Why You Must Remain Flexible with RV Living

Last weekend we attended another race event at Blackhawk Farms Raceway in South Beloit, IL. We were excited to return to the race track for the second time during the Wisconsin stint of our trip to hang out with friends and build our business. We did enjoyed spending time with our new friends of the north but quickly learned that it would not be a great weekend to build our business. 

On Friday, our first day at the track, we discovered an issue with the generator in our RV. We had been having some issues with it off and on over the past few weeks but thought that we were in the clear when we went to the race track. I'm not great with details so I'm not going to share all of the details of what went wrong and what he did to address it but I will say that Rob spent most of the weekend diagnosing and attending to the generator with no success. We were all so frustrated with the situation by Sunday (Rob was understandably the most frustrated) that we headed out a little early to get to our next destination - an RV park with full hookups just outside of Madison, Wisconsin called Whistle Stop Campground.

We spent the next four days enjoying the beautiful campground and exploring the surrounding area while we waited on a local generator expert to come to the campground to diagnose the issue with the generator. The repair man arrived on Thursday, spent a couple of hours checking out the generator and informed us that he would need to take the generator to their shop to have it pulled out of the RV (the issue was apparently in the back of the generator).

And that leads me to the most important factor of full-time RV living. You must remain flexible to live this lifestyle. If we would have had a place to be this week, we would have had to change our plans and, possibly, not been able to arrive at that destination. Because we've kept a flexible schedule, we've been able to adapt to our situation and make adjustments as necessary.

Broken generators (or similar situations) arise all of the time in the full-time RV life so be prepared. Be willing to make adjustments as necessary. Don't be surprised when situations outside of your control arise and you have to make adjustments to your schedule. Be flexible. Be adaptable. Flexibility is what we asked for, after all. Enjoy!