November 7, 2023 • 29 mins
RVing from TLC Wolf River Resort in Pass Christian, Mississippi...
Two years later, we're back where we never expected to be again, for a really, Really, REALLY good reason! We'll fill you in -- all the details -- and introduce you to our Active Duty Navy Son, in Mississippi for training...
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- 11-06-2023 - EPISODE 10 - (00:29:09)
- Title: Military RV Work Life Balance
MILITARY RV EPISODE SUMMARY:
Ever thought about how the RV Lifestyle parallels military life, with constant mobility and itty bitty living spaces?
Listen in as your hosts, Russ & Sherri Caldwell, return to TLC Wolf River RV Resort in Pass Christian, Mississippi -- a place they never thought they'd see again after battling ants and dodging a tropical storm on their previous visit two years ago. This time around, the weather is much more welcoming, and they have a military mission in mind:
Catching up with our Active Duty Navy Son!!! In a wonderful coincidence, our son landed at the Naval Training Facility in Gulfport, Mississippi, for a month of training on his way to Guam for a new assignment. It's been two years since we've seen our kid. Since we have wheels on the house, we raced down to Mississippi to spend two weeks with him!
We've met numerous military personnel in our travels, both retired and active duty, and have found many parallels between their lifestyle and ours. Just like full time RVing, military life is about constant transition, with new locations and experiences beyond every horizon.
In this episode, we consider the Frequently Asked Question: Can military live full time in an RV?
You might be surprised how many ways military life and RV living intertwine, especially these days, when housing can be hard to get into. Many military bases have campgrounds and RV parks available to full time active duty families and traveling retired military veterans, too.
Join us for Military RV Work Life BalanceCome travel with us! Feel the freedom, and perhaps ignite a spark for your own journey on the open road…
- - - - - HIGHLIGHTS - - - - -
- (00:00:32) - Southeast vs. Southwest
- (00:02:45) - Return to Wolf River…
- (00:07:18) - Our Navy Son ⚓︎💙
- (00:12:00) - Military RV Work Life Balance
- (00:19:10) - Russ’s Military Secret 🫢
- (00:24:05) - Wrap Up: Military RV
- (00:28:00) - Join the Adventure! - P.S. SUBSCRIBE! 😘
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FEATURED LINKS & RESOURCES:- Coming Home to Atlanta in a Big-A** RV... - One of the best things about full time traveling RV Lifestyle is getting to see our people whenever and wherever we can roll on in! Last time we saw our Navy Son was two years ago...
- ARE RV CAMPGROUNDS THE NEW MILITARY HOUSING? - The many benefits of living in an RV full time for military families.
- Military Families: Living with less can mean so much more - Two Air Force families choose RV living for easier transitions, simpler living, and the feeling of community in RV parks on base.
- OUR FAVORITE AND LEAST FAVORITE U.S. MILITARY CAMPGROUNDS - from our favorite RV YouTube SuperStar 🤩 Navy Veterans, Phil & Stacy of Today is Someday -- and yes, they reviewed the RV Campground on NCBC Gulfport!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, you've reached the Caldwells.
Please leave a message and we will get back
with you to suit.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Welcome to the RV Work Life Balance podcast
with your traveling nomadic hosts, Sherri
and Russ Caldwell.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, that's us.
We're living the dream, working from home.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
baby no matter where home is.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
And you can too.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Welcome back.
You know, it's always so exciting here,
it's great.
I'm going to start with cheers, cheers,
cheers.
So this time I was officially told to just
shut down all my interfaces, all of my
surveys, everything else.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
The Magic Ape Ball.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Magic Ape Ball was broken.
I'm so sad.
So where are we today?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Well, before I tell you where we are, I
have to say after driving six hours down
through the state of Mississippi because
it's a really long Six hours later.
Yes, there's a difference between the
southeast and the east coast, and well,
(01:20):
driving through, the southwest and the west
coast, and what did we notice?
We talked about this.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
You know we don't want to start anything on
this podcast, trying to each his own right.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
But you said the scenery out west is so
much more dramatic, with mountains and
geography, the ocean.
I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I agree, you know we talked about that.
Like every time we've crossed country which
has been a few times now it's been amazing,
it is stunning out west and this is not
trying to pick sides like a rap battle or
something you know east coast, west coast
or anything like that.
But you know, and we haven't actually been
up to the northeast yet that is like high
on my list.
True, used to be, like devil's tower was
(02:07):
top of the list and we just did that.
Been there, done that.
It's awesome we're going back.
I love that place, yeah, but you're right,
we haven't done the northeast, so I'm not
going to like make a decision Okay.
I know you're right.
Like it is stark differences between the
west coast rugged mountains and you know
more level land.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Geography, drama, as you said, drama and
six hours straight down Mississippi, which
is just a lot of grass.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, there was some cows.
It was kind of cool In Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, no, so, anyway.
So where are we?
We are this week, two weeks, at the Wolf
River Resort in Pass Christian, which is on
coastal Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
In September during.
I think this is hurricane season, like the
most active month, except for Hurricane
Katrina, which was August.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
So we've chosen a great time to be here,
and the funny thing is like this is the we
should know better.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I never thought we'd see this place again.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
No, this is the second time we've been here
and, if you've heard previous podcasts,
we've been to other places more than once.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I didn't think we were going to ever come
back here, and we're here.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
That tells you a little bit about it.
It's quirky, but Two years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Two years ago, it was our very first trip
across country to Florida.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
In one where we had no idea what we were
doing.
We were crossing country.
We're heading to Florida because we had a
lot of reasons why and we stopped here on
the way because we could have traveled on
the weekends and we stopped.
And I remember this place for one, actually
two big reasons.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
And we're in the same exact spot.
