Things have moved very quickly since my last post. In fact, the night I made my last post, I was perusing Craigslist, and I found an ad from a young woman who was trying to get out of her lease, so she needed someone to take over her apartment. The location was right, the price [...]
Just a few days after my last post, I got a call from Texas. My Uncle James passed away. He and my father worked and lived together their entire lives, so he was like a second father to me. We drove to and from the funeral — a 3,600-mile round trip — in my little [...]
I went to the Maryland RV Show last winter by myself, but this year, I took Alexis with me. We spent hours this past Saturday walking through all sorts of fifth wheels, travel trailers, and motorhomes. We saw the full range of models, from top-of-the-line luxury motorhomes to bare bones pop-up campers. In the end, [...]
As you may recall, we had a new couple of neighbors show up a couple of weeks ago. Today, our second set of neighbors showed up. These folks are actually Bill and Jeanne’s parents, and they have their own travel trailer. There have been a couple of extra pickups parked outside for a week or [...]
Continue reading about More new neighbors, a child on the loose, and ongoing awning frustrations
One year ago today, we took delivery of The Big Blue Beast and moved in. It’s been a year fraught with challenges as well as joys. We’ve hung in there through blizzards, sewer mishaps, awning destruction, and now we’re finally reaping some of the benefits of this lifestyle as we travel this summer. I thought [...]
After reading up on the First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit guidelines, I felt I could safely claim the credit since we purchased our fifth wheel during the appropriate time frame and it is our sole residence. It is not motorized (motorhomes do not qualify), and we do have a permanent homebase and only travel a couple [...]
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We pulled up stakes and headed out of American Heritage RV Park in Williamsburg around 11:30 a.m. on Saturday morning. Our goal for the day was to make it to Charlotte, North Carolina, where our plan was to boondock at the Pilot there. We arrived in Charlotte much earlier than we thought we would, around [...]
Continue reading about Days 4 and 5 on the road – Williamsburg to Stone Mountain
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 little [...]
As it would turn out, the very first winter we try fulltime RVing is Maryland’s worst winter on record. We have had not one, not two, but three — count ‘em, three — massive snowstorms in less than two months. In fact, we’re in the middle of storm #3 right now, and storm #2 was [...]
Continue reading about Top Ten Tips for Surviving the Snowpocalypse in an RV
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 [...]
