We Swore We Would NEVER GO BACK
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- RV life can be a great way to take second chances. We swore we would never go back to Thousand Trails but our viewers challenged us to give the system another shot, were they wrong? Thanks to Bluetti for sponsoring this video:
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I've been watching since the early swinger and weed videos😂 I am in the process of planning my rv life.
Ya'll are awesome!! I am going to hit that notification button in hopes of a bluetti elite 200 giveaway!
thanks for the support!
I love our Bluetti! Thanks for letting us know how you use yours. These Bluettis provide great options whether camping or not!
It is the best in our opinion!
That thing on the spigot is called a Back Flow preventer and is required by the health department in many states and can draw a hefty fine for every one that is missing. They do start to leak when they get dirty with hard water iron etc.
Beautiful campsite and very affordable. I also love the snack bag!😊Great video!
Thank you! Hope you are doing well!
@@liferedesigned I am doing great! We were in Florida a few weeks ago for the RV show. I had such a great time and got to meet a lot of people! I also hit 1,000 subscribers on TH-cam while at the show! Other than that, I’m ready for the warmer weather so we can get back on the road!
congrats on the 1k subs - well deserved!
@@liferedesigned Thank you!
Glad you are doing this as we are still deciding on it. 🙂
Great to see you guys enjoying life redesigned!! Enjoy!! I love watching your TH-cam videos!! ❤
Thanks, so glad you enjoy them!
Thanks for the new video sending love from Pittsburgh PA
We appreciate the support!
When are you going to be in Washington? We are just outside of Spokane which I90 runs through. Would love to meet up with you guys. And if you need a stop over, we have easy access and 50 Amp service! I promise, we are not weirdos! Lol
Thank you lol! We will be in Washington sometime over the summer I think….
Great video guys! Karri said HOT FLASHES! 😂
That is the real deal lol
We have stayed at Clerbrook a couple of times and we have liked it both times we have been there. Staff is great and the park is nice. Last time they tried to put us a couple sites down from where you are and there was no way we were fitting out 46’ 5er in there. The first time we stayed over by the ball field on the grass sites and our site was huge.
It really does depend on the site!
Heyyyyyy curious if you are booked at any of the Thousand Trails we've stayed at here in Oregon!!! So excited to see if you are and if so, if you have similar experiences. I'm here for the journey and can't wait to see! 😊
You’ll have to stay tuned to see! 😉 I know we have one or 2 scheduled as well as going to TillaMook so Bob can get his cheese fix!
We have the one year get ya hooked pass when we bought our RV. But we have not been able to use it. We are 214 days from retirement. We will make our decision after your final review. Hope you’re loving the new trailer.
It has been great 👍
@ Did you name it?
not yet but we are floating around a couple of ideas
I got the BLUETTI 300L and I love it so far. I might have to consider that charger. I got a generator on my RV as a backup but maybe a back up to the back up?
Always a good idea to be prepared! The charger is super fast!
We love your innovative, yet costly Buletti/portable fridge snack solution. When we were shopping for our coach, we made sure we could access everything with the slides in for overnighting at rest areas, Walmarts, Cracker Barrels and such. The nice thing about traveling in a motorhome is you have full access to your living area when traveling down the road. This is especially important if you travel with pets, like we do.
I guess you either like RV park life or you don't. We don't particularly enjoy being wedged into tight campsites, all lined up with other campers like sardines in a can like at that TT park. They did give you a larger than normal site though, which is nice. Great service will make or break any business, for sure. However, the beautiful state park site you stayed at in Florida is more our speed. As FTers, we avoid paying nightly rates, choosing monthly rates instead, or better yet, free boondocking spots. The more we can save on campsites the more we can spend on other things like fuel for traveling, eating out, etc. To put things into perspective, the $25/night you're paying now adds up to $9,125/year. That's over twice our annual fuel budget. I can see where TT will help keep your site costs down - after that big initial expense. We had a big initial expense on our solar system too, so can appreciate how spending money up front saves you down the road.