We're the exact same spot.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
But number one was the ants.
We got here and we were not oh stop, that's
so creepy but the ants.
We were infested with ants within one day
and we were chasing ants and dealing with
that for the whole time we were here.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
The other part was Well, and we thought the
ants were because of the weather.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Which was the next thing?
Right, we were here during the tail end of
a tropical storm, which one was that?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
one, I think it was Hurricane.
Ida, there was a week or maybe two weeks
before.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And it had wreaked havoc and devastation
along the coast.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
The whole time we were here it was raining.
It was like the effects of this the rain
wasn't the problem while we were here.
It was the storm surge, and actually it was
the rivers that were filling inland that
were washing the rivers down here and our
bayou was filling up.
So we're like 50 feet from the water here
(05:02):
on the bayou, which is really cool looking
if you're into bayous, except when it
starts becoming 40 feet from you, 30 feet
from you, 20 feet.
It was like going towards us.
We're like this is not good.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
And we were brand new to this.
Yeah, and when we first got here, there
were these cute little docks across the
road and there's some more spaces there on
the bayou.
And there were these cute little docks out
into the water, yeah, Even in the rain, we
walked out.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Oh, this is really cool.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Cool, cool, cool.
Well, by midweek the docks were underwater,
yeah, and it was coming on up and that's
why we thought we had ants.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And all you could see was left with the
signs on posts that say do not feed the
alligators.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Because there's lots of alligators here.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
So apparently people like to throw like
marshmallows and stuff and it's like not
cool.
People don't feed the alligators.
So yeah, I was so happy when we left here
because we had dodged a tropical storm, we
had battled the ants and I'll be honest, it
was like a draw.
They won and I won a little bit and we got
out of here and we survived.
We never thought we'd be back and yet I was
(06:10):
like never come back here again.
And this time we're here, now the weather's
better.
Italy.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I don't want to jinx it.
Weather has been beautiful.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I want to jinx it here, but the weather is
beautiful here.
It's not too hot, not windy, there's no
tropical storms.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
The beaches are stunning.
We didn't get to the beaches last time.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Never saw the beaches before because we
were trapped in the rig with ants in the
storm.
We never left and never saw anything.
So here, the beaches are amazing here along
the Mississippi here the.
Mississippi coastal view here.
It's amazing, but day two we got here.
Who was back?
Our good friends?
(06:47):
The ants.
Turns out the ants had nothing to do with
the storm.
I thought the ants were there because there
was so much water in the ground.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
the ants were coming up and they were just
trying to get out Turns out no ants wait
for anything to roll in and they go after
us.
Ok, so we're here with the ants because
it's $15 a night with our coast to coast
membership.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I don't think you're taking a care of, like
the ant killer cost versus.
I don't know, it might not be the same.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And we are 15 minutes from where we need to
be right now.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
That's right For the next two weeks, that's
right, that's right so who are we here, or
who are we here to see.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
We're here because our oldest son is here.
He is here for the month at the Navy
training base in Gulfport, Mississippi,
which is 15 minutes away.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, and not just here to try to help us
stamp out all the ants.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
No.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It's cool because we get to do this kind of
stuff where our oldest son in the military
is like not easy to see because he's where
he's typically not located here, but he
happens to be here now, so we made sure we
got here.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And our house being able to move.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
it was important, so we've talked about the
how great it is in the RV to be able to
visit friends and family across the country,
and that is awesome, but not this kid.
He has to come to us or we meet him
somewhere like Gulfport, mississippi,
because he has been in the Navy active duty
(08:35):
for 10 years and mostly in that 10 years he
has been in Guam and Hawaii when he wasn't
on deployment down to the Middle East and
all.
We have a daughter-in-law he's married and
she is from Guam and we have a grand dog.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Hey Axel.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
So and actually right now he is in the
transfer transition going back to Guam.
He was in Guam, went to Hawaii for several
years, was on the ship and then now he is
going back to Guam.
So he has a month here in Gulfport,
(09:20):
mississippi of all places for training for
his new position thing that he's going to
be doing in Guam and other places all over
the world.
So, anyway, we're here for our kid and
we'll be here for two weeks and he'll be
here for a month.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
So that's why we're here.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Which is super cool.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Battling aunts and all of that.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I was going to say aunts.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
You almost said aunts, I did Sorry, I'm
telling you.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
That's a different podcast when you're
battling aunts, so I want to listen to that
podcast.
By the way, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Moving on.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I don't know.
Now I'm kind of hooked on battling auntscom.
That's cool, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
So two years ago we met up with our oldest
kid in Atlanta, georgia, where we had lived
for 25 years right.
He grew up there and we brought him back
from Hawaii for that week that we had for
his best friend's wedding and we were all
(10:30):
very close with the family.
His mom is my best friend, Georgia.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yeah, hey, georgia and Fred.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
And so, yeah, that's the last time we saw
him, two years ago for the wedding in
Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, and we actually I don't know if we've
talked about it in an episode so far, I
think so where we stayed at an Airbnb at
that time we were getting some work done on
our rig.
We've talked about that a lot by the way,
it was an episode four.
Yeah, the NRVC in Atlanta.
During the time we were there, the Braves
won the World Series.
(11:05):
You know which is cool, so to be in Atlanta,
that was awesome as a parade.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
It was you and our son got to go to the
parade and everything.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
And I was working.
But yeah, and if you check out the show
notes, there's an article that Sherry wrote
about all this.
So if you read all about it, it's in the
show notes.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, that was going home to the big city
in a big RV.
Yeah, and that whole experience with NRVC
and everything.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
So here we are, trapped with ants in
Mississippi, during hurricane season, no
less For two weeks.
