[Our Motor Home Roof Rehab]

Dennis, looks great! Was the coach equipped with a rubber roof, I couldn't tell from the photos?

Yes. The dark grey in the photos is the original rubber membrane. The acrylic paint coating over that was where most, if not all of the chaulking was coming from.

[Our Roadtreking RV Burglarized in Illinois]

I have been absent from these blogs for a while. I just read of your loss. My condolences to you both. I have been hit by thieves at my home a couple of times over the years. You definitely feel violated.

I hope they can find and trace some of the items, and prosecute the culprits. However, the reality is that there is so much theft going on, and so many unscrupulous people willing to buy "bargain" merchandise with no questions asked, that the chance of any recovery and/or prosecution is somewhere between slim and none.

May God bless and protect you in your travels.

[Living on the Road]

Good advice!

[Paradise Indeed!]

We have a reservation at Cherry Hill, in College Park, MD. The place comes very highly recommended and they have a bus stop. It's a short bus ride to the nearest subway station. Our plan is to get around that way.

[Melvin will be getting a timeout]

I enjoyed reading of your adventures. I wish you many more!

[Should I have driven this thing up here?]

Thanks, Jurisinceptor, for adding your experience. I got into a scary iced mountain situation once in Colorado, but that was in a rental car, not a motorhome.

[The Death of XP]

For a couple of years, I've had my desktop computer set up with a boot menu that lets me boot in either Windows XP or Ubuntu Linux. More and more, I have been using my Android tablet (another story there). For a couple of reasons, I had been primarily using XP on the desktop.

Since XP has "expired," I have turned that around and now use Ubuntu for almost everything. I still boot XP once in a while, but I'm trying to wean myself from it. For this year, I'm still paying for Norton Antivirus on the XP side. I'll have to decide before the next renewal time, but I may be off from XP entirely by then.

Ubuntu is not perfect, but it's not bad. In my case, I've had prior experience as a System Administrator on Unix systems and on VMS systems. Therefore, learning Ubuntu was easier for me than it would be for some. These days, you can get all the tech support advice you need online.

[Visited the MH in its winter storage]

verjay -

While I agree that a lot of sitting unused can be a bad thing on an older motorhome, I think that a 2010 unit is new enough that it shouldn't be a big factor. A lot of folks don't use their generator much. Probably either of these units would be a good choice. Based on what you said, and if the condition of the units wer equal, the rig with only 2000 miles, and at a significantly lower price, whould be my choice. Another thing to consider is how and where they were stored. If one were stored indoors in the off season, the roof, caulking and paint might be better.

[Should I have driven this thing up here?]

Thanks for adding your story, verjay. You've got to watch those clearances!

[RVing to Gobbler’s Knob for Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney]

Mike -

Have you seen the photo, being shared around Facebook, of a groundhog peering over a sign that says "I'm a rodent, not a meteorologist!"? That says a lot about this silly tradition.

With that said, more power to the folks of Punxsutawney, PA, who have managed to make quite an industry out of the whole spectacle. P. T. Barnum would be proud!