How to tow a car behind an RV. Depending on your RV and how you RV, knowing how to tow a car behind your RV is a very important decision. If you pick a trailer then you know what you are going to tow. If you choose a motorhome then the question is how to …
Food Desert — Not in Tucson! As we travel we often encounter both outstanding food choices and food deserts. Tucson is not a food desert. In fact, our anniversary dinner uncovered a great downtown restaurant. Great downtown restaurants alone would not create a blog post. We have been to lots of great downtown restaurants. However, …
What is in your RV black tank? Thirteen years after it was made, for one time and one time only, my RV holding tanks are both clean and empty. How did we clean out our RV holding tanks? Why did we clean our RV holding tanks? What was in our RV holding tanks? About being …
Who can stay at military campgrounds? Generally, the answer is all personnel on active duty, most military retirees, some other veterans, and some DOD employees. Who can stay at military campgrounds? Roughly the groups are outlined as follows: Usually, there is a preference for active duty, but the other categories don’t usually establish a pecking …
This new RV water system works much the same as the one I installed in my previous RV. The exception is that every part of my RV water system of it is bigger. This is the biggest water filter that I have ever seen in an RV. The filter is about four times the size …
You need an RV water treatment system. Unless of course, your RV doesn’t have water. Nearly every RV, straight from the factory has an inadequate RV water treatment system. This article is an update to our 2018 article by the same name. Since then we installed an even better and more robust RV water treatment …
What are the State Park Passes for full-time RVers that we use? How did we get them? What is the cost and what are the benefits? Which ones are the best? State passes that we use Our State South Dakota I also qualify for different state programs. South Dakota has discounts at state parks. I …
Snippet: Oregon State Parks Special Access Pass is available to any disabled veteran, from any state. This is a great program. Active duty military is also included for this benefit — but in a different way. Thank you, Oregon. This updated article was first published in July 2020. The biggest part of the program update …
Snippet: America The Beautiful Pass is sometimes known as Interagency Pass. There are several different passes all similar all with some differences. Do you need one? Do you need more than one? Who can have one? How to get one and why do I want one? I can’t answer the previous questions for you. I …
We have achieved a milestone, we have been full-time RVers now for five years. Overall it has been great but not without challenges. No matter which way you look at the dates, we have been on the road for five years. For the last five years, we have been traveling non-stop. Sorry, that last statement …
Our JackRabbit article was published, this time by Escapees magazine. The article is meant to be a review of this super fun, super small e-bike. Escapees will occasionally publish articles from our blog in their print magazine. This time the JackRabbit e-bike article is in the Escapees print Magazine. In the past, they have published parts …
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We upgraded to a Blackstone Griddle. This is the story of our RV outdoor cooking makeover. This is a big improvement to our grilling. Really this article started as a how to use a Blackstone Griddle but that subject was pushed out to a different article and this one is about how we became Blackstone …
Correct campground voltage is very important. If you attempt to operate your RV on low campground voltage you will damage your RV. For my RV I have decided to install a Hughes Autoformer to make the correct campground voltage every time I plug in the RV. It took nearly two years to write the article …
This article explains cooking on our Blackstone griddle. This is a companion article to our article on why we chose a Blackstone griddle. Here is a link to our other Blackstone article. Blackstone Griddle Cooking on a Blackstone Griddle isn’t difficult but it is a little different than cooking on a standard propane grill. The …
Now we are kayak movie stars. The movie is about us and our new kayaks. We have the first production model the Hurricane Prima 125 kayaks. This resulted in our being the first Hurricane Prima 125 kayak action-adventure film. Filming was while we were working our way north through Florida along the Gulf Coast. Of …
Key West Solar: As a recap, this is the geeky version of how well our solar did while boondocking in Key West without outside electricity. Also covered is some detailed information on how we lived with limited water. The last part will introduce you to my supplemental water plan. We already covered the wonders of …
