um... where the hell are we? - what the hell are we doing today? 2013-03-23

From the site: um... where the hell are we? - what the hell are we doing today? 2013-03-23

what the hell are we doing today? 2013-03-16 http://t.co/PRBU9fzGY4 00:43:28, 2013-03-23 Murphy's Law is the law of the land. http://t.co/X8m19eqn8q 21:58:17, 2013-03-23 Got through a 37 degree night without our furnace, but with extra blankets, 2 cats and clothes..happy to … Continue reading → ...Read more...

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WatsonsWander - Exploring and working fulltime from our Airstream - Zion N.P.- Hiking to The Top of The World & Other Adventures

From the site: WatsonsWander - Exploring and working fulltime from our Airstream - Zion N.P.- Hiking to The Top of The World & Other Adventures

We knew getting a spot at the first-come-first serve campground in Zion National Park during spring break would be difficult.  We had a plan though, and it seemed like a good plan. Unfortunately, as plans sometimes do, this one fell short. The plan went something like this: Monday evening- pack up Airstream, dump tanks at Lone Rock, drive to Walmart in Page, spend the night. Parking lot camping at its finest Tuesday morning- leave bright and early, drive 2ish hours and arrive at Zion just in time to snag the site of some departing family who needed to drive back home to Minnesota or wherever. The plan fell short on two counts. First, early for us is like 9am. Second, we underestimated the popularity of Zion as a spring break ...Read more...

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Riveted - Ike Kinswa State Park

From the site: Riveted - Ike Kinswa State Park

Tomorrow we're heading to Ike Kinswa State Park to meet some friends for the weekend. Apparently it's only an hour and half from Portland (in Washington state), but I'd never even heard of it until we made this reservation. From the CampsitePhotos.com website, this is what our spot looks like: Not too shabby, huh? We haven't been out in the Airstream since December when we returned from our four-month trip across the country and it'll be great to be back! In April I think we'll be taking the Airstream down to George Sutton RV for some tweaks and fixes, then... ...Read more...

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Mama - R V There Yet? - Hilton Head Island, SC

From the site: Mama - R V There Yet? - Hilton Head Island, SC

The girls and I traveled to Hilton Head Island, SC last summer and we had a blast. It was a quick weekend trip (Friday afternoon to Monday morning), but we saw a lot of sights and had a lot of fun. We even knocked on the door of my parent’s old vacation home in Sea [...] ...Read more...

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Weaselmouth - 100 Things Challenge Spring Cleaning: Part 1

From the site: Weaselmouth - 100 Things Challenge Spring Cleaning: Part 1

We have too much stuff. Again. That might seem odd considering how we live, but it’s true. It’s hard to stop collecting things or buying shiny objects, but when you have a small space, that “stuff”, and the space it takes up, is really amplified. Two years ago when moved into the Airstream fulltime, we took the 100 Thing Challenge, and we’ve definitely tried to keep that pace (if we buy a new pair of shoes, one has to go), but as we moved to a climate with seasons, we needed to add more clothes, and we needed things like a generator, several umbrellas and more blankets. Not to mention the snowshoe equipment. I think we’re over the original list we wrote on March 4, 2011, but we’re excited to compar ...Read more...

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Our Life Experiments- A travel and adventure blog - On The Road To Portland (Part 1)

From the site: Our Life Experiments- A travel and adventure blog - On The Road To Portland (Part 1)

We reluctantly left San Diego after spending two awesome weeks there. Our original plans had included visiting Joshua Tree National Park next, but we soon found out that all the campgrounds in the vicinity were booked solid because of Spring Break. We spent an extra day on the beach instead...bummer. :o) Sunday morning I woke up with the crack of dawn because we were spending that day RIDING ROLLER COASTERS!! We drove three hours north from San Diego to Santa Clarita, to Six Flags Magic Mountain and then spent the next eight hours running around the park like school children, trying to ride as many coasters as we could.Six Flags Magic Mountain!!We ended up riding on all the Maximum Thrill coasters and several Moderate Thrills, a t ...Read more...

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Flip Flop Vector - All Kinds of Candles!

From the site: Flip Flop Vector - All Kinds of Candles!

...or to us, our one year anniRVersary! We made it surviving together in 185 square feet. One year  ago today, this was my birthday present. Clyde the Ride sold yesterday to it's first looker, another couple our age just joining the RV ranks. They drove over 175 miles just to grab him. The 2008 Jayco Eagle awaits a buyer-- S T I L L. Today, this square is driving a Nissan Cube, a rental car until we find a new to us ride. An excellent birthday cake substitute--from GiGis Cupcakes, a nice, healthy dose of chocolate and caramel. Not to worry about the calorie intake, for the 13th straight year, I was able to finish a 5k course. But man, the love handles bouncing off the asphalt really does produce some serious chafing. ...Read more...