Of course, we can't always find free boondocking spots on the East Coast, like we did last year in Yuma, AZ. This year we're wintering over in NC, visiting family, where boondocking places are rare, but found an RV park that is renting us a spacious no hook-up site for only $100/mo. Over 5,000 watts of solar and 23.5kwh of batteries lets us be electrically self-sufficient, so this works our great for us, as we don't mind using their dump station every 2-3 weeks to dump and fill to save money. If you think about it, it only takes about 1/2 hr. for us to dump, so spending an hour a month dumping and filling saves us $500/mo. off their normal $600 monthly rate. We're retired now, and have more time than money, but even at the peak of my career I never made $500/hr., how about you?
We've never considered TT because of the advanced reservation requirements, as we like to be more spontaneous. Plus, the 2-3 week stay limits seem a bit restrictive. If we're going to stay in an RV park, we going to want to stay at least a month if not all winter. If we're boondocking for free outside a National Park or in a popular tourist area, then a 2 week stay limit is understandable, and we will be moving then anyway, having thoroughly explored the area. There are exceptions though. Last year we visited Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons for the first time. There is so much to see there that we boondocked in the area for 6 weeks, just outside of the national parks, moving when required. Others might spend thousands to camp there for 6 weeks, but it didn't cost us a dime - just an occasional $10-$15 dump fee, and sometimes we found free dump and fill sites too, like at the Madison CG inside Yellowstone, thanks to our America the Beautiful pass granting us free NP admission.
The thing to keep in mind about RV life is that everyone’s style is different. While a power station may seem expensive, it is more reasonable for those on a budget vs a solar setup.
Same with park stays, we need the reliability of full hookups as we work full time - usually as long as we have that - park amenities are useless to us as we don’t use them- we are usually in an area for a specific attraction etc.
That is the best part of this lifestyle- there is no wrong or right way to live it. There is no better way to live it other than the way that works for you.
Safe travels
@@liferedesigned Of course everyone's needs are different. If you're still working and not retired yet like we are, you will have different needs a lot more money to fulfill those needs. Before we went FT and were still working, living in our S&B home, our property tax and homeowner's insurance alone was more than our entire housing and fuel budget today - but we only have 1/3 the income we once had to meet our needs too.
Portable power stations have their advantages and appeal to many as affordable turn-key power solutions. But I'm sure you'll agree that buying a portable power station just to power a portable fridge for goodies while on the road is an opulent lifestyle choice out of the range of most frugal FTers - that is unless it serves double duty when parked to run the appliances in your RV. A lot of van dwellers, small camper FTers and nomads of limited means do exactly that, to justify the expense - especially those expandable power stations that you can add an extra battery or two to as your power needs grow, like adding a B300 battery or two to an AC500 Buletti that would allow you to run an A/C or heat pump all night with power to spare. No criticism here. Depending on your circumstances, that may be a smart way to go. Everyone lives the way that best suits their needs at the time and we all evolve over time as our wants and needs change. I've enjoyed following you guys for 3-4 years since your Mini-Winnie days (we've been FT for 6 yrs now) and have enjoyed seeing your growth and lifestyle changes too. We're certainly not the same people who started FT RVing in Jan. 2019 either. Hope to see you down the road one day. Peace.
agree 100% - as for the power stations, as we have said in many videos including this one - we use them for tons of purposes including running our rig when boondocking and for powering our electric impact gun when we have had highway blowouts.
Wow!! Being from Oregon where we're blessed with gorgeous state parks, I'm impressed! That's a beautiful state park!! SO spacious and so well manicured. I make my hubby's sandwiches, too. 😊 Super appreciate the review! We've been looking into some of the Jackery and Bluetti options, and it so helps to have first hand opinions to consider.👍🏼 People bragging about cheating the system then abusing it gives me the ick! I learned you leave a place the way or better than you found it. Safe and wonderful travels and all the best, you two! 🌲💚✌🏼
We have owned a bunch and we feel Bluetti has more to offer than Jackery. On leaving places better than found - that is our motto also!
