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 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 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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on November 25th, 2009 at 3:02 pm by MJ

Think RVing is something new under the sun? Guess again! This year marks the 100th anniversary of RV manufacturing in the US, so 27 years before this film, folks had been hitting the road in their homes on wheels.

Take a gander at all those vintage canned hams! I wish I had one [...]

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on November 25th, 2009 at 2:57 pm by MJ

Before we even took possession of the fifth wheel, I’d been considering moving the sofa into the rear of the RV where the recliners and end table used to be. We discarded the remaining recliner when we moved in because it was broken, and I turned the back part of the RV into my [...]

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on November 21st, 2009 at 2:00 pm by MJ

You’ve seen the commercial from Apple by now, “There’s an app for that.” Yep, there sure is. There’s an app for just about everything. In fact, there are even apps for RVers. Recently, I downloaded two.
The first is called RV Checklist. It’s just what it says it is, a series [...]

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