Travel Update – October 9th, 2015
Hi Everyone – it’s been a busy month. Since my last update, Kathy flew to Atlanta for a week and returned, and I moved the RV from La Conner, WA to Chehalis, WA, and then we recently drove down to…
Travel
The Full-Time RVer’s Guide to Enjoying Travel and Avoiding Burnout
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. – Charles Kuralt From the time I was a child I took elaborate and lengthy road trips with…
How to Survive a Storm in an RV
Thunderstorms are part of the RV experience, but storm damage doesn't have to be! We've recently dealt with a strong windstorm in Washington as well as several bad thunderstorms down in Florida and escaped unscathed. Here are the strategies we use to keep our RV and ourselves safe during storms.
Hosting Visitors while Full-Time RVing in Washington State
Hi everyone. It’s time for our semimonthly update. As a somewhat rare event we had visitors last week. This is a unique challenge in our relatively small RV. Even with 3 slides, our RV has only 225 square feet of…
Catching Up: July 2014 – July 2015
You know the expression ‘time flies when you’re having fun’? This isn’t an exaggeration – the last 12 months have flown by in a whirlwind of campgrounds, family visits, hikes, exploring, eating great food, drinking great beer, and lots of…
Everglades National Park – Spoonbills & Herons, & Alligators, Oh My!
We visited Everglades National Park last month on our way to the Florida Keys, and it’s such an amazing, spectacular, unbelievable, (insert adjective here) place, that we need to share it with you. Back on January 1st, 2014, I clarified…
BaseCamping in Massachusetts
Hi everyone. In our last post Rich shared how we finished our cross-country journey to Massachusetts. This was something of a feat for us as we lived in our RV for 15 months in California before ever driving it anywhere.…
RV Fuel Economy & Arriving in Massachusetts
Hi Everyone – I’m going to briefly touch on the end of our cross country trip, however the biggest focus of this post will be RV Mileage for our Ford 6.8L V-10 powered Class C/B+ RV. While we were RV…
Boondocking at my Aunts
We filled up with Propane on our way out of the Big Red Barn. As an FYI to non-RV owners while most travel trailers have removable propane canisters that can be swapped at any gas station or grocery store, most…
On to the Big Red Barn
We woke bright and early as we were planning to drive all the way from Tucumcari to the Big Red Barn RV Park in Carthage Missouri – a 600 mile day. I’ve driven farther in a day, but never in…
Tucumcari Tonight
Tucumcari is a town on the eastern edge of New Mexico that was one of the inspirations for the Pixar movie ‘Cars’ along with Seligman, Arizona, Glenrio, Texas, and several other towns and places. [box_right]If you’re into either the Cars…
Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and the Turquoise Trail
Picking up where we left off we find our intrepid heroes tirelessly cruising along i40 with Albuquerque in their sights. Northern Arizona is surprisingly forested and green – especially around Flagstaff – whereas New Mexico looks more like what you…