We stayed in Brevard county parks too. Same price, full service. Sometimes hard to book though.
They can get full quick!
Howdy Bob and Karri, i hope all is well with you.
Stay safe and have fun.
CHARLIE!! all is well Sir - how is everything with you?
we got taken advantage of with a guy out of Texas that claimed to be a TT salesman. He hooked us up with TT and an arm off of TT. We signed a bad contract that cost us $2200.00 to get out of it. Since then, we have a not so good attitude with them. We live in Oregon, and they have some nice parks but I'm shy to go near them. I will be following you closely...
Sorry to hear that
I’m in tto right now going to Clerbrook next. Tropical palms is ok and lake magic depends what site you get
Seems to be that way for all parks in the system
Great vid. thanks life redesigned!
Glad you liked it!
It came it came it finally came. Just fresh out of the mailbox not 5 minutes ago woohoo. Dramatic enough for you 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️. No seriously I'm happy to be along with you for the ride. As always I will check back in with you later 👍🇨🇦😜
that is awesome!
By the time you get back from this 6 months trip across the country. Maybe the 1000 trails campground ( forgot the name,) in Myrtle Beach will be finished and open for you to try out. Safe travels.
Our understanding is that the portion of Pirateland that is being converted to TT will take a couple of years before it is included in the packages. That being said, it could change quite a bit for us for when we see the kids - we are excited about that as RV park rates in the area are getting out of control!
Exactly. We used to stay 2 weeks at a time at the state park when it was affordable. Now we stay at Koa in a cabin for same price as a site.
We were looking into an annual site at piratelalnd. Then got email they were in process of dividing up the campground and the portion we were to lease was being sold. Things happen in for a reason. Looks like now we'll be staying either in Holden Beach NC. Or Port St Joe FL
Holden is beautiful, Towards North Myrtle there is the Myrtle Beach Travel Park - a little more on the rustic side but we appreciate that, may be worth checking out.
Ugh Clerbrook....we just left there. Good luck, not a great park. Lots of permanent residents, noisy park, people drive very fast through the park. We couldn't wait to leave!
FYI -we were in site 117 in the Lifestyles section.
I just watched the end of the video. It's really interesting to see two different perspectives - you had a good time, we thought it was one of the worst TT parks we've ever stayed at. Some very questionable permanent residents nearby, to the point that we felt unsafe leaving anything outside unless it was locked up.
We actually really enjoyed our time at Clerbrook!
@@liferedesigned I guess it all depends on the particular site you're in, and the surrounding residents, especially the permanent residents.
I'm shopping for a 12v cooler like yours. Which one is it? Do you like it? Would you buy it again?
I love it It is from Setpower - there is a video on it in our Product reviews playlist
@@liferedesigned Thanks!!!
Sorry to hear there aren't enough electrical outlets inside your truck to power all your needs, so you have to use a power bank. I can see the hardiness in some other applications. Enjoy your stay.
It’s more about having backup power for specific needs and the unit is just small enough to keep on hand.
Hey Guys, I am glad your doing well. Bob , you are one heck of a salesman. I hope this info commercials work out. I enjoyed the old material and prefer seeing your day to day life.
Free content is expensive lol.
And Kari you rock!!
The construction is probably condos because Florida 🤷🏼♂️🤦🏼
The Facebook groups for TT is wild. People are rude and it wasn’t always like this. We don’t have the trails collection but TT serves it purpose for us. I’ll use it as much as possible wherever we go. ✌🏼
The FB groups are insane for sure. Becoming a bunch of rude and entitled people. We stay on it because it makes us laugh more than any other group lol
Love your videos, just wondering what truck do you have i know its a ram but what trim is it and motor and how do you guys like it, thanks keep up the great videos
Tradesman 2500 6.4L. We love it. light on the extra gadgets so less to break and it is a workhorse!
come on over to Vacation Village in Largo.. close to beaches
Hi Bob & Keri, did I miss what state park that is? Beautiful site!
