Prepare for Road Life
These RV resources will help prepare you to live out your road-life dreams:
- How to Prepare for an RV Lifestyle
- Quiz: Are You Ready to be a Full-Time Camper?
- Is a Solar Powered Full-Time RV Life More Sustainable?
- Helpful Apps & Online Resources for RVers
- How to Make Travel Expense Planning Less Stressful
- Tips for Hygiene & Bathrooms on the Road
- Escapees RV Club: A Total Support Network for All RVers
Find Free / Unique Camping & Boondocking
Finding free, low cost, and epic camping is a breeze with a few key apps and resources in your back pocket! Discover how we spend less than $100 per month for camping expenses, making our full time RV lifestyle both affordable and sustainable.
- How to Camp Like a PRO with The Dyrt!
- The Best Way to Find Free Camping - Public Land Locator
- Meet Sarah Smith & Kevin Long, The Dyrt Co-Founders
- Apps & Online Resources for Finding Off-Grid, Free, & Low Cost Camping
- Harvest Hosts: Unique & Fun Overnight RV Experiences
- Boondockers Welcome: Bring Your RV & Make New Friends
Power Your Mobile Life with Solar
Solar power frees us from expensive electrical hook up campsites, restrictive reservations, and gas generators. We've been living a solar powered RV lifestyle since 2012!
Find Work on the Road
We run into a lot of people who waited to retire before hitting the road. They always say, "We wish we'd done this sooner!" So, don't let that pension hold you back. There are literally thousands of ways to earn enough as you travel. These RV lifestyle resources will help you think about how to make working from the road work for you.
Find RV Volunteer & Work-Trade Opportunities
Finding your community on the road becomes easier when you volunteer side-by-side with others who share your values and passions. Volunteering and doing work-trade from the comfort of our own little camper is one of the best gifts we've given ourselves.
Discover America's National Parks
We are self-proclaimed National Park Nerds and have had the pleasure of exploring, working, and volunteering in hundreds of national park service sites since we hit the road. Below are some resources we typically share during our RV show seminars:
- Exploring America's National Parks. Part 1
- Tips & Tricks for Exploring America's National Parks in Your RV, Part 2
- Nat Geo Road Atlas (Adventure Edition)
- Nat Geo Guide to the National Parks
- Experience Our National Parks through a Naturalist's Lens
- 1000 Places to See Before You Die
- The National Parks: America's Best Idea (Documentary)
- America's National Park Podcast
- National Park Service Website
- National Park Service App
- Get Your Pass
- Volunteer in the Parks (with your RV)
Gourmet Cooking & Camp Kitchen Hacks
We are foodies on the move who love the challenge of making gourmet meals on a campfire, two burner, or even a single burner stove in the backcountry. Here are our tips, techniques, recipes, and a few fun RV lifestyle hacks that we've whipped up along the way.
Small Space Storage Hacks
We've happily lived and worked out of 72 square feet since 2012. Learn how we manage to keep everything we need to live in all climates, cook gourmet food, go kayaking, backpacking, cycling, and run a small mobile business.