Maintenance and repair events are a necessary aspect of full-time RV life because, you know, stuff happens.  For us, 2021 dealt us a more than generous dose of incidents (lessons?) that piled up a bunch of stuff that needed to get fixed.  In February, while fleeing the polar vortex in Texas, our generator door cover was totally popped off the rig while crossing a railroad crossing that dropped off sharply and then rose up sharply to meet the intersecting road.  In July, a microburst, out-of-nowhere windstorm in Spearfish, SD, whipped our awnings like a ragdoll to the point Scott had to cut them off the rig.  In late summer, one of our air-conditioning units and our dash air conditioner decided to quit on us.  Someone knocked off our passenger side rear view mirror in a campground.  And there were more incidents, but you get the idea.  The bright side is that none of these issues were show stoppers; we could delay repairs and keep moving about the country according to plans we had already made.

Full-time RV camping costs is the budget category that is most applicable to all full-time RVers. We all have to park our rig somewhere each night, right? There are a bunch of other categories like insurance, fuel, maintenance, entertainment and more that are widely variable based on your travel style, type of RV, and life style. And while camping costs are also impacted by personal preferences, it’s the one category that is most common across all full-time RVers.