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Crossing the Country RV Style With No Reservations
Crossing the country, RV-style, with no plans or reservations, is always an adventure. Even with meticulous plotting, there is no way to...
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Nov 112 min read
Exhaust System Failure Advice for Diesel Owning RVers
In our experience, long RV road trips and unexpected maintenance issues go hand in hand. This time, we found ourselves 2000 miles from...
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Oct 281 min read
Southern Colorado's Bishop Castle: Must See Roadside Attraction
When most people think of Colorado, they typically don't envision a medieval castle with a fire-breathing dragon. However, Bishop’s...
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Oct 41 min read
City and County Park Campgrounds: Cheap, Safe and Convenient
When traveling across the country in an RV, consider city and county parks as an option for cheap, safe, and convenient overnight...
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Sep 161 min read
Exploring Tennessee and Arkansas with our Fifth Wheel
We pulled our fifth wheel out of Blue Ridge, Georgia, with our sights set on Russellville, Arkansas, where we planned to stay several...
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Sep 152 min read
Our Blue Ridge, Georgia RV Adventure
Blue Ridge, Georgia, proved to be the ideal starting point for our two-month RV adventure back to Colorado. Nestled along the Toccoa...
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Sep 121 min read
Behind The Lens: Toccoa River Bird in Flight Photography Tips
Bird-in-flight photography is one of my passions, and I'm happy to share a few tips that might help you improve your game. Just as this...
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Aug 271 min read
Pulling A Fifth-Wheel Again After A Year Of Home Base Living
Pulling a fifth wheel again after a one-year hiatus has returned to us like riding a bike. As I write this post, we are on week one of a...
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Aug 121 min read
Hurricane and Severe Weather Planning: Better Safe Than Sorry
One thing we've learned after three years of full-time RV living and now living in a mobile home on Florida's Gulf Coast is the...
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Jul 311 min read
Easy and Instant Water Testing Is a Game Changer
With a big RV adventure coming up after a long hiatus, it's time to sanitize the fresh water tank, and now we have the perfect tool to...
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Jul 152 min read
RV Tire Safety: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
The most important thing to remember about preventive RV maintenance is that looks can be deceiving. Shakespeare cautioned us that “All...
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Jun 251 min read
Transitioning from Full-Time RV Life to Part-Time Home-Base Living Is More Involved Than We Thought
How could it be that twelve months have passed so swiftly since we brought Tagalong through the Front Gate of our new RV Home Base? ...
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Jun 232 min read
Three Timeless Questions RV Buyers Must Ask Themselves
Cast your mind back to the RV Market of 2020/2021. It was a time when sales lots and marketing websites were bustling with buyers, but...
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Jun 165 min read
'Boeing Crew Flight Test: Witnessing the Golden Age of Space Flight'
Watching the Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) made me realize we are witnessing the Dawn of a New Golden Age in Space Exploration. Mankind...
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May 214 min read
Inside Look: A NASA Social Experience at Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test
One of our subscribers recently suggested we apply to attend a “NASA Social” event that would give us an insider’s view of the Starliner mis
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May 191 min read
Our Bucket List Visit to Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral
We were invited to attend the Nasa Social and Boeing Crew Flight Test at Kennedy Space Center. We decided to celebrate Tammy's Birthday...
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May 92 min read
Nasa Rocket Launch Viewing: RV Life's Unlikely Adventure
What do NASA Rocket Launch viewing and RV life adventures have in common you might ask. The simple answer is that they are both likely...
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Apr 220 min read
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Mar 102 min read
Very Livable Full Time Fifth-Wheel RV Under 35 Feet: Our 2021 Vanleigh Vilano 320GK is for Sale
In opinion the 320GK is the most livable full time fifth-wheel RV under 35 and ours is for sale! With generator and so much storage that...
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Mar 41 min read
Health Challenges are just Potholes in the Aging Road to an Active Life
Health Challenges are unavoidable as we age no matter how active our life is. It turns out our human bodies aren't much different than...
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Feb 180 min read
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Feb 121 min read
Time to Sell Our Fifth-Wheel Trailer
Now that we have a Florida Home Base Property we no longer need a large RV. Attending the RV Super show in Tampa a couple of weeks ago...
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Jan 231 min read
For Sale: Must-Haves We Discovered at the Florida RV Super-show
Whether dreaming of driving a your home on wheels down some iconic highway for the first time or looking for a RV for sale to replace the...