😉 it’s in there lol
@ lol Carol says I never listen 😂 I did hear the $25.00 and my eyes opened wide ha ha
It is Holt Florida, the name escapes me at the moment but it is in the video at the end of the first segment. Bob stops at the sign also and zooms in
How is towing the new rig?
Bob is really good at it. We just have to watch the tail swing a little more and be a little more choosy with gas stops but other than that it’s great! Bob may say otherwise but I think he does better with this one than Humphrey ( the 22MLE)
Down the road from Clerbrook is Fizoli's... best breadsticks ever
That sounds amazing! We are always looking for the best food spots!
@@liferedesigned 7 miles down 27 on the left just below Highway 50.... Pizza , pasta... BREADSTICKS
You have to try Piesano's!
We can always spot a Thousand trails Member. They are the ones with the sewage tote on the back of their rig . :)
or maybe they are Boondockers?
That was in trail sounds like a timeshare
What brand truck cap do you have, looking to get a nice color match for my ford 350?
Our is a Leer Cap
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Thank You
how many in oregon have you been to
None as of yet. Heading there this year
Ive always been weary about thousand trails membership..... Just doesnt seem worth it to me on the quality of camprgrounds ive seen!
depends on the location and expectations.
How is that big camper pulling for you?
Really really good. We are actually surprised lol
@ excellent. So glad to hear it.
Please let us know if you plan to hit NH again. Would love to meet the two of you.
will do!
Up to the Canadian boarder 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️. You banned or something. Sorry you know me I just had to say something. Take care Kids 👍 and I am so happy to get my shirt. See you in the next one 👍 🇨🇦 🔧
Thanks, we're happy you got the shirt!
NO! Don't do it.
Have never been a fan of these places, kinda like a time share.
That is exactly what it is. How many of the type of places have you stayed at?
Thousand Trails need new business model. Need a lower entry price and then pay 10-30 dollars per night to camp, so Resorts have some reason to treat you better. Right now, Campgrounds get 0 more $s and have 0 incentive to treat you good.
A better way to look at it is they need better clients. Staff have never treated us bad. People who stay in the parks often need to chill out and feel less entitled.
@@liferedesigned Still my experience is a company doesn't have the motivation to give you service when they are not getting anymore money from you. Competition for your dollars drives good service. Like getting worst spots. plus a lot of the campgrounds out side of popular areas are run down. Not full time but retired.
We would actually counter point this with they need to RAISE prices on the entry point as well as charge a fee per night. Raising prices would increase capital and allow for upgrades. Not to mention a shift in client class that would stop these places from further becoming a cheaper version of trailer parks. I believe you are seeing the start of that now as they have officially done away with lifetime memberships and have shifted to a 2 or 4 year subscription model.
As for parks being run down -you have to ask yourself why that is, when you REALLY look at it, it is simply due to the people having no respect for the properties. Look closely at even the best parks, RV's driving with stairs down digging up pads, Inexperienced RV owners driving on new grass digging it up - trash left everywhere etc. This is the current clientele doing this - NOT the parks.
@@liferedesigned The large one time fee is like kind of like a pyramid scheme. With the members who paid less a longer time ago get the benefits of newer members paying more and works until there aren't enough new members to support the older members who are no longer paying (contributing) into the membership. Then campgrounds start cutting back on services and maintenance.
Exactly, which is why we 100% support the NEW subscription models and assigned sites model. It is time to turn these places back in RV parks instead of low rent semi trailer parks.
We are adventure thousand trails.. but still... Thousand trails member roster is FILLED with trailer trash, as you know
Bluetti infomercial not so much fun
Free content is expensive, if there were no sponsors - there would be no TH-cam. At least we give honest reviews of products we actually use. Other channels shill every product they can in every video.