Who is Wild RV Life? Our Story & Most Asked Questions About Full Time RV Living
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- We're Craig & Victoria of Wild RV Life and today we're telling you more about our story, how we started living full time in our RV and answering your most popular questions!
Timestamps:
0:00 Our Story
2:14 What RV do we have?
3:31 What do we do for a living?
4:04 How long will we do this for?
5:00 How much does it cost?
5:59 What about dogs and RV life?
6:59 What about internet?
7:56 How do we find spots and plan routes?
8:51 What do we do for fun?
9:48 Our favorite and least favorite things about RV life
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Who are we?
We’re Victoria & Craig! In 2021, we decided that we needed to make life a little more exciting, so we bought a used 2014 Dutchmen Denali 330rls fifth wheel and completely renovated it. Then, we sold our house in Tallahassee, Florida and hit the road full time in our RV! We’ve traveled all around the United States and fell in love with boondocking in our RV at the most beautiful places. You’ll always find us on some kind of outdoor adventure, whether it’s hiking the Grand Canyon, rock climbing in Yosemite or surfing the shores of California. Subscribe to our channel (bit.ly/3ssOjGT) to follow along on our full time RV living adventures!
You guys are such a breath of fresh air. Thank you for taking us along on your wonderful adventures. Stay safe, and God bless.
Aww that is so sweet! Thank you so much!!
I have become hooked on watching your videos and channel. I’m not an RVer, but I enjoy watching you guys. Y’all are hilarious and always make me laugh!
I makes us so happy to hear that your Faith is an important factor in your travels. God bless you both and keep you safe!
Thank you so much!!
The church I attend here in the Poconos hosted Night To Shine 2 consecutive years until covid hit
We love watching y'all, and yeah, we're old in age, but not in spirit
Thank you so much for watching!
I just recently found your channel. My wife and I are planning on purchasing a motorhome ASAP and start traveling so we're learning all we can from watching videos. Y'all have quickly become one of our faves. I was so happy to hear y'all mention church and staying with it while traveling. That is a high priority for us as we travel. We certainly enjoy seeing the dogs in the videos. We have 2 small dogs that will be traveling with us too. Keep up the good work and safe travels. Hope you have a blessed day
Always nice to hear everyone’s story. Thanks for sharing!
Happy for you guys! Living your dreams ! Love seeing your videos
I absolutely love following y’all.
really great informative video. thanks!
I love this! I love that faith is important to you even on the road. Thank you for sharing your adventures!
Y’all, please don’t stop doing what you’re doing! Love the content, and I can’t wait opening up UA-cam and seeing y’all posted a new video! I’m living through you two. Have a blessed day!!!!
I just love you guys!!
Found and subscribed because of Open Roading YT channel. Can't wait to see what you 2 have to share. Thabk you for sharing your journey❤
Well I adore you both so much, I appreciate all the work you put into your channel.
Now I get why Craig is absolutely invaluable at fixing all the broken issues with your home.
I just love how you support each other and play off each other.
When you respect each other as you do it's a beautiful thing.
Your beautiful people inside and obviously out.
Keep up the amazing journey
It was such a pleasure meeting you both at the FL Super RV Show last month. We were parked next to you in the Tiffin. Thanks for telling your story and we look forward to many more episodes.
Love watching you guys! I’m 50 and my husband 54 and we are planning our nomadic lifestyle! Don’t think I’ll be rock climbing but it’s never too late! We’ve travelled a lot internationally and we are Brit expats living in florida the past 19 years and planning on seeing a lot more of the USA. Keep up the great job!
Oh wow that’s such an amazing adventure already! And definitely! It’s never too late to try something new! 😄
All that matters U both Have Fun &U Love ❤️ each every Day.
I have a feeling you guys are going to do well or better than well on UA-cam. You guys have the ( IT FACTOR )
Safe travels
Rough Roads Tear up RV’s so u might look into A Better Suppior for the Travel trailer The axle Suppion are built real cheap so try upgrading Axle suppiton..
This was a great update. Thank you for your videos. You are such a cute couple
Love your videos and seeing the realistic view of RV life with real problems and issues that pop up. We’ve been full time for about 2 years now ourselves. Love the budget spreadsheet as well btw. Just had to alter the date formula for 2024.
Thank you for this video! I really enjoy watching you guys and your adventures! I also appreciate the fact that you try to find churches and or worship services to stay strong in your faith! I hope that God will bless you with years to come as long as you can!!
Great story! Love your spirit and energy!
Thanks so much!
🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤ love viewing this vid.