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The Beagle Traveler - We are dead in the water :(

From the site: The Beagle Traveler - We are dead in the water :(

Last Monday we were on the way to Elephant Butte, NM to attend the RV-Dreams rally.  About 20 miles from Elephant Butte in the middle of nowhere the bus lost power and expelled all of it's radiator fluid.Shad got on the line immediately with Good Sam's roadside assistance and after going back and forth with them for about two hours on the shoulder of I-25 we decided to head on into Elephant Butte and check into a hotel.  Thank goodness we had decided that I should follow the RV in our Honda Pilot or we would've been totally screwed.Good Sam's was having trouble finding a roadside mechanic in the area and we spoke with people from both Albuquerque (2 hours north) and Las Cruces (2 hours south).  The mechanics we spoke to kept ...Read more...

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RV Boondocking News - RVing in snake country

From the site: RV Boondocking News - RVing in snake country

Boondocking – traveling out away in the "boonies" and away from traditional campground and hookups – has it's own variety of knowledge base. Recently an RVer who contemplated trying boondocking inquired of other RVers, "What about snakes?"It's not uncommon to be a bit fearful of snakes, and when you get out away from the beaten track, it would seem you're more likely to encounter these slithering reptiles. So what about it? Can you go camping in your RV and still be safe?A bit of knowledge can help overcome anxiety. First off, your chances of dying from a venomous snakebite here in the U.S. is near to zero. Each year, less than 8,000 folks are bitten by a venomous snake, and of those there are only about five or six fatalities. ...Read more...

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RV Travel - Products for recreational vehicles. - How Maui Jim sunglasses have built a cult-like following

From the site: RV Travel - Products for recreational vehicles. - How Maui Jim sunglasses have built a cult-like following

Products for recreational vehicles.Eye care professionals agree that eye exposure to the sun without protection--meaning sunglasses--can increase the risk of cataracts and damage to the retina. But inexpensive sunglasses will not shield the eyes from all UV rays, and they will leave a lot to be desired in what you see--and how the world looks--through the lenses. What you do get from cheap lenses is distortion, color degradation, loss of sharpness, and no reduction in glare that better quality sunglasses provide. Yes, better glasses will cost you more, but when you make a side by side comparison, the decision is an easy one. The people at Maui Jim--the Hawaiian sunglasses manufacturing company--wanted to convince me, a born skeptic, how go ...Read more...

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ROAMING FREE 2010 - Moving Day to Gulf Shores, AL

From the site: ROAMING FREE 2010 - Moving Day to Gulf Shores, AL

Friday was moving day for us, and there was potentially severe weather moving in for the weekend, so we got up early and got ready to move.  Packing up went pretty quickly and we pulled out of the site without incident. We had a few trees to work around, but at least the roads had dried up from the rain early in the week.  We made our way to the dump station, and Tom took care of the dirty business! With that job done, we were ready to hit the road! Since the state park was so far from the interstate, Tom hadn’t taken the truck out to fill it with diesel, so our first destination was a truck stop about 40 miles away.  Diesel was $4.05, and I topped off the car too, for $3.57 – not too bad! We headed west on I- ...Read more...

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Life In An RV | FTRVing.com - The Tabasco Factory On Avery Island Leaves Traveling Teen With Fond Memories

From the site: Life In An RV | FTRVing.com - The Tabasco Factory On Avery Island Leaves Traveling Teen With Fond Memories

The Tabasco Factory in Louisiana is one of the first tours my family ever went on when full timing. Not so much because we love spicy hot sauce, it just happened to be close by when we started officially traveling full timing. Our first visit here was almost three years ago, but we also were able to visit here again a few months ago. So don’t worry, this review is fairly up to date.   The Tabasco factory is located on Avery Island a few hours away from New Orleans. Avery Island contains not only the fields that grow all the peppers for Tabasco Sauce; it also holds the only factory in the world that makes Tabasco Sauce! Every bottle of the spicy sauce came from Avery Island! The condiment was first made by Edmund Mcllhenny, born i ...Read more...

