Their RV lifestyle

So what exactly is an RV lifestyle anyway?
All sorts of things: RV camping trips, full-service tailgating, a great way to follow NASCAR races, extended vacations, a seasonal home, fulltime RV living...and the list goes on.

In fact, there is no list. Your RV lifestyle is what you want it to be.

And that's really the point of this website. Simple steps on how to get the most out of RVing - in a style that fits you. 

For us, one day we were talking about refinancing our townhouse. A few exciting months later, we had sold the townhouse and started living fulltime in our RV.
It happened fast! Friends, family and co-workers were politely aghast.
But it didn't really happen in a flash. We didn't just wake up one day and throw all caution to the wind.

We had been preparing for our RV lifestyle - long before we made the dramatic move. We knew what we wanted. We had spent plenty of time churning through lots of information. Trying to figure out where to start (and equally important, when to stop "trying to figure it all out").

So we offer our lessons learned and suggestions - whether you are just starting out, are back in the market for a new or used RV, or are a seasoned RVer looking for other perspectives on how to get the most out of your RV lifestyle.

When you're ready to focus on some sort of decision or change, here's a little memory jogger to help you get your "ACT" together: A = Ask Yourself What You Want
C = Check Things Out
T = Try It on for SizeA - Ask Yourself What You Want
We're not talking about any in-depth evaluation of inner motives here. Just a little time thinking about what you want out of your RVing experiences. Try the drill of "Who, What, When, Where, How & Why?"

And always remember the Who! Who else is in this with you? What's important to them? Let's say you're thinking about buying a camper for affordable RV vacations. Enjoying the great outdoors. Bringing the family closer together. Fishing in peaceful solitude. Old-fashioned good times. Before you get too carried away... make sure the rest of the family is on the same wavelength

Continue that mental picture in your mind. The specific questions you ask yourself will depend on your circumstances.

What are you going to use an RV for? How often? To go where? For how long? Will you stay in one place awhile or move every couple days?
If you're changing to a new RV, what do you want to be different? What has to be the same?
(Be sure to check out our RV Classifieds where you can sell your old RV and search for a new one!)
Are you looking for a change in rig or RV lifestyle?
Are you considering upgrades or accessories (solar panel, awnings, RV furniture, camping supplies)? What features are important to you?

When do you want to do this? What time of year, at what point in the future, does it matter?

Where are you going to keep the RV? Where do you want to go?

How does this fit with other hobbies and interests you have or want to explore? Do you need to take golf clubs, bicycles, or fishing gear with you? How are you going to afford it?

Why are you thinking of RVing? As your everyday lifestyle, or a family vacation, or a way to winter in warmer climates? Is this for retirement, for now, or a bit of both? Is the RV to make your NASCAR passion or tailgating more enjoyable? Is it to try something new and see if you like it?

This is not a test. There are no right and wrong answers. Heck, you don't even need answers at this point. But Asking yourself some questions starts momentum. It triggers possibilities. It gets ideas rolling around in your brain. Some conversations held with the people who are in this with you.

Asking tells you what you don't know... so you can ... C- Check Things Out.

Learn. You have probably heard the expression "Getting there is Half the Fun". A perfect theme for the RV lifestyle itself. Well, it's also appropriate in the context of checking things out. The learning about RVing, the anticipation - is truly half the fun.

There is plenty to explore, none of it boring. Browse around this website for information and suggestions.

Key areas to check out: Types of RVs, Campgrounds, Timeshares, RV Buying, New vs. Used, Memberships, RV Lifestyles like Fulltiming, RV Costs, or our Top Ten. That's a start!

Another aspect that many would-be RVers want to consider is working on the road. Check out these free ebooks that explore how to do business on the road.

Even just browsing types of RVing gear available through Camping World will get you thinking.

Try It On for Size

Whenever you can find a way to try something out, do so. It really helps you visualize the RV Lifestyle and it's fun!

Ways to get hands-on learning: RV Shows, RV Rentals, RV Clubs, RV products for you and your rig. Really try it!

By the way, don't think you have to figure it all out. When we bought our motorhome, we sure didn't know everything under the sun about how RVs worked or how we would live. But we had done our reading and tried things and talked things out. We were comfortable that we had our act together to make some key decisions.

