Our Journey
38 campgrounds · 12 states · and counting
We made every rookie Thousand Trails mistake in the book. Here's everything we wish someone had explained before we signed that membership agreement.
After a year of cooking three meals a day in 40 square feet, these are the items that survived. Everything else got donated at a campground free pile.
Campground rates run $40-80+/night — that's up to $2,400/month. Here's the exact math behind how our Thousand Trails membership pays for itself many times over.
Our complete full-time RV setup for a family of four. The rig we chose, every modification we made, and what we'd do differently if we were starting over.
We're Elvio and Melissa — a family of four chasing Financial Independence, Retire Early while raising two little girls from our travel trailer on the open road.