I am viewing from Ontario Canada
My wife and I are enjoying almost fulltime for the last 2 years. You guys are us if we would have done this 30 years ago.
It was great hearing your back story. My wife and I met at church youth group as well. That was back in New Zealand. Now we live in Canada and RV full time (but I'd say we're in the States and Mexico close to 50 % of the time). 😎
Your RV is beautiful!!
Well done. Looking forward to your next video.
Thank you!!
so cool to learn a bit more about yall and your back story, You two are just so real and we love that about you!
Aw thank you so much!! 😄
Lovely story kids. But I really wanted to see the finished product on the stuffed peppers! 😉 On a side note your relationship reminds my of ours. We met in high school, got married right after and now full time in an RV. However our full time adventure didn't start until we were in out 50's. Love your channel and safe travels!!
Great video guys. Love your love of your faith. Very refreshing. I’m glad we found your channel. Happy trails and thank for for taking us along.
Thanks so much for coming along!!
Thanks for another upbeat and well done video! We're really looking forward to your video of your trip to San Filipe and Mexico.
Thank you so much!
Great team. A money maker and an RV repair man😂. Both go hand and hand in that lifestyle 😊
ENJOYED!!!!!
Thanks for watching! 🙌🏼
Great story. Thanks for sharing. Can’t wait to hear more about Mexico.
Of course!! And thanks for coming along!
Love your channel thanks for sharing. Craig with your background you should consider NRVTA in Texas
Winners Always love your Content.
Thank you so much!!
What an amazing life you two live. You've done an excellent job! Most importantly you have God as the center of your relationship. I know He loves you both very much. ❤️
Good for you guys, see it and experience it while your young. It's a new world out there compared to when I was growing up. So many opportunities to work on the road now. The truck I tow with I purchased in 2008 lol.
Thank you! It’s really crazy how much the world is changing with remote work
Love watching you live your life. It’s so much fun to watch everyone cross the Canadian Border. Love your honesty about you thoughts on a city or situation. Craig, did you say you never that stern as a correction officer when talking about the border agent?
It was a fun Q & A, and the peppers looked tasty. Safe travels.
They were good! Thanks for watching!
Craig should do traveling RV inspections! There’s a pretty high demand for it 🤷🏻♀️
Interesting video. Thanks!
Thank you for watching!
Love all of your videos!! ❤. I would love to travel like y’all!! Where in Florida are you from?
You guys are such a cute couple. Having fun watching you.
You two have become my favorite full timers to follow. There are so many rV park reviewers and it gets old. I love that you show what to do in an area and that you actually go on adventures! Keep it going!
Wow thank you so much for the encouragement! Hope to keep bringing you good content!
Bonjour, yes my spouse and i are Canadien and also french from the province of Québec, We do enjoy your chanel especialy because we ordered our Brinkley Z3100 in january and delivery in april. You are very interesting and it is à Joy to hear from you. You take care Diane and Denis.
Thank you! We hope to make it up towards Quebec one day. We hear there is lots of good food.
I just found your channel and I watched this video first so I can get to know you. I enjoyed your video and love a lot about your style, especially the faith aspect and not being ashamed of sharing that. I look forward to binging your videos
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Love you guys. How do you stay so calm when things go wrong. God bless
Great video and I can tell you why you have a lot of problems with the RV. I own a Dutchman Colorado and Dutchman is one of the cheapest poorest constructed RV out there. I have learned a lot with this RV but I will never own another made by Dutchman. I would rather have my teeth pulled. Lol. Stay safe and God bless.
My Family (Me, Wife and Daughter) are getting close to launching. Just wrapping up as much as I can on the RV and the truck. We are planning allot of boondocking, thus lots of LiFePO4 and solar. I'll be working (IT) as we go, so longer stays is key. We are hoping this provides a great experience for our Daughter (20, Disabled) allowing her to experience more in life than just electronic devices!!
If you guys didn’t get so bored maybe your rig would stop falling apart (giving you something to do) and you could do other things! 😃. My wife and I aren’t full time but we are on the road about three months out of the year with our fifth wheel. Our goal was to ride our bicycles in all 50 states which we finally accomplished last year! We’ve seen a lot of awesome bike trails around the country and a few not-so-awesome. We also visit wineries in every state. Been to some beautiful wineries and tasted many, many ah did I say mention wines in our travels. Had to build a bigger wine rack at home last year to hold our favorites. Just for those that would ask, we did not take our fifth wheel to Alaska or Hawaii, those trips were done via cruise ships and we had to rent bikes for those excursions. Did find a cool winery in Hawaii but had to settle for the Alaskan Brewery in Alaska which was pretty great too. Anyway we really enjoy your adventures to keep on keepin’ on and stay safe!
