What's Life Really Like as a Full-Time RVer?

Today was a bad day.

We started our full-time journey nearly a year ago. When we started our journey (and still today), people are envious that we get to live this life. Now, I'm not going to lie. We've had some pretty amazing days. We've had days where everything just went right. We've had days where we didn't do much work, got to spend quality time together as a family and enjoyed some pretty spectacular sights. But that's not every day. Today is not that day.

Today I woke up to discover there was something wrong with my eye. It's 5 pm and I still don't know what's wrong with it. It's gotten progressively worse. I either have something caught in it, I've scratched it or I have pink eye. All I know is that I can't function very well today. I can't be in the light because it really irritates my eye. I thought it would get better throughout the day but it hasn't. Now I get to decide if I need to go to the doctor and, if I do need to go to the doctor, where do I go? We're in Illinois - hours from home and my normal eye doctor.

On top of the issue with my eye, we've got a generator issue. Rob has been working on it all weekend (for weeks actually) and I think it finally crapped out on us. Thankfully it was fairly nice out today but we were still without a way to eat, charge electronics and cool the coach. We're currently on our way to an RV park strategically placed near the best Cummins technicians in the area so we can (hopefully) get it fixed in the next couple of days.

To top of our day, the person (people) that stayed at our house the past twelve days completely trashed the house. They didn't break anything but they did access areas of the house they shouldn't, left filth everywhere in the house and left three completely full dumpsters outside of the house that started attracting flies. Needless to say, my afternoon was spent on the phone with cleaning and handy people to resolve the issues. It's tough to be so far from your home without any way to resolve the issues personally.

So, no, it's not all perfect. Each day comes with new challenges that we have to address right then and there to be able to function. We don't have family near by to just go crash with if there's an issue. We have to problem solve and make concessions.

Despite all of this, I wouldn't change our lives for anything. I think it's made us independently and collectively stronger. We're becoming better versions of ourselves because we have to figure it out.

Today was a bad day but I still loved today.