What Do People Get Wrong About Full Time RVing?Season 1: Podcast Episode 3
Recorded at “Purgatory Cove,” Oregon Coast

Brad and Becky podcast about full-time RV living while working from the road.
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Episode 3: What Do People Get Wrong About Full Time RVing?
Recorded at “Purgatory Cove,” Oregon Coast.

Is full-time RV living really all mountain views and cozy campfires? This episode dives into the surprising, often unspoken realities of working full-time while living in an RV. From windstorms that shake your entire home to the joys of portable date nights, Brad and Becky unpack what RV life actually looks like, mess, magic, and all.

This conversation is packed with laughter, real talk, and valuable takeaways for anyone considering a mobile lifestyle. If you’ve ever wondered whether you could really live, work, and travel full-time from the road, this is the episode that tells it like it is.

Key takeaways from the episode:

• Why wind is the most underrated threat in RV life
• The myth of glamorous Instagram-ready campsites
• How moving every few weeks resets your whole world
• The unexpected challenges of mail, storage, and closet space
• Why RV ovens should come with a warning label
• The unspoken “bathroom rule” and how couples survive small-space living
• Why some things feel more romantic, and some things absolutely don’t
• How the rhythm of RV life changes your definition of normal

This episode pulls back the curtain on full-time RV living in the best way possible: with honesty, humor, and a whole lot of firsthand experience.

Transcript

This transcript has been generated automatically and may contain errors and edits for clarity and brevity.

Brad: Hey, everybody, and welcome back to Just in Case You’re Wandering. We are in Newport still. This is our last day in Newport and we are sitting out at what is my favorite place along the coast here. I don’t think it even has a name. We call it Purgatory Cove. Do you want to tell them why?

The pulloff we call Purgatory Cove just south of Depoe Bay

Becky: Sure. So this is dating ourselves probably, but that’s OK. If you’ve ever—first of all, if you haven’t watched it, you should because it’s a great movie. It’s called On Golden Pond. Classic. Total classic movie. Katharine Hepburn.

Brad: Certainly.

Becky: Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda, awesome movie. I won’t tell the whole story, but basically their summer house is on this lake or pond called Golden Pond. There’s a section in the pond called Purgatory Cove where they go fishing and it’s full of rocks. It’s really hard to get into. It eats boats and all the things. So this place that we’re at today, if it were a lake, would be Purgatory Cove because it’s full of rocks. It eats cars. But we are here anyway because it’s secluded and it’s gorgeous. We’ll definitely post some pictures because it’s a gorgeous blue sky. This is the kind of day that makes me want to be at the coast all the time.

Brad: Yeah. So when we drive in, we drive in really slow and we’re dodging big, sharp rocks all the way in. They’re not like boulders, it’s just gravel with some really sharp rocks mixed in. It’s a bit of a trick. Probably shouldn’t bring this little car in here, but I do it all the time because I love it out here. I wish I could tell you where it is.

Brad: But like I said, it doesn’t really have a name. It’s more of just a big pull-off section. What I love about it is there are some bluffs between the highway and the ocean. So you can kind of pull around the other side of those bluffs, like we are right now, and you don’t hear the highway at all. You probably hear the ocean in the background. For us it’s not angry today, it’s beautiful, but it’s making a little bit of noise out there. Waving at us.

Becky: As she does.

Brad: Yeah. In fact, I might readjust our windows here a little bit. So if you hear some background noise, I’m going to roll my window up and yours down a little bit. Keep some air in here and take out some of that ocean noise.

Apps, Tools, and Tech

Brad: Before we jump into today’s topic, I thought of a couple of things I wanted to add to what we talked about in our last episode. We were talking about how I do some research on what kind of cell coverage we’re going to get at the parks we go to. I mentioned Google Earth and Google Maps and stuff. But there are a couple of apps I use all the time too. One is called