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Jan 213 min read
Exploring The Florida RV SuperShow: Is It Really Worth The Hype?
A smiling juggler on stilts made eye contact with the arriving rush of attendees at the entrance the Florida State Fair Grounds. ...
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Jan 191 min read
Heading to the 2024 Florida RV Supershow
We originally intended to spend two full days at the RV Supershow with time allotted for meet ups but while we were making plans Life...
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Dec 30, 20231 min read
RV Parking On Residential Property: Our Search and Inspirations
2023 will be remembered by us as the year that we transitioned from Full Time RV living to Part Time RV Living with a Home Base twist,...
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Dec 26, 20231 min read
Wishing you all a Happy Boxing Day!
Here at our new home base the busy holiday season is unwinding like a spinning top. In less than a week it will make its final wobble...
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Nov 21, 20231 min read
Til Further Notice: We Have a Homebase
Technically our new home base is also a home on wheels or at least it was when it was delivered from the factory. Most of us have...
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Nov 17, 20231 min read
A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Present
Those of you who have been tagging along with us through our Video Channel (link in menu above) are keenly aware that the our third year...
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Nov 12, 20222 min read
Our Great New England RV Adventure: Part 3
Heavy Rainfall followed us from Cooperstown all the way through New York’s North Country and the wiper blades that hadn’t been used in...
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Sep 13, 20223 min read
Our Great New England RV Adventure: Part 2
From Gilead, Ohio we followed I-71 Northeast to the outskirts of Cleveland before hanging an easterly right at I-90. Our 80 mile...
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Sep 6, 20221 min read
Way More Good Days Than Bad Days
Choosing to dispose of most of our possessions in order to live the full time RV Life was a very big deal. For us it was a decision that...
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Aug 29, 20225 min read
Our Great New England RV Adventure: Part 1
We set the GPS for New England and started driving west from Colorado on the 8th of July. We were already well practiced at picking up...
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Aug 27, 20221 min read
A Message From The Real Us
To some it may appear as though Tammy and I are completely out of touch with the troubling times we live in. In these videos we are still...
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Aug 18, 20221 min read
Greetings from a boat out of water
Staying connected to the internet while traveling full time in an RV is sometimes challenging, but never before have we been this...
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Aug 9, 20221 min read
A Perfect Storm
Please forgive the dramatic thumbnail this week. Of course we aren’t giving up RV Life already. We have places to go and people to meet....
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Aug 2, 20221 min read
Postcards From New England
Saying Goodbye to family is a hard but necessary reality in RV life but then again it has always been difficult. Even when we had the...
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Jul 25, 20222 min read
Credit Where Credit is Due
This week’s video might make you wonder who does what around here and by “around here” I mean wherever our adventures take us. If you...
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Jul 20, 20221 min read
Family, Family, Family and RV Maintenance in Colorado
Coming home to Colorado to get some much needed rest,,,NOT! This weeks video highlights Tammy's birthday, family time and an RV closet...
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Jul 13, 20221 min read
Colorado or Bust
This week’s video brings us back to our home state to spend time with Family, watch our Daughter get married and catch up on medical and...
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Jun 26, 20224 min read
Fixing Problems and Dodging Weather
A Monday morning email came in from Jeff, our Vanleigh warranty representative. We had an invitation to show up at the factory at 1:00...
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Jun 20, 20226 min read
Plans Gone Awry, A Defining Moment and a Leap of Faith
Tammy had set the GPS for the Buc-ee’s Convenience Store at St. Augustine where we would top off the tanks and buy tee shirts and pulled...
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Jun 12, 20224 min read
RV Travel Plans, Severe Weather and Saying Goodbye to Florida
The final full day at our winter campsite in Florida was shrouded in thunderstorms. Our home base for a season would soon fade from view...
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Apr 28, 20221 min read
When Family Comes To Visit
Making the transition to full time RV living means that selling, giving away or disposing the majority of one’s material possessions must...
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Apr 18, 20221 min read
“RV Life is an escape from real life” said no full time RV’er ever!
For us the process of getting the bugs out of our Vilano continue and we can now see the light at the end of the tunnel. A big shout out...
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Apr 5, 20221 min read
Dear Diary, Life is Good!
Spending an entire season in the “old florida” forests along the St. Johns River has been life changing in so many ways. It really...
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