My family and I have been living in an RV since the beginning of the pandemic.
It has been one interesting and weird experience.
We decided to move out of our home when everything got serious. We were already talking about selling our house and the pandemic made everything move a lot more quickly. We didn’t know the first thing about RV ownership when we bought our 30 foot trailer with three slide outs and an awning. We had a lot of information to learn quickly. We had to learn how to raise and lower the RV and we had to learn how to replace the fuses and the breakers. We nearly lost the railer one time when I forgot to secure the locking mechanism. Two months after we bought the RV, we were camped out in a desert location and the outdoor temperature was 85 degrees. There wasn’t a single tree anywhere in sight and we had the sun beating down on our roof 18 hours during the day. My wife and I were having trouble with the AC unit. We didn’t know how to fix the problem with the AC, so we were forced to call a repair service. We had to call a mobile RV mechanic to fix the AC, because many of the places in town only serviced residential homes. By the time we fixed the AC and cleaned all of the ductwork in the RV, we spent almost $400 in total. So far, that is the most expensive repair we have been forced to complete on our new mobile villa.