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Wish Upon an RV Star! - Progress and Such

From the site: Wish Upon an RV Star! - Progress and Such

I was quite astonished when I realized its been three weeks since I posted a blog entry! Sorry about that!(I've been so lax in photos that I will post a few of the area from last year!)Manatees at Three Sisters SpringThe first week was pretty much taken up by activities with an old friend visiting from New York. Al and Ed wore themselves out playing golf, we tried a few restaurants in the area, card games aplenty were played, and we had an overall nice week. Cooler, but sunny everyday until his last day here. We also rented a pontoon boat one afternoon and cruised up and down the Homosassa River, seeing tons of manatees all around. When it gets cooler out, the manatees come further up the river into the warmer waters of the springs. If you ...Read more...

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Travel Bug - Universal City, Texas -- Thurs., Mar. 21

From the site: Travel Bug - Universal City, Texas -- Thurs., Mar. 21

Here's a quick catch up on our last few days:Monday: Bob ran after work with his Monday running group. I did laundry, cleaned the 5er.Tuesday: I got my hair cut and colored. Bob was off work. He did errands and outside chores.Wednesday: Bob and I had a lunch date at Pappacito's Cantina, then I had my teeth X-rayed and cleaned. No cavities, and the crowns are doing well. In the early evening we watched our Netflix selection, Anna Karenina. After we watched the movie, Bob went to the Spurs game with a co-worker.Anna Karenina movie review: Starring Kiera Knightly and Jude Law. One star out of five. We expected Anna Karenina to be a historical film about Russia. Instead, this was a stylized fantasy world. We were unclear at any given point ...Read more...

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Road Trip... Adventures Ahead. - And launch date is moved up a tad…

From the site: Road Trip... Adventures Ahead. - And launch date is moved up a tad…

For those following this rather lengthy blog and insanity that we call our world, WELCOME… Lynda and I have been living in our RV for about 6 months trying to get everything lined up for taking off on our road trip for a lifetime.. And with that, had to come up with a way to earn a living while traveling, and to get health insurance as well. These were our last two items and we suspected it would take until 2015 to pull that off.. Hmmm as Gomer Pyle used to put it.. Turns out that her friend Trish Claussen has a connection with a firm that just happened to be interested in Lynda’s services as a business coach. And our friend and financial advisor, Barry Todd (shameless advertising for his firm, BDT and Associates) needed her s ...Read more...

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RV Camping Blog - Decreasing The Risk of RV Accidents

From the site: RV Camping Blog - Decreasing The Risk of RV Accidents

A Lug_Nut point of view.   Vehicle accidents are unfortunately all too common, especially minor ones, often referred to as “Fender Benders.”  These types of incidents are both costly and inconvenient, not to mention possibly dangerous.  Many insurance policies provide for a loaner, or rental car, while your vehicle gets repaired.  This certainly eases the inconvenience [...] ...Read more...

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live. work. dream. - Our LED RV Lighting Market Research Report

From the site: live. work. dream. - Our LED RV Lighting Market Research Report

The cost of converting all the RV lights in our fifth wheel to LED lighting was the primary reason we waited so long. Funny how frugality kept us from being frugal. Sure, we can save big on rent by camping off the grid, but no formal cost benefit analysis is required to determine that it could take quite a while to recoup the costs of installing all new LED lights. It’s more of a comfort level investment. LED lighting will allow us to enjoy boondocking more without having to run the generator as often or walk around with our Petzl headlamps on just to do the dishes. LED RV Lighting, Big Expense or Business Opportunity? Changing all the lights in an RV to LED bulbs can be very expensive, unless you know where to look. Once I disco ...Read more...

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Americana the Beautiful - Day 290: Arrive at the California Coast!

From the site: Americana the Beautiful - Day 290: Arrive at the California Coast!

Photo courtesy of Flickr Day 290 of the cross-country trip and I arrive at the California Coast! It was awesome crossing into the state three days ago–my sixth timeszone: EST, CST, Hawaii, MST, Arizona (no Daylight Savings) and PST!!! And now I’ve gone from sea to shining sea! I arrived just in time to see the sunset!   ...Read more...

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OUR NEWELL ADVENTURE - Up on the roof......

From the site: OUR NEWELL ADVENTURE - Up on the roof......

The rain came down until the wee hours Tuesday morning, but when we awoke the sun was out.  Since TLE was working on her first blog post I decided to defer mine until later, and went outside to take advantage of the rain water still clinging to the coach and trailer.  I got out my towels and started wiping down the trailer first, then the coach.  That was the easy part....the hard rain had washed off the dirt, and all I had to do was wipe off the residue of the storm.  Since I was feeling so energetic I decided to go up on the roof to take care of a long deferred project.....clean the roof.  Even though one cannot see the top of the coach from the ground, and, therefore, cannot see how dirty it is, I knew it was fil ...Read more...

