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 […]
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Ultra-Light Camp Chairs: Our new Cascade Mountain Tech Ultra-light camp chairs are new additions to our outdoor 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 ultra-light camp chairs; we are taking them everywhere and getting lots of use out of them. Our new
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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,
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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
Chasing 70 degrees – I don’t know who coined the term “Chasing 70 degrees,” but it accurately describes where we want to go and when we want to be there. The phrase “chasing 70 degrees” refers to the average temperature. The earliest reference to the phrase I could find was in 2009, more than ten
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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, which is how we’ll power our air conditioners using our batteries. Without this EasyStart, running our air conditioners from our inverter
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Does a cell phone booster work and is it necessary for full-time RV travelers? How important is it, how does it work, when and where is it necessary? A year ago (spring 2018) I was very frustrated with AT&T discount Cricket phone service in the southwest. We were traveling between Saint George Utah to Cortez
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