We had the good fortune of connecting with Joel & Deb Brettingen and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Joel & Deb, can you share a quote or affirmation with us?
“Life is about moments not things” Being able to live and travel in our RV allows us a minimalist lifestyle with amazing opportunities for experiences. It’s more fun to look forward to an experience than a thing. Experiences allow us to learn about what we like and what we don’t like. We like to find the sunshine in everything we do and even if an experience is not enjoyable at the time, it can still become a good story in the end.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
We are a full-time RV couple with 53 years of combined Law Enforcement experience and recently retired, sold everything, and hit the road in our RV in October 2021. We started our YouTube Channel to share our adventures as we learn about RV life & cover RV travels, Finance, DIY RV projects, destination reviews, and other RV living details.

RV Full Time Life is not always rainbows & unicorns- some days it seems everything breaks. We had one of those days- RV Water Heater broke, our car battery died, and we got locked out of the RV! It was a heck of a day, however, we made the best out of it and found some sunshine & laughed a lot. We have found remaining calm and laughter can help through those bad days. Luckily the good days in RV Life out weigh the bad.

RV Living is great and we hope our RV tips and travels help & show you how wonderful RV life is! Remember life is about collecting moments not things and you can always make your own sunshine!

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
If we could take you anywhere we would take you to Door County, Wisconsin. There is 300 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline. This mean there are plenty of opportunities for amazing views, kayaking, boating, paddling, and water sports. There are five Wisconsin State Parks, 19 county parks, dozens of beaches, and thousands of acres of wilderness with amazing hiking. Don’t worry about eating & drinking as there are placed to eat from kid-friendly fast-casual spots, classic Wisconsin supper clubs, pubs, fine-dining restaurants and locally grown wineries and breweries. If you head to Al Johnson’s Restaurant in Sister Bay, WI, you might see goats on the roof. We believe it is a perfect getaway in quaint Wisconsin lakeside communities.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
We want to shoutout to RV Miles Podcast-Jason & Abby Epperson. As we started our journey to be full-time RVers we listed to their podcast. It helped us with research for RV Life. We still listen and laugh along to RV Miles Podcast on travel days.

Website: chasingrvsunshine.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chasingrvsunshine/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Chasing-RV-Sunshine-102224214792127

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChasingRVSunshine https://www.youtube.com/c/ChasingRVSunshine

Other: TikTok- http://tiktok.com/@chasingrvsunshine

Image Credits
Chasing RV Sunshine- Joel & Deb Brettingen

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