Drew Callahan · June 20, 2026
Last spring, I pulled into a campground in southern Utah and connected my old garden hose to the water pedestal without thinking twice. By the time I poured a glass of water that evening, the plasticky, chemical smell hit me…
Drew Callahan · June 15, 2026
If you’ve ever opened your RV bathroom door and been hit with a smell that could peel paint, you already know the struggle. Last summer, that was me — three weeks into a cross-country trip, parked at a full-hookup site…
Drew Callahan · June 12, 2026
If you’ve spent any time RVing, you already know the black tank is the one topic nobody wants to talk about — until something goes wrong. For me, “something going wrong” meant noticing that no matter how many times I…
Drew Callahan · June 7, 2026
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…
Drew Callahan · June 5, 2026
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…
Drew Callahan · March 12, 2026
When you boondock regularly — no hookups, no campground services, no one nearby to help — you develop a different relationship with your rig’s systems than a weekend camper does. Everything has to work. You learn the failure modes, the warning signs, and the repairs before you need them, not during. In the Crossroads Zinger … Read more
Drew Callahan · March 9, 2026
I’ve got my creeper under the 27DBS right now, lying on my back with one hand on the gray tank dump valve and the other holding a flashlight—this is the moment I look for corrosion on the blade, a cracked seal, or that telltale slow drip that means the handle’s about to snap. When you’re … Read more
Drew Callahan · March 5, 2026
I was three weeks into a late-September loop through the Blue Ridge when I first caught the smell—not overpowering, just a whisper of something off seeping up from the bathroom corner of my 160RBT. I’d been using that toilet daily, and the handle had gone soft, almost mushy, in a way that didn’t register until … Read more
Drew Callahan · February 15, 2026
RV Sewer Hose Setup & Dump Station Guide for Beginners I was somewhere outside Barstow on a scorching July afternoon—three weeks into a desert loop—when I finally paid attention to the stain spreading across the gravel pad every time I dumped tanks. That’s when it hit me: I’d been ignoring a cracked fitting on my … Read more
Drew Callahan · February 13, 2026
RV Freshwater System Sanitization & Complete Winterization Guide I was three days into a boondocking trip outside Moab, Utah, when I noticed it—that faint metallic smell rising off the water as it came out of the kitchen tap, just enough to catch your attention if you weren’t half-asleep. By the next morning, the taste was … Read more
