we lived in South Florida we were basically weekenders or sometimers now the job you have right now currently Adrian was that something that opened up because of Co and there was more remote work allowed or you're actually going two job sites it sounds like when you're driving back and forth yeah so what I do is I'm I'm in I'm in I'm a technical sales rep I go to Distributors that sell my product and I go to job sites so like construction new hotel new mall stuff like that they're using our products the product we manufacture is uh cement mortar that you use to install tile or stone like let's say the tile in the mall um or in a hotel lobby all that we sell this the cement to stick the Towes down with or the gr that goes between them or the waterproofing for like the showers and the rooms I deal with Distributors on one end I deal with the contractors that are installing it and then I deal with like Architects or Engineers or whatever on the actual job sit but uh you know it's pretty cool job because it's different every day very cool Ruth I know you touched on earlier you work you do a lot with the content creation the video editing but you also have your own business um how what does that look like and how are you able to work your own business while traveling full-time I guess you could call it a side hustle that's what some people call call it I uh sell makeup and skin care I am a licensed ascian in two states MH about to be three here in Georgia that will be my third state and that I have been doing for a long time since 2014 I did just recently change it from Ruth for beauty to the RV esthetician ah you know we live in an RV so so it's a little bit harder you make it work you know skin care tips for on the go we're skin care beauty tips on the Go I mean what woman who lives in a small space doesn't want skin care and beauty tips so I do that and because I have had that for a little while I'm able to supplement our income um but the channel does and our other RV channel does keep us me pretty busy um so I help him because he still does work full time he's a major bread winner I do basically all of the social media and all have time for it sounds like a good team then yes it is it is a good balance it is it was a it was at first was like trying to figure it out but um but we got to the point where we're good now so yeah I know in a previous video you mentioned Adrian that you've been making videos since you were 14 years old so it's nothing new to you just probably so there there's probably a lot of were you showing Ruth kind of the Reigns and editing we we started it actually as a way to document our travels which a lot of you know content creators tell us that that they start as a way to document their travels and share with their family and it evolved as we we we went to fulltime it evolved to meeting people and then posting on then we became monetized and then it it became something else and from there we started um getting all these opportunities and we were like you know what we can make this work I was always so busy working you know like I love doing video stuff um they having picked up a camera in so long like it was cool to be able to just practice again or like just do what I love you know so very cool it was a way for me to get him to do what he loves but also document our adventures we'll do both it once right absolutely yeah and you can revisit them at any point and rewatch your videos yes so we'll backtrack a little bit so you were Weekend Warriors like you mentioned before um and then you made the decision to travel full-time so at some point there was that decision and there was a gap between when you were actually able to do it how long was that time frame and what were some of the biggest obstacles you faced in getting there it was about about a year was about a year because I was actually afraid to because one we had just started um we had just got an RV at the beginning of covid and literally January 2020 we bought our first RV we would go along with a lot of other people right we would go um on the weekends and I didn't even know if we would like it and to me it was a big commitment I took care of my grandson basically raised him since he was a baby till four all day long every day and it was I I couldn't fathom the idea of leaving my grandkids behind and not being able to see them every day so that was really hard at first and then the thought of living in different places and not my house yeah she she was attached to the house and I get that you know like that's you know the other side of that is we you know my job Florida it was such a small condensed territory compared to what I have now and there's not many campgrounds or places to stay in South Florida so it kind of limited us to like doing what we're doing now so we we looked at all those things and those are all factors that kind of delayed or made us you know kind of have a pause on on doing it so my colleague that did the same thing I did in South Florida up in this area was retiring and I've known him for years so he called me and then told me hey I'm you know I'm going to retire if you want you know put in for the for transfer so that's what we did and uh that's how I ended up here so so everything kind of aligned I was like oh this is fate yeah we won't get We're not gonna get this chance when he said you know I have another opportunity I'm like we have to do this because this is supposed to be this way like this