How to Deal with Rainy Days in an RV

Rainy days in our bricks and sticks home were gloomy but tolerable and even slightly enjoyable. We had an excuse for each of us to retreat to our bedrooms, curl up with a blanket on our bed or couch and watch a movie, play a game or work (depending on the day).

Rainy days in an RV are more difficult.

We do not have our own bedrooms. Rob and I sleep in a tiny loft compartment above the toy hauler. Carter sleeps on a bed that lowers down from the ceiling above the driver and passenger seats and Edith sleeps on a love seat size sofa that converts into a bed.

The couches in the coach are also not conducive to afternoon naps or lounging. The front couch is a half-circle shaped dinette set that is made out of delicate RV “leather” and surrounds a wobbly dining room table that also doubles as a workspace for our computers (when there is not food present). The back couch is the most comfortable piece of furniture in the coach and that is because it did not come with the rig (we purchased it at At Home late last year). While it is comfortable, it is also small (love seat size) and the kids tend to hog it for their video game playing.

The blankets are plentiful but finding a comfortable spot to curl up with them is rather difficult.

Normally I would say that streaming movies and playing video games is something that can be replicated in the RV, but we have been having internet issues as of late and both of those things have been a challenge as well. I am grateful we decided to bring all our DVD movies with us for these times without high speed internet. We also finally broke out a deck of cards we have been carrying around the past year and played a couple extremely competitive games of War.

I think the most difficult part about this particular rainy day is that we are currently at this amazing RV park with lots of outdoor activities, including a beach, train rides and an entire amusement park within walking distance. All the kids (and Rob) want to do is go outside and play. Normally we cannot pull them away from video games to go outside to play but, here, they have been begging to go outside and experience the outdoor activities.

Rain, rain, go away.

​Let the Lackeys out of this tiny space today.