October is nearly here, and temperatures are beginning to cool just a bit. That means one thing: time to break out the winter clothes. I set aside half of my Sunday to do just that. It was a bit of a task that turned into other tasks that turned into yet more tasks. I had [...]
Living in the RV is changing the way I shop and think about possessions. I have long tended towards impulse purchases and overshopping, especially as regards groceries. Now when I go grocery shopping, I have to consider exactly what will and won’t fit in the fridge, freezer, and slide-out pantry. We have very limited space, [...]
Obviously, making the choice to live full-time in a house on wheels means giving up a lot of your “stuff.” Like more than half of your usual wardrobe. Which isn’t really all that bad, because (for me anyway) there are usually just a few combinations of your clothing that make your main outfits for the [...]
Last week, temperatures dropped into the sixties during the day and the fifties at night. This was a significant cooling off given that we’d had daytime temps in the eighties just the week before. The cool weather lasted most of the week before warming up again this past weekend. Alexis was complaining of the cold, [...]
About two weeks ago, right around the same time the awning bit the dust, our toilet starting leaking…and not fresh water. Our bathroom (and for a few days the whole trailer) started smelling like an old folks’ home. I got online, researched our model of toilet, and figured out the problem. There are a couple [...]
The RV repairman that the GEICO adjuster contacted won’t be coming out to fix our awning. Lex was trying to call and touch base to find out when we could expect him when she got his voice mail which explained that he wouldn’t be taking calls because he may well have H1N1, the swine flu. [...]
Fifth wheels are distinct from other towables not just for the bedroom area that rises up and over the bed of the truck above the hitch but also for their interior clearance which matches or exceeds that of a stick-built home, at least in the main compartment. This is one reason that it’s easier to [...]
I was talking to a colleague of mine yesterday and explaining how Lex and I manage when we don’t feel like doing the same things at the same time here inside the fifth wheel. Well, we’ve come up with some inventive solutions to that problem, I think. There are distinct spaces in the RV, the [...]
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