is the universe saying do it now or you're never going to get the chance it sounds like the stars lined up there so in terms of I know you mentioned Ruth briefly the the challenge it sounds like was more of an emotional challenge in letting go of the home life and you had your grandkid you were raising for his entire life what advice would you give somebody who was in that same position who they're not sure what to do they want to travel fulltime but they're thinking the same thing you were thinking I would say to First do small trips rent an RV if you can't buy one at first borrow one if you're able to you may not even like the lifestyle yeah you may not even like going into a smaller place if if you had told me 10 years ago that I'd be living in a 300 square foot less than a 300 square foot RV fulltime I would have told you you were crazy yeah but um here I am and I couldn't think of he keeps asking me are you ready to look for a house and I'm like yeah that was at the beginning I listen I wanted to make sure she was happy she was comfortable you know it's a big step so as far as the emotional yes it was a big factor and um we discussed it and I said as long as I am able to see my grandkids minimum of every 3 months truth of the matter is I probably spend more quality time with my grandkids and my family now than I did when I was there all the time because I now am present I put my phone down you know if I'm going to post I'll post in the morning I won't pick my phone back up until a certain time I schedule out my time I make sure that when I'm with them I am present and before I didn't realize how much I valued and missed that and how short life was that's a great point I'm glad you're bringing that up Ruth and it's coming up with a plan first of all that you're going to be able to see these people whether it be once a month every three months and kind of reassuring yourself that okay we're traveling full-time but this isn't goodbye we're going to be you know continuing to see each other and then yeah like you said I mean I'm sure when you were living with them previously there were there were routines it just became normal looking at your phone and now you're able to activities more memorable experiences so that's a great way to look at it yeah well and then the other thing is like our grandkids get to come with us so like my daughter came up last year for my birthday we went to Stone M they came camping with us and it was my birthday but I got to spend it with my grandkids like it was the best best thing ever they had the most fun I took them fishing or right by the lake like it was awesome yeah those are memories your grandkids are going to remember forever yeah the yep before because we saw them every day it was a mundane everyday kind of thing okay they're here you know I'm on my phone most some most of the time I'm not pring I'm not um making every minute count I'm not um making sure that we're making memories and now that is our number one priority to me and I am with them y I think that's a good reminder for people just everyday living in general I mean you you fall into routines whether you are traveling full time you know you're living together um we ended up we purchased a while back this book called the uh what was that book called The Adventure the adventure challenge book where it's just like you you scratch off a a challenge and you guys do a challenge together like we ran like we one day were doing um I was I had to bake a cake blindfolded while she told me what to do just some like really you know fun silly things that you yeah that you really wouldn't have done um in your everyday life but just a memory that stands out so we'll put a link below to that Adventure that is awesome that is awesome I've heard of stuff like that and I it's it's something that I'm sure we would enjoy doing um you know people ask us like how do you guys like stand like being in such small spaces for days out of time to tell you the truth it probably made us closer because you know we go on our adventures together we do everything together but we do have two bed two rooms he has an office in the back I have the bedroom if we need our own time then we each go into into our own home a couple a couple days a week so like I I made a desk area because there used to be a bed a bunk bed but nobody you know the grandkids don't come with us anymore really so I made it you know workable space where now I have like my own little office there so I can close the door go behind there ways to make it work absolutely all right so we'll fast forward a bit to the day you actually got on the road and you're currently full-time like we mentioned before what are some of the biggest frustrations that you still currently face I don't have many many but my biggest frustration is in my refrigerator we have a small fridge like a cubic foot and I need I need at least a 10 cubic foot I know that doesn't sound like a big difference but it is what happens is it's so small that you know you live here so you buy groceries you can't buy a bunch and things go bad faster because the air doesn't circulate as much but that's my only grip that I would uh look and redo if I could got have have a unit with a bigger fridge if if we were doing it again and I know what I know now I would say I would want not necessar neily a fifth wheel but an RV with um more slides we only have one I love the the size of our RV it's perfect for both of us the space is