The Vatican Museum has many significant Roman statues, but its focus is the frescoes, not the statues. The halls of the Vatican Museums all lead to the Sistine Chapel, which contains Michelangelo’s depiction of creation through judgment. The statues in the Vatican Museum tell the story of Roman and Greek figures who outlined Roman life […]
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I didn’t expect an Egyptian room at the Vatican Museum. Over the last two thousand years, the Vatican purchased, gathered, commissioned, and was gifted perhaps thousands of treasures. The Egyptian room includes some of these treasures. Photoblog, Rome, Italy, Europe. April 3, 2025 What are we doing in Europe? Here is the story. Touring Europe might
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The Vatican Museum’s ceiling frescos blend into the walls, and even the floors have mosaics. However, I think the frescoes on the walls are the best part. Each has a historical theme. I think I have most of the names of these frescos correct, but they were not labeled. It took a little research to
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Everything in the Vatican Museum is decorated. Michelangelo and Raphael painted many of the ceiling frescos, which were painted when the ceilings were freshly plastered. The artist only had a few hours to finish the painting before the plaster would dry and not hold the paint. Once finished, the paint and the plaster were fused.
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Everything about Saint Peter’s Basilica is amazing, especially the paintings inside the dome, as seen in the above photo. Saint Peter’s Basilica is often called Saint Peter’s Cathedral, including by me. The Catholic church calls it a Basilica. A Catholic church building is called a Basilica when the location has exceptional merit. Photoblog, Rome, Italy,
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After arriving in Rome, we didn’t want to go to sleep, hoping to get over Jet Lag as soon as possible. So, one of the first things we did was go to the Church of the Gesu. The theory says that if you stay awake until the usual bedtime of the local people, it will
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Flying to Europe was difficult. We arrived dead tired. Now, I remember why I hate flying long distances and perhaps why I would rather travel in our motorhome. But you can’t get to Europe in a motorhome. Poor baby, he had to fly to Europe, and now he’s tired… Europe timeline April 1, 2025 What
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For the next four months, we will be homeless vagabonds while touring Europe. Going to Europe and leaving our RV in storage might be crazy. Right now, it seems like a crazy idea, and it is only two weeks away. We are storing our RV and heading to Europe in under a month. Our plane
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I have wanted to visit Crater Lake National Park for as long as I can remember. I remember seeing pictures of the volcano when I was in grade school. It is a lake on top of a mountain, with no streams into or out of it, and it is filled with crystal clear water. Crater
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We have been testing prototype Koni shock absorbers for the last two years. Yes, I mean testing. We didn’t pay for our prototype Koni shock absorbers. We are testing our new Koni shock absorbers against our previous Koni shock absorbers. Our new Koni shock absorbers are excellent. In October 2023, after returning from Alaska, Koni
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Remodeling my RV wet bay started with a leak in my black tank. After fixing the leak in my RV’s black tank, I have remodeled the entire RV wet bay. It was a long and involved process with several steps along the way. If I haven’t mentioned it before, but nearly a year later, I
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Until now, we have maintained the charge on our RV chassis batteries with electricity from our inverter. Here is a solution for solar charging RV chassis batteries without using our inverter. Someday (soon), our new DC-to-DC converter will be the only charge source for my RV chassis battery because I won’t be driving the RV.
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Our new RV rearview camera is a Haloview BT7 Touch. We have had it long enough; now it’s time to show it off and tell people how much we love it. Unlike many RVers, we have always had rearview cameras. It may not seem like a big deal, but our new Haloview BT7 Touch camera
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Fabric RV slide toppers are junk, and I am glad I got rid of them. Unlike most projects on my RV, installing True Topper is not a do-it-yourself project. I needed professional installation of True Toppers on my RV. This isn’t something that I could do in a campground. Picnic tables are not long enough.
