Mom moves family into an RV to help pay debt, travel full-time: ‘Life is too short’

Karen Akpan and her husband Sylvester decided it was time to move their family into an RV to travel full time in February 2020.

"We were just sick and tired of being sick and tired of all the bills and living in California and barely scraping by," Akpan told Fox. "We decided we just wanted to do something different for our son." "To be honest, we shouldn’t have been in that much debt in the first place. It was absolutely nuts." "Being able to travel internationally puts us in a place where he’s right front and center of all of it, so he’s really learning to be a global citizen, which has really been a goal of mine."

She said she and her husband had several goals in mind when they made the move. 

"First of all, to pay off all our debt and then to create generational wealth," Akpan said. "And then just spend more time together, which is so important to us because I feel like life is too short. And what matters the most is just you being around people that you love."