limited and I would definitely definitely definitely want a washer and dryer we thought many times about buying a new one and we just said why don't we just make this the way we want I mean we listen we We Own It All right we don't owe it to anyone it's ours and so you know might as well your own you bought brand new and I watched a video a while back where you you had a pretty substantial issue like pretty immediately do you have any advice for people who are buying brand new RVs and maybe to something to have their expectations definitely hire an inspector to to even if it's brand new even if it's brand new because especially if it's brand new seems like especially with ours the one you're referring to we bought it brand new we upgraded from the first one we bought right before Co happened we did a trip up here South Carolina everywhere it didn't leak other than when the slide was out because what happened was I mean was in which is usually opposite it would leak the other way around but because the slide would come in it would put all this weight was so big it was bad design and basic and and it moved the walls on the outside of the RV enough to where the seals opened up the water would come in and we had the hardest time dealing with that basically so basically you know just do your homework check on reviews go to go on YouTube there's a lot of like we made a video about it yes um definitely you know and then try to reach out to someone that that's been doing it for a while right they can give you some good advice because the hardest thing is to try to jump in with two left feet and then find out that there's no yeah whatever company you decide you go with like let's say you you you narrow it down to three research those companies you know Google those companies Google their custo more importantly Google their customer service because if somebody has had a bad experience with them I can tell you you're going to find a Google review on that customer service and that was the very thing um that when we started after four months of owning it and only making one big trip with it we they this company this manufacturer stopped taking our phone calls yes just just deal they wanted to basically give us a cover a Band-Aid it had been Le we didn't know what kind of mold and most importantly go to a reputable dealership because at the end of the day even if the manufacturer doesn't stand by the RV the dealer will the place where we got ours they gave us 100% of our money back we tell people that and they're like what and that's so having a good sales rep kind of helps too because right you got those one guys are just trying to get paid and don't really care what you buy but if you get a good one they're actually you know so it's really imperative to do your research and I think research is the biggest thing right I think that's great advice and we would definitely we couldn't agree more with hiring an rvtech we've had great experience with RV techs multiple RV techs and one of the reasons we bought new is because we didn't really have any education or any knowledge on RV so if we bought used we wouldn't know what to look for I didn't want to buy from someone privately um so I figured if we bought new there'd be no issues and we were definitely in for a rud Awakening but um as great advice I thank you for sharing that so we'll switch gears a little bit to the finance aspects of living on the road so you've been on the road since 2020 um if you could put kind of a ballpark number on what you're spending monthly what would a budget look like with us it's kind of different right because we travel but we also keep a home base so our home base is where we're at now and and this is a space that we that we don't own we rent this space um and it's it's there's everything here we we have a residency here we have get our mail there's but we did that because if something happened we could always have somewhere to go to well perfect example like right now I know everyone's probably wondering why she's in the ne yeah we were in car accident coming back from the the Thanksgiving holiday luckily I had my hitch that I used to you know tow my trailer with in the on the truck that got most of the impact the reason why we keep a home base is like right right now if we were in a campground we would be paying it through our eyes right because be so expensive or we'd have to figure out because I don't know if I could tow with my truck because I have to get it inspected insurance it's been a week a week and a half we're still battling that trying to get it somewhere to get it looked at so that's all that stuff takes time so so we have a home base and this is one of the reasons why told too I'm not I'm not I'm GNA be transparent part of the reason why we got a home base and I'm glad now we did was also fear fear of what if we don't like being on the road so now going back to the cost part of it yeah 2500 3,000 a month give a take sometimes more if we're more on the road right and if we travel outside of his area uh for work and um and or or even less because remember we don't we we own R RV so that's that's not a month so we have our truck you know like just the basics Bas everybody else has the big spending part of of the whole thing is our we have storage units right our our Nemesis so we have three of them because originally we had one in Florida and we had one up here I went to get the stuff from Florida the UA truck was full and