Bonus! Marie Kondo-ing The RV

on Facebook or Instagram. How they asked us in the park Landia Rangers Facebook group, Um, how did you decide what to bring when you downsized your home to the r V. I think most of this was just a matter of space and what made sense and what was a priority. Like we couldn't bring anything big. We couldn't bring any unnecessary things like our or big photo frames or anything like that, just because there's nowhere to hang

at or store. It couldn't bring our tiki mugs or anything breakable too, like twokmus for example, a lot of glassware. We had a lot of that, and we had a get rid of because we just didn't want to risk like bumping around in the road and shattering at all or anything like that. And throughout time we've actually you know, reorganized our space um to have like more shallow um holders and so that way we could put our bottles in them. And then we have these like bottle socks.

So like for our our liquor, um, you know, we we cover it with different like they're called liquor socks, um. And uh, then we've done some organized reorganization. We've even actually gotten rid of all of our glassware and replaced it with plastic coffee mugs, plastic glasses, rocks, glasses, um,

all different types of that. Because when you're driving down the road, you actually get a lot of the rocking back and forth, and so you get a lot of this like ting to ding ting, ting to dinging absolutely and that gets really old, really quick. And so we've definitely had to um rethink that. And you know, every time we go to the farm, I feel like we drop off different items that are no longer important um while we're on the road, or even if they are,

you know, we don't have the space for them. So we definitely have to it's a continuous downsizing um. And when we are going to make purchases, we have to really think about what we want, what we need at this reason and season of life. Yeah, so it's like downsizing and also re prioritizing because some items we started with on the on the RV and we've since put in storage and replaced with other things that are we've come to find out are more important. Um. And that

happens a lot. That happens, especially with clothes, at least for me. UM, when we first have denied to go through all my clothes, and then anything I had happened more in like a year or something I would put either putting storage or donated or get rid of it, whatever, find solutions because we just simply don't have the closet space that we used to. And we also had to take your DVD collection and downsize of that, downsize, get

a big binder. And because I don't have the face to just stack up a bunch of DVD cases like I had previously, so I have to remove those cases and then just like just use the desk and put them all on one concise binder that can easily just fit underneath the DVD player. Yeah, and that really helps. So finding those different like storage and organization spaces for the RV is what really makes the difference, uh, within this lifestyle and choosing it from Cynthia and the park

Landia Rangers Facebook group. We have another question. Yes, and full disclosure, this is my aunt Cindy, the one who gave me knuckle sandwiches growing up. Um, flush my head down toilets to give me swirlies. Um, you know all the kinds of things. I mean, shoot, I used to shoot up her launder room with BBS and then blame it on my cousins because that's that's how close we are. But she had a lot of questions and we definitely want to talk about some of them today because they're

all very great ones and it's all about that RV lifestyle. Um, and they have a preface in them. So as she goes, okay, remember when you read these questions, I have a limited knowledge of national parks upside down smiley phase, and uh, you know a lot of people do, and that's why we're here to talk about this and these are absolutely amazing questions. So I'm gonna start with this one. Um, do you park the r V on the national park premise during your entire stay? Yeah? Well it depends yes,

and sometimes we do, sometimes we don't. Depends what national park has an r V park or r V accessibility. And then if they if they do if they have reservations available. So like for example, at Everglades, we made we booked an r V spot like several months in advance and we stayed there the entire four days were

at the Everglades. So and then the other hand, in yellow Stone, O. We went to try to find them, but it was like the week before fourth of July, depending on our part, my part, but that one we actually went into and we couldn't find anything, and so we actually went over to West Yellowstone and we called ahead and they had a space for the time that we're going to be there. So that was the other side of that. UM. So you know, we can stay

on them. Sometimes they're overbooked, and then ones like Petrified Forests don't have an r V park at all. Yeah, so they're It all differs from park to park. And we've done like every combination of this. UM. So the next question was do they have hook up for water, electricity, et cetera for r vs? Yes, so mainly, um most r V parks have water and electricity. UM. I would

say of the time, those two are always happening. But the dump tank, I would say, of the time, has the dump um, dumb blinds as well, so that that's considered a full hook up is when you have water, electricity and the place where you can hook up to the ground from your r V so you can just continuously dump your black and gratings, which we've talked about in the past episodes. Yes. Yeah, and she also asked us as different by parks, So yes, exactly, it does absolutely. Yeah.

Those are amazing questions. And then this is probably the most important question on all is do you have to make reservations or can you just arrive? Yeah, So if places do accept reservations, especially if national parks accept them, then I would absolutely recommend that as soon as you can. Um,

they not all of them do. Some campgrounds in r V parks either don't accept them really at all, or they only offer some for reservations then keep the rest for kind of like walk in or day of, which is a good kind of option for last minute travel. But we all always try to make reservations whenever possible,

whether it's several months in advance or a week in advance. Um, it's always just it provides a piece of mind and get to know where you're going to be when you're going to be there and knowing that you're gonna have a space there as opposed to being like out of luck and kind of scrambling. Yeah, and sometimes you there. They have it on their website where you can do a reservation. Sometimes you have to fill out a reservation form on the website. Sometimes you have to call them

to make reservations. So the reservation system is not like a hotel reservation system where everyone absolutely has online booking. UM. A lot of these differ from park to park to park, and even from um City and states. We've had hookups as low full hookups as low as fifteen dollars a night and as high as a hundred and fifteen dollars at night. UM. And that one was in Jackson Hole, which makes sense because it's such a beautiful area and

that RV park was spectacular. But UM, those are the different things that you have to think of out with the budgeting process of URV living. Is your fuel and your hookups are going to be your biggest two expenses minus if you took out a loan for your r V, which is actually probably cheaper in most cases. UM. So the budgeting aspect of that is something that I'm excited to talk about in a future episode of Parklandia. Thank

you so much for asking these amazing questions. We really enjoy this interaction that we get to do with you, and we're super excited to continue to engage with you on our Facebook group Parklandia Rangers, or our Instagram at park Landia Pod. Yeah. So reach out to us any time with questions, comments, conversations, and we're more than happy to chat with you and answer your amazing questions. So

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