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"We’re 100% glad we did it. You don’t know what you’ll like or not like until you try it. Although living full-time in an RV isn’t something we’d want to do again, we still had a lot of fun together and created so many memories to share."

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"It was weird and not my thing at all… but I decided to make it my thing. We needed something a little different on this loop, so we followed the signs and stopped off in Casey, Illinois."

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