This is the one time we're actually doing
two weeks, like we always talk about,
usually one week somewhere, the time we
have lots of bugs and hurricane season
we're like hey, let's stay for two weeks.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
But it's because we're spending time with
our kid, that's right.
Anytime we can get, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
So let's try to start to connect this back
to work life balance, right?
This is really cool that we're here to do
this, right, and you know we're here
working.
Our son obviously here is working, and so
how does this all start to connect up?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Well, we kind of bring it around to an RV
work life balance with a military theme
this week.
Do you have any sound effects for that?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I was told not to use my sound effects, so
oh sorry, drumpy.
Yeah, that's okay, but we have met a lot of
military people on the road, so, which has
been really cool where we've traveled,
we've stayed at harvest host and we bumped
into a lot of people at using harvest host,
which is a cool program for staying places
for one night and as you're traveling and
(12:47):
we bump into people and we end up meeting a
lot of people there and inevitably many of
them are military and they're not just
retired.
Some of them are active duty, which is
really interesting because retired makes
sense.
Anyone that's retired.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
you know you're traveling RV, but but
they're also young, because they retire
after 20 years, I know.
We're just so old.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Sometimes you know, yeah, we're retired.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Really.
Yeah, we're like 38 years old right yeah,
good job, buddy so.
So, yeah, all over the place we see retired
and active duty military in the various
camp grounds.
Yeah, and oftentimes we identify or self
identify with the military because we have
(13:30):
a Navy mom shirt and a Navy dad T-shirt.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
that we wear on occasion and we always,
always get yeah, yeah, people call out to
that, you know they'll say things like oh,
what?
You know not what branch.
When do they?
When do?
They enter, and how long have they been in
there?
What is?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
their role.
Go Navy, where are they located, go Army or,
in a way, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
So they wanna know where they're located,
which is a big thing, Kind of like being in
an RV, like where you're from, where you're
going to, and people talk about their kids
where they're at stuff like that and where
they've been.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah, so it makes sense because military
life is all about being on the move.
And why RVing?
Well, if you think about it, the
transitions of military life.
Like our son has been transferred every
three years.
Typically the contracts are three years.
There are lots of moves through an active
(14:25):
duty military career and our son's pack up
and shipping his household goods from
Hawaii to Guam over the last at least six
months, if not several months, has been a
nightmare, versus with us.
(14:46):
When we're ready to go, we just pack it up
and go it takes us like two hours to get it
all done.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Pull the slide, jim, brush off the amps and
we're out of here, baby, yes.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
So yeah.
And then another thing is sometimes, when
you're transferred to a different military
base, there's a wait list on base housing.
It's the weird word, unless you want to
stay in the barracks.
But he's married now, so that's not
appropriate.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
But the funny thing is, like the housing
issue, that's a good point.
Right the crazy housing markets.
Right that when you're military, you're
moving that much it's one thing to rent you
definitely don't want to buy something for
a limited amount of time You're not going
to make money on that Right, you're going
to have to buy a lot of gas all in one.
Yeah, and then, as we've noticed and like,
(15:36):
that's here too, by the way, if you hadn't
noticed there's RV parks on these.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Military bases.
Military bases yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
So it's really interesting because and I
think we've noticed on this one here
there's two RV parks.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Yes, yeah, which is cool.
Yeah, and they're called SAM camps, fam
camps, in the RV Life Trip Wizard app.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Actually, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
And typically you have to be either retired
or active duty military to go on these, and
some of them are pretty amazing.
Sweet yeah, because most Navy bases well,
in this case, navy they're mostly always on
the water.
Yeah, so yeah, just this whole concept of
(16:26):
okay, it makes sense.
That's why military people would be a part
of the RV community.
They're used to moving around like that,
and I had actually come across two articles
and we'll put them in the show notes about
active duty families going full-time RV,
(16:47):
and they talked about how it makes for
easier transitions, like we said, packing
up the RV versus an entire house or an
apartment to have to move.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah, Makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, and, as we know, life is much easier
in smaller space.
You have fewer things to worry about.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, and it's interesting about that
article, Like I think that's cool that
we're going to share that to take a look at
the different kind of topics.
That these families talk about there,
because you know we have our viewpoint,
because we're doing this while we're
working and living that the military has
different restrictions and stuff.
And the fact that they embrace it by
putting RV parks on the bases is really
(17:31):
kind of cool.
Like they're embracing that in a big way.
And embracing that minimalist lifestyle is
a big deal too.
Right, like the idea like we always talk
about, like we have a smaller house but
that's less amounts to clean, definitely no
yard work to do, right, which is I didn't
hate yard work, but it's really nice when
(17:53):
oh OK, I'm going to say this it's really
nice when someone else mows, but I'm going
to be on the flip side of that says it
really is not fun when somebody's mowing,
when I'm on a call on Zoom.
So that's true, that's true, yeah, but they
purposely mow during the week because most
people are enjoying the weekends.
I work here.
Come on now.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Well, as they said in the articles, one of
the families had mentioned, they have
minimal space with maximum experiences, and
really that's how we feel about our travel.
It's like we're in the small space, yeah,
but oh my gosh, oh my goodness, the things
(18:32):
we get to do, yeah.
So, yeah, they had also mentioned that they
have more time outdoors and more time
together.
The military life in the family camps it's
very, it's a very social life for children
and they had mentioned that.
(18:54):
Because you often have retired military
people in the fam camps, the children have
a lot of adopted grandparents for a time,
and that's a really cool feature.
Yeah, and that made me think about your
childhood, russ.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah, the interesting thing is, you know,
my father was in the Navy.
Obviously our son is in the Navy.
When I was growing up, we traveled a lot.
Like in the Navy, you get moved around a
lot and we specifically won my brother and
I.
