This is a blog about two baby boomers who are retired and living full time in their Class A motorhome. We stay mostly at Thousand Trails campgrounds. We use a drone to film our adventures and share the video on the blog
My wife drives our 42 ft Class A motorhome, I fly the Drone and we are having a blast in our new liftstyle.
We have met a lot of couples both online and in the RV Campgrounds that are interested in the Full Time RV Lifestyle. Most of them do not really understand why we would sell our home and live in our 42' Class A Motorhome.
This lifestyle is not for most folks, I think we probably all agree on that, but Todd and Nancy just might be one of the exceptions. They drove over from their home in Akron Ohio to our campsite to meet us and agreed to tell their story in front of the camera. We had such a fun day with them and I wish we could have put it all into the video but it just simply would not all fit.
Here is a 20 minute video of their story and the process they went through to make their decision. I hope you enjoy meeting them and watching their story.
It seems that winter is over and we have been dealing with record hot weather & Humidity in Texas and Missouri for the last couple of months, but now that we have hit Indiana, the weather has settled down into the 70's and lower humidity. We purchased a large dehumidifier before we left Texas and that has helped tremendously. I have heard about them but never needed one but am a believer now. We dump about a gallon of water out each morning, so it is definitely doing something.
Here are a couple of the videos we took at the different campgrounds leaving Texas
We are in Indiana because it is as good of a route to Niagara Falls as any and our Nephew "Robert Caddel", his lovely wife Esme and their family live in Indiana and Robert offered to BBQ a nice dinner with cold beverages at his home if we come through his neck of the woods, so here we are. We will definitely get some video of the event. Robert will have to work pretty hard to beat his dads BBQ ribs that we had back in Nevada last summer, but he indicates he is pretty good on the Grill.
On the route, we stopped for a week in Branson Missouri just to see what it was all about, and it was definitely worth the stop. Here is a quick little video of our stay in Branson. The photo shows us getting stuck but that was later in Sedalia Missouri at the Escapees Rally. Below is video of the Rally and some of the seminars we were able to attend plus some folks that follow our Youtube channel and decided to also attend the rally.
So now we are about 100 miles West of Indianapolis Indiana at Horseshoe RV Campground. It is pretty nice and nestled into a forested area and several small lakes around the campground.. We will be here for a week and Robert said he may bring his girls to the campground to do some fishing. I don't think Robert is much more of a fisherman than I am and sure wish Roberts dad (Steve) was here as he is the fisherman in the family (other than our Brother-in-Law Britt who is a REAL fisherman) but I would bet that Steve would love teaching his granddaughters how to fish. I don't know why he never taught his son or brother though. I guess granddaughters are just a little sweeter than sons and brothers.
So now you are all caught up on where we are and what we have been up to. We are meeting up with a couple from our Youtube channel here at Horseshoe Lakes in a couple of days then heading over a little closer to Robert & Family before going up to Jefferson Ohio where we are meeting up with several couples and one of them says they have a very interesting story to share with us and want to make a video about it for our Youtube Channel.They aren't giving us any clues so I don't know if it is a interesting story or not but we are very curious to find out. Stay Tuned and we will all find out together when they come to visit and tell their story.
For those that may be interested. We finished our First Year of Full Time RVing and keep a good record of all our expenses and put it out each month. Here is the latest with our 12 months included.
Pearl and I met with Tonya (my sister) in Bell County Texas to visit our Great Great Grandfather (Captain Andrew Caddell) grave site. Captain Andrew Caddell fought in the Battle of San Jacinto against Santa Anna who had just taken over the Alamo Mission. The state of Texas granted Captain Caddel 4,700 acres of Texas land in 1835 for his service in that battle. The state of Texas also placed a large memorial headstone on his grave site around 1936 in memory of Captain Andrew Caddell's service in fighting in this battle and for Texas Independence.
The current land owners Robert and Karen Rance who graciously gave us a tour of the cemetery and they have taken great care of the land and the cemetery while in their possession for the last 22 years. I have posted my family tree information on the Ancestory dot com Web Site back around 2001 and have updated it on occasion as we have found new information. This video has sections of my family tree going back to 1590 and have put pertinent parts of that family tree in this video.
I hope you enjoy the Caddel Family Tree as well as the Captain Andrew Caddel Cemetery. It is a beautiful piece of land it is located on
As you may have noticed, we did not post our February expense video but here is the March Expense report. We purchased some new camera equipment in March (Cannon 80D and a Rode Pro + microphone). We have had some issues with our sound quality on some of the videos so hopefully this will help with that issue.
Well, we finally did it and applied for an Amazon Affiliate status and have started to insert links into the video descriptions on Youtube, so I thought I would try one here to see just how it works.
