Each year on this day, we pause to mark another year of life on the road.

Published on July 18, 2025 – Narrated by Jim

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“The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it’s that they know so many things that just aren’t so.”

Mark Twain(sometimes attributed to Josh Billings or Will Rogers)

Today is our 3,287th day on the road, and the first day of our 10th year of Forever Camping in our trusty rig, Beauty and The Beast, with us since Day One.

July 18, 2016 – Our first night on the road, Riverside, California with Beauty, our 30′ Airstream and The Beast, our Ram Truck.

Nine years ago, living mobile held more mystery and intrigue. Today, house-free lifestyles are almost as normal as overpriced houses.

Wherever Living in Beauty goes, we receive positive vibes, but occasionally, an unsolicited whopper pops outta nowhere.

Here are the top twenty whoppers we’ve heard first-hand about full-time travel.

#1 “Your life is an absolute fantasy”

This one is half true. It is kinda magical to RV from one gorgeous location to another. But is it truly “Living The Dream?”

It all depends on the Joy Tax

Towing loosens bolts, breaks stabilizers, vent screens fall off, and storage bin rails detach. You have two choices: 1) let it shake you up, or 2) you can embrace the never-ending fix-it list as the price of living in a miraculous moving house\.

Lake Louise, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. Worth the Joy Tax

#2 “You must be rich”

Well, we do feel rich, but the full-time RV lifestyle doesn’...