We grew up in Guam, just like our son is
(19:36):
now in Guam or going to be in Guam which is
cool.
So I've been there before and lived on Guam.
We definitely lived there and that was
interesting.
We weren't doing anything RV at that point,
but right after that we ended up going to,
I think, virginia Beach for a little while
and then we ended up going getting my dad
got stationed in Spain and when we left
(19:59):
Spain we were coming back to South Carolina
and what's interesting was that you know,
my dad had come back on the ship, but my
mom and my brother and I we flew back and
so we were there obviously way earlier than
he was.
But my parents he was in a submarine tender,
(20:20):
I think at that time.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
You know he'll probably correct me after he
hears this, but you know doing my best to
remember.
We'll have him on too.
Yeah, exactly, we'll have him on to
interview them.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Tell me I'm wrong.
But but when we we flew back, my mom and my
brother and I and what was interesting is,
you know, I didn't know this as a kid I
wasn't paying attention.
We were like because you were what.
Elementary or middle school, like it was
very early.
But what I do remember is we flew back, we
got off the plane when we took a taxi and
(20:51):
we ended up picking up an RV.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Your mom, my mom, by herself.
Boom yeah, so clearly they had, they had
bought yes, ralph and Judy, good job.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
They had bought an RV, a Class C, a Tioga
RV and we ended up moving into that and
living in that for a while before my dad
while my dad, you know, his ship came back
and that was interesting.
My brother and I loved it Like it was
amazing.
So, and he'll tell you this as well, we sit
(21:27):
around and talk about this to this day.
That was one of the coolest things to live
in that RV, because it was like so
different and we still went to school every
day.
My mom had to unhook the connections every
day and drive the RV to drop us off of
school.
It was crazy, I mean, like, thinking back,
I'm like why did they do this?
I wouldn't have done this.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
This is crazy Honor, but as kids we loved
it it was amazing, and so we did this
Adventure every day, and I know we got to
find out all the details because it was
clearly waiting for Navy housing and all
these other things, Right, but it was neat
and it wasn't just a temporary thing.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
So when we did move into Navy housing, when
my dad got back, we kept camping and we
would take that baby out all over the place.
It was really fun.
So my brother and I got to, you know, stay
in a tent and canoe and swim and do fun
things, and that was our weekend adventure.
And then that grew.
So we started with that Toyota which was
(22:25):
our favorite RV.
My brother and I'll tell you, like to this
day, that class C was amazing.
But my parents upgraded to a fifth wheel
and you know they had a lot more room.
Great for them.
It wasn't as cool as the class C, I'll tell
you, but as a kid, right, but as a parent I
get it.
I totally get it as a parent why they
(22:47):
upgraded.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Yeah, kitchen yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
And so it became part of our lifestyle of
camping.
And then, of course, we're still in the
Navy.
My dad was still in the Navy, so when he
got transferred from South Carolina to
Washington, to Bangor Subbase, we took the
RV across country.
And that was cool too.
So, now again, my brother and I'll tell you
(23:12):
all of our gripes.
We didn't get to go to Devil's Tower, so we
got to do that recently.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Good job.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
My brother and I were really interested in
things like 40 foot Fred and Jelly Stone or
whatever it was.
Didn't get to do that, you know but we did.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
We went to Grand Canyon, we did.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
So but but it was cool.
We had a great time across country and it
was a great experience, you know it was.
And then, when we were camping with my
parents, they had a lot of friends that we
would go with, so we had their friends and
their kids yeah, and so it was really fun.
It was these group events, so I get the
whole military you know connection with
(23:51):
social life.
Yeah, rv, work life balance.
I totally do, because it turned out to be,
even so many years ago, something that you
know we did as kids with our family.
So it was really really cool.
So now, well, okay.
So I don't know if we're way over or not,
but I want to try to.
Let's see if we can try to wrap this up.
(24:13):
If I had to try to take the top three
things that we talked about here and kind
of pull it together Number one, I guess it
would be that military life and RV work
life balance really connect right.
There is an interaction In surprising ways
that we never.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
well, Okay, you did, but it took going back
in those memories, watching our son's
progress and development of the Navy and
remembering life back then.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah, and to see that there's the
campgrounds that they have on the bases
these days, Like I don't remember that as a
kid, Like we didn't get to do that at the
bases back then you didn't stay on the base
when you were in South Carolina.
I'm not saying they didn't have it, I just
don't know that was a hundred years ago.
Pretty close so yeah, maybe they did, but I
(25:06):
don't think so.
So to see that they've embraced that in a
big way is really cool.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
And I think different bases have different
requirements Because, like when your
parents were going around and staying on
some of the military bases, sometimes in
their retirement, they had like two week
limited stays and then they would have to
move.
So I think different bases have different
requirements.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
There's probably different sections now for
full-time RV families versus the transients
that we've talked about before that we are
these days Like didn't in Key West, wasn't
there camping there as well, or do you
remember?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I remember we camped outside the base there
was Well, yeah, your parents were staying
on the water in the RV campground and we
with our two or three kids at the time
stayed in military housing.
It's always when we say two or three, yeah,
we can't remember how many we had at the
time.
It was like two or three you know, it's
(26:09):
just what happens.
All right.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
So that tie-in is really important there,
that the military life and RV work-life
balance is really there, like there's a
connection there and it's cool to see.
Yeah, yeah, the second thing, I guess would
be this, the quote you said, right, which
is like this minimum space with maximum
experience, which, I'll be honest, reminds
(26:33):
me of the movie Aladdin.
Right, like you have itty-bitty working
space and this power right, Like that's
kind of genie.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
You know, that's what we talked about
living in the lamp.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
It's like we drive a lamp.
