Full Time RV Travel Life 2017 to 2025

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  • Making My Wooden Kayak

    My wooden kayak is a handmade cedar strip built kayak. I made it over the course of several years. Lots of reading, learning and trying new things made it possible....

  • Murders, Revenge and Building

    I’m out of the Smokies and into Kentucky. Volunteering for two months in Great Smoky Mountains National Park was a great experience. Now it is friends and family for the...

  • Hike to Mount Le Conte

    The hike to Mount Le Conte is ten miles round-trip with 2,759 feet in elevation gain. Actually, it’s an iconic hike in Great Smoky Mountains National Park to the peak...

  • Trolley transports visitors to the synchronous fireflies

    Synchronized Fireflies

    Synchronized fireflies treat Smoky Mountain visitors to a magical light show. Once a year and in one small area, thousands of Synchronous Fireflies (Photinus carolinus) flash their bioluminescence. Then there...

  • Brad Saum Full-Time Rver

    1 Year in 3 minutes

    One year! One year of living and traveling full-time in my RV! I’ve compiled a 3-minute video of my first year on the road: My journey began a slow progression...

  • National Park Volunteer

    A multitude of volunteer opportunities exist in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and there are National Park Service volunteers serving at parks throughout the country. The majority of volunteers live...

  • Brad Saum and Smoky Mountain Bears

    Hands On With Smoky Mountain Bears

    Black bears are an iconic symbol of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Smoky Mountain bears are wild animals and thrive on a diet of nuts, berries, insects and animal carrion....

  • Great Smoky Mountains National Park view from Newfound Gap

    RV Maintenance

    Despite all the distractions of the Smoky Mountains, it is time for some RV maintenance. As I approach nearly a year of living and traveling full-time in my RV, there...

  • Brad Saum volunteering in Smokies

    Volunteering in the Smokies

    After nearly a year of living and traveling full-time in my RV, change is in the air. I am settling down – but only for two months! I am volunteering...

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    Perils of Fulltime RV Living

    I’m headed north out of Ft. Myers, Florida and decided to stop in St. Petersburg and see a friend I had worked with in Washington, D.C. back in 1990. Should...