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From Louisiana to Utah

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We’ve driven from Louisiana to Utah three times now, two with a camper and one without. I can’t say it’s an easy drive, but it’s definitely not the hardest one I’ve been on with the camper. Although driving through Dallas did give me a run for my money. Starting in the east, it’s fairly flat until you hit New Mexico where the altitude jumps significantly. Then you can enjoy the hills, rocks, mountains, and canyons as you drive over and up to Utah.

I took this trip to work on my goal to document our travels more throughout the year. Not only did I vlog about our travels and impromptu changing plans, but my husband set up our GoPro in the truck! Ever since he bought the GoPro last year I had wanted to use it for travel days, but we either kept forgetting to grab it from its resting place before travel day or we didn’t have any blank sd cards. Well, we bought some sd cards in Texas on our first stop – the overnight in the Walmart – and he set it up the next morning.

I thoroughly enjoyed editing the video with vlog elements and travel footage, and I can’t wait to do it again on our next trip planned in March! If you’d like to see how the trip from LA to UT went, how we survived the Walmart parking lot, learn out our off grid battery setup, or just to judge my editing skills, check it out below!

RV Life and Changing Plans

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Hey y’all! The past two weeks have been a whirlwind of weather-related travel plan changes. Originally, we were to leave Louisiana after visiting both of our families for the holidays, take about a week to head to Moab, UT, then hang out there a few nights to test our dry camping system before heading back to Provo, UT.

Well that certainly didn’t happen as planned. The snow coming from the west said “nope!”

Changing plans has been a touchy subject for me and other type A’s. However, this didn’t create too much extra anxiety for me as I thought it would. When we were just staying one extra day in New Mexico, it was nice. We were taking a break from driving and had already budgeted a flex day before we got to Moab in case we had an unplanned stop. When we got to Gallup, NM though, our Moab plans went out the window. First we were waiting for snow to clear in NM then heading to Moab, but the weather was freezing and cloudy in Moab. Then we were waiting for it to get a little sunnier in Moab, but it started snowing again in NM. It felt like a lose lose scenario. If we waited a few more days we’d be able to make it to Moab, but there was a high chance the mountain pass we had to take to Provo would be under 12 inches of snow and icy. And I don’t know about you, but I’d rather not be towing a camper over ice through a mountain pass.

So our plans morphed again, but this time we’d take the southern route into Utah through Arizona. Which is the way we went when we moved out here in 2021. That route stuck, and miraculously we made it to Provo on the day we planned to arrive at the campground originally. So no days lost!

Although it worked out in the end, it’s hard to make plans and see them change so quickly. Surprisingly though, I wasn’t too upset. Instead I was focusing on how hard I fought to leave the south and how miserable I was during the summer and how I’d happily accept being stuck in New Mexico. At least there was snow and rocks.

A lot of things didn’t go right last year compared to our original travel plans, and I want this year to be better. But if it’s going to be better, I also have to accept that plans can change. And that’s ok. We have tentative plans for where we want to be in a given month, but it’s not the end of the world if those plans change. Am I allowed to be disappointed? Yes. But I’m working towards finding the silver linings.

My Goals for 2024

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Hey y’all! And a happy belated new year.

2023 was a crazy year for us – we left our apartment to move into our camper, we traveled across the country, we upgraded our Thousand Trails membership, and I started a YouTube channel to name a few things. While I’m excited to see what 2024 holds, I wanted to make a few goals for myself. I wouldn’t call them resolutions because it’s ok if I don’t complete them, but it’s still something to work towards.

Goal 1

Explore more of the northern US. This seems super broad, but Glacier National Park has been on my bucket list forever and a day, and we’re finally planning to go this summer! I don’t want to stop there though. I want to explore Idaho, Michigan, Vermont, and everything in between! Leave a comment down below with the most northern state you’ve been to (mine is New York).

Goal 2

Be less uptight and learn to go with the flow of life. This is one I’ve been working on for all of my life, but my type A personality hasn’t quite let that happen. I’ve already had a great start to the year with this goal though! Yesterday and today I booked a campsite for that night. I’ve never booked campsites less than a week out let alone the same day! This seems super small, but I allowed myself to accept that if our original destination wasn’t suitable, it’s ok for the plan to change. And that’s exactly what happened. And I rolled with it.

Goal 3

Document my travels and RV life more frequency. Specifically, I want to make candid, long-form content like YouTube travel vlogs and personal blog posts. The origins of anxietyinacamper were to share my travel anxieties, which transitioned into sharing my RV life. I enjoy making funny reels, informational videos, and upgrade how-to’s – and I will continue to make those – but I want to remain true to the reason I started my account. Not to go viral, not to get sponsored. Just sharing the highs and lows of traveling. With some campground reviews, tips, tricks, upgrades, and cats sprinkled here and there.

What are your goals for 2024?