We have two miniature and a toy Australia Shepherds, we know what you are talking about with the hair. We usually get them shaved every 3 or so months. This last time was 6 months and the hair was crazy. You should try it once.
that was a good video. on the dog hair when you bath them use a good conditioner and as soon as they are dry brush them out. a good conditioner makes it a lot easier to brush them I have a chow and brush him once a week in shedding time it keeps the house in good shape.
We need to do better about conditioning and using the furminator brushes more regularly. When we do use them it’s like we practically get enough fur to make a whole new dog 😆
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Thank you for sharing your life. If you could go back, what would you do differently?
Really enjoying your channel. I met you both at the hot tub in Hawaiian Isle. I saw you have stayed at Patapsco Valley State Park in the past and are looking to stay there. We both work FT remotely and wondering if you could let us know how the cell coverage is in the park. TIA for your reply. Maybe we'll see you at the hot tub again before you leave.
We ended up leaving the early. We were offered a spot at the rv show. Thank you for watching!
I sure wish we could have done this, never even crossed our radar. I’m in a family business and so that pretty much grounded us. We could have done this I suppose just the opportunity just wasn’t there. We’re hoping to retire within a year or so and hit the road. We’ll keep a sticks and bricks but will spend a lot of time on the road. I can’t wait really. We have our 5th wheel, waiting on a dually truck.
Honestly we never really thought of realllyyyy doing this either until one day we were just like “hey we could make this happen” and then threw caution to the wind I guess 😆 and that’s so exciting! Lots of good times ahead for ya!
Love your content and hope you keep it up!
I love that you are not ashamed of your faith either! My wife and I met at church when I was 10 and she was 8, this March will be 10 years married and she is still my best friend and travel partner! If you are like us serving other through the Love of Christ is important. We travel and serve (almost full time) with an organization called eight days of hope you should check it out we would love to meet up with y’all at an event down the road.
What is that recipe for those peppers. Those looked great.
New subscriber here. I enjoy watching you guys..you are both cool.
Thank you so much!
Another good video. Watching Craig struggle with that onion is it safe to say a cooking video series is not in his future, lol? You're right, we are surrounded with neighbors but don't socialize. My wife is a people person and she likes to meet people when she does her Camp Hosting gig in her rv.
Lol I don’t know…”Cooking with Craig” has a certain ring to it doesn’t it? 😂🤣 and it’s so true, I don’t know what it is but people are just more friendly and social in the campground 😄
@@wildrvlife I just turned 80. When I was young, in the 1950's, my parents would go visit in the evenings and the kids would play in a room. Was at my daughters awhile back. Walked around her neighborhood one evening and noticed everyone holed up inside watching TV. Bingo, that's what people do now. Guess I'm guilty of the times. Hey, I get to watch your videos. PS,I call it my wife's rv because I'm not into camping anymore. She goes with her Rottie and German Shepherd. I stay home with the chickens and my Rottie.
My wife and I love watching you two, we live in the Knoxville area of Tennessee, let us know if you have a get together in our area we’d love to come and meet you guys.
You guys should visit San Diego ca
I have a question! I noticed your truck is not a dually….looking at a 3610, would you feel good about a SRW?? Great content!!!
Can you share information on your solar/battery set-up and how it allows you to boondock so much. How are you keeping food cold?
Yes! We’ve got a video we’re going to do soon that breaks down our whole solar setup, but specifically for our fridge, it runs on propane or electric. We run it on propane mostly when boondocking but can switch it to electric during the daytime when the sun is out (we just have to remember to switch it to propane once it gets dark since our battery bank isn’t so big)
Y'all are just the coolest! We are nearing retirement age and wondering why we didn't do this sooner. I would love to know more about your editing software, cameras, mics etc. Hope to see y'all on the road someday- Papa Joe
thank you!! and that's exiciting!! it's a great lifestyle. Craig uses Davinci Resolve for editing, we film on my iphone 14 pro and use DJI wireless mics. We also have a DJI mini 3 pro drone and a Go Pro that we sometimes use as well.
Have you ever thought about changing your truck for one of the new EV’s hitting the market? Personally looking at the Silverado ev because it can be used like a power bank for the RV.
Second question
How do you get around for small travel things like a store? Do you unhook and take the truck, or do you use something else like an e-bike?
Can you post the poblano recipe from this video?