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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? Article updated
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Wonderful visits and a few big disappointments highlighted our epic 2024 travel adventure. After our 2023 visit to Alaska, our 2024 travel adventure should have been easy. Not so; we had some issues along the way. We visited new places, and again, like in 2023, we returned to Alaska. This time, we went to Alaska
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Ideally, exploring Puget Sound would involve a boat. Last summer, after retreating from Canada, we spent the rest of the summer exploring the Puget Sound area in our RV. We were disappointed that fires forced our retreat from Canada, canceling our trip to Jasper and Banff. Still, closing one door allowed us to visit places
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This Superhuman FLX Step Thru 2.0 e-bike review isn’t based on research. It is a first-person review of my own bike, and I know all about it. (Update 11/27/2024, previously published August 2023) I wrote the book on e-bikes. I call it my e-bike e-book. It has everything you need to know about e-bikes, and
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I have the lowest-cost cell phone service anyone has ever heard about. My cell phone service is FREE. This is about how I got free cell phone service and how you can also get free cell phone service. Last year (2023), I paid over $65 monthly for cell phone service in Canada and Alaska, which
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Nearly 30 years after circling the moon, Astronaut Bill Anders founded the Heritage Flight Museum with one of his favorite aircraft, a World War II P-51 Mustang named “Val-Halla.” Last summer, after returning from Canada, we visited the Heritage Flight Museum near Burlington, Washington. In 1968, Bill Anders circled the moon in the Apollo 8
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We had an RV electrical failure, this time self-induced. My failure to turn on the electricity when we had full hookups caused the failure. Of course, that isn’t the only story about the RV electrical failure; it led to a very unexpected discovery. This discovery might be bad. I don’t want to overplay the discovery
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Fort Casey was so strong it was never attacked. Along with its sister forts, it guarded the entrance to Puget Sound, protecting Seattle, Tacoma, and the Puget Sound Naval shipyards. Fort Casey on Whidbey Island, Fort Worden near Port Townsend, and Fort Flagler on Marrowstone Island were linked together as if they were one fort.
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I already mentioned that we got lost in Vancouver in our motorhome and had to drive through downtown on our way to our first campground in Canada this year. The only thing that gave us hope during our trip was there were also city buses; if they could do it, we could also. We stopped
Our RV slide toppers are junk and are going into the trash. I have found the perfect replacement. True Topper has eliminated the problems with fabric awning slide toppers. Fabric slide toppers on top of our slide rooms were an ugly necessity until now. I am looking forward to fixing this problem once and forever.
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I saved over a hundred and thirty-nine dollars at my last RV fuel stop. Here is how I did it and how you can do it just like me. This week, we purchased ninety-six gallons of diesel from Travel Associates fuel center when our tank read just above 1/4 of a tank. We rarely go
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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 RV fuel in bulk easy for the average RVer. This works because TSD
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When our summer lap through Canada’s National Parks was canceled, we had to replan quickly. Our new plan was to return to Whistler and enjoy the mountains. Whistler fit the bill, and luckily, we could get a place to park the RV and visit. Whistler is the ski area that hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics
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Our Canada trip was cut short by several weeks. We had a good time, but wildfires in Jasper prevented us from making the journey as planned. Jasper is to the north of Banff and at the north end of the Icefields Parkway. After completing our cruise to Alaska this summer, we planned to spend the
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This is a comprehensive look at how to get FAST RV Internet! This is your FREE RV Internet e-book and buying guide! It includes everything you need to know about RV internet. Getting reliable, fast RV internet is a big deal. We have made mistakes in the past, and you don’t want to make an
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As of this morning, Starlink has changed everything about its mobile RV internet service. In an email, Starlink stated they are changing service plan names and adding three new benefits/features to the “Roam” plan. The most significant change is the “in motion” service, which means that if you have an antenna fixed to the top
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I will explain some available changes for your RV internet system in this article. Fast RV internet is now available almost anywhere in the country, and getting it is easier than ever. Making a reliable RV internet system requires multiple data sources. We get data from Starlink and our cell phone data plans. Getting data
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We didn’t take our cruise to Alaska to visit the cities; instead, we took our cruise to Alaska to visit Glacier Bay National Park. The glaciers in Glacier Bay National Park are impressive. There are two ways to tour Glacier Bay National Park. Like we did, you can take a cruise ship we chose, Holland
