First year of the RV life

Ok...so, here go. We bought our 5th wheel! We paid cash, and things were starting to get real and exciting. However, to do this debt free, there was still a looooong ahead of us.

Have you ever made a large purchase on something you wanted, only to find you we’re burdened with that gut wrenching feeling of buyers remorse? You know, those thoughts of ‘should I have just bought this?’ or ‘oh man, I’m regretting this already!’...... We had the complete opposite feeling! We were ecstatic, to say the least.

We drove our nused (new-used) 5th wheel about a mile down the road from the house we just sold, to our friends property. We had made a small arrangement to set up temporarily on his land, which already was set up with all the utilities. We then begin our next stage to our debt free lifestyle. 

When we moved in, our occupants included myself, my husband Alex, and our 3 kids. Travis was 9 years old, Taylor 8 years old and Garen about 5 months old! To give you an idea of the amount space we had, I was able to have one of the baby walkers that they sit in and walk around in, in the camper with plenty of room for him ‘walk’ all over the place. We definitely were not cramped. 

It was a very easy transition to make, considering we were not having to make any sacrifices as far as utilities go. We had all the amenities, including internet. I even used my washer and dryer that came equipped in the 5th wheel, granted it was on the smaller side, so blankets had to be washed at the local laundry at in town. But I at least could wash up to 3 pairs of jeans at a time. To stay on top of our clothes I would do a couple loads each day.

Let’s fast forward to 1year later. 

We finally had saved up enough money that we could start to watch the market for vacant land. We still did have a budget to stick to if we wanted to pay in cash. Of course we always have a wine taste on a beer budget. So we avoided the pieces that were over the amount we had saved up in the bank. 

One day I was doing a search and came across 5 acres of virgin land about 20 minutes outside the town we were living in. This is when the excitement kicked in and the reality of our hard work was looking like it would start to pay off!

We drove out there as quickly as we found discovered this piece. Around here, land this cheap didn’t stick around the market long. When we arrived, it was in a nice location, no neighbors that were too close, and we notices that the property had beautiful, tall, thriving green grass that covered the entire 5 acre lot! There was no irrigation water but by the looks of the ground covering and it’s being close to the month of June, we new this would be the perfect place to still be able to feed and raise livestock for a lengthy time through out year. 

We were super loving the little bit longer distance to town, but it was in our price range WITH lots left over to spare.

As we drove back to town, we called my boss, aka our real estate agent, and put in our offer. To our joyful surprise, they accepted. And since we were paying cash, we were able to close on our new 5 acres in less than 2 weeks!! 

Now, the fun is really starting to begin! And that feeling of never thinking we would see this day was unfolding in front of our very own eyes!