Park your RV and travel internationally for less

If you live in an RV, you can park your RV and be somewhere different in the world tomorrow.

If you stay for a month or longer, you can do it for about the same or maybe even less than you're spending to live in your RV.

RVers have a great travel opportunity, but most don't take advantage of it.

Here's how to make it happen

Many people who live full-time in their RVs choose the lifestyle because they want to travel, but most RVers are missing the unique opportunity they have to do international travel as well.

What makes international travel less expensive for RVers?

• You won't be paying rent, a mortgage, or campground fees back home while you're gone. You can park your RV on a friend's farm or at a friend's house and not pay for a campsite while you're gone. Even if you have to pay to store your RV, you won't be paying much.

• You won't be on vacation, eating out, and staying in a hotel for a week or so. When you travel and stay in a hotel for a week, it can get expensive, but if you stay for a month or longer and rent an apartment or Airbnb for a month or longer, the cost can be less than campsites. (Of course, campsites cost less if you rent them for a month.)

• You won't be living like a tourist while traveling. When you rent an apartment for a month, you can cook your own meals, and the cost will be about the same as you're spending now.

• You'll have airfare. But if you stay for two or three months, even that may be less per month than you would spend on gas traveling in your RV.

Here's an extra advantage of traveling

A recent study revealed that people change their lives more after travel than after therapy. So, why spend money on therapy when you can get better results and probably spend less money if you just travel? It's something to think about.

Bottom line: RVers are in a unique situation where they can do international travel for less than non-RVers. And maybe for less or about the same as they're spending the way they're living now.