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Top 25 signs that you live in your RV full-time!

You might live in an RV if… 

1) Your GPS is your best friend!

2) You NEVER know where items are in the grocery store.

3) You dump your own sewage and it is no big deal.

4) Your family has to ask you where you are when they call.

5) You keep both winter and summer wardrobes because you don’t know where you will end up.

6) You know what snowbirds are and have seen them in their natural habitat.

7) Your HOME has wheels.

8) You blog so that YOU will remember where you have been!

9) You look in your pantry and see that you have cereal from New Jersey, pasta from Texas, canned goods from Alabama and crackers from California.

10) You are always the new guy in town

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11) You know where to find the best, most reliable internet.

12) You own very little and are proud of that!

13) You follow the warm weather.

14) You hang pictures and decoration on the wall with velcro.

15) You don’t own any figurines or other cutesy stuff that sits on countertops.

16) You have slept in a Wal-Mart parking lot.

17) You meet up with a family in Virginia that you met in California!

18) Your kids remember friends by what state they met them in!

19) You grocery shop every three days because your refrigerator is so small.

20) You have been to more museums, aquariums, national parks, monuments and zoos than you can remember.

21) You have ever “pulled chocks”.

22) You look confused when someone asks you “where are you from?”

23) You get your mail 2-3 months late regularly from your mail forwarding service.

24) You have witnessed your toilet “burping” at you.

25) You crave adventure and can not wait to see what is around the next corner!

Have you enjoyed our list? What would you add to it? 

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Number one on our Cheyenne, Wyoming Bucket List is the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens! The boys and I decided to check it out while Patrick was at work. The gardens were beautiful and well kept, but what the kids REALLY loved was the Paul Smith Children’s Village.

As we entered the children’s village we were met with blooming flower, plant, and vegetable gardens! The three-quarter acre piece of land was jam-packed with interactive things for children to do!

The 1930’s era building located in the rear of the gardens has an old rock wall attached to it that forms the “secret garden”. Even as an adult it felt like something straight out of a children’s book. Built into the side of the “secret garden” was a puppet theater where Grant made a new friend: Mr Rabbit. They enjoyed singing together and making jokes! Owen also joined in on the puppetry fun!

In the midst of the natural wetlands was a bridge that the kids had to pull from one side of the pond to the other to load and off-load each other. The boys had so much fun on this and made a ton of friends!

And of course there was FLOWERS! I especially loved this part of our adventure! While the kids played checkers and tic-tac-toe I walked around and enjoyed nature’s beauty!

If you are in the Cheyenne, Wyoming area and are looking for something to do you should check out the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens! The best part is it is free!

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Yesterday the boys and I look a little 20 minute trip to the Wyoming Visitors Center to get some ideas about what to do in Cheyenne while we are here! What we found was quite the surprise! The visitors center was so nice!

Not only did it have the typical brochures and books of places to see and things to do, but it also had a walk through history of Wyoming! This included a lot of informational push button displays, art installations, an unearthed dinosaur skeleton AND a jail cell with an escape hatch that led to a slide! The kids LOVED it and it made learning about Wyoming fun!

Apparently they learned how to escape jail.

They were mesmerized by the giant bone structure!

They were very excited to see a checkers game!

They love to play checkers and tic-tac-toe!

Owen and Grant were reading every sign in the visitors center and telling me the details about what they learned about Wyoming and where they wanted to visit!

We are only in Cheyenne, Wyoming for a very short period of time so while we were at the visitors center we created a “Cheyenne Bucket List” of things we want to do before we leave here!

Our Bucket list:

Cheyenne Botanic Gardens

Cheyenne Street Railway Trolley

Wyoming State Capitol/State Museum

 Big Boy Steam Engine

Terry Bison Ranch

Cheyenne Depot/Depot Museum

Cheyenne Big Boots

Cheyenne Old West Museum

Has YOUR family been to one or more of these places? Let us know what you thought of it! 

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The shoes, the clothes, the toys! We had way to much of all of it! Living in an RV you have to constantly be pruning your collection of “things”. We spent almost the whole day donating, cleaning, repairing, and trashing a lot of “STUFF” in the kids’ room! Now it is much easier to find the toys, clothes, and shoes they are looking for! It feels and looks much better and is easier for the kids to clean themselves! It’s a win/win!

