on March 9th, 2010 at 8:01 pm by MJ

I found myself so restless last week.  Things were just starting to warm up but weren’t really comfortable yet.  I started daydreaming about vacations instead of grading papers.  Next thing you know, I’m on Google Maps, have my iCal opened, and I’m making plans!
So we now have spring break, summer, and Christmas all planned out [...]

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on February 13th, 2010 at 2:37 pm by MJ

I’ve spent a lot of time in the blog describing the hardships we’ve faced thus far and much less time talking about the upsides to RV living. For the sake of brightening up a dreary winter day and to keep from scaring off those of you who might be thinking about fulltiming, here’s a [...]

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on February 13th, 2010 at 2:03 pm by MJ

Often folks want to know how much it costs to live in an RV.  Well, I have to preface this by saying that the way we fulltime is not the way most people fulltime.  Instead of living on the road, we are parked most of the year.  We both still have our day jobs and [...]

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on January 3rd, 2010 at 6:56 pm by MJ

Last night as I was falling asleep to the sound of the wind battering the outside of the RV with gusts of up to 50 mph, temperatures in the teens, and sub-zero windchill, my final conscious thought was, “I should leave a faucet dripping.” I promptly went off to the land of Winken, Blinken, [...]

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on January 1st, 2010 at 2:32 pm by MJ

This past year was an adventure, indeed!  We’ve spent the past six months actually living in our fifth wheel RV, but three months before that we spent preparing for our move.  It’s not been one big vacation, to be sure, but this life has its upsides.  I want to take a moment to think about [...]

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on December 19th, 2009 at 1:09 pm by MJ

So I’m sitting inside the 5er here in Baltimore which is currently experiencing the biggest snowstorm it’s seen in years (possibly ever…remains to be seen).

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on December 13th, 2009 at 3:15 pm by MJ

When we moved, we had to get rid of a great many things.  Some of our kitchen gear was hardest to give up.  We had a LOT of it!  There were certain items we couldn’t bring ourselves to part with, however.

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on December 13th, 2009 at 2:08 pm by MJ

I’m a bit frustrated right now, and I’m finding it difficult to resolve said frustrations. Here’s a list of things that are bugging me about my RV life:
1) It’s been raining off and on for nearly two months now. The ground never gets a chance to dry out. This is a problem [...]

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on December 6th, 2009 at 1:22 am by MJ

First snow of the season today, but it was mostly slush.  As a result, the ground around my camper is nothing but mud.  I went and bought a bale of straw and scattered it on outside my door so I wouldn’t track mud inside the house.  I also bought some salt and put it down [...]

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on November 28th, 2009 at 6:53 pm by MJ

Obviously, there isn’t room in an RV for much that is purely ornamental. Every inch of floor space is spoken for. I wanted to decorate for Christmas inside the RV, but I don’t like fake trees and couldn’t justify bringing in a real tree. I did have a little rosemary plant sitting [...]

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