The Road To Full Time Rv Life

This Is Us

"We need to move this cannon to shoot the homeless."

That is one of the many comments we have received since choosing our lifestyle. We are not homeless. We live full time in a thirty-four foot motorhome, off grid, by choice. Why would anyone want to do this you ask? Well, let me tell you a little bit about us and our choice to live this way.

Six and a half years ago I met a wonderful man who, like myself, gets stir crazy and starts mentally crashing if life gets too repetitious for too long. For as long as I can remember this need for change came with labels from people who didn't understand, and thus, didn't approve of my need to constantly change things in my life. My husband, however, did understand, as he too felt the same longing for change.

In six and a half years, we have been blessed with two beautiful boys who are now five and a half, and almost four years old. We have lived together in five different homes in those six years, in three different towns/cities and two different provinces. With our current choice to live in a motorhome and travel Canada, we have lived in six different homes, and four different provinces. This is us.

Starting Our Journey

"You have five days to travel, but then you need to be on light duties."

This was a notice we received from the doctors when I was eight months pregnant with my second son. At the time, we were living in Spruce Grove, Alberta, running a company in Edmonton, Alberta seven days a week, and renting a large home in the suburbs. We had three cats and a tortoise, and my oldest son was a year and a half.

Our new journey all started at this point in our lives together. In five days, we rehomed our pets, closed down our office, packed up our house, found an apartment back in Manitoba, and found a moving company willing to courier all of our belongings to our new home.

Having a one and a half year old in tow while doing all of this was challenging in itself. Being eight months pregnant, with complications and raging emotions made it all a lot more interesting.

With the stress, hormones and a little bit of who knows what else, the thought of leaving everything behind, buying a travel trailer, and just driving back that way was in our minds daily.

This, I believe is when the seed was planted to full time RV.

Five days and well over fifteen thousand dollars later, we were in our new home in Manitoba, with no travel trailer, no income, very few savings left, and the uncertainty of getting back on our feet again.

Exploration

Night after night when our kids went to bed, we would watch Keep Your Daydream, Sailing Zatara, Tim and Fin , Tangerine Travels, and almost every single video we could find on living a more free, mobile lifestyle. During this time, we had numerous online businesses including sewing and selling clothing, website building and SEO for other companies, various stores, fundraisers, online games, and how can we forget humanitarian work. We did anything and everything we could think of to try and find a passive income so we could live and travel anywhere.

On Mother's Day of 2018 something amazing happened. We had no vehicle at the time and, while searching for one online, my husband, Kris, found a 1988, 34 foot motorhome about an hour away from us. After asking the gentleman selling it if he thought it would make the drive back to our home, we got a ride down, handed him two thousand dollars cash without seeing it, and drove it home.

Ask us how many people called us crazy and reckless after doing this!

The Renovation

Once we brought our rig home, we decided it needed a name. We sat for a very long time and discussed options for what we would lovingly call our new "home on wheels". We threw around many names which included, "4 For Freedom", "4 On The Go", "RV Nuts" and other similar, cheesy sounding names before lovingly naming him "Roy", because he is a Coachmen Royal, and naming our channel "4 Nuts In A Shell".

Over the course of two years, we worked jobs in the closest town, began renovations both in the home we lived in, and in our rig, and even started a home daycare. All the while, continuing on our passive income lifestyle in the background.

The renovations were long, tedious, and seemed never-ending. We had to strip it down because, although we were reassured there was no water damage, there was a lot of water damage. We ripped out the flooring and redid it, removed the captains chairs, counter top, curtains, and hooked up full solar so we could live off grid. For every feat completed, there were five more issues we needed to address.

We decided to show our full renovation on our YouTube channel to show people that it doesn't happen overnight, but that where there's a will, there's a way.

Covid-19

How do you finally take that leap, pare down everything you own, and make the transition? For us, the opportunity fell into our laps. Kris was running the daycare I had started after getting laid off from his previous job when new owners took over, and I was working as a coordinator for a local tv show.

In January 2020, I had been very sick. At the time, I thought I had a terrible head cold. I was coughing for weeks, short of breath, blacking out while walking to and from work, and was fevered for days. I continued working through this, thinking it would pass. Eventually, after about a month, it did. Head cold conquered!

It wasn't until March 2020 that we began to hear about Covid-19. The symptoms were all posted--all of which I had back in January. As the news began to spread, people had mixed reactions.

Some were very fearful, while others didn't believe it was a big deal at all. Before we knew it, people started stocking up on toilet paper, hand sanitizer, bleach, and cleaning supplies to the point that the store shelves lay bare. There were announcements that businesses were going to start closing down.

I got laid off from my job on March 15th, 2020. I will never forget hearing, "We aren't firing you. We will call you back when this all settles in a few weeks." I never got that call.

All of the kids were pulled out of our daycare and we had to shut it down as well. This is when my brain started going into overdrive wondering how we would continue to support our family.

We were lucky in a sense because we had online businesses. My husband wrote a book about turning your life around, he had an online store, and a website for volunteer work we were doing, and working towards doing more of with our children. I had begun this blog site, and started setting up our YouTube Channel.

Paring Down

At this point, we decided that because all of our jobs were online, and our children were not yet in school, we had no reason not to make our dreams of living off grid and traveling full-time a reality. We threw all of our free time, energy and resources into finishing the renovation on our rig.

The renovation was almost completed when we got a call from our landlord telling us that he sold the house where we were living. Now, to most people, this would be terrifying news to receive, but to us, the timing was exactly perfect for when we had planned to begin our new adventures.

We had three weeks to completely empty out a five bedroom, two bathroom house and be out. So how did we do it? First, I went room by room through the house, took pictures of every single thing we owned that wouldn't fit into our rig, such as furniture, large daycare toys etc. After that, every single item was tediously uploaded onto buy and sell sites in three towns, one city, and on a local area page.

Items were being picked up from our home daily and yes, it was very sad to see some of them go, but we kept our minds and hearts on the bigger picture and the life we were trying to create.

Next, I went back through every single thing room by room and made a mountain-sized pile of stuff to go, things to try fit into the rig, and an "I don't know" pile. More photos, more posting. It was exhausting!

Nearing the end of the second week, we had made over seven thousand dollars that we had thrown into our renovations. At this point, we moved all of our things into "Roy", and were spending the next week living in our rig on our driveway. We gave away anything we could to anyone we knew who wanted or needed it, and by living in our rig, we knew what we were using and what we weren't. The rest all went to charity and we rolled out.

People who had negative comments to make when we purchased "Roy", were now realizing, and telling us how smart we actually were for making sure we had a "back-up house" that we could drive and live in anywhere. All of a sudden, we didn't seem so crazy.

To support us on our mission to purchase a new home for our family, please check out the links below. We offer quite a few books and courses to help us earn money to achieve this necessary goal.

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The PYHOOYA Challenge (90 day challenge to change your life)

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The Road to PYHOOYA (life changing paperback)

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Operation PYHOOYA 365: Life By Design (rewrite your life paperback)

Operation PYHOOYA 365: Life By Design (rewrite your life ebook)

The Magic Pill (formula for a better life ebook)

PYHOOYA to Wellness (health guide ebook)

The Whole P.I.E (passive income empire course)

P.I.E For Beginners (passive income empire beginner course)

Blogging For Dollars (complete blogging course)

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Thank you all very much for being such a huge part of our lives!