It's like itty-bitty working space.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Yeah, yeah, because with that smaller space
you have less to worry about.
Once the work day is done, the genie comes
out.
Baby, that's right.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
And then I guess the last thing is like
this is a complete connection with there's
a time to work and a time to enjoy, and
that came out of these articles that you
talked about as well, right?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Not worrying about all the other things,
just getting to enjoy your time with your
family.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yeah.
Minimalist or minimalist, yeah, which is
cool that there's an overlap, that we're
not having to, like you know, describe
something very different, that there is
this commonality to this.
That's really kind of cool.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
People doing different jobs, different work
all over the place and embracing this RV
lifestyle.
So the goal with RV Work Life Balance
podcast is to share what we're learning to
help anyone interested in this crazy
adventure.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Is it crazy?
The only thing crazy is like the ants.
Right now.
I'm going to be honest.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
You are conquering the ants.
I don't know who's winning right now.
But anyways.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I want to thank the listeners for listening
to this podcast.
Like it, definitely check out the show
notes.
We're going to put some cool links in there,
both the photos and the places and the
products we've talked about there.
Check it out and if you're new here,
definitely take the time to subscribe.
We're really excited to have you on this
journey and we really want to thank you for
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Speaker 1 (28:21):
And to our existing subscribers.
We'd love you guys.
Thank you so much for being a part of this
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on, and please be in touch, hit us up on
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The most important thing, though, is for
those of you dreaming about this make your
escape and get out here.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Yeah, let's do this.
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I'm ready, let's go Bye.
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Welcome to the RV Work Life Balance podcast
with your traveling nomadic hosts, Sherri
and Russ Caldwell.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, that's us.
We're living the dream, working from home.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
baby no matter where home is.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
And you can too.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Welcome back.
You know, it's always so exciting here,
it's great.
I'm going to start with cheers, cheers,
cheers.
So this time I was officially told to just
shut down all my interfaces, all of my
surveys, everything else.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
The Magic Ape Ball.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Magic Ape Ball was broken.
I'm so sad.
So where are we today?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Well, before I tell you where we are, I
have to say after driving six hours down
through the state of Mississippi because
it's a really long Six hours later.
Yes, there's a difference between the
southeast and the east coast, and well,
(01:20):
driving through, the southwest and the west
coast, and what did we notice?
We talked about this.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
You know we don't want to start anything on
this podcast, trying to each his own right.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
But you said the scenery out west is so
much more dramatic, with mountains and
geography, the ocean.
I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I agree, you know we talked about that.
Like every time we've crossed country which
has been a few times now it's been amazing,
it is stunning out west and this is not
trying to pick sides like a rap battle or
something you know east coast, west coast
or anything like that.
But you know, and we haven't actually been
up to the northeast yet that is like high
on my list.
True, used to be, like devil's tower was
(02:07):
top of the list and we just did that.
Been there, done that.
It's awesome we're going back.
I love that place, yeah, but you're right,
we haven't done the northeast, so I'm not
going to like make a decision Okay.
I know you're right.
Like it is stark differences between the
west coast rugged mountains and you know
more level land.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Geography, drama, as you said, drama and
six hours straight down Mississippi, which
is just a lot of grass.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, there was some cows.
It was kind of cool In Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, no, so, anyway.
So where are we?
We are this week, two weeks, at the Wolf
River Resort in Pass Christian, which is on
coastal Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
In September during.
I think this is hurricane season, like the
most active month, except for Hurricane
Katrina, which was August.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
So we've chosen a great time to be here,
and the funny thing is like this is the we
should know better.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I never thought we'd see this place again.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
No, this is the second time we've been here
and, if you've heard previous podcasts,
we've been to other places more than once.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I didn't think we were going to ever come
back here, and we're here.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
That tells you a little bit about it.
It's quirky, but Two years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Two years ago, it was our very first trip
across country to Florida.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
In one where we had no idea what we were
doing.
We were crossing country.
We're heading to Florida because we had a
lot of reasons why and we stopped here on
the way because we could have traveled on
the weekends and we stopped.
And I remember this place for one, actually
two big reasons.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
And we're in the same exact spot.
We're the exact same spot.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
But number one was the ants.
We got here and we were not oh stop, that's
so creepy but the ants.
We were infested with ants within one day
and we were chasing ants and dealing with
that for the whole time we were here.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
The other part was Well, and we thought the
ants were because of the weather.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Which was the next thing?
Right, we were here during the tail end of
a tropical storm, which one was that?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
one, I think it was Hurricane.
Ida, there was a week or maybe two weeks
before.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And it had wreaked havoc and devastation
along the coast.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
The whole time we were here it was raining.
It was like the effects of this the rain
wasn't the problem while we were here.
It was the storm surge, and actually it was
the rivers that were filling inland that
were washing the rivers down here and our
bayou was filling up.
So we're like 50 feet from the water here
(05:02):
on the bayou, which is really cool looking
if you're into bayous, except when it
starts becoming 40 feet from you, 30 feet
from you, 20 feet.
It was like going towards us.
We're like this is not good.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
And we were brand new to this.
Yeah, and when we first got here, there
were these cute little docks across the
road and there's some more spaces there on
the bayou.
And there were these cute little docks out
into the water, yeah, Even in the rain, we
walked out.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Oh, this is really cool.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Cool, cool, cool.
Well, by midweek the docks were underwater,
yeah, and it was coming on up and that's
why we thought we had ants.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And all you could see was left with the
signs on posts that say do not feed the
alligators.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Because there's lots of alligators here.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
So apparently people like to throw like
marshmallows and stuff and it's like not
cool.
People don't feed the alligators.