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We had also collected a HUGE collection of books from various trips to thrift stores and garage sales. While I was happy the boys had books available to read they just weren’t justifiable in the RV any longer. During transit they would get ripped, crumpled, lost, and scattered. We kept about 5 out of 100 or so books and donated the rest. Our new solution is we will be getting the boys each a Kindle as well as using the public library more often!

<3 Jennifer

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From southern Missouri we headed west to our favorite little overnight RV spot in Kansas! We love finding these little hidden RV overnight spots! In this case the one in Parsons is only $5.00 a night with electric and water hookups! It is right in Marvel City Park and next door to the baseball fields and dog parks. There is also a tornado shelter… it is Kansas after all!

Next we continued northwest through Kansas and came across another CHEAP place to stay overnight! Hill City is a TINY Kansas town in the middle of nowhere that has $10.00 a night RV sites at their fairgrounds! There are tons of sites to choose from. Ours had water and electric and there was a dump station! The ONLY bad thing is the fairgrounds has manure from all the livestock and the flies were TERRIBLE!!! We are in Wyoming now and we are still killing the Kansas flies! But, for $10.00 I can’t really complain!

Once we left Hill City, Kansas we drove north through Nebraska… there really wasn’t anything to look at except this one old barn…

To be continued in Wyoming!

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We made it to state 30: Louisiana! We wanted to stop by the Duck Commander in West Monroe, Louisiana. We pulled in around dark and stayed the night at a campground 5 miles from Duck Dynasty Duck Commander headquarters! We got up in the morning and went and had breakfast and on to the Duck Commander warehouse!

The Duckmen weren’t there as it was the season premier of Duck Dynasty season 4 and the whole family was in New York! I was a little sad because I had my heart set on meeting Si! There wasn’t really much to the “tour”. There was really just a souvenir shop, the trailer and the “Duck commander, Buck commander” sign. That was it! Oh, and the worlds largest duck call was displayed in the lobby! We took some pictures, bought some shirts and went back to the RV to pack up and head north to Wyoming!

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Well, there isn’t much to it! We drove straight through!

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Our time in New Jersey may have been shorter than we expected, but we really enjoyed our time there! We were about 18 minutes from the beach and spent lots of time playing in the ocean! The boys loved the water and even though it was freezing cold they would body board and come out shivering, warm up and go back in!

When we first got to New Jersey this Texas family felt a little out of place! People were short with words and not very friendly… well, not in a Texas friendly kind of way. At first I thought they were just rude, but turns out people in New Jersey were really nice… in their own ways.

Some interesting facts about New Jersey:

1) You may not make a left hand turn across traffic. You must exit right to turn left. This resulted in a lot of loopty-loop driving for me because I just did not get it!

2) You may not pump your own gas! At first this was so weird… until it was blistering hot or pouring rain… then I appreciated it!

3) Trees along the roadways are sprayed with a noxious chemical… to prevent THEFT! Who steals trees? Reading more into it I learned that people steal the evergreen Christmas trees and sell them down south where they don’t naturally grow.

While we were in New Jersey we went on a family hike in the Monmouth Battlefield State Park. What is cool about this park is that not only does it have reenactments occasionally, but there is also a few U-pick-em fruit orchards in the State Park! The hike was an easy 1 mile hike, BUT hurricane Sandy really messed up the trails which required us to climb up, over and through fallen debris.

New Jersey had great beaches and delicious pizza! It was one of my top 5 favorite places to visit! 

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Our drive from Texas to Virginia summed up in one word: exhausting! We drove 12 hour days, in the pouring rain the first two days. And the next two days we meandered the remaining 6 hours. The drive was beautiful! I had no idea Virginia and Maryland were so pretty!

We boon-docked (parked to sleep without electric, water or sewer) for the night outside of Lynchburg, Virginia on the second night! We found this spot because a very generous person on the Fulltime Rv’ing Facebook page offered his land for anyone passing through! It just so happened that we were passing through there the day after he posted his offering!! We drove our rigs through the hills of Virginia and found his home. His family was welcoming and we are so glad we stopped for the night and had the chance to meet them (and get a good night’s sleep)!

After Virginia we stopped in Maryland to visit with family from Patrick’s side! It was so nice to see people we haven’t seen in over 8 years! The boys loved meeting them and running around their place… I think they were in a sugar coma most of the time due to the cupcakes they made with Aunt P! They had an unforgettable time and are already asking me to go back and visit! Luckily we are only two and a half hours away so we’ll have plenty of time to visit our northeastern family!

We left Maryland and only had a short drive to our RV park. The park wasn’t exactly what we were thinking it was going to be (more on that later), but it will do!

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