A descriptive look at traveling and full-timing with our second RV, a fifth wheel toyhauler.
Laura and Sasha started this adventure in April of 2005
for a two week vacation in a truck camper.
Expenses of January 2010:
Now 2010 is still upon us, but if all goes according to plan, we will volunteer in the winter (which ended up being only a couple of months: January and February) and work/volunteer for six months at a National Park. Then head to Texas for some driver licenses and then back East for a couple of months. Then hopefully back to Nevada in the month of December. That is the hope anyway.
January 2010 - In Nevada, at Lake Mead National Recreation Area, and close to Las Vegas. How much money did we waste on Gambling?
| Categories | Things Bought | Amount |
| Food | Food&Household | $137.94 |
| Provisions | ||
| PYO & Farm Market | ||
| Meals to Go | $207.69 | |
| Clothing | Laura | |
| Transportation | ||
| Truck | Diesel | $359.59 |
| Maintenance | $61.23 | |
| Camper | Equipment | $36.15 |
| Utilities | Propane | $17.78 |
| Campground/Motels | $38.92 | |
| Laundry | ||
| Generator Fuel | ||
| Electricity | ||
| Camper | Equipment | |
| Communication | ||
| Verizon | $60.07 | |
| Postage | ||
| Cell Phone | ||
| Post Box | $75.00 | |
| 1st Class Postage | ||
| Health | Insurance (L) | $152.00 |
| Insurance (S) | ||
| Other | ||
| Recreation | Fun Stuff | $84.00 |
| Gambling | $100.00 | |
| Books | $26.21 | |
| Total Spent | $1,356.57 |
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Well, it was not as much as before, which is good. I was volunteering for Lake Mead National Recreation Area, so our housing and utilities were paid for, we topped up for the propane. We were not buying that much food to eat in as my parents came out for about 10 days, and so we were in Sedona for a while with them, and other places, so we ate out a bit more. We also gambled a bit, did not really win anything but it was fun to play.
Of course whenever you go to a new place to park it for a while, it seems that every campground or volunteer/employee spot is different and therefore needs different things. At this one we needed to get another house heater (it got cold there baby!), another door mat (cause ours flew out of the truck back...don't know how, but it did), and a hose elbow for the rig (I am not sure where that was supposed to go...I just see these things on the receipts and put them down, I do not know what it was for.)
We also got a Post Net Box - meaning that at Lake Mead there was no way to get mail, so we had to get our own mailbox. We used Post Net for that. We found out afterwards that the post office would have done it as General Delivery for free. But what can you say, except live and learn. We had great internet and cell phone access, being so close to civilization.
We paid for Sasha's health insurance in December and did not have to pay again until February 1st, so that is why it is not showing for January. Mine of course we pay every month.
We did some fun stuff, actually got a Nevada State parks pass for the year - it cost more than the yearly pass for National Parks! Oh well, what can you do?
I also got a book, it is the roadside geology of Las Vegas, NV area. I needed it for the program that I wrote. Although I did not present the program, I did write it and show it to the District Interpreter and my boss Bertha. They both thought it was good. I even made a PowerPoint presentation, but was not able to present before it was time to go.
Check out Next Month February for the Expenses, and February 2010 Pictures for the explanation of what we were doing that month, and all of the pictures we have. There are lots!