Paying the Rent
Jim pays the campsite fee at his sister’s house by doing some yard work and reminiscing about how glad he is that he has no big yard to maintain while full-timing in an RV.
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Tugboat Tim Keeps Margot Tugging
Free agent and self employed tugboat engineer leads his own live work dream life while sailing the East Coast Waterways out of Troy, New York.
Why I Don’t Want to Be a Homeowner (for now)
There are lots of good reasons to own a home. You don’t have to worry about being kicked out of your place without warning. You don’t have to write a check to some fat cat landlord every month. And you can paint your walls whatever colors you damn well please. But there are twice as many reasons why owning a home sucks. Property taxes. Insurance. …
Living Lightly in a Grease Powered RV
For the last few years, a discussion forum I visit almost daily, is Simple Living, an incredible resource for anyone contemplating ways in which they can simplify their lives. A few months ago on SL, I read about Sara, Matt and their 3-year old daughter Bella, who were planning to travel around the country in a grease powered RV. It was great to see another …
Blogging for Fun and Profit
Learn various ways to monetize your blog with tips on how to make money from a blog using advertising programs from Google Adsense, Amazon Associates, and other programs.
There’s no place like home.
Small towns throughout Vermont offer diverse, open-minded, sustainable community with abundant outdoor activities and thriving economy. Includes resources for real estate and land in Vermont.
A Milestone: Splashing in the Atlantic
Team Agreda and their Tripod dog Jerry reach the Atlantic Ocean in Acadia National Park, Maine. Driving over 7,000 miles towing their RV 5th wheel trailer, they have gone from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
Trailer Weight Alphabet Soup
Understand truck and trailer weight rating accronyms and their importance!
The Full-Timer’s Uniform
This one’s for the Carson Park Ranger. This funny friend of mine has a hilarious routine about old full-time RVing couples, one of which we encountered at a wayside near Gaylord, MI. Where I came from they’re called rest stops, but that’s not the point. As we rested at this wayside stop, we spotted a man and woman identical to those in the Ranger’s shtick. …
Long live the urban refugee. Damn the urban refugee.
I have to share this New York Times article I just got from the Redwood Technology Consortium mailing list about location-neutral rural transplants since it focuses on urban refugees transplanting themselves to Steamboat Springs, CO – in Routt County where we really enjoyed our stay at Seedhouse Campground. We were considered urban refugees ourselves when we moved from San Francisco to rural Eureka, CA ten …
Our Short List of Liveable Communities
We have now traveled more than halfway across the country. Some people say we’re going way too fast. But wait — hold on, there is a method to our madness. Not too long ago, we decided to haul butt through states that we knew that we probably wouldn’t end up living in, and hurry up to get to places that might better meet our relocation …
The Grass Is Getting Greener
I’ve been trying to remember the last time I wore long pants. I don’t think I’ve donned blue jeans since we said goodbye to friends back in Eureka over two months ago. I certainly do like my new uniform of shorts and a tank top, but we’ve finally made it to a climate where a short sleeve shirt is actually bearable. We even slept with …
Road crew tip takes us to Hoven
Road crew worker Henry Huft sends us to Boone’s in Hoven, SD for a great steak and drinks.
This Small Town Versus That Small Town
One of the reasons why I wanted to leave Humboldt County was because in the nearly 10 years that we lived there, many of the great ideas that people have about improving the area, never get off the ground. With the exception of the Redwood Technology Consortium who won the fight to connect Humboldt to the real world with fiber optic cable a few years …
Staying hitched to the trailer
For the past couple nights we’ve been staying hitched to our fifth wheel trailer when spending just one night in RV resorts. We’ve researched this online and only found this one forum discussion about staying hitched that addressed the issue specifically. It confirmed my assumption that it will do no harm to the truck. I do, however, raise the trailer a bit more than the …