We haven't got to test it as yet, but if anyone is thinking about purchasing something from Amazon in the next few days, would you consider clicking the link above to take you to amazon web site. It should take you to the doggie poop bag page and from there you can go anywhere you want to make your purchase and we should get some kind of kick back from Amazon and you will simply pay what ever the regular price is for your purchase.
Easy Peeze, and we get some cash, not sure what we will do with the cash, I think you have to have a $100 balance to get a check so it may a year or two before we get anything. If our account starts getting credits we will post it here so you will kind of know how it works.
Thanks for trying the link, if it is too cumbersome no problem just do your amazon normally and don't worry about it as it's just for fun to see if it will work. I don't think it will work for me to use it myself but you can bet I am going to give it a try. :-)
I am a little late posting the January Expense report over here on the Blog this month. We had a pretty inexpensive month since we didn't have to purchase any Diesel Fuel or Campsite expenses. We aren't really too compatible with the South Texas weather or terrain. It has been cool and windy almost the total time we have been down here. The good news is we only have 3 weeks left before we head north.
We are actually thinking about leaving a week early and going to Big Bend National Park and maybe even staying at the Hol-I-Day rv park where daddy and Beverly always wintered back when they had COZY. We tried to get their exact site (36) but it is a popular site and unavailable. It will pretty much depend on my trip to the dentist if we get to leave early and go to Del Rio and Big Bend.
I need to just get my teeth cleaned and a general dental checkup and I am going to do it in Nuevo Progreso, Mexico. We have gotten a lot of positive feed back on this dentist (Dr. Dan :-) and depending on what he says I may or may not have some implants put in. But if it is too costly or I am not comfortable with his skill set, tenderness and cleanliness then I will settle for a cleaning and we will head to Del Rio. We both want to go there so we just might make it.
Our luck has ran out as far as inexpensive as far as February goes. Pearl decided she wanted a new Ipad, and the car is making a funny noise (its in the shop as I write this) and we have been going out for lunch and dinner like there is no tomorrow. I am guessing we will be over budget in several areas this month but we have been pretty lucky all year and nothing too expensive has popped up so far to chew up the maintenance part of the budget so it was a little due.
That just about covers our month on January and a big part of February, wish me luck at the dentist and hopefully we will make it to Big Bend National Park for some good weather and vibes that daddy and Beverly may have left down here for us to connect up with.
We met up with a couple that follows our Youtube channel a couple of weeks ago. They live up north of Dallas and came down to South Padre Island for a vacation and emailed us asking if we would like to meet up with them and visit about RVs. We did and decided to do a video about their trip to Alaska they plan to take in May. Here is that video, we had a lot of fun making it.
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The General Manager of one of the RV parks down here saw the above interview with Charles and Cande and contacted us to see if we would like to come to their customer appreciation day and interview the full time RV'ers there and post it on our Youtube Channel. We think it might be a lot of fun so next Tuesday we will be doing several more of these type videos. Hopefully we will get a little better with practice and make it a kind of regular event at different campgrounds, as long as we can find volunteers to do the videos with us.
If you have any ideas for questions to ask these seasoned full time rv'ers please leave them in the comments section here or on Youtube and we will try to get you an answer.
We have been down here in south Texas for a couple of months now and we are ready to hit the road just as soon as it looks like the cold weather is warming up. The sad part is I am guessing we still have a month or so to go.
We had dinner with a couple that lives down here locally and I asked them about the dentist in Mexico and if they had use them. It appears most everyone has confidence in going across the border and having their dental work done. It cost me almost a thousand buck the last time I had a crown put in back in Nevada, The going rate here in Mexico is about $200 and potentially one day service if your lucky...
I made an appointment to have my teeth cleaned and maybe some more work if there is a comfort level, but I am a little bit concerned about sanitation and catching something that doesn't wash off in the process. I am not above walking out it it doesn't look right, but hopefully I get in and out with no permanent damage. Might even get some good video for the Youtube channel or maybe not now that I think about it.
We received a letter from one of the couples that follow the Youtube Channel saying they were coming down to South Padre Island and would like to meet up with us while they were here and of course we jumped at the chance. Their campsite was right on the Bay so that is where we met up with them to go and have some lunch. We had breaded shrimp and margaritas overlooking the Gulf and it was great. Not too healthy but delicious.
South Padre Island is a beautiful area and we need to go there more often. We shot a video of us visiting and discussing their plans to travel to Alaska this summer. We got so caught up in it that we have moved our plans to RV up through Alaska to next year (2019). East Coast this year and Alaska next year. Sounds Great to Us.
Here is the interview we did with Charles and Cande, Hope you enjoy it and if your up for it, start making some plans to join us.
