 I live in an RV full-time. I don't have a house, I don't have a stationery job, and I chose this life 100% and I love it. So today I'm going to tell you guys what my story is and why I choose to be a nomad. Hey everybody, it's Robin with Creativity RV and today I wanted to tell you guys what my story is, like why I live in an RV. A lot of you may have seen an introductory video that I did when I very first started my channel, but you know I had like 47 subscribers then and I know that a lot of you probably don't even know why it is that I chose to live in an RV. So I'm going to tell you what my story is. Basically here's the deal. I was not a camper. I was an indoor dork. I was a reader and I kind of lived in my you know own head and I wanted to be a writer and I was a member of the Girl Scouts, but you know I just wanted to sell some cookies and dominate the cookie selling. It may be surprising, but I had never even been in an RV when I bought my RV and I had never camped in a tent and I had never been out to like National Forest Land or BLM Land. I didn't even go check it out before I decided to do this, which I wouldn't recommend for everybody, but that's kind of how I roll. In my case like there is for a lot of people there was absolutely a catalyst that made me choose this life. I like I said wanted to be a writer and I got my degree in creative writing and worked as an editor and worked as a literary agent and a freelance writer and I was absolutely starving. So I sold out to the man and went into corporate America and the entire time I was there for like 20 years I just kept trying to figure out how I could write full time. It's really hard to you know work 10 hours a day and then go home and work on a novel it just wasn't happening. So I kept starting these businesses and I would build them up and sell them so that I could write for a year but then the money would run out and I'd have to go back and have another job you know and then like the decades went by and finally I ended up getting you know a pretty good corporate job and I was making good money. I was living in Seattle and I was working I mean just ridiculous hours but I wasn't really feeling any joy you know and I went out to lunch with a co-worker and he insisted that we stop at an airstream dealership on the way to lunch. I was like oh my god come on a trailer. I just wanted nothing to do with it and he dragged me along and we went in and saw an Eddie Bauer airstream and I remember that the curve next to the dinette opened up like this to the open air and I thought wow I could write there I could sit there in the woods and write and it just became really clear to me that that was a good idea for me and plus I asked how much it was and it was like a sixth of what I had just spent on a condo in Seattle and you know like a lot of us I was not thrilled with this job there was a lot of moral gray area that I did not like in my job and I tried to find a way that I could help the people I worked with and still you know tow that corporate line and it was hard so at night what I would do is I would escape by looking at YouTube videos. Does anyone relate to this? I discovered the YouTube videos because I just wanted to go see more airstreams and that's when I discovered that there were people living in their RVs full-time I had never heard of this it never even occurred to me that this was possible when I thought of an RV I thought of like retirees in an RV park which to me look like a parking lot and something also that I would never want to do but then I started seeing some other solo female RVers and I learned that you don't have to spend a lot of money to be out on the road you can be on BLM land like I am right here and I'm here totally for free and that really frees up your budget so I just completely dove into research and these videos and I planned and planned and planned but like I've said before I was never going to do it I probably was not going to do it it was an escape for me to leave my corporate life and so when I got home late at night I could think about something else I could be absolutely transported into this idea of being a nomad but then my sister got sick and we were competitive we had the same kind of a job she was two years older than me and we were both in our around our mid-40s and she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer so you know the first thing you do is you look that up and you find out that the survival rate is nothing I mean like five percent survive like three years that's it so it really put a lot of stuff into focus for me particularly you know I went to her house in Connecticut she went home to be near my parents where she could get treatment and I went to her house and packed up her house and met the movers and they put all of her stuff together and she insisted on having her car even though she never drove it again and I drove her car from Connecticut to Colorado and that road trip really opened up my mind about what I wanted for my life you get a lot of time to think when you're on the road and then I spent the last six weeks of her life with her you know I went back and forth I flew back and forth but the last six weeks I was there taking care of her because at that point she was just in hospice care at in her house and that's when my sister Terry changed my life sorry you guys I always get a little you know teary when I think about this part because she would have loved my life now and she would have been so proud of me and if it wasn't for her none of this ever would have happened but what happened was you know like I said my sister was two years older than me and we were laying in her bed and she said if you had two years to live would you keep that job and I said no and she said well I've always imagined you in Paris with a sketchbook in fact I've recorded some house hunters international for you and then she insisted that we watch them and I had never told my sister about the RV thing um I wish I had actually but she had a vision for me of me as a traveler and me as an artist um that I didn't even have for myself at that point and um you know she said if you have two years to live would you keep that job because she was only two years older than me you know she died at 46 and um she was just robbed you know out of the two of us my sister was the adventurer she was the one that wanted to go bungee jumping and you know go balls out on a snowmobile and I was always the careful one you know and um I think it would blow her mind that I'm doing this but in the moment that she said that to me it just clicked and I knew that I was going to live a nomadic life and I was going to be a writer and I was going to do all the things that I dreamed about doing my sister made me promise her that I would travel to some of the places she wanted to see you know like in Italy and Belize and these places um in Europe and so traveling was was really her dream and I have to say I feel like I'm traveling for both of us she would have really loved this but what happened was you know she died and then um I lasted six more months at my job the whole time I was planning you know I sold that condo that I just bought and that's how I financed my RV I was able to buy my RV with the profit from that sale and then you know I needed a job so I actually moved back to Colorado before I bought the RV and was there for two years planning because I needed to get my finances in order and I needed to have a way to make a living on the road so I wrote two books um romance novels if you are interested the links below I wrote them because I needed to make a living on the road and I thought I would write like three in a year and it took me you know a year and a half to write the first one and then a year to write the second one and I wrote them and I bought the RV and I hit the road and I've never looked back sometimes I like to call myself the accidental camper because I never imagined this life for me and now I'm out here you know chopping wood and I work on the wiring in my RV and you know I do stuff that I would never have imagined and my mother is like aliens what did the aliens do with my daughter you know um it just has completely changed my life and it's actually made me discover who I am more than when I had a regular office job when you're you know when you're in someone else's world you change yourself to fit into that world the paradigm is set right you know while I was a round peg trying to fit into the square peg in the corporate world and it felt like a struggle and then when you get out on the road at least for me everything just comes into focus and you know who you really are now I work really hard on the road I've got like six businesses right now and um sometimes I think what am I doing like other people relax you know like I still see it as like a relaxing retired thing and I do relax a lot I go outside I go for hikes and I see wonderful places but really um it's made me discover who I am again outside of my job and you guys I love it and I go to the most amazing places and I don't see myself stopping this anytime soon there's just so much to see out here there's so much to see and there's so much to do and you can do it on so much less money than you would even think you could you know I did a video on budget and I basically can live on $1,300 a month out here you can do it on so much less than you think that you can so you know if you just want to retire early like Teresa that I just interviewed or you want to write a book or you know even if you just want to be a camp host or whatever it is that you want to do you just want to travel you want to go see see some museums or something you can do it in an RV or a van on a lot less money than you think if you boondack like I do but this is my story you guys I am an accidental camper I didn't mean to do it and I certainly never thought I would do YouTube and share all this with you guys but you know you open yourself up to life and there's a learning curve you know it's not like you think it's going to be when you're just watching YouTube but um this is my real life and the air out here is amazing and I make my own schedule and I get to decide where I go and I love it you guys I love it and if you're on the road please tell me in the comments below what your favorite thing is about it and if you're planning to hit the road please tell me that too I know that there's a lot of you out there I hope you guys have enjoyed this video I appreciate you watching everybody have happy travels out there and be free