on February 10th, 2010 at 12:56 pm by MJ

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 [...]

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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 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 25th, 2009 at 2:37 pm by MJ

This has been a very wet fall.  I don’t know exactly how many inches we’ve gotten, but I do know that we’ve had many more wet, gray days than not this month.  Our RV is not sited on a concrete pad.  Instead, we’re parked on grass.  Admittedly, there is a thin layer of gravel under [...]

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on September 2nd, 2009 at 4:57 pm by MJ

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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