How to Rebound From a Bad Day in an RV

Yesterday was a bad day.

Bad days on the road are inevitable but the secret to life on the road is making sure you don't have too many bad days in a row. Multiple bad days will make you question your decision to go full-time. Trust me, I've been there.

What if we just go back to the house and return to a "normal" life? This thought crosses my mind if we have too many bad days in a row. It seems so easy to just pack up, go home and leave it all behind. It seems like the answer to the problem (or problems) we're having at the time. I'm here to tell you that's not the answer. Leaving behind the problems on the road won't fix the problems. It will just replace them with new problems.

If we go back to our house, we have to figure out how to pay for it. Renting our house through Airbnb and VRBO has given us the opportunity to keep the house while we travel. We love our house. It is very close to downtown Oklahoma City and all of the activities we love doing, including going to pretty much every single home Oklahoma City Thunder game (we have season tickets). It was built in 1910 so it has historic charm but was completely renovated in 2015 right before we bought it so it also feels brand new.

​If we go back to our house, we may not have an RV generator to fix but there will probably be something equally as critical or expensive at the house to fix. Did I mention it's 110 years old? Old houses actually have a lot in common with RVs - there's always something to fix!

If we go back to our house, we won't be able to travel as often. We'll have responsibilities at the house and to the city that will keep us there. We won't have an RV to pack everything in if we do want to travel for a week or over a long weekend. We'll have to pack everything in suit cases and put miles on our cars - er - car. Oh, that's right! We only have one car. We would also have to buy another car if we left this life on the road.

So, yeah, yesterday was a bad day but bad days happen to everyone regardless of where they live or how they live their lives.

The only difference between yesterday and today is what we did with those 24 hours. We rebounded from our bad day by coming up with solutions to all of yesterday's problems. We also spent the day at the beach as a family.

Today was a good day because we didn't let yesterday keep us down.