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Hurricane Kayaks are amazing. I have known this for years. These are our new 2022 Prima 125 Ultra-Light kayaks made by Hurricane Aquasports in North Carolina. Everyone knows that we have our kayaks with us everywhere we travel. What some don’t know is that I first started kayaking when I was in High School. Back …
Our JackRabbit e-bike is a fun addition to our RVing lifestyle. It ranks really high on both the fun list and the useful tool list. This super small, super lightweight, electric bicycle has improved our RV life, especially in the fun department. It is great to swing your leg over for a quick zip around …
Happy New Year. A couple of months ago we hit the four-year mark living in our RV without a fixed location to call home. We have a wonderful home it just has a couple of features that make it unique; namely an engine and big wheels. The adventure has been so fun, even though sometimes …
Do it yourself RV has picked up my article on the Swagman RV-Approved Bike Rack for publication. This post is designed to accompany that article. Do it yourself RV has published a few of my other articles and partnered with us to get the word out about different things that will help protect consumers by …
We have been published again, this time in Escapee’s Magazine the article is “Do You Need a Cell Phone Booster?” You can read it in the November 2021 issue. Escapees dedicated four full pages to the article including the screenshot at the top of this post. I am honored that they picked up this article …
How does it work? When and where is it necessary? I made my first cell phone booster out of a collection of electronic parts in 2015. Making this earned me a visit from AT&T. They zeroed in on my rebroadcast cell signal and told me to knock it off — because my booster and antenna …
Updated review: Our Surecall cell phone booster has become essential for travel in the east half of the country. This was totally unexpected. Our cell phone coverage by both AT&T and Verizon has been very limited while we have been traveling in the mountains of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. Both AT&T and Verizon …
Ultra-Light Camp Chairs: Our new Cascade Mountain Tech Ultra-light camp chairs are new additions to our outside living space. They are new and long-term testing isn’t done. Actually, long-term testing hasn’t even started. They are our new back of the car chairs and we are taking them everywhere and are getting lots of use out …
We use the PressurePro Tire Pressure Monitoring System on our RV because we think it is the very best TPMS on the market. We love how easy it is to tell if and when we have a tire pressure/heat problem without constantly looking at a digital display. The system is well thought out and robustly …
The number one thing (actually things) that are under pressure every day all day long is our tires. How many RV blogs have a major multinational RV tire professional who reads and monitors the blog? We do, and now we have a major multinational tire pressure monitoring company that is also following us. PressurePro has …
Snippet: We are interrupting our regularly scheduled programming to announce breaking news, another win for the Foxes. According to a recent article on the Escapee’s website, we are in the top ten list of RV travel blogs. I don’t know why I am calling it another win… there wasn’t a contest. For me at least, …
Best Burger… the Bulldog Burger is now on the all-time winner’s list for their great Mushroom and Swiss Burger and for their great french fries. Colleges and burgers go together, the Mississippi State Bulldogs provide the namesake for Bulldog Burger in Tupelo (and Starkville) Mississippi. They are masters of burgers and fries. In fact, they …
Snippet: Chasing 70 degrees – I don’t know who coined the term “Chasing 70 degrees” but it is a very accurate description of where we want to go and when we want to be there. The phrase “chasing 70 degrees” refers to average temperature. The earliest reference to the phrase I could find was in …
Humor from Spam: One of the unanticipated perks of having your own website is sometimes, you get some unexpected humor from spam. Sometimes it is a hoot. Why would people (computers) from all over the world go out of their way to provide such funny comments on this website? (Really I don’t know, the question …
Dealing with stuff is hard. The last two weeks were hard. We were cleaning out our mini-storage. In it was the stuff that we haven’t dealt with until now. The last of the stuff is the hardest to eliminate. Don’t worry or feel sorry for us; we still have plenty of stuff. This has been …
Snippet: RV Parky “Route Planning” is my go-to tool for planning. RV Parky makes route planning very easy for RVers. We use it every time we plan our trips and refer to it daily, both for planning, and for a history of where we were, and when we were there. We even use it to …
Snippet: Campendium “Treasure Box” is a fantastic resource for finding campsites. We use it every time we decide on a new location. We use it both as a resource to find campsites and for us, even more, important than finding campsites we use it to evaluate campsites. It is the number one evaluation tool we …