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Geeks on Tour Blog - Dentists, Leprechauns, and Butterflies

From the site: Geeks on Tour Blog - Dentists, Leprechauns, and Butterflies

We love life on the road, but we also love having a place we call home with so many connections, friends, and familiar places.  On the way to Fort Lauderdale from Peace River, we used Jim’s new Microsoft Surface Pro tablet, with MS Streets and Trips installed, to navigate.  We've been looking forward to this.  Our first few years on the road Streets and Trips was our sole mapping/navigating system.  Then came the Garmin, Rand McNally, Google Navigation on the smartphone, and others.  We continue to do the planning on Streets and Trips, and now with the Windows 8 tablet, we want to get back to Navigating with it too ..Microsoft Windows 8 Surface Pro running Streets and Trips We only had a week here in For ...Read more...

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Advanture Trek - Prince Charming Found

From the site: Advanture Trek - Prince Charming Found

Found my Prince Charming in Telluride. He won first prize in the Cool Sculpt snow sculpting contest. The sculpture is “A Sticky Situation”. Most impressively, he survived a week of 45 degree temperatures. Here’s to thermal mass! ...Read more...

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On the Road of Retirement - Just hanging out our last few days….

From the site: On the Road of Retirement - Just hanging out our last few days….

We have one more day here in the Brazos Valley before we begin our trek out east. Tomorrow is a fairly long travel day as we will hit the road early to ge the 190+ mile day done before it gets dark. We have never set up camp in the dark and never plan to… Of course we know all about “best laid plans.” So our last few days here have been cram packed finishing up some last minute details. We have checked out our rent house, went to some Aggie games, met with our former doctor to drop off our Mayo Clinic medical records, and completed a few other odds and ends needed before leaving. We were doing all this in an effort to free up ample time in the evenings to make sure we would be able to meet up with some of our friends tha ...Read more...

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Oh, the Places They Go! - Zion – West Rim Trail

From the site: Oh, the Places They Go! - Zion – West Rim Trail

Virgin, UT Today we headed back into Zion’s Main Canyon to hike one of the more popular trails in the park. The West Rim Trail begins benignly along the banks of the Virgin River on a nicely paved trail.  Last week the schools in this area of Utah were on Spring Break and the canyon was very crowded.  We thought that this week, with schools back in session, the park might be a little less crowded.  But as we began this hike there were a couple of large groups ahead of us. But hiking with a large group is a slow process, as the groups moved like a herd of cats, so we quickly passed them and found the trail more open ahead of us. After a short hike along the river, we began what we knew would be a long climb up the side ...Read more...

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Trailer Life Magazine - Austin, Minnesota: Where SPAM Began

From the site: Trailer Life Magazine - Austin, Minnesota: Where SPAM Began

This is Minnesota and the town is Austin. But the name painted across the front of the Convention & Visitors Bureau is “SPAM Town USA,” as well it should be. This is where in 1937 it all began for SPAM – SPAM, as in SPiced-hAM, fully cooked, ready-to-eat, in a can with a flat front, [...] ...Read more...

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2 Digital Nomads - Ice Cave & Bandera Crater

From the site: 2 Digital Nomads - Ice Cave & Bandera Crater

We absolutely love our new lives. The freedom to go here and there and to change our minds at a moment’s notice. Like today – we were supposed to be in Tucumcari, NM tonight but we’re still in Grants, NM. Last night the wind started howling and out of idle curiosity, I checked the weather forecast. Whoops! Big wind storm moving through the area today with gusts reaching 45mph. Hubby said we’d be fine but he’d prefer not to drive in that so we made a spur-of-the-moment decision to hang out here today and check out the local area. Boy am I glad we did. What an incredible day we had! The day started with breakfast at WOW Diner. Great choice! Thank you, Yelpers, for providing the perfect start to the perfect day. H ...Read more...

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Gypsy Journal RV Travel Newspaper - We’re Here!

From the site: Gypsy Journal RV Travel Newspaper - We’re Here!

After several long days of hard driving, we arrived in Apache Junction yesterday and are settled in for a few weeks while Terry’s family deals with what could be a serious medical issue for her 83 year old father. Because high winds were predicted for Interstate 10 across southern New Mexico Sunday afternoon, we were up and on the road before 8:30 a.m. After filling our motorhome’s tank at the Pilot in Las Cruces we drove 115 miles west on I-10 to Lordsburg, where we left the superslab behind us and took U.S. Highway 70 northwest 150 miles to Globe, Arizona. I much prefer the slower-paced two lane U.S. highways over the much busier interstates. U.S. 70 is a good two lane road, though part of the 30 mile section to the Arizona ...Read more...

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