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Lambert's Throwed Rolls: A Southern culinary icon

Just north of the Missouri “boot heel” is the small community of Sikeston, right off Interstate 57. It’s a great place to overnight. If you stay at the Hinton RV Park, they’ll arrange for a van to take you to dinner at a place you will not soon forget. On our visit, we were with a group of 12 RVers, on the way to a Branson, MO rally. Our group came from Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan and Ontario and we were crowded driving in that stretch van the mile or so to Lambert’s Cafe, “Home of the Throwed Ro
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Tom and Louise on Tour in North America
 

There's an App for That

Anyone who owns a smart phone has heard the saying, there's an app for that. It's more than a cute rhyme. An app (tech talk for application) is a computer program which performs some function. Apps on smart phones are small programs that require very little memory and usually form a specific function or limited set of functions. In my last post I mentioned that we found an app for locating Wal-Mart stores, ALLSTAYS ONP Walmart, $2.99. There is a beefed up version that includes the Wal-Mart
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Apps for on the road RV travel

Apps for on the road RV travel The RV season is in full swing now with folks traveling to rallies, vacations and long weekend getaways. To help make those trips more fun and travel more convenient, I thought I’d share three more fun apps and web tools that I’ve been having fun with lately. This report was put together for my other [...] Roadtreking | A journalist's RV travels across North America - Traveling North America in search of interesting people and places <a href="http://Roadtr
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How We Roll in our RV: Bath towels and outdoor chairs

In this edition of How We Roll, Jennifer and I tackle questions from readers asking about how we dry bath towels while we’re on the road. Jennifer shows some hooks I attached with stick-on tape and a very simple but effective bungee cord clothesline we have in the bathroom. She also recommends fast-drying micro fiber towels. Besides the bungee-clotheline (which hangs and dries two full-sized bath towels very effectively and out of sight behind the bathroom door), I have strategically stuck on p
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AndyShane's Blog
 

Combustion Chamber of Horrors

Our Aqua Hot was a little smokey. Replacing the nozzle and filter, along with checking the output pressure, didn't do the trick. The exhaust can be tested, easily: hold a paper towel over the end for 10 seconds, note the pattern. What finally reduced the smoke was adjusting the air intake bypass, a slot cut in the intake pipes that overlap, has a set screw. I went from a solid black circle to light gray, on the towels. Visit www.aquahot.com for owners and service manuals. Below is the c
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It Really Make Scents When You Think About It

After our first trip in our 2007 Beaver, I noticed a foul odor coming from the toilet area. The floor around the toilet was dry and clean, there was no sign of leakage in the basement below. I cleaned the bowl and it still got stinky in the lavatory whenever the bus sat overnight with windows and doors closed. These toilets are easy to loosen, move: just remove the four hold down bolts, and it is a free-moving fixture tethered by hoses and wires. I looked in the wall space behind the unit, a
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Kentucky's Bourbon Trail: A great RV tour

In the heart of central Kentucky – not far from it’s famed bluegrass country – is an area known as the Bourbon Trail, a confluence of seven distilleries that produce the bulk of the world’s Bourbon. Formally designated by Congress as “America’s Official Native Spirit.” The distilleries offer tours and tastings and offer a perfect RV getaway. http://youtu.be/W_wm129Uk30 Bourbon has a rich history and proud tradition that dates back to the late 1700s. For more than two centuries, no family has
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AndyShane's Blog
 

Brustor Awnings

As a new Beaver owner, I'm stomping out gremlins as fast as I can, developing a maintenance and inspection program for the bus. Really, I cannot stress enough the importance of reviewing all manuals for the RV itself, the chassis, and its components; and then compiling all applicable checks into one simple list. In addition to that, I've created an airline-style maintenance tracking book, so that broken items are tracked and their repairs documented. Since our January 12th purchase, I'd logge
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RVing to Canada? Things you should know about our cultural differences

Canada is a very popular destination for American RVers. And it’s home to several of the world’s best-selling Class B motorhome makers. So a lot is us travel there. Canada feels very much at home. It’s people are open and welcoming. In the last year, I’ve made over a dozen visits to the Kitchener, Ontario, headquarters of Roadtrek Motorhomes. And while I am very comfortable in Canada, there are some cultural differences. I’ve been taking notes. Here are 15 things to know about Canada: It’s
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How We Roll in Our RV: e-Books and frozen meals

In this week’s edition of "How We Roll in Our RV," readers want to know how we fight boredom while doing all that driving, and what kind of meals we eat in our RV while traveling. I offer my suggestions on finding eBooks, something we both really enjoy listening to while making long drives. Jennifer shares some of her favorite meals for traveling. Keep those questions coming in. We’ll do our best to answer them. We try to do a new edition of How We Roll each week. http://youtu.be/VKhQzs1acJ
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Tom and Louise on Tour in North America
 

I Love My iPhone!