So yeah, I was so happy when we left here
because we had dodged a tropical storm, we
had battled the ants and I'll be honest, it
was like a draw.
They won and I won a little bit and we got
out of here and we survived.
We never thought we'd be back and yet I was
(06:10):
like never come back here again.
And this time we're here, now the weather's
better.
Italy.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I don't want to jinx it.
Weather has been beautiful.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I want to jinx it here, but the weather is
beautiful here.
It's not too hot, not windy, there's no
tropical storms.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
The beaches are stunning.
We didn't get to the beaches last time.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Never saw the beaches before because we
were trapped in the rig with ants in the
storm.
We never left and never saw anything.
So here, the beaches are amazing here along
the Mississippi here the.
Mississippi coastal view here.
It's amazing, but day two we got here.
Who was back?
Our good friends?
(06:47):
The ants.
Turns out the ants had nothing to do with
the storm.
I thought the ants were there because there
was so much water in the ground.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
the ants were coming up and they were just
trying to get out Turns out no ants wait
for anything to roll in and they go after
us.
Ok, so we're here with the ants because
it's $15 a night with our coast to coast
membership.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I don't think you're taking a care of, like
the ant killer cost versus.
I don't know, it might not be the same.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And we are 15 minutes from where we need to
be right now.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
That's right For the next two weeks, that's
right, that's right so who are we here, or
who are we here to see.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
We're here because our oldest son is here.
He is here for the month at the Navy
training base in Gulfport, Mississippi,
which is 15 minutes away.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, and not just here to try to help us
stamp out all the ants.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
No.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It's cool because we get to do this kind of
stuff where our oldest son in the military
is like not easy to see because he's where
he's typically not located here, but he
happens to be here now, so we made sure we
got here.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And our house being able to move.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
it was important, so we've talked about the
how great it is in the RV to be able to
visit friends and family across the country,
and that is awesome, but not this kid.
He has to come to us or we meet him
somewhere like Gulfport, mississippi,
because he has been in the Navy active duty
(08:35):
for 10 years and mostly in that 10 years he
has been in Guam and Hawaii when he wasn't
on deployment down to the Middle East and
all.
We have a daughter-in-law he's married and
she is from Guam and we have a grand dog.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Hey Axel.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
So and actually right now he is in the
transfer transition going back to Guam.
He was in Guam, went to Hawaii for several
years, was on the ship and then now he is
going back to Guam.
So he has a month here in Gulfport,
(09:20):
mississippi of all places for training for
his new position thing that he's going to
be doing in Guam and other places all over
the world.
So, anyway, we're here for our kid and
we'll be here for two weeks and he'll be
here for a month.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
So that's why we're here.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Which is super cool.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Battling aunts and all of that.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I was going to say aunts.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
You almost said aunts, I did Sorry, I'm
telling you.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
That's a different podcast when you're
battling aunts, so I want to listen to that
podcast.
By the way, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Moving on.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I don't know.
Now I'm kind of hooked on battling auntscom.
That's cool, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
So two years ago we met up with our oldest
kid in Atlanta, georgia, where we had lived
for 25 years right.
He grew up there and we brought him back
from Hawaii for that week that we had for
his best friend's wedding and we were all
(10:30):
very close with the family.
His mom is my best friend, Georgia.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yeah, hey, georgia and Fred.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
And so, yeah, that's the last time we saw
him, two years ago for the wedding in
Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, and we actually I don't know if we've
talked about it in an episode so far, I
think so where we stayed at an Airbnb at
that time we were getting some work done on
our rig.
We've talked about that a lot by the way,
it was an episode four.
Yeah, the NRVC in Atlanta.
During the time we were there, the Braves
won the World Series.
(11:05):
You know which is cool, so to be in Atlanta,
that was awesome as a parade.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
It was you and our son got to go to the
parade and everything.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
And I was working.
But yeah, and if you check out the show
notes, there's an article that Sherry wrote
about all this.
So if you read all about it, it's in the
show notes.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, that was going home to the big city
in a big RV.
Yeah, and that whole experience with NRVC
and everything.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
So here we are, trapped with ants in
Mississippi, during hurricane season, no
less For two weeks.
This is the one time we're actually doing
two weeks, like we always talk about,
usually one week somewhere, the time we
have lots of bugs and hurricane season
we're like hey, let's stay for two weeks.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
But it's because we're spending time with
our kid, that's right.
Anytime we can get, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
So let's try to start to connect this back
to work life balance, right?
This is really cool that we're here to do
this, right, and you know we're here
working.
Our son obviously here is working, and so
how does this all start to connect up?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Well, we kind of bring it around to an RV
work life balance with a military theme
this week.
Do you have any sound effects for that?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I was told not to use my sound effects, so
oh sorry, drumpy.
Yeah, that's okay, but we have met a lot of
military people on the road, so, which has
been really cool where we've traveled,
we've stayed at harvest host and we bumped
into a lot of people at using harvest host,
which is a cool program for staying places
for one night and as you're traveling and
(12:47):
we bump into people and we end up meeting a
lot of people there and inevitably many of
them are military and they're not just
retired.
Some of them are active duty, which is
really interesting because retired makes
sense.
Anyone that's retired.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
you know you're traveling RV, but but
they're also young, because they retire
after 20 years, I know.
We're just so old.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Sometimes you know, yeah, we're retired.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Really.
Yeah, we're like 38 years old right yeah,
good job, buddy so.
So, yeah, all over the place we see retired
and active duty military in the various
camp grounds.
Yeah, and oftentimes we identify or self
identify with the military because we have
(13:30):
a Navy mom shirt and a Navy dad T-shirt.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
that we wear on occasion and we always,
always get yeah, yeah, people call out to
that, you know they'll say things like oh,
what?
You know not what branch.
