We Bought an RV!

I can’t believe I finally get to write this, but we bought an RV! This is something that I have been dreaming about since I was a kid and my dad bought a motorhome. We never had a chance to travel in it, but I loved that motorhome. The dream of owning and traveling with an RV would come and go, but it hit me hard shortly after my first was born. I really wanted to give him childhood memories of camping and exploring the outdoors together. When researching it, I found the cutest family that lived in an RV full-time and travelled around the country. I LOVED their videos. Unfortunately, they pulled all their YouTube and instagram content, but the inspiration from their beautiful fifth wheel has never left me.

That family lived in their RV full-time, so it made sense that they had something large. We didn’t need (and would have no idea how to drive) something that large, but I loved the layout of theirs. It had a bunkhouse room at the opposite end of the trailer, which I thought would be really nice to help the little ones sleep. Once I had that in my head, it was hard to find a different layout that I thought would work as well. I’ve check on Facebook Marketplace for the past few years, but it was either not the right time or I couldn’t find the right layout. At this point in parenthood, we didn’t want anything that needed a ton of renovations.

On the 23rd, I saw one on Marketplace that I thought might be perfect. We kept searching and searching, but we couldn’t find anything that really compared to the layout of this RV. The price was reasonable, it looked like it was in good condition, and it had a bunkhouse! We went to see it that evening. We loved it! After Christmas, the timing felt just right and we didn’t want miss out on this specific camper.

I will do a full tour soon, but a few things we loved about this one are:

• the bunkhouse
• large, but not 41 ft. like the one I originally loved
• a table and couch layout that made sense for our family
• large kitchen sink
• lots of storage
• ready to go, but has potential for easy updates
• could be pulled with our current truck

Full of nerves and excitement, we went to buy it today. It took a while to sink in, but now we are super excited! We cannot wait to clean it up and take it out for our first adventure!

If you have any newbie RV advice, please let me know. Despite all the research, this is still all new to us.