JEREMY & STEPHANIE PUGLISI
Jeremy and Stephanie Puglisi are the co-hosts of The RV Atlas podcast and the authors of See You at the Campground and Idiot’s Guide: RV Vacations. They like to hitch up their RV every chance they get and head out for adventures with Sweet Maggie the Camping Dog and their three sons, Max, Theo and Wes. The Puglisi Family RVs in a Jayco Octane SL 272.
We bought our first RV ten years ago, just a simple pop up camper that felt like the height of luxury to our young family. It had air conditioning, a two-burner propane stove, a sink, a bathroom and heated mattresses. We couldn’t wait to head out on a camping trip with our new purchase.
So we booked a spot at a nearby state park, loaded up our eleven-month-old twin boys, and took our very first family camping trip.
We hadn’t done very much research in advance. What we knew about RV batteries, cassette toilets and propane systems could have fit on a Post It note. We didn’t even know what we didn’t know.
We were completely geeked out about our brand new pop up camper, but when we rolled up to the campground, there were no hookups for the amenities we were so excited to use. Without realizing it, we’d gone dry camping–and we were totally unprepared.