When do they?
When do?
They enter, and how long have they been in
there?
What is?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
their role.
Go Navy, where are they located, go Army or,
in a way, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
So they wanna know where they're located,
which is a big thing, Kind of like being in
an RV, like where you're from, where you're
going to, and people talk about their kids
where they're at stuff like that and where
they've been.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah, so it makes sense because military
life is all about being on the move.
And why RVing?
Well, if you think about it, the
transitions of military life.
Like our son has been transferred every
three years.
Typically the contracts are three years.
There are lots of moves through an active
(14:25):
duty military career and our son's pack up
and shipping his household goods from
Hawaii to Guam over the last at least six
months, if not several months, has been a
nightmare, versus with us.
(14:46):
When we're ready to go, we just pack it up
and go it takes us like two hours to get it
all done.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Pull the slide, jim, brush off the amps and
we're out of here, baby, yes.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
So yeah.
And then another thing is sometimes, when
you're transferred to a different military
base, there's a wait list on base housing.
It's the weird word, unless you want to
stay in the barracks.
But he's married now, so that's not
appropriate.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
But the funny thing is, like the housing
issue, that's a good point.
Right the crazy housing markets.
Right that when you're military, you're
moving that much it's one thing to rent you
definitely don't want to buy something for
a limited amount of time You're not going
to make money on that Right, you're going
to have to buy a lot of gas all in one.
Yeah, and then, as we've noticed and like,
(15:36):
that's here too, by the way, if you hadn't
noticed there's RV parks on these.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Military bases.
Military bases yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
So it's really interesting because and I
think we've noticed on this one here
there's two RV parks.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Yes, yeah, which is cool.
Yeah, and they're called SAM camps, fam
camps, in the RV Life Trip Wizard app.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Actually, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
And typically you have to be either retired
or active duty military to go on these, and
some of them are pretty amazing.
Sweet yeah, because most Navy bases well,
in this case, navy they're mostly always on
the water.
Yeah, so yeah, just this whole concept of
(16:26):
okay, it makes sense.
That's why military people would be a part
of the RV community.
They're used to moving around like that,
and I had actually come across two articles
and we'll put them in the show notes about
active duty families going full-time RV,
(16:47):
and they talked about how it makes for
easier transitions, like we said, packing
up the RV versus an entire house or an
apartment to have to move.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah, Makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, and, as we know, life is much easier
in smaller space.
You have fewer things to worry about.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, and it's interesting about that
article, Like I think that's cool that
we're going to share that to take a look at
the different kind of topics.
That these families talk about there,
because you know we have our viewpoint,
because we're doing this while we're
working and living that the military has
different restrictions and stuff.
And the fact that they embrace it by
putting RV parks on the bases is really
(17:31):
kind of cool.
Like they're embracing that in a big way.
And embracing that minimalist lifestyle is
a big deal too.
Right, like the idea like we always talk
about, like we have a smaller house but
that's less amounts to clean, definitely no
yard work to do, right, which is I didn't
hate yard work, but it's really nice when
(17:53):
oh OK, I'm going to say this it's really
nice when someone else mows, but I'm going
to be on the flip side of that says it
really is not fun when somebody's mowing,
when I'm on a call on Zoom.
So that's true, that's true, yeah, but they
purposely mow during the week because most
people are enjoying the weekends.
I work here.
Come on now.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Well, as they said in the articles, one of
the families had mentioned, they have
minimal space with maximum experiences, and
really that's how we feel about our travel.
It's like we're in the small space, yeah,
but oh my gosh, oh my goodness, the things
(18:32):
we get to do, yeah.
So, yeah, they had also mentioned that they
have more time outdoors and more time
together.
The military life in the family camps it's
very, it's a very social life for children
and they had mentioned that.
(18:54):
Because you often have retired military
people in the fam camps, the children have
a lot of adopted grandparents for a time,
and that's a really cool feature.
Yeah, and that made me think about your
childhood, russ.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah, the interesting thing is, you know,
my father was in the Navy.
Obviously our son is in the Navy.
When I was growing up, we traveled a lot.
Like in the Navy, you get moved around a
lot and we specifically won my brother and
I.
We grew up in Guam, just like our son is
(19:36):
now in Guam or going to be in Guam which is
cool.
So I've been there before and lived on Guam.
We definitely lived there and that was
interesting.
We weren't doing anything RV at that point,
but right after that we ended up going to,
I think, virginia Beach for a little while
and then we ended up going getting my dad
got stationed in Spain and when we left
(19:59):
Spain we were coming back to South Carolina
and what's interesting was that you know,
my dad had come back on the ship, but my
mom and my brother and I we flew back and
so we were there obviously way earlier than
he was.
But my parents he was in a submarine tender,
(20:20):
I think at that time.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
You know he'll probably correct me after he
hears this, but you know doing my best to
remember.
We'll have him on too.
Yeah, exactly, we'll have him on to
interview them.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Tell me I'm wrong.
But but when we we flew back, my mom and my
brother and I and what was interesting is,
you know, I didn't know this as a kid I
wasn't paying attention.
We were like because you were what.
Elementary or middle school, like it was
very early.
But what I do remember is we flew back, we
got off the plane when we took a taxi and
(20:51):
we ended up picking up an RV.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Your mom, my mom, by herself.
Boom yeah, so clearly they had, they had
bought yes, ralph and Judy, good job.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
They had bought an RV, a Class C, a Tioga
RV and we ended up moving into that and
living in that for a while before my dad
while my dad, you know, his ship came back
and that was interesting.
My brother and I loved it Like it was
amazing.
So, and he'll tell you this as well, we sit
(21:27):
around and talk about this to this day.
