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  • Safe Towing Weights

    Overview Assuming ignorance before malice, sometimes sales people are just ignorant of towing requirements. That being the case, there is no excuse for you to be ignorant too. There is plenty of information available on safe towing and towing weight limits. This guide is biased towards 5th wheel towing. You may need to do a…

  • RV Setup Checklist

    These are the roughly ordered tasks for setting up the RV upon arrival at a new campsite. This list will change over time as omitted activities are added or a better process is identified. Some of these tasks continue the day after (e.g., setting up personal and hobby stuff). Some of these tasks happen in…

  • Periodic Maintenance Activities

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  • RV Best Practices 20240930

    Pineview Campground, WI, September 2024 Today’s best practice tips are: This happened Monday morning while packing up to leave for the next site. We left 3.5 hours late due to repairing the damage. Nothing additional appears to have been damaged. It looks like our trailer should be rocking in the waves. The seas are too…

  • Making Your RV Cat Safe

    Cats are curious. Cats climb. Cats explore. Cats hide. RVs are not designed for cats. Introduction It should surprise no one, but RVs frequently have superficial and incomplete decor. Manufacturers want to keep the feature count up and the cost/weight down. As travel trailers get smaller and cheaper, the number of cat safety issues seem…

  • If It Is Not One Thing, It Is Another.

    Say, maybe a fridge? Sunday afternoon, Kate mentioned that the fridge light was out. I was thinking the bulb probably needs to be replaced. Later, Kate mentioned that she was not sure the fridge was running. Doh! Modern 12V DC RV fridges use LEDs for light. LEDs do not tend to burn out like light…

  • RV Teardown Checklist

    These lists are the (roughly) ordered activities for tearing down in preparation for moving to a new site. This list will change over time as omitted activities are added or a better process is identified. Some of these tasks start the night before (e.g., stowing personal and hobby stuff). Some of these tasks happen in…

  • And This Time We Lost Water…

    Stonelick State Park, IN, July 2024 A very brief thunderstorm came through Sunday with 50 mph winds and heavy rains. We never lost power, but … the local water plant did. Whoever is to blame, it is just a fact of RV life. In (nearly) a year of RVing full-time, we have lost power three…

  • Litter Pan Placement

    As seen by the name, we glamp with cats. One of the reasons we bought our original travel trailer was to bring the cats with us camping instead of having to get people to care for them or only taking short trips. Cats offer the advantage that they are more self sufficient than dogs, so…

  • Selecting Our First RV

    This is a continuation of the Considerations for Selecting an RV article that covers our answers and decision process for the first RV that we purchased. These impacted our decisions in the following ways Based on our plans to bring the cats and destination camping with sight-seeing, we needed either a motorized RV with a…