nothing else fit so I still have a pod down there and we have two up here need us to say we're we're slowly going through things and and and we're going to make it to one and then thinking of going full time sell it all sell it all all but yeah don't you don't have to save everything no because that's just you're throwing money away we found that out the hard way if we have if we would we have added up how much we have paid on storage jit and pots and we could have bought a whole another RV no we could bought new furniture if we doy we could have we could have brought home a Furniture three times well that is a good lesson to learn that sounds like a similar conversation we had with Jim and Michelle from Air streamer last week where they were in the same position weren't sure what to do and they ended up selling everything but thank you for picking that up and including that in your monthly payment because a lot of people probably wouldn't have considered that since it's not technically an expense you're facing every day but that's a very good point to bring up just think we spent almost what $800 600 $700 on pot and and storages just think we could do more traveling we could do yeah I mean it's there's something to think about and I I know you mentioned it was kind of a fear thing I think it's a smart thing to have that fallback plan and have that home base um because like you said you never know when you're going to want to use it and you treat it like insurance it's something yes you're paying for when you aren't using it when you're traveling but it's a fallback plan and in this case you needed to have it so you're thankful you had it well prime example too like we have had really good experiences with most campgrounds but there was a campground we went to that was I I was sick with Co and I didn't know at the time it was Co I was seriously sick we had just come from a Meetup I'm typically the one who plans everything and I didn't look on the website I'm typically good about looking at space size everything and I didn't just do research on that one and it was a no it was it was built in the 40s right my our rig is 35 feet it was built in the 40s like I could barely fit down the roads to get into the spot was this weird real weird uh angle against I'm like yeah so we ended up just leave it was what a couple hours away from our home base so we ended up just making the decision for our own safety to just go and if we didn't have that security of a home base scramble and like you know where you going to go next so so it's kind of nice to have yeah then you're probably paying more for home base because you're desperate at that point so yeah great Point have you discovered any travel hacked money-saving tips so far in your full-time Adventures pilot loves they all offer for you know for using their apps they all if you have diesel um there's tons of apps uh there we also do you know good sams good sams um good sams gives you a nice discount now we're both veterans so that also helps veterans just whenever we call uh uh campgrounds we always ask any kind of discount that they have good sams military um I just turned 55 so I always ask now hey take advantage of it right yeah she's
gotp you got to take what you can get right yes yeah just those those couple little things over time yes will help because like like so we always do a big trip um we went to actually to Connecticut Niagara Falls Ohio all that stuff um West Virginia Pennsylvania Maryland and we we took about two and a half weeks and did that trip and a lot of these things help help the cost of that especially when you go up to the Northeast so so basically if you see an app on whether it's on a gas pump or it's in a store just download it you can save some money and then just ask there are ones specific for diesel but we have regular gas but um loves has them um shell has an app yeah and shell is good because typically you can save like five cents per gallon yeah and we'll put a link in the show notes for those apps we talked about so switch Gees a little bit to the work aspect uh obviously you need sell service and data when you're working full-time how do you set that up originally being in a home base it was like a DSL kind of thing and it was like I don't know 55 bucks a month it was terrible plus we had the hot spot at the time and we had the hot spot which if you you ever use those things they're good for emails or something like that but soon as you watch a movie it's done G starlink we I had signed up for it way back when it first was announced and it was great until too many people had it right um and in Georgia became an area where it wasn't available yet so I paused it because you know it got to the point where it kept going up there was a RV plan there was a travel plan it was well with the RV plan you can pause it with the other you can't which is a nice thing right so we were able to pause it we still have our account and then whenever we want we just reactivate it and then we get charged for that next month but primarily we just used it right now but right now T-Mobile T-Mobile home internet um and it works great that trip that I just about 50 bucks yeah awesome going up north and all that like all the way in N everywhere it works we take it even when we're going on a trip in our car we take it stop at at you know well we could just plug rest areas we could upload videos it's it's awesome that's good to know and that's that's been the