RV Camping Blog

ENTERING NEW ENGLAND

Barry & Monique Zander — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:42:58 +0000

By Barry Zander, Edited by Monique Zander, the Never-Bored RVers Things we learned quickly about New England: the streets in these picturesque, quaint towns were built 250 to 350 years ago – very scenic but not the place you want to take your Class A, C, Travel Trailer or 5th Wheel. Just driving down many [...]

Wise water usage the key to extended boondocking

Bob Difley — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:28:20 +0000

In last week’s post, Power to the people: Upgrade options for your electrical system, I wrote about various ways to increase your electrical capacity while dry-camping (boondocking). Now we will move on to drinking water, that natural resource that will limit your consecutive boondocking days unless you are Moses and can strike a stone with [...]

What is Cloud Computing?

Chris Guld — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:02:11 +0000

We (Chris and Jim of Geeks on Tour) are currently in Colorado Springs at the RVSEF Lifestyle, Education, and Safety Conference. We are presenting two seminars today for the RVers in attendance. The first one is on Cloud computing and how we take advantage of it in our Fulltime RVing lifestyle. We thought our online [...]

A FIVE-PART BLOG

Barry & Monique Zander — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:30:27 +0000

By Barry Zander, Edited by Monique Zander, the Never-Bored RVers YORK AND THE HOGS — As today’s title suggests, there are five parts to today’s blog, beginning with our discovering an interesting area to visit when you’re traveling in the Northeast. The place is York County, Pennsylvania, between Harrisburg and Baltimore. It proudly calls itself “The Factory [...]

Winnebago Picks A Winning GPS Solution

Lug_Nut — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:42:19 +0000

A look of what’s new, from Lug_Nut. Winnebago has announced it will be offering the Rand McNally GPS in the dash of selected 2014 models. Two screen sizes will be used with the largest being a huge 10.4”. This will give Winnebago the edge of offering the largest in-dash GPS in the [...]

RVING SWITCHBACKS – EAST, WEST, NORTH, SOUTH

Barry & Monique Zander — Sat, 11 May 2013 12:44:23 +0000

By Barry Zander, Edited by Monique Zander, the Never-Bored RVers I prepared an article years ago about the types of places you can park your rig, updating it several times — everything from private campgrounds to national parks to retail outlets and many more – 17 more to be exact. If you’d like a copy, please [...]

Power to the people: Upgrade options for your electrical system

Bob Difley — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:21:48 +0000

By Bob Difley In last week’s post, How to get the most out of your electrical system when camping without hookups, http://blog.rv.net/2013/05/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-electrical-system-when-camping-without-hookups/ I wrote getting started dry-camping or boondocking and how to conserve the electricity in your house batteries to add time to your camping trip before having to recharge. Today we will look at ways to upgrade [...]

EXTRA, EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT IT!

Barry & Monique Zander — Wed, 08 May 2013 08:52:01 +0000

By Barry Zander, Edited by Monique Zander, the Never-Bored RVers I was a newspaper editor and reporter back in the days when newspapers were the primary source of news. Decades later, ink still flows through my veins. In other words, even today I gravitate toward the news. I mention this because I put the new Newseum in [...]

D.C.

Barry & Monique Zander — Sat, 04 May 2013 13:40:39 +0000

By Barry Zander, Edited by Monique Zander, the Never-Bored RVers Washington, D.C. – I would call it the “phoniest” town we’ve seen. Walking on the streets and through museums, around monuments and restaurants and on the Metrorail subway system, seems like everyone has a cellphone up to his or her ear, although they may be listening [...]

How to get the most out of your electrical system when camping without hookups

Bob Difley — Fri, 03 May 2013 17:48:48 +0000

By Bob Difley In last week’s post, Moving forward: Surviving your first night of dry-camping http://blog.rv.net/2013/04/moving-forward-surviving-your-first-night-of-dry-camping/ I wrote about how to spend a night or two without hookups. This week I go a bit further by looking at how to extend our camping time–actually getting the maximum out of the batteries that provide our house electricity–prolonging the [...]