❤u guys
Curious why you decided to go to Mexico? So much to see state side. I mean don’t get me wrong I love Mexico and an all inclusive resort, never thought about going there to camp. Good luck you guys. Will be following your adventures
Honestly it’s because there’s not really anywhere you can go in the US and stay right on the beach for free or like $10. We wanted to experience the new culture and see all the beautiful natural landscapes. And Craig surfs and so it’s quite a fun experience being able to wake up and walk out your front door and go surfing. More for the boondocking available here than the campgrounds
Good for you kids! I'm 62, my wife and I have been married 41 years. I'm retiring in 31 months and we are hitting the road. Already full time in our class A. Looking forward to the adventures, you two are inspiring. God Bless and Thanks for sharing 😎 ✌️
Ahh yay!!! And congrats on the 41 years of marriage! 🙌🏼
@@wildrvlife Thank you!
"Kids" 😂
Can you post your schedule of appearances in the Tampa show?
We will be at the Harvest Hosts booth hosting a Fireside Chat on Friday, January 19 at 3 PM. They are sharing a booth with Cummins Power South, which is behind the Intech RV area (officially called the 285 Lakeside E booth). Hope we can see you there or some other time, we’ll be around most afternoons at the show Wednesday - Saturday, but that’s our only official meet time.
I am so happy for you guys. Are you having a wonderful time and full time RV life also be careful don’t cut one of your fingers because that happens to my wife a lot. God bless you guys and I hope I can meet you sometime in California. That’s what I leave in Orange County California and God bless.
Also, I have a question are you still in Mexico in Baja?
Lol I was a little worried about us multitasking with those knives! 😆 we are still in Mexico, yes! We will be here for a couple more months!
@@wildrvlife sounds good guys. Keep having a good time full time, RV, life also I don’t know how far from San Felipe Baja are you guys staying we love San Felipe, Baja.
?Is Craig from Alstria down under his accent is real strong.
I can't imagine the debt you are in and I really can't imagine the frustration you have with all the breakdowns. I was considering buying a Brinkley because it was supposed to be so different from the other junk on the road but after watching everything break on it and being told the air conditioners are junk i would never buy one. A brand new unit at a premium price and all you have is trouble. I really feel for you.
How do you find Boondocking spots?
When you go out exploring or hikes, do you leave your dogs inside the rv? I keep reading mixed opinions.
Great video. I have been wondering about Craig's "accent" since the first time I watched you two. Is that Floridian?
Haha!! It's Ga/Fl.
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Question do you have the landing gear down or is it the camera, wind, seems rig is rocking just noticed no big deal just a question, great videos great content.
It was actually the tripod we were using. It’s a “monopod” and we don’t usually have it extended all the way out, but when reviewing our footage we discovered that’s something we shouldn’t do 😆
And thank you!!
Hello, I believe it was in one of your videos that you showed a printout about driving and/or police rules to have on hand in case they try to bribe you. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Heading down there in the fall :)
Yes! Here it is: www.discoverbaja.com/wp-content/uploads/TRAFFIC-VIOLATIONS.pdf
And some other important stuff in this video and links in the description: ua-cam.com/video/fkNDR0umCNU/v-deo.html
Awe y’all are adorable. We’re Jesus Loves too. 💕🌷 from a 🐛 to a 🦋 😇
Thank you so much!!!
🖐New sub here! Just wanted to say hello and we look forward to following along.
Ahh heyyy!! Thanks so much for coming along!
Just subscribed to you as well!
@@wildrvlife are you guys from the south? Am I picking up a southern accent? We're from AL
Being together for 15 years, my wife and I have been married nearly 29. It was our desire to travel in a motor home or a fifth wheel, but God had other plans fir us.
Typically, after roasting those poblano peppers, you would peel the exterior skin before stuffing and eating
Oh, thank you! I had no clue! Lol I probably should have looked up actual recipes and instructions 😅
@@wildrvlife Roast them until they have some char. Remove them from the roaster and place them into a plastic bag for a few minutes. This will cause them to sweat and the skins will peel right off super easy. After stuffing, you could place them in a pan and cover them with a can of fire roasted diced tomatoes and cheese. Bake them until the cheese melts
We really enjoy your videos and your story and the fact that you guys share your faith. If you ever find yourself traveling through south Mississippi, stop in and join us for church! Since y’all like to watch services online, I’ll drop a link to our church yt channel. youtube.com/@TheSpringsChurch
What church do you guys attend?
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in High School... in 2008... gotta go get new tennis balls for my walker brb
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$5000/mo. That's $4999 on fuel and repairs, $1 on that onion
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LOL 😂🤣 sounds about right
How about doing a video of how you accepted Christ?
Somebody is gonna get cut 😭
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