RV Videos Episode 3: Meet the Full-time Families

Episode 3 “Full-time Families” ventures out to the Full-time Families Rally in Tampa Florida. Full-time families are younger couples who travel with their family; living on the road and experiencing all the great adventures the RV lifestyle brings. Take a tour of the inside of Newmar Class A that is home to 4 kids, 2 parents, and 2 dogs. Get insight into the decision making process that took these families from a crazy idea to actually selling everything and hitting the road and listen to a few tales of the good and bad that make this such a rewarding life choice for thousands of people across the United States.

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hi

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I’m Mark Koep from CampgroundViews.com thank
you for joining us for weekly video

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today we are going to take you on an
interesting journey where we meet

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full-time families on the road these are
young families with children

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who elected to live their RV travelling the
country

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great stories great adventures they give
us a little glimpse of what it takes

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to actually take your family on the road
first we start with the Royals

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to show us the inside of their RV

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We have 4 kids and 2 large dogs and

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yes and we are all living in there

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together so I will walk you through
and show you kind of how it works

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the Royals heavily customized this Newmar
to meet their needs

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with children’s areas and better placement
of TV’s

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appliances and even a custom pantry

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all made to make their life easier and more
efficient on the road. They even have a slogan

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painted on the upper wall

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Life is Simple Eat Sleep Play and Repeat. What else is there right?

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and regarding sleeping how exactly do they make it work by using the back bedroom and all of its space

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with custom bunks

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that move out of the way for the slides to come in.

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so for us to have them all in the same room at the

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ages their in works out great for us and at night when everyone is sleeping

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we do have this door here

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closes and now we can come in here and

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close this one and this door closes too. So we do get privacy.

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Wow thank you Bryanna for letting us see the inside the RV

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and how you make it work with

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4 people 2 dogs and a partridge in a pear tree

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wait I didn’t see a partridge but they are making it work none-the-less

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pretty cool. Next we are going to meet Bryan Thomas

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and his family a wife and two signs

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who hit the road traveling the country to check everything out

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they have done the East Coast already and head to the West Coast this next year

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we talked a lot about the whole decision to make this leap

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what we found interesting was how they went about making the decision to go for it.

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We sat down as a family we decided as a
family and I explained

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what the opportunity was there we could
travel the country and

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and visit every state spend a few years
together as a family

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but it would mean selling our home

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and leaving our friends and going into
the unknown

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and they wanted to do it we’re all in
and so we made the decision as a family

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and … it wasn’t always easy selling
your house and packing up and saying

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goodbye

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but together we’ve got through it and we
did it

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and now we’ve been on the road a while
nineteen states

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and its it’s really been a good thing

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All right now we get convinced to go and
jump in and do it sell everything

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hit the road then we asked a few of the
families

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this the the Holts, Jennifer Drew who are travelling with their two young

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kids to talk a little bit about the good bad

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First we asked them what is the worst experience they have had so far

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Yeah the worst experience we had was coming out of Denver

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You actually need to do your homework

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like reading about the trip and destinations

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and also the type of roads you are going to be on. We did not do enough research

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Well I did not do enough research about driving out of Denver

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A truck driver rolled by “Your brakes are on fire!” so I jumped out

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grabbed the fire extinguisher, new brakes on the truck and the trailer

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A couple thousand dollars… we learned the right way to drive out of the mountains

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Fire out the back of your RV that is not fun

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so what are the best experiences so far?

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First of all it is the weather we chase the good weather. So back in Michigan 3′ of snow and its 8 degrees

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so we love the weather but

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all the National Parks are so cool. We do the Junior Ranger Program with our kids and we learn a lot. It is fun

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That is the difference it is like a giant field trip that you want to go on

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Thank you Drew that is a great way to put it

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A giant field trip that you want to be on

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So if you want to be on this field trip

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too

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this lifestyle is so rediculous affordable

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the jokes on the rest of the world

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go for it jump in. Just do it. .. and if you
don’t just do you won’t do it

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such as do it forget everything out so
so just do it and forget everything else.

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So there’s challenges but its a great adventure

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enjoy the ride you get one life. Live it. There you have our episode today I hope you enjoyed the ride.

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full-time families they probably have it figured out.

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they’re visiting seeing and experiencing
first hand things we only dream about

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so if you want to learn more we have their websites back up here now

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Go and check them out follow along on the
adventure shoot them an email asking

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some questions

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and if you wanna see more of these episodes go to YouTube

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We look forward to seeing you again next week

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