the hotspot plan and the T-Mobile home in and that's been kind of the fan favorite so far we downloaded that or we tried that once in our house and we had like really bad service but I think now that I'm thinking can have we probably did something wrong because everyone if you're getting good service when you're on the road so here's a hack that I found out right I have a I have a friend um he has a YouTube channel it's called J Christina and he does a lot of these reviews especially Starling stuff with the home T-Mobile home internet there's four antennas on if if you got the block there's four antennas on either side the one with the screen is the main one you got to point that one out window app yeah so then the app you can actually look to see where the antenna is and then you point that towards that antenna in the nearest window and it works pretty well we're getting ready to order an external antenna and they have a new version of the modom that you can actually just plug it in because the old ones don't um and that's going to just make it a lot a lot faster perfect cool okay all right so you have honey with you and uh the question I wanted to ask was what would you say to somebody who says they can't travel and commit to a full-time travel lifestyle because they have a dog I would say in all the the time that we've been full time I have maybe found one place that um didn't allow a specific breed but I would say 90 probably five% of places our V parks are pet friendly and allow you to to bring them as long as you have them on a leash yeah and adhere to their you know pickup after them um it's it's awesome now if you have I will say sorry if you have a a smaller RV or or you're traveling in a van then don't travel with a German Shepherd yeah I mean then you want to stick to a smaller breed but absolutely we love traveling with her and she she loves it she sits at the windows you know and she just loves it this is her home it's weird because no matter where we are she knows to go back in here the other thing I would say is like let's say you do travel a lot and then you go on an adventure making sure that your AC's working if it's the middle of summer yes or if it's cold out make sure you got heat you know like you don't want the pets to suffering anyway because you forgot something um so we're or they have pet apps like waggle or monitoring systems tells you temperature that you can keep track of them but um she pretty much goes everywhere with us if we are going like we just did a trip to to Tampa in our um in just a truck um thank goodness or that could have been bad we have and this is another benefit from having a home base we have found a um pet sitting where we board her so don't be scared it's you can do it you can do it again that goes back to that testing the waters right practice do the weekends yes those are all parts that that you got to figure out if it's if it's what you really want to do you know get them up to date on vaccinations you know make sure you have all their paperwork with them because God forbid she that was a disaster itself at the beginning of the year last year at the Tampa RV Show she was actually hit by a car oh man because she's a runner she's a runner she does like being if she's off the Le she's gone sounds like do some test runs find out local pet sitters and for everything else there's an app right yes yes there is it you know what there is it also I was watching I don't I don't know the name of it but I can find out there's an app an actual app where you can find pet friendly plac is along your route to let your dog out yeah doesn't surprise me wow they have for everything check that out on our next road trip yeah yeah all swi gears and start wrapping this thing up a little bit what has been the neatest most memorable experience you guys have had while traveling so I would have to say um this past April we went to Puerto Rico I was born there I grew up there for a long time haven't been there in a long time but we rented a Class B a van and we slept on the beach for almost what a week and a half and we went drove all around the island different places went to waterfalls it was the best experience we ever had of all the camping that we have done in the past three years I would have to say that that was my favorite y talk about like being present like there is nothing like waking up and opening your doors and looking at the at at the ocean and listening to the water the and feeling the breeze and and I know sounds kind of corny and being one with nature like I was that I was not that tree hugging kind of uh feet on the sand kind of place but person but I became one when I became a nomad I guess and it was it was definitely but it's something about it it's like just sitting there and enjoying the ocean and walking on the sand and breathing the Clean Air and being able to sleep on the beaches and it was just except for the one night we got beat up by yeah yeah I don't think those were mosquitoes I think those were noos or whatever you call Y they St John those those are no