That was one of the coolest things to live
in that RV, because it was like so
different and we still went to school every
day.
My mom had to unhook the connections every
day and drive the RV to drop us off of
school.
It was crazy, I mean, like, thinking back,
I'm like why did they do this?
I wouldn't have done this.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
This is crazy Honor, but as kids we loved
it it was amazing, and so we did this
Adventure every day, and I know we got to
find out all the details because it was
clearly waiting for Navy housing and all
these other things, Right, but it was neat
and it wasn't just a temporary thing.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
So when we did move into Navy housing, when
my dad got back, we kept camping and we
would take that baby out all over the place.
It was really fun.
So my brother and I got to, you know, stay
in a tent and canoe and swim and do fun
things, and that was our weekend adventure.
And then that grew.
So we started with that Toyota which was
(22:25):
our favorite RV.
My brother and I'll tell you, like to this
day, that class C was amazing.
But my parents upgraded to a fifth wheel
and you know they had a lot more room.
Great for them.
It wasn't as cool as the class C, I'll tell
you, but as a kid, right, but as a parent I
get it.
I totally get it as a parent why they
(22:47):
upgraded.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Yeah, kitchen yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
And so it became part of our lifestyle of
camping.
And then, of course, we're still in the
Navy.
My dad was still in the Navy, so when he
got transferred from South Carolina to
Washington, to Bangor Subbase, we took the
RV across country.
And that was cool too.
So, now again, my brother and I'll tell you
(23:12):
all of our gripes.
We didn't get to go to Devil's Tower, so we
got to do that recently.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Good job.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
My brother and I were really interested in
things like 40 foot Fred and Jelly Stone or
whatever it was.
Didn't get to do that, you know but we did.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
We went to Grand Canyon, we did.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
So but but it was cool.
We had a great time across country and it
was a great experience, you know it was.
And then, when we were camping with my
parents, they had a lot of friends that we
would go with, so we had their friends and
their kids yeah, and so it was really fun.
It was these group events, so I get the
whole military you know connection with
(23:51):
social life.
Yeah, rv, work life balance.
I totally do, because it turned out to be,
even so many years ago, something that you
know we did as kids with our family.
So it was really really cool.
So now, well, okay.
So I don't know if we're way over or not,
but I want to try to.
Let's see if we can try to wrap this up.
(24:13):
If I had to try to take the top three
things that we talked about here and kind
of pull it together Number one, I guess it
would be that military life and RV work
life balance really connect right.
There is an interaction In surprising ways
that we never.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
well, Okay, you did, but it took going back
in those memories, watching our son's
progress and development of the Navy and
remembering life back then.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah, and to see that there's the
campgrounds that they have on the bases
these days, Like I don't remember that as a
kid, Like we didn't get to do that at the
bases back then you didn't stay on the base
when you were in South Carolina.
I'm not saying they didn't have it, I just
don't know that was a hundred years ago.
Pretty close so yeah, maybe they did, but I
(25:06):
don't think so.
So to see that they've embraced that in a
big way is really cool.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
And I think different bases have different
requirements Because, like when your
parents were going around and staying on
some of the military bases, sometimes in
their retirement, they had like two week
limited stays and then they would have to
move.
So I think different bases have different
requirements.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
There's probably different sections now for
full-time RV families versus the transients
that we've talked about before that we are
these days Like didn't in Key West, wasn't
there camping there as well, or do you
remember?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I remember we camped outside the base there
was Well, yeah, your parents were staying
on the water in the RV campground and we
with our two or three kids at the time
stayed in military housing.
It's always when we say two or three, yeah,
we can't remember how many we had at the
time.
It was like two or three you know, it's
(26:09):
just what happens.
All right.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
So that tie-in is really important there,
that the military life and RV work-life
balance is really there, like there's a
connection there and it's cool to see.
Yeah, yeah, the second thing, I guess would
be this, the quote you said, right, which
is like this minimum space with maximum
experience, which, I'll be honest, reminds
(26:33):
me of the movie Aladdin.
Right, like you have itty-bitty working
space and this power right, Like that's
kind of genie.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
You know, that's what we talked about
living in the lamp.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
It's like we drive a lamp.
It's like itty-bitty working space.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Yeah, yeah, because with that smaller space
you have less to worry about.
Once the work day is done, the genie comes
out.
Baby, that's right.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
And then I guess the last thing is like
this is a complete connection with there's
a time to work and a time to enjoy, and
that came out of these articles that you
talked about as well, right?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Not worrying about all the other things,
just getting to enjoy your time with your
family.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yeah.
Minimalist or minimalist, yeah, which is
cool that there's an overlap, that we're
not having to, like you know, describe
something very different, that there is
this commonality to this.
That's really kind of cool.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
People doing different jobs, different work
all over the place and embracing this RV
lifestyle.
So the goal with RV Work Life Balance
podcast is to share what we're learning to
help anyone interested in this crazy
adventure.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Is it crazy?
The only thing crazy is like the ants.
Right now.
I'm going to be honest.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
You are conquering the ants.
I don't know who's winning right now.
But anyways.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I want to thank the listeners for listening
to this podcast.
Like it, definitely check out the show
notes.
We're going to put some cool links in there,
both the photos and the places and the
products we've talked about there.
Check it out and if you're new here,
definitely take the time to subscribe.
We're really excited to have you on this
journey and we really want to thank you for
that.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
And to our existing subscribers.
We'd love you guys.
Thank you so much for being a part of this
adventure, this crazy adventure that we're
on, and please be in touch, hit us up on
Facebook or through email, anytime,
anything.
(28:42):
The most important thing, though, is for
those of you dreaming about this make your
escape and get out here.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Yeah, let's do this.
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I'm ready, let's go Bye.
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