01/04/2026
This summer in Miles City, MT, I was reminded why I share this life the way I do.
A while back, someone I served on a local charity board with reached out after seeing I was living and writing about RV life.
They’d rented an RV, loved the lifestyle, but were standing right where most of us do at the beginning: excited… and nervous about getting burned.
We talked. A lot. No pitch. No sales call. Just real conversations about mistakes I made, things I wish I’d known, and how to slow the process down long enough to make the right decision instead of the first one.
A couple of months later, they found their RV. Not the shiny one that caught their eye first, but the one that actually fit how they wanted to travel. They hired an NRVIA-certified inspector. They asked better questions. They walked in informed.
They also picked up Rolling Smooth, and later told me it helped settle some of the hardest “what if” moments along the way.
Later this month, I’ll get to see them and their “new-to-them” rig at Kick Back Ranch & Event Center and keep the conversation going.
That’s the part of this life I never get tired of. Not followers. Not metrics. Just watching someone else roll out a little more confidently than they were before.
This road has a way of putting the right conversations in the right places.
