After 3 ½ years of RV living, we’ve decided to move back into a house. We absolutely loved living in an RV, but here are the main reasons that helped us make this decision for this season of our life.
- We’re stationed at Fort Bliss in El Paso, TX. We absolutely love it here! The people, the climate, the sunshine, the mountains – all of it. However, the RV campgrounds here are really set up more for temporary campers. They are great for people passing through on their way to somewhere else, but they aren’t great for long term people. In NC and GA, we had some incredible campgrounds with lots of trees, shade, swimming, and activities. Here, the campgrounds are basically giant parking lots. No trees, no shade, no pools and no activities for the community. We couldn’t even have a picnic table or a campfire. What’s camping without campfires?
- Another motivating factor was that Rob missed having his woodworking shop. He has been so busy with school and work lately that he’s been ok without it, but his school is coming to an end so he was looking forward to having more time to play with his tools. Again, at our previous campgrounds he was able to do some of that, but not here. I wanted him to have a shop.
- I wouldn’t mind more room to do my crafts either. I was able to do some sewing and crafting in the camper, but having more room to spread out would be a bonus.
- We want to be able to have people over more for meals, to watch a sports game, whatever. We just would like to be able to host people more often.
We do still plan to go camping! Although we’ll be selling the 5th wheel, we kept our little camper that was the first one we lived in. We plan to take that out on weekends when we can for family camping trips. We’ll make sure we go places where we can have a campfire!
So, here we go into our next season of life. We’ll probably always enjoy camping, and one day we might even live in a camper again. But for the next few years at least, we’re going to enjoy house living again.