Fifth Wheel Travel Day

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Moving a fifth wheel is its own event, and these are the full versions of ours.

The first travel day, with 300 miles, broken dishes and a stop sign that never saw us coming. Louisville with no reservation and a bridge we had to think hard about. The day the trailer lights and brakes started cutting out fifteen minutes in. And the parking job that turned into a marriage exercise.

We leave the rookie mistakes in, because those are the ones people write to us about.

Travel Days

Our Longest Travel Day Yet: 600 Miles to the Badlands With No Reservation

Published on Aug 21, 2026

Almost 600 miles from Des Moines to The Wall, nine hours in 104 degree heat, no reservation waiting for us, and an RV door that kept popping open on the interstate.

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When Your RV Campsite Goes Wrong | Rookie mistake?

Published on Jul 18, 2026

We reserved a pull-through site in Wisconsin and still couldn't get our 40-foot Brinkley into it. A campground regular named Joe showed us a trick we'd never considered, and then the week ended with our first Harvest Hosts stay at an actual Western saloon.

Campground Reviews

We Paid $74 to Stay at Love's RV Stop (Here's What We Found)

Published on Jul 11, 2026

Love's RV Stops promise full hookups and real sites at a truck stop price of about $74 a night. We stayed in one with our Brinkley Model Z 3515 to find out what you actually get.

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No Reservation, A Killer Bridge & A VERY Tight Campground (RV Travel Day to Louisville)

Published on Jul 4, 2026

A two-day run from South Carolina to Louisville with no reservation, a 10-foot bridge with smashed RVs on its Google Maps photos, and the tightest campground we've ever squeezed our Brinkley into.

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We Forgot Our Stairs Were Down… AGAIN (Windy Travel Day + Easy Beef Stew)

Published on Jun 15, 2026

A "chill" two-hour hop from Tampa to Orlando turned into bent banana trees, a flying chair, a wind-speed research session, and the same embarrassing mistake we swore we'd never repeat. At least dinner was good.

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We Spent an ENTIRE Day Driving - Here's the Reality

Published on May 8, 2026

320 miles from the Smoky Mountains to South Carolina, hitch-up to after-dark arrival, with every stop in between. This is the travel day nobody puts in the highlight reel.

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RV Travel Day: When Parking Drama Tests Your Marriage

Published on Feb 11, 2026

Our first travel day after months parked: a to-do list that kept growing, a crossing of the Mackinac Bridge, and a Walmart parking job that turned into a marriage exercise.

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Why Roadside Assistance Can FAIL You When You Need It Most

Published on Oct 1, 2025

Fifteen minutes into a three-hour travel day, our trailer lights and brakes started cutting out. What roadside assistance actually did for us, what it couldn't, and how we limped to Wisconsin before dark.

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RV Newbie Mistakes You Won't Believe

Published on Mar 1, 2025

Our very first RV travel day: 300 miles, broken dishes, a dead end, a tiny state park dump station, and one stop sign that never saw us coming. Every mistake, unedited.