One night on my way home from calling Mexican bingo at Flip Flopz, the community building in our park, my cell phone fell out of my pocket. I got home, noticed it missing and retraced my route. Turning a corner I saw something in the middle of the street and it was my phone. Unfortunately, someone had run over it with a golf cart. It wasn't destroyed but was damaged. I tested it and it worked. Within a week it became apparent that it was not fully functioning. I was getting static during
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A heath and fitness spa that welcomes RVers

It’s no secret that many of us RVers are, ah, shall I say, horizontally challenged?” With obesity already at epidemic levels and good, nutritious food hard enough to find, our laid back on-the-go nomadic travels can sure pack on the pounds. Sometimes, it’s time to get reprogrammed, to find a way to jump start a new and healthy living style. That’s what Jennifer and I found deep in the rolling hills of south central Tennessee, two hours south of Nashville at a place called the Tennessee Fitness
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Driving an RV in heavy winds

I’ve never been one to worry much about the weather. If I have something planned and the blow-dryed weather guys on TV are breathlessly warning us that a snow storm or some weather situation is about to cause the sky to fall, I usually scoff and just go on with my plans. Weather forecasters like to scare us and keep us tuned in for ratings. I know this from firsthand experience back in my local TV reporting days when they’d scramble “storm teams” and bombard the public with 24 by 7 weather alert
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How We Roll: Where we store stuff

There’s never enough room. That’s the first thing about RVing we all think when we start RVing, isn’t it? But there really is. No matter what size RV we have, we all want to bring too much stuff.armoire Once we discover that, it’s a little easier to pack the essentials. Still, some times, you need a little more storage space. That’s why we recently replaced one of the two back seats with a custom sized armoire. It is a perfect match with the rest of the wooden cabinets inside our Roadtrek eTr
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RVing in Hawaii

RVing in Hawaii RVing is a huge pastime across the U.S. in 49 of the 50 states. The one exception is perhaps the most beautiful state: Hawaii. There just is not a big RV presence there. One exception is Al Waterson, a popular entertainer, singer and actor who tools around the island of Oahu in a 1995 Roadtrek 190 Versatile Class B [...] Roadtreking - A Journalist takes up the RV lifestyle - People and Places Encountered on the Open Road <a href="http://Roadtreking.com/rving-in-hawaii/?u
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How We Roll in our RV: Choosing an RV, finding the perfect spot to camp

This is the time of year folks are shopping for an RV and planning their first trips of the season. We have questions about both in this week’s edition of “How We Roll” in which Jennifer and I answer reader questions. We travel in a Class B motorhome. I’ve written lots on why we chose a B. But if you have a large family, you may want something larger. As for where we stay, we always opt for beauty and remoteness over crowded campgrounds. We share more about both questions in the video. Send
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Upgrading your RV to solar power

Upgrading your RV to solar power Advances in power management and solar power have made big news in the RV world of late, especially with the new eTrek and CS-Adventurous models built on the Mercedes Sprinter chasis by Roadtrek Motorhomes. New and efficient power control and management systems have put these advanced new Class B motorhomes on many a wish list [...] Roadtreking - A Journalist takes up the RV lifestyle - People and Places Encountered on the Open Road <a href="http://Roadt
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RV company converts Mercedes Sprinter to mobile medical van for Haiti

RVers think of the Mercedes Sprinter van as a great motorhome. Indeed, the resurgence of the RV industry and the boom in Class B sales can largely be traced to the popularity of Sprinter-based RVs, like those sold by Roadtrek and other RV makers. But for the past several months in in the service bays of American RV in Grand Rapids, MI, a stripped down Sprinter van has been converted into something much more: A mobile medical suite to be sent to Haiti as part of a church mission project. jonan
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How We Roll: Online bill paying, mail forwarding and shared driving

Here’s another edition of “How We Roll,” answering RV questions from readers about our travels in our Class B motorhome. In this episode, we talk about how to do online bill paying and mail forwarding. I mention in particular the mail forwarding service of the Family Motor Coach Association. You can get details here. We also answer a question about sharing the driving responsibilities, something we strongly suggest so one person doesn’t have to do all the mileage alone. We post a new “How We
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Florida's Emerald Coast is great RV destination

Florida’s panhandle is a special place. And the area from Panama on the East on to the Alabama border on the west may be the most special. It’s called the Emerald Coast, named after the stunning color of the Gulf of Mexico. Check out our video to see why we were so taken with this area. Our base for this trip was the new Destin West RV Resort, located on Okaloosa Island in Fort Walton Beach. http://youtu.be/2jQ_OR-tPxI We lucked out with an awesome spot, yards away from the 27-mile long Choc
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AndyShane's Blog
 

Slideout Topper Maintenance

We noticed the other day that our clamshell that covers the retracted topper on the full-length slideout was not fully closed. It appears that the massively long roller has a mid-section gutter in which it rests and freely rotates. Imagine a telephone pole, mounted to the corner of the rooftop, and you've got an accurate image, similar weight. Well, getting to a position where the dislodged roller can be remounted is not that easy. I'll array some photos later to show how it can be safely do
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Contact lenses have always been associated as an alternative use for eyeglasses

Contact lenses have always been associated as an alternative use for eyeglasses. Prescriptive contact lenses were preferred than correctional eyeglasses for comfort. This stereotype for colored contacts has been changed. In the contemporary world where plenty of new innovations have been created, colored contacts can be used as fun props for as spooky event such as Halloween's already. These colored contact lenses Giuseppe Zanotti are a new breed of creative paraphernalia that can be worn
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If quality and durability is what you are looking out for your hair straightener

If quality and durability is what you are looking out for your hair straightener, then Cortex flat irons would be perhaps the best choice for you. Cortex is a popular manufacturer of professional flat irons and has launched a myriad of flat iron collections to choose from. These flat irons are designed in such a way as to deliver the best possible results for you hair, thereby providing smooth and shiny hair with any frizz. Cortex has introduced a good number of ceramic and tourmaline fla
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