Last spring, I was elbow-deep in the wiring bay of my Class C trying to add a second USB charging outlet near the dinette. Simple job, right? Wrong. I twisted three wires together, wrapped them in electrical tape, and felt…
Last spring, I was deep into planning a three-month loop through the Southwest in my Class C motorhome. Shore power would be scarce. Generator noise was driving me — and my campsite neighbors — absolutely crazy. So I started seriously…
The Grinding Noise That Ruined My Morning Routine…
Two summers ago, I pulled into a state park campground in rural Tennessee and fried my RV’s microwave within twenty minutes of plugging in. The pedestal showed 120 volts on my cheap outlet tester, so I thought everything was fine….
Two summers ago, my HWH leveling system started acting strange. One jack would extend halfway, then just stop. Another would drift overnight, leaving my rig sitting crooked by morning. After some digging, I traced the problem back to the hydraulic…
If you’ve been RVing for more than a season, you already know that dump day is nobody’s favorite. However, a bad sewer hose makes it so much worse. Last spring, I finally got fed up with my old bargain-bin hose…
Propane detectors aren’t a forever component — they have a finite lifespan, and when they reach the end of it, they’ll let you know. If you’ve been woken up at 3 a.m. by a chirping alarm with no apparent gas leak in sight, your detector has likely expired and is signaling that it’s time for … Read more
Eight years ago, my partner and I sold almost everything we owned, bought a 28-foot travel trailer, and pointed the truck toward a road we had never been down before. We had done our research — or so we thought….
Our first summer as full-time RVers, we parked in an Arizona Walmart lot in late June because we thought it would be a quick overnight stop on the way to Sedona. It was 114 degrees outside. Our rooftop AC unit…
It was a Tuesday morning somewhere outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico, when I turned on the kitchen faucet and watched what came out. I would not call it water. I would call it a warning. It was slightly yellow, carried…
