December Expenses and Starting a New Year

It's really hard to comprehend that we have been living full time in the RV for 7 months now. Traveling up and down the Pacific Coast seems so long ago now and we are a little sad that it will be more than a year before we get back into the western part of the USA to visit the kids and grand-kids again. We definitely  enjoyed all the family time we had up and down the coast visiting everyone and hot-rodding Ronnie's Camero was a blast. Thanks to all and look forward to seeing everyone in 2019.

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Currently we are down in Weslaco Texas bouncing between a couple of different parks, staying 3 weeks at each one then moving. We spent the day at Padre Island a few days ago and it is pretty nice, as Steve and Lance will vouch for as we spent a month on Padre Island in our 24' motorhome back in 1978 that we all really enjoyed.

There is a beach RV parking area that Pearl and I are thinking about staying at for a few days but haven't decided for sure yet. When we parked on the Beach in California for a week last spring, it really covered everything in salt and was a pain to get clean again.

The campsites are all fairly standard in the Thousand Trails, Encore Parks here and while there is plenty of room and lots of activities, I don't really enjoy them all that much, as I much prefer being nearer the ocean, lake, forest or river. It's fine for spending the winter I guess, but we will definitely be ready to get back on the road this spring and explore new and different campsites.

We are scheduled to get to Branson Missouri this Spring then go to a RV rally in upper Missouri later in the month before heading across to Indianapolis to visit Robert and Family. We will head up to Niagara Falls and the New England area during the summer and head down to Florida for the winter. I am sure I will way too soon be sitting in Florida writing the same thing that it is hard to believe that 2018 went  by so fast.

I plan to do a short video or two showing a little bit of the Medina Lake campground where we were camped at in late November/December and where we will stop back at in the Spring, along with some drone footage I shot here at Country Sunshine where we are at currently.

There are lots of RV'ers here now, the drone footage shows the park fairly empty 2 weeks ago, but our neighbors said just wait until after Christmas and all the Canadians will start showing up and they have showed up in droves. It is really filling up fast as I write this the first week in January.

Our most viewed videos seem be the ones that show or discuss finances, so even though I was thinking about ending the expense videos fairly soon, I have received numerous request to continue them over on YouTube. I see they are constantly the top viewed videos even here on the blog so here is the latest spreadsheet on what it cost actually us to live full time in the RV for December 2017

At the end of the video, I added a section where I back out all of the expenses that are not absolutely mandatory and leave room for some personal adjusting up or down depending your personal situation. According to those numbers, a couple could possibly live this lifestyle on $25,000 a year assuming they were debt free and didn't spend a lot of money on extras (really no money on extras)

Hopefully, we will have a video of us and the more recent campgrounds we have stayed at pretty soon, but for now here is the December Expense Spreadsheet for those that haven't seen it already on YouTube.

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