Top 10 RV Lessons learned after 75,000 miles
We just turned 60,000 miles on our Roadtrek Etrek as we pulled into our Michigan driveway after our latest trip, which essentially was four months on the road through 21...
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Have you seen the new TS Adventurous?
It was last December at the big RVIA industry show in Louisville, KY that Jim Hammill and his Roadtrek team showed off a prototype vehicle called the TS Adventurous, a...
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RV Side Trip: UP Michigan’s Palm Book State Park
I had traveled throughout Michigan’s Upper Peninsula over recent years but had never heard of Palm Book State Park. Now that I know about it, who would want to travel...
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Yellowstone supervolcano is not about to blow, says park service
Well, at least it’s not going to erupt anytime soon. Probably. This has been a strange year at Yellowstone National Park, which indeed sits atop a supervolcano. Two months ago,...
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National Bison Range is perfect for a Class B RV visit
The story of the American bison is one of the most sad and captivating episodes in U.S. history. Once thought to be limitless in number – an estimated 50 million...
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RV Sidetrip: Deadwood, SD
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...
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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...
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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...
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How We Roll in our RV: Tech use while on the road
Every week we get at least one question about how we use technology while traveling. In this edition of How We Roll in our RV, you get to see the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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After 43 years, a return to Indiana Dunes
The last time I was at the Indiana Dunes was on a field trip my senior year in high school. That trip was so cool that I knew some day...
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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,...
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Little Mods That Make RV Life Better: Forgetting to turn things off?
One of the joys of an older Class B is the absence of reluctance to make changes. Over the years we have learned much from Roadtrek owners we encountered on...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Please Don’t Water Your AGM Batteries
Class B owners are a diligent bunch. They want to do maintenance to head off problems. This is very commendable, but there are occasions when you can maintain your unit...
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Spritzzing up your RV with Lavender
Lavender. Just the word brings olfactory recall, doesn’t it? Such a pleasant smell, such a pleasant flower. While we were RVing in the Pacific Northwest, I saw a notice in a local...
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Fridges and Freezers, oh my
A few weeks ago we were at Mingus Park on the Oregon Coast. Mingus Park is in a really, really hilly part of the coast; there’s not much of a...
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For Your RV Bucket List: Glacier National Park
As we’ve traveled across North America, visiting wilderness areas and National Parks, one park consistently came up at the top of the list of must-visit places suggested by fellow RVers:...
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Save the Planet – Be a Fulltime RVer
We were chattering away on the Roadtrek Facebook group about solar, and it got me to thinking – what is my energy consumption and carbon footprint now that I’m fulltiming...
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