Why wait until you retire to RV?

Wouldn’t it be so much easier to wait until we retire to go on the road? Or at least wait until our kids are older?  The answer is simple: I don’t want to wait until I’m retired to start living my life and my husband feels the same.

For the last few years we have been working hard to support ourselves. I have my own photography business and my husband has a great job at a company that he really enjoys working for. In this economy we are far more lucky than most, so why give it all up?

I was watching the pilot of Glee the other day (I was a musical theater geek and cheerleader in HS, so yes, I like Glee). At the end of the episode Mr. Schuester has to choose to follow his dream as a teacher or give it up for financial security as an accountant in order to support his wife and baby on the way. Mr. Schu told the guidance counselor, Emma, “I need to provide for my family”. Emma, responded with, “But provide what exactly, the understanding that money is the most important thing? Or the idea that the only life worth living is one that you are really passionate about?”

My husband and I don’t want to be trapped by our jobs. We want to be free to live passionate lives, to meet new people, to have adventures and this is our first big adventure as a family.

Living the RV Dream Now

My husband came home from work one day and said he was ready to quit his job and take us on the road for an extended RV trip around the United States. My first question was when? He said he wanted to leave as soon as possible and be on the road for at least 5 months. Maybe I should have been more shocked, but this has been a dream of mine since high school so I said, “Okay, lets see what it will take”.

As a mom of an 8-month old, I knew it would be a challenge to live full time in an RV with a baby. I want to support my husband and like I said this is a dream of mine too, but as I started to think about it I thought maybe it would be too hard. I mean, what would we do for work?

The next day I went online to do a little research about what we would actually need to do in order to RV with a baby full time. All the research I found basically said not to do it. It’s too hard to find a safe place for baby to travel, sleep, play, etc. I don’t like when people tell me no, so I made it my mission to find answers to all the problems we as parents face when traveling in an RV with a baby. I created this blog to share the answers I have found and to encourage other moms, dads and grandparents to live their dreams of RVing with a baby now.