 Welcome to road gear reviews. My name is Kaylee and I'm Josh and we are from the YouTube channel and blog the freedom theory and today We are reviewing living the RV life written by Mark and Julie Bennett from RV love. Stay tuned So welcome back you guys so many of you know Mark and Julie from their wonderful blog and YouTube channel RV love comm And they also completed the RV success school, which is an amazing course on Living the RV life. They then got snatched up by some publishers to write the ultimate guide on Living in an RV. So we are gonna jump into this review The first thing that I want to say is that this is the book that I wish we had when we started RV We when when Kaylee and I got the idea to RV we got on YouTube We got on blogs and everything that we saw was very very pro RV just Nothing could go wrong. Everything was going to go right, you know, you'll live for $200 a month save Then when we found out that wasn't the the way things actually were We and a lot of other people went the other direction and really tried to show the you know the Cons to RVing and you know, we tried to show the pros Their book does such a great job of balancing that out and showing you the amazing things that you can Define and do and see by living in by living the lifestyle But also showing okay, these are some of the challenges that you might face and yeah and doing it like that I mean it was such a wonderful balance. So when you read it, you're inspired But you're also going into it saying, okay I know that this might happen or this might happen just such a wonderful balanced approach I bench read it even though we've been RVing for What close to four years now before years in January. Yeah, I bench read it This is the book that I wish we had so if you're thinking about RVing at all If you're planning to one day in the future If you ever think it might be on your radar, this is the book to read And this book really is written for someone who is looking to enter the lifestyle I think this is a great book to have even if you are a full-timer of year I find myself picking it up looking at pictures and also I felt really inspired when I was reading through it I was like, oh man, we live this life Like we have this incredible opportunity and you know, we've been stationary for a little while So this kind of kicked into high gear when you catch up and go and it brought up that excitement again that Wonderless that we have and I think if you've got that wonder less Maybe if this is a far-off journey or you're looking at doing it in the next couple of months You're gonna want this book I really resonated with the chapters that covered the emotional transition and I really felt like that gave a really clear Perspective of what you're gonna come up against when you do hit the road. That's something when I first started RVing I was very passionate about I made videos about that and I think there's again There's this resurgence of RVing and I think it's important that once you move into this very exciting lifestyle that you're gonna come up against these emotions that they discuss and you might have pushed back from family and friends and When you're with the love of your life and y'all the sudden you're in 38 feet You might want to figure out ways to get your own time and know how to put on headphones Yes, that was one of the tips that was in this book was get big headphones and you know So Josh has noise reduction headphones. I have noise reduction headphones It covers RVing with kids it covers travel planning and I don't want to spoil the book But it's real good something that I loved about it is that it is chock-full of resources So they cover a lot of areas like road schooling if you're planning on going on the road with your kids Some of the pros and cons but then they point you to resources on that topic They point you to Full-time families, which is an RV group for full-time families obviously Yeah, which we're a part of now, but when it comes to mobile internet They give you a high-level overview and then they point you to resources like Techno-Madia that give just a wealth of information So don't think of it as just something that's cursory like a really high-level interview or a really high-level overview of Full-time RVing because they've got resources for everything if you want more information on a particular topic Even if they didn't go into in-depth detail in the book perhaps because the topic is so huge They point you to resources they point you to resources on memberships on mobile internet on RVing with family RVing with kids on the emotional side of RVing on Downsizing the emotional side of that. I mean I just can't say enough good things about it Like I said, even though we've been RVing for four years. I've been dreaded I just sat down and And read So great. We do think that this would make a really good gift You can purchase it on Amazon and it is in bookstores almost everywhere. It's also at some Costco's which is incredible I love to see Merck and Julie posting pictures in Costco. This is like, that's one of my favorite places They're in there. That's so cool So that is those are some of the places that you can get it We will have it linked down below if you'd like to grab it. I love the way it's laid out I think they have a lot of case studies, which I think are really important because It shows different stories and different perspectives from being on the road So it's not just Mark and Julie's voices that are in here They also have really incredible people who are out living this lifestyle. They have families. They have solo RVers They have couples they have all walks of life who are living this lifestyle So I think that's very important and it was very thoughtful to put those different case studies in the book And also visually, it's it's beautiful just to give you a little Snip it and a lot of these people we're friends with we follow on Instagram and follow on YouTube So it is so fun to see this community come together in a book That's all about the RV life speaking of the case studies one thing that I really liked was That they pointed out how full-time RVing isn't just for retirees anymore There's so many people who are entering this lifestyle for various reasons Maybe they just want the freedom of a nomadic lifestyle or they want to pay down dead There are so many different reasons, but there are RVers of every category single people Young people young professionals middle-aged people I mean retirees there's just so many people living this lifestyle now and their book covers it all One chapter or one section was on ways to make money on the road and that's something that applies to everyone How can I fund this lifestyle? There are some people who have a job that allows them to work remotely and so they're able to just back up and go Other people need to be thinking about okay, how do I fund this? So the case studies were great to show you Just a different type of people who are doing it how they're funding their travels and a little bit about why they're doing it There was one particular case study from Tom and Kate Morton or Tom and Caitlin there was one particular case study from Tom and Caitlin Morton from Morton's on the move They're good friends of ours And I love reading their case study because they talked about how they initially set out on a two-year journey and now they said there's Yeah, and now they said there's no end in sight and I love that because when we met them They were talking about the end of their two-year journey and what they were going to do after that And then as we were talking they were saying well, we're leaning more and more towards just making this indefinite And now they're saying there's no end in sight So the case studies were just so great to show you how people are feeling Why they feel that way and why they chose to live the lifestyle they do and how they fund it So four years ago, we spent a lot of time looking through blogs and watching a lot of YouTube videos But I think if we would have come across this guide it would have saved us a lot of time and energy So we'll have it linked down below for you to check it out. It is a really great resource It's beautifully done. It's beautifully written and we 10 out of 10 do recommend that you add it to your Amazon cart if you haven't already and if you are looking for a gift for somebody We think this would be an excellent one for this holiday season So thank you guys for watching if you have any questions, please leave them in the comments down below We would love to hear from you guys if you do find their book in store Definitely take a picture and tag them in it. They love seeing that and until next time We will see you down the road