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Mirrors: The Illusion of More Space

Mirrors: The Illusion of More Space One evening a giant Prevost  motorhome pulled into the campsite next to us. We were in an tiny old campground in a small town for a week while attending an... Roadtreking : The RV Lifestyle Blog - Traveling North America in a small motorhome Source
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Copper Harbor, MI – The end of the road

Copper Harbor, MI – The end of the road Everyone knows we Michganders love to represent our state by showing our hand. Here, try it. Take your left hand and extend it, palm facing out. That’s the Lower Peninsula,... Roadtreking : The RV Lifestyle Blog - Traveling North America in a small motorhome Source
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Places the guidebooks ignore

Places the guidebooks ignore I’m one of those eclectic travelers. It’s not that I disdain tour guides and “must see” sights. It’s more that I am amused by, and interested in, the funky, the... Roadtreking : The RV Lifestyle Blog - Traveling North America in a small motorhome Source
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Tom and Louise on Tour in North America
 

The Great Repair Adventure

The bane of every motor home owner is maintenance. I'm a relatively handy guy and can handle lots of simple things but over time there are problems that occur that are better done by someone with more knowledge and experience than I can muster. As I've aged, the line that separates what I want to do and what I will pay someone else to do has moved. Part of that is wisdom, simply learning that my fix may not be the best way to repair something. Another thing that moves the line is my physical
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IPhone 6 Plus is Now My Main Mobile Device

That’s my old iPhone 5 on the left. The new gigantic iPhone 6 Plus on the right. For as 10 million other people have done over the past two weeks, I’ve upgraded to the new and very large iPhone 6 Plus. It’s massive 5.5-inch size was a big reason. I spend a lot of time online. Too much, in fact. And my eyes and my thumbs appreciate the extra real estate the new iPhone provides. The first thing I did after transferring all my apps and settings over to the new phone from iCloud (a process that
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Our Love Affair with Mackinac Island

For the better part of four decades, there is one place that has lured Jennifer and me back again and again, multiple times each year: Mackinac Island, located in Lake Huron, at the eastern end of the Straits of Mackinac, between the state’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas. It’s a place where motor vehicles are prohibited and where RVs must be left on the mainland at the passenger ferry docks. On the island, the only transportation available is by walking, riding bicycles or by horse. Just 3.8 squar
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IPhone 6 Plus is now my main mobile device

IPhone 6 Plus is now my main mobile device That’s my old iPhone 5 on the left. The new gigantic iPhone 6 Plus on the right. For as 10 million other people have done over the past two weeks,... Roadtreking : The RV Lifestyle Blog - Traveling North America in a small motorhome Source
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Our love affair with Mackinac Island

Our love affair with Mackinac Island For the better part of four decades, there is one place that has lured Jennifer and me back again and again, multiple times each year: Mackinac Island, located in Lake... Roadtreking : The RV Lifestyle Blog - Traveling North America in a small motorhome Source
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The Mysteries of the RV Water Pump

The Mysteries of the RV Water Pump Water pumps in Class B RVs, or pretty much all RVs for that matter, are just about the same. The basic design was developed back in the middle Cretaceous and... Roadtreking : The RV Lifestyle Blog - Traveling North America in a small motorhome Source
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Happy Holidays Any Time!

Happy Holidays Any Time! Earlier this summer, Olga, my RT Adventurous, went to the RV spa for some revitalizing treatments and beautifying. She got 2 new uber batteries. The retractable step was repaired... Roadtreking : The RV Lifestyle Blog - Traveling North America in a small motorhome Source
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Mini Office for Your Class B

Mini Office for Your Class B At times on the road we need more than a laptop computer – we need an entire office. The need arises to scan something or print something or even just... Roadtreking : The RV Lifestyle Blog - Traveling North America in a small motorhome Source
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Why We Like Boondocking Deep in the Woods

One question we get a lot when we talk about our love of being off the beaten path and away from everyone is, “Why? What do you do there.” This is as good a time as ever to try and answer that because, as I type, we are very deep in the woods, in the middle of the Pigeon River Country State Forest Area at the very top of the Michigan Lower Peninsula mitt, a 105,049-acre area so vast it rambles across Otsego, Cheboygan, and Montmorency Counties. This is one of our top five favorite places to g
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Why we like boondocking deep in the woods

Why we like boondocking deep in the woods One question we get a lot when we talk about our love of being off the beaten path and away from everyone is, “Why? What do you do there.” This... Roadtreking : The RV Lifestyle Blog - Traveling North America in a small motorhome Source
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Tom and Louise on Tour in North America
 

Remembering Weed, California

Having traveled the country for 14 years in a motor home there are many places mentioned in the news Louise and I have visited. They become more than just abstract names of places in the news, they become familiar territory. In the news in the last few weeks, Phoenix, Lake Havasu, Tuscon all had major flooding and damage. We stayed in RV parks and visited friends and relatives in those cities. Today Joshua Tree National Park was in the news with flooding also. We've hiked many miles in Josh
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The RV Lifestyle - Wintering in a Florida RV Park

It might be a bit early, but I'm already thinking about my winter in Florida. One of the reasons I bought my current RV was so I could use it to escape New England winters. I love summers in New England. I love traveling across the country in the spring and fall. But I really look forward to going to Florida for the winter. I don't do winter activities and I'd much rather be sitting on the beach in January or riding my bike instead of the being stuck inside and complaining about the cold. Sp
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Hot Topic: Carrying firearms in an RV

Hot Topic: Carrying firearms in an RV It’s certainly one of the most controversial topics there is among RVers. I’m talking about guns and carrying them in your RV. I get reader questions on this all the... Roadtreking : The RV Lifestyle Blog - Traveling North America in a small motorhome Source
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More RV Lessons from the Road

Since I released the post on the 10 lessons we’ve learned in our 75,000 miles of RV travel, several readers have asked for another installment. So here it is. This one, though, has 12 things we’ve learned from the road. 1) GPS units are all unreliable – If you rely totally on GPS to get you somewhere, sooner or later you’re going to miss your mark and be lost. In my role as a tech reporter for NBC affiliates, I’ve tried them all – Garmin, Magellan, TomTom, Rand McNally, the GPS apps, Google, V
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Tom and Louise on Tour in North America
 

From the Great Plains to the Front Range in One Day

We left Wounded Knee with a desire to return on another day. Early morning on Sunday and a holiday weekend as well are not the best time to visit most any site. Driving on west we passed through the town of Pine Ridge the largest community of the Pine Ridge Reservation. Entering town it looks to be a pretty typical community. As we turned south and left town we saw the underbelly of the community. It was a sad site to see many older native Americans living in poverty, I have added a link fo
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More RV Lessons from the Road

More RV Lessons from the Road Since I released the post on the 10 lessons we’ve learned in our 75,000 miles of RV travel, several readers have asked for another installment. So here it is. This... Roadtreking : The RV Lifestyle Blog - Traveling North America in a small motorhome Source
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RV Side Trip: Deadwood, South Dakota

If you like gambling, you’ll probably love Deadwood. If not, probably not so much. After years of passing by on the way to the Badlands or Yellowstone and seeing the signs, Jennifer and I made a recent RV sidetrip to this town on the edge of the Black Hills of South Dakota. The entire city is listed on the National Historic Register. The city aggressively promotes itself as having done a careful, accurate restoration of a historically significant western city so we figured it was worth checkin
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