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Wise water usage the key to extended boondocking
In last week’s post, Power to the people: Upgrade options for your electrical system, I wrote about various ways to increase your electrical capacity while dry-camping (boondocking). Now we will move on to drinking water, that natural resource that will limit your consecutive boondocking days unless you are Moses and can strike a stone with [...]
What is Cloud Computing?
We (Chris and Jim of Geeks on Tour) are currently in Colorado Springs at the RVSEF Lifestyle, Education, and Safety Conference. We are presenting two seminars today for the RVers in attendance. The first one is on Cloud computing and how we take advantage of it in our Fulltime RVing lifestyle. We thought our online [...]
A FIVE-PART BLOG
By Barry Zander, Edited by Monique Zander, the Never-Bored RVers YORK AND THE HOGS — As today’s title suggests, there are five parts to today’s blog, beginning with our discovering an interesting area to visit when you’re traveling in the Northeast. The place is York County, Pennsylvania, between Harrisburg and Baltimore. It proudly calls itself “The Factory [...]
Winnebago Picks A Winning GPS Solution
A look of what’s new, from Lug_Nut. Winnebago has announced it will be offering the Rand McNally GPS in the dash of selected 2014 models. Two screen sizes will be used with the largest being a huge 10.4”. This will give Winnebago the edge of offering the largest in-dash GPS in the [...]
RVING SWITCHBACKS – EAST, WEST, NORTH, SOUTH
By Barry Zander, Edited by Monique Zander, the Never-Bored RVers I prepared an article years ago about the types of places you can park your rig, updating it several times — everything from private campgrounds to national parks to retail outlets and many more – 17 more to be exact. If you’d like a copy, please [...]
Power to the people: Upgrade options for your electrical system
By Bob Difley In last week’s post, How to get the most out of your electrical system when camping without hookups, http://blog.rv.net/2013/05/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-electrical-system-when-camping-without-hookups/ I wrote getting...Show More Summary
EXTRA, EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT IT!
By Barry Zander, Edited by Monique Zander, the Never-Bored RVers I was a newspaper editor and reporter back in the days when newspapers were the primary source of news. Decades later, ink still flows through my veins. In other words, even today I gravitate toward the news. I mention this because I put the new Newseum in [...]
D.C.
By Barry Zander, Edited by Monique Zander, the Never-Bored RVers Washington, D.C. – I would call it the “phoniest” town we’ve seen. Walking on the streets and through museums, around monuments and restaurants and on the Metrorail subway system, seems like everyone has a cellphone up to his or her ear, although they may be listening [...]
How to get the most out of your electrical system when camping without hookups
By Bob Difley In last week’s post, Moving forward: Surviving your first night of dry-camping http://blog.rv.net/2013/04/moving-forward-surviving-your-first-night-of-dry-camping/ I wrote about how to spend a night or two without hookups. Show More Summary
IN THE SHADOWS OF SHENANDOAH
By Barry Zander, Edited by Monique Zander, the Never-Bored RVers A continuing saga, which I call “Micro-Blogs” … In the uplands, the trees were just starting to come into their spring greenery. In the valleys, the bright yellow forsythia, white and pink shrubbery and wildflower blossoms and lush green everywhere kept us enchanted for mile after mile [...]
SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE – HAMPTON, VA
By Barry Zander, Edited by Monique Zander, the Never-Bored RVers A continuing saga, which I call ‘Micro-Blogs” … From our campground at Hampton, Virginia, we walked the historic olde streets of Yorktown and visited battlegrounds. We took in Williamsburg, recreated to show what life was like in the days before American Independence. And we drove down [...]
Moving forward: Surviving your first night of dry-camping
After the first night, no longer a virgin In last week’s post, Where are the hookups? Camping off the grid, I clarified the difference between dry-camping and boondocking. But to be a boondocker, you have to learn dry-camping first–surviving overnight without water, sewage, or electrical hookups. The most important feature to understand about your rig, assuming it [...]
MS Streets and Trips to Plan Your Travels
Long before we took to the road in our RV, we had a computer training center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida called Computer Savvy. We were a Microsoft Authorized Training Center and one of the classes was Mappoint. Mappoint was a very expensive mapping, routing, and demographics database program. As an authorized training center we had [...]
WILMINGTON, NC. – MADE FAMOUS IN ‘LINCOLN’
By Barry Zander, Edited by Monique Zander, the Never-Bored RVers A continuing saga, which I call my Micro-Blogs … Unless you are one of the few who didn’t see the movie “Lincoln,” you know that the Town of Wilmington, North Carolina, was a key target for the North in cutting off supplies for the Rebel army. [...]
“How to Buy an Airstream” Tip
My goal with the “How to Buy an Airstream” ebook is to arm anyone interested in buying an Airstream with the essential information needed to bring home the right silver baby. The basic principles discussed will be helpful for anyone who is going RV shopping. Even if you are buying some other brand of RV [...]
GREENVILLE, SC –AN EXCEPTIONAL CITY
By Barry Zander, Edited by Monique Zander, the Never-Bored RVers Ain’t no grass growing under our feet, but I’m happy to say there are flowers blossoming on the bushes and trees that line the highways and byways we have traversed over the past two weeks. The pace of our travels has limited my computer time, but now [...]
Use Blogger to Keep Your Journals
Did you keep a diary when you were a kid? I did. I love being able to go back in time and find words that express exactly what was going on. Many of my paper journals have been lost or destroyed over the years. I wanted something better for our travel logs. When we started [...]
Where are the hookups? Camping off the grid
By Bob Difley In last week’s post, Introduction to Boondocking for the curious, the closet adventurer, even the skeptic, http://blog.rv.net/2013/04/introduction-to-boondocking-for-the-curious-the-closet-adventurer-even-the-skeptic/ I...Show More Summary
A FEW SITUATIONS OF OUR OWN
By Barry Zander, Edited by Monique Zander, the Never-Bored RVers Dear Lug_Nut, We cringed during yesterday’s posting, wondering how we get ourselves into these no-going-back & no-going–forward situations. We had a few, but, honestly,...Show More Summary
An RV White Knuckle Experience!
Memories of Lug_Nut. There is an expression in the sailing world that goes like this, ”Hours of boredom interrupted occasionally by minutes of shear terror!” Well, fortunately this does not, or should not, apply to the RV world. The boredom of watching gentle waves going by for hours is probably somewhat understandable. This is [...]
