So, you want to go camping in an RV. Great, we did too! We’ve been doing it for three years as weekend warriors in our RV travel trailer. We’ve made 19 trips and towed our travel trailer 6,500 miles to 34 TN State Parks, and 2 National Parks. I’ve made 116 videos along the way.
With RV’ing, there is a lot to think about (and you won’t think about a lot of it at first). I’ll cover 13 things we’ve learned in this video that you might find helpful if you are an RV newbie (and maybe even if you are not). Things like:
1. Planning Trips…Duh! How To Plan For Places You’ve Never Been
2. Tools We Use To Plan Our RV Trips
3. What Kind Of Setup Will Work For Your Style Of RV’ing
4. Wrecks / Equipment Failure’s Impact On Travel
5. Taking Your “Toys” With You While RV’ing
6. Getting / Staying Organized (With Containers and Checklist) While On The Road
7. What If The Person Going With You Doesn’t Want To Do What You Want To Do?
8. Storing Your RV When Not Travelling
9. Home Base (Your House Back Home)
10. Travelling With A Pet
11. Documenting Your Journey Along The Way
12. Will You Do Year-Round Camping
13. You Might Even Become Famous
If you’d like to see other videos that people have seemed to find helpful:
Season 1 – 2020
Playlist – https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzGPEC-6wTrwIb3yHqSUkg_1rRoLgtGYv We
Bought Our First RV! Heartland Mallard and Dodge RAM 1500 Big Horn Initial Review
Video – https://youtu.be/akdEfSBgyzY
Blog Post – https://deanorolls.com/2020/04/04/we-bought-our-first-rv/ Our First RV
Trip In The Heartland Mallard Travel Trailer (From Preparation Through Completion)
Video – https://youtu.be/x7j9zwxJp1w
Blog Post – https://deanorolls.com/2020/06/24/our-first-rv-trip/
Season 2 – 2021
Playlist – https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzGPEC-6wTrwlDwk8hhyoZ5zZILtbwKSW
Recapping Our First Year RV’ing – Reviewing our RAM 1500, Heartland Mallard, & cameras (+ Upgrades)
Video – https://youtu.be/s6XNnwAOjeY
Season 3 – 2022
Playlist – https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzGPEC-6wTrzLwsRB-qoJi_LgyZCjIl71
2 Year Update – Camping In Our RV Travel Trailer + Our Longest Trip Yet (2000+ Miles)
Video – https://youtu.be/6SKha7Agg0g
DeanoRolls (@deanoroll5) 
Hi Dean. I also have a Mallard M210RB and I am planning use it for the first time in September. I live in Alaska, it’s in MS, and I plan to go take it to NM and Utah. I’ve been searching your site unsuccessfully for a spreadsheet with your set-up and break-down list. Is that something you’d care to share? Along with anything else you think I should have. I am an Excel user. Cheers, Penny
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The spreadsheet I use is on this page (which also has the video from our first trip). I was nervous but it went fine and after a few trips all the nerves go away. Have fun out there!
Just go down to the bottom and there is a download button.
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The spreadsheet I use is also in the pinned comment to this video on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7j9zwxJp1w
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