{"id":21616,"date":"2009-07-09T12:46:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2016-09-11T17:31:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T14:31:30","slug":"rvingmore-reward-and-leisure-less-responsibility-and-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/rvingmore-reward-and-leisure-less-responsibility-and-work\/","title":{"rendered":"RVing=More Reward and Leisure, Less Responsibility and Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to dream of having a huge house with lots of rooms that would include a home theatre, a gym, a pool, a games room, a library, a well appointed laundry room, etc., etc. as well as a beautifully landscaped exterior. Imagine how much work and money it would take to maintain such a home, especially for a single person!<\/p>\n<p>My winter in Vancouver taught me that I can have all of this with little work or responsibility if I&#8217;m willing to embrace the communal lifestyle. Living in total isolation was another dream I had, but I&#8217;m learning to accept having less privacy in exchange for a better quality of living environment.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve visited the gamut of RV parks in the last year, from the very basic with tons of privacy to the luxurious with virtually no privacy. I feel privileged to be able to move about like that, to enjoy the pool house for a few months and then move to somewhere with bigger pads, without having to concern myself with maintenance and upkeep.<\/p>\n<p>RVing might not be the key to everyone&#8217;s happiness, but it was the key to mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to dream of having a huge house with lots of rooms that would include a home theatre, a gym, a pool, a games room, a library, a well appointed laundry room, etc., etc. as well as a beautifully landscaped exterior. Imagine how much work and money it would take to maintain such a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-rving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}