Snippet: Allstays “Tool Box” is a great reference tool for finding RV campsites. We use it to find campsites every time we decide on a new stop. Allstays shows us campsites of all kinds across the nation. The information is accurate and updated frequently. So far we have not found it to be wrong. I …
Troubleshooting our Air Conditioner – I didn’t want to repair the air conditioner, I didn’t want it to break. If you own an RV (or any house) it will break. Here is how I fixed our RV air conditioner that broke as we left Las Vegas (where it worked just fine). This is not the …
Snippet: Lion Energy – manufactures one of my favorite RV products the Safari UT 1300 Lithium Iron Phosphate battery. They sell lots of products that are not just big batteries. I didn’t know how many different products this company offers to help people in their everyday life. Lion demonstration trailer. You can see in the …
Snippet: Passport America RV Discount Camping Club can save RVers lots of money for campsites. The campgrounds offer 50% off normal rates for members. It is easy to use and the annual costs are about the same as one night stay at one campground. So stay at two Passport America member campgrounds and the program …
Snippet: TSD Logistics Fuel Discount Program can save some RVers lots of money at the fuel pumps. It is free and the program is easy to use. It is not a secret that buying in bulk can save money. TSD Logistics makes buying fuel in bulk easy for the average RVer. The way this works …
Snippet: Cell Phone Jammer–You wouldn’t look at this and think that you are looking at a cell phone jammer. But, you would be wrong. This is a cell phone jammer and I tested it and it works perfectly, or rather it jammed our cell phone signal when we didn’t want it jammed. Of course, I …
FoxRVTravel-Snippet: Montana State Parks Pass is for non-Montana Residents. Should you get a Montana State Parks Pass? How much will it cost? Will it save you money? How do you get one and how do you use it. We didn’t figure this out right away. But it was clear the first time we looked at …
Micro-Air EasyStart… RV Air conditioners are hard to start. The Micro-Air EasyStart fixes that. I need EasyStart to run my AC from solar. For us, it is all part of our solar electrical remodel and is the way we are going to get our air conditioners to run from our batteries. Without this EasyStart, running …
Snippet: Gen-Turi is the exhaust chimney your RV generator should have had from the factory. Very nice. In nearly all cases, RV onboard generators vent to the side, from below your RV. The Gen-Turi takes the generator exhaust from below the RV and puts the exhaust above the roof, where the exhaust is less likely …
Thomas Hammer Coffee. This is an interesting happening in our travels. For the first time in my life, I think that an advertising gadget worked — on me. Over the years I have picked up pounds of these trinkets at trade shows and I can’t think of anything that I purchased based on a trinket. …
FoxRVTravel-Snippet: Total Solar Eclipse 2024 — In 2017 we started our full-time RV adventure with our RV trip to see the August Total Solar Eclipse. We covered over 1600 miles in two weeks and promised ourselves that we were not going to travel long distances with time constraints. The trip underlined the fact that we …
Snippet Harvest Host One of the questions we often get asked is how do we like Harvest Host? Yes, we have a Harvest Host membership. Harvest Host membership for us gives us low-price options when we are moving larger distances. When we are in travel mode an overnight stop at a Harvest Host location is …
Snippet: Travel Slowly (and Stop for a while). So far we have visited every cowboy state (except Kansas and Oklahoma) mostly by secondary highways and back roads. Instead of dashing across the country covering hundreds of miles a day (or so), typically we move every four days. We stop every hundred miles (or so) on …
2019 Review Snippet: Our 2019 Loop is complete. This is a quick review of what where we went, what we saw, and what we did in 2019. The route formed one big box, starting in San Diego and ending again in San Diego. We clipped the corner of Texas, then north all the way to …
Snippet: Another Surprise Win… Published again. We love sharing our success with our friends the places we visit are wonderful. We got a surprise today, we were published again. Tami got an email today, from one of our traveling friends, that said our picture of Bishops Castle was selected as a winner in the travel …
Snippet: We made the cover photo for Family RVing magazine for the June 2019 issue. Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA) is a membership association of RVers. They publish a wonderful monthly magazine and they chose my cell phone picture for the cover photo magazine. San Onofre Beach No filters involved. We were at San Onofre …
Snippet: Our 2018 loop is complete. That isn’t a loop, it’s a wander. Our 2018 loop is complete and we are back where we started in Coronado. Picture out the front window of the RV will be the same for the rest of the month. We were near the beach in Orange County and are …