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Last month, we explored Alaska’s coastline during our cruise. In the previous fifteen years, the number one thing I have learned about Alaska’s coastline is that something is nearly always falling from the sky. This was true last year (2023) during our visit, especially in Valdez and Seward (also on Alaska’s coastline). Rain was also
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This story is about achieving a more comfortable ride on our bikes. Bicycle comfort (or lack of comfort) is a big issue for many people. We have great e-bikes, but like many e-bikes, they were (are) not as comfortable as they could be. I don’t want to pretend that we are perfectly comfortable, but rather
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Last week, we were in Alaska. This isn’t news; I told you about it in my previous email. Yes, we went on a cruise to Alaska and have visited Alaska two years in a row. Last year, we spent more than three months in Alaska. Last week, we traveled to and from Alaska in under
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I am proud to report that another FoxRVTravel article has been published in Roughing It Smoothly Magazine. The article is about our visit to Carhenge in Alliance, Nebraska, and it was published in the summer edition of the Tiffin Roughing It Smoothly Magazine. This is the second edition (in a row) to publish articles from
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Red Cliffs National Conservation Area’s waterfalls are seasonal except for flash floods. Our goal for this day trip was to see the last waterfall of the season before the thunderstorm-induced flash flood season started. Water levels fell quickly during our visit to Saint George, and I thought our timing was too late to see the
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Updated Article: Installed in 2021. This is our three-year review of our Swagman RV-Approved Bike Rack. We installed it on the back of our RV in the summer of 2021, and now it has been to Alaska and back. Since the initial installations, I have made a few modifications, which this article will explain. Overall,
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Our batteries store more power than we would use — for at least two days.
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We took a beautiful bike ride in Las Vegas through Red Rock Canyon on the wrong day. It had all the ingredients for disaster, and we retreated not even halfway into the ride because it wasn’t fun anymore. I have wanted to ride bikes through Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area since November 2018. It
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We spent much of this winter and spring in the Sonoran Desert. This year, we explored the desert by kayaking on Canyon Lake. Exploring the desert is common for us, but exploring the desert on a lake by kayak is unique. In this adventure, we took our kayaks into the Tonto National Forest, to a
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What State Park Passes do we love using as full-time RV travelers? How did we get them? What is the cost, and what are the benefits? Which ones are the best? This post is updated from the previous July 2023 post. Updated May 2024 South Dakota I also qualify for different state programs. South Dakota
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You don’t want a leak from your RV’s black tank. Of all the catastrophic RV problems you may encounter, a leak from your RV black tank is among the worst. If your RV doesn’t have a motor, a leak from your RV’s black tank is probably one of the top two concerns. A leak from
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Updated from original story May 23, 2021 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
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Updated, originally published on May 24, 2021 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 whether and when we have a tire pressure/heat problem without constantly checking a digital display. The system
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One of Geronimo’s Hideouts was in the Chiricahua Mountains. On September 4, 1886, Geronimo and his band of followers surrendered to General Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon. Geronimo was known to be in the Chiricahua Mountains before his surrender. The surrender site was at Skeleton Canyon on the Arizona/New Mexico Border just north of Mexico.
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Can one lithium battery replace four lead-acid batteries? In my case, yes, I did precisely that. My one lithium battery does everything that the lead batteries do. My one twenty-two-pound lithium battery replaced my previous four hundred and sixty pounds of lead-acid batteries. Originally published March 2023, Updated May 2024 I didn’t start out intending
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Ten Lithium Battery Myths and Answers: How can I get the longest life from lithium batteries? After you spend lots of money on lithium batteries, you want them to last. It would be a shame if you killed them early. Originally published July 2020, Updated May 2024 I have been an early fan but not
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Here is how solar works. I could have started my RV solar series with this article, or I could have avoided it entirely. Some of you might trust the rest of us who say it works and leave it to that. I find it interesting to know how things work. I hope this article will
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I am proud to report that the Tiffin Roughing It Smoothly Magazine published our article about Denali National Park. It wasn’t planned or expected, but we are very happy that the magazine has decided to share our epic adventure to Alaska with its readers. Roughing It Smoothly Magazine The Roughing it Smoothly magazine is the
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