Hi fellow readers,

I'm trying something new here with keeping a blog.   Let me introduce ourselves. We are Tom & Beth Boswell and we currently live in Southern Md. We sold our home about 15 months ago and moved into a very small apartment after downsizing and preparing for our next adventure......full time rv'ing. Tom & I have been talking about going full time for awhile now. It all started when we were out in AZ visiting Tom's cousins, Dave & Mary Greer. They had recently bought a new camper and Tom really liked it. He told me that he could see us doing this....meaning camping. I was a little scared thinking "do we really need a camper"? But as time went on, there we were looking at campers. We had a small popup a few yrs prior but we didn't go very much and then it got totaled in a car accident when someone hit us on the way to a campout. A couple years later we bought a travel trailer, a 25 ft Passport. It was small and no slides but met our needs at that time. We had some fun campouts in that one. After about a yr, we decided to upgrade to a larger travel trailer, another Passport, 32 ft with one slide. We were thrilled with the extra room. We camped many times in the larger Passport. At least once a month when the temps were nice and a few when it was cold in Nov. too. We learned many things about being RV owners over the three yrs we had a couple travel trailers. We loved being outside and always dreaded when it was time to leave after a weekend of camping. So this is when we decided to start making plans to go full time after Tom retired.

Our first Passport camper.

Our second Passport camper.

Planning to do this has had many emotions with it. Things I started thinking of were, can I give up my home and live in a small place for who knows how long? We had so much “STUFF” to get rid of that I was a little overwhelmed. I was also thinking can I be away from my grandchildren for a long amount of time? Will we be OK financially? Just so many questions. We prayed about it and we both felt like this was the right thing to do at this time in our life. Tom has worked for the govt. for many yrs and this was after 20 yrs in the Navy too. He was ready. So the planning began. We had a couple yard sales, gave things away and took a lot to the thrift shop. Our son’s family was kind enough to let us store our leftover things in his basement.

A couple years ago we planned to go to the Richmond RV show and look at campers. This is where we found our future home. We decide to buy a Keystone Alpine 39 ft 5^th wheel. It would be made for us. We were excited. It would be about 8 weeks until it was done.

Our future home. Our Keystone Alpine!

We sold our home after it was on the market for a week. We knew our RV would be ready about the time we had to move out of our home. We decided to move into our new RV at Solomon’s Recreation Center for a couple months.  Our son Travis, had just bought an apartment complex that had three units in it. They had to be fixed up and it would be ready in Aug. We would rent one of the small apartments when they were ready. We enjoyed our time at Solomon’s Rec Center camping and getting a taste of what we would be doing full time. Tom was still working and I was still driving up to my son’s home to watch our grandchildren.

We moved into our apartment Aug. 2018. Our son had a 50 amp plug installed next to the apartment so we could hook up our RV.  Life was good. So over the past 17 months we have adjusted well into our tiny apartment. (450 sf) We continued to go camping on the weekends. We had a long trip this past summer and a 3 week trip just recently. We are looking forward to the many changes that will be happening in 2020!

I have to tell you I don’t miss all that “stuff” we have. I think as I get older I look forward to the “simple life”. It’s good to declutter and really look at what you really need. We have figured out our budget and we know we will have to be thrifty but we really feel like this is what we should be doing now in our lives. It just all feels right. Everything has worked out for us as we have planned this new adventure. We are looking forward to seeing more of the United States and some of you that we haven't seen in yrs. I know there will be a time that we will have to settle down again but for now the adventure begins.  

I have so much more to tell you and as I update this post I will share our thoughts and ideas with you. I’ll try to catch up with the start of 2020. We hope you will follow along on our journey. We also have a Facebook page….RVenture Awaits. Check it out. We hope in time to have a YouTube page too. Thanks for taking the time reading our story.  

Have a great day, travel safely and keep smiling.  Life is good and RVenture Awaits!:)