joke you can't see them but they hurt yeah other than the no seeum it sounds pretty grounding yeah even after that I would still do it again yeah for sure having spent a couple days in a van I guess when you went back to your camp or what you're in now um what were your thoughts for me it told me that I could live in a van for a couple weeks for a month you know a short trip too small I was freaking out like if you could watch our videos like leading up to that and I was like freaking out because I was like I have to go to the bathroom in a van you know I was freaking out because of chophia and it was fine she was fine it was totally fine and I was like that just proved to me like even further more that I could do more to step out of my comfort zone just even the thought of like camping for a couple of days and not showering I was the type of person that was like what she's never she's never been camping other than never I never been 10 so that was the closest so we kind of went backwards in camping right so but I actually loved it I actually LED this van and I told him I could see us buying a van for for short of trips you know yeah because I mean look the this size RV for what we're doing or even just going on vacation is great you got plenty of room the van the cool part with the van is you can pick up and go somewhere like that and get into places fo right rig couldn't you know feeling more stealth certainly pros and cons of each yes yes if you could have listened to this podcast when you were first starting out is there a question I didn't ask tonight that you would have asked how would you answer that now I would say do it because you're not going to regret it because that's the first thought that everyone thinks am i g to regret am i g know what am I doing I'm leaving my family I'm pretty much selling some of my possessions I'm getting rid of my house am I GNA regret this and the only thing I regret is not doing it sooner the other thing I would say is it saves you money right because you don't have the mortgage you don't have a lot more to pay for but is not as cheap as people think either right so make sure that you have income that allows you to live this life so you want to live and then for someone who's listening to this now who wants to start out and set up a lifestyle that you have currently what would be one thing they could start doing today research listen watch YouTube I know it sounds cliche and dumb whatever but that's how we learned a lot cuz like like when I first bought an RV I didn't know how like how do you level an RV how do I do that so I looked it up on YouTube St it and like oh I don't have those little ramp things that to make one side bigger and or higher up or lower so I had to go and buy them and like so like I learned and I did that before we went even on our first trip so like check out there's videos out there talk to someone who has an RV I had one of my Old Navy buddies had one you know I picked his brain a bunch of times so stuff like that I would tell them go watch RV life with Adrian and Ruth look at that playlist so you want to go fulltime now what and do everything they didn't do yeah learn from their mistakes right learn from their mistakes yes that's great did you have any other YouTube channels that you were watching when you were carving your path guy out of Miami called traveling Robert we we would watch his his his his uh videos sometimes we would fall asleep he and he has these three hour long ones where he puts like a whole series together and they would just play the whole night so there's and we would joke about it this is like before we even thought about buying an RV and we would be like imagine that you think you could do that and you'd be like I don't know I don't know if I could live on the road for that long and I'd be like I know I don't know man I need I need all my shoes and you don't no no and and here we are like I mean sometimes we sit here and think about it and and say like I can't believe it sometimes I can't believe this is our life um so yeah him changing changing lanes um you know to see that they did it full-time um and that you know that kind of stuff so that that was cool and then you know to come full circle we got to meet those guys at the tar show so it was kind of cool to actually meet the people that kind of inspired you to go do this stuff that's awesome yeah very cool we'll put a link in the show notes for those channels right there and while my audience is checking them out where can they find out more about you our website's currently under the construction but it'll be um RB life productions.com and that us usually has everything on there about us um our Channel you know what we do but I am on social media every single day RV life with Adrian and Ruth Instagram the RV esthetician um uh we're on uh Facebook we're on Tik Tok we're on Instagram and YouTube RV life with Adrian and Ruth we um it's the same everywhere we do lives every Sunday and um we typically do series like right now we're doing vlogmas but next month we're going to do a um Latin rvers series and we had van life in Puerto Rico Series so we try to do a fun little Series yeah um but we also do informative stuff too yeah so we try to help people with some of our experiences like like our serious so you want to go fulltime now what that's a serious because we had a lot of people ask us um you know questions and we were like totally like we'll tell you exactly what not to do you know so it's a good way to to get other people's perspective of those same questions and share with audience that's great and like you said you guys are very active on social media so and I think in about 40 minutes you're jumping on a live stream pretty quickly here so everyone go check him out Adrian and Ruth thank you guys so much thank you thank you for having us thank you