And now, we learn as we go - it's part of RV living. And it all started when we took action. So, go ahead and ACT and enjoy your RV lifestyle. 

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If there is enough demand, I will consider all the guides I write available in both official languages have Kanadas.vielleicht I'm not such a bad Canadian, after all:-))

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3 Aug, affordable RV adventure travel

Regardless of whether you have an RV, have you in the right place if you want to travel and explore North America but you think it can not afford. You can! I'll show you how.As seen in the New York Times!

Read my recent interview with Matt gross, travel reporter in the New York Times released.

Are you adventurous?Ever had the dream of just leaving it all behind and "meets the road?"Do you love nature, hiking, new people come and see new places? are you in retirement or semi retirement? maybe on a fixed income? Want to with your days more than routines to fill?

If you think the RV lifestyle is to spend as you have at home with various neighbours about your winter in a paved campsite I am to show you a very different side of RV travel.

Even if you have a recreational vehicle, but a car, motorcycle or bike, I have many solid tested tips for your trip.And it's all on my first hand personal experience based in the last 10 years.

Necessity is the mother of invention, gives birth to something original thinking if we, are traveling for a long time on a limited budget.I'll also give the exact cost details for each of our extended trips.

After almost 40,000 miles of travel in the USA and Canada my partner and I learned a few tricks along the way... not just about saving money, but also how to do things a little differently.

On these pages, be sure to find some ideas previewed control.with which hopefully you your cross-country road trips and camping holidays a little cheaper, simpler, adventurous, and pleasant make.

Here is a brief video introduction:

PS can you believe it? this small old site of mine has a top finalist award in 2009 won Tripbase blog category for budget travel awards ranking within the top 20 websites in the world in this Kategorie.Ein huge thank you to all my loyal followers!
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Tips for buying from RV

If you are in the process of RV buying, start with some basics. Ask yourself, what type of RV experience you want. Keep in mind these answers how to make RV buying decisions. Where will you go? How many times? For how long? With how many people? What else do you do? And so on.

There are certainly property - the convenience of the RV functions to get the flexibility and professionals RV and Reisen.Nachteile covered must include the pleasant experience of RV costs for fuel and possibly RV storage.

Their planned RV lifestyle is a huge factor in what you buy.Underestimate it nicht.Als you more about possible RVs for sale, you come back to hold this Schritt.sprechen you beyond your expectations with the people in this with you.

Great DVD for the purchase of a recreational vehicle:
Learn to make the right choice when buying an RV in this 50-minute DVD of RVtravel.com and the better Business Bureau.Avoid buying the wrong RVErhalten you finance expert advice as you an RV and avoiding that a common mistake which you ?upside Down? on a loan can leave. Chuck Woodbury, a veteran login ID and recognised RV industry authority, advise you what you are looking in a new or used RV

One of the most important decisions is to type the RV decide to buy. Caravan, fifth wheel, trailer, etc.

Before you can get serious about buying from RV, you must type in to focus. Otherwise, you will spin your wheels.

Take the time to learn what you wollen.Gehen to RV shows and dealers and collect brochures. Sit in RVs to go through to do everyday tasks in the movements. Pretend you're getting dressed, take a shower, wash, television. Consider where you would store all your stuff. Check inside and outside.Remember the tow vehicle or dinghy, you might need for your planned RV lifestyle.

You learn to the run and use an RV

Of other lernen.treten you RV clubs, read your publications. What others say check out to see forums on the net, for the purchase of RV. Consult with people in the RV shows or Campingplätzen.Denken because, hearing are opinions, which may or may not be for you relevant.Their perspectives and preferences can similarly to how you think, or vary greatly.Hear why like or not like certain things.

Evaluate your budget vs of RV costs to determine what you can afford, zahlen.Dies means, to purchasing costs, costs for extra accessories you need and know the operational and living costs betrachten.Zu do you and the lifestyle you want choices helps you meet.

Focus on quality, how to get your choices of manufacturers and printers verengen.Nicht overwhelmed glitz and fancy features if you are only on attached. If you want to keep the RV go together down the road, quality counts.

This is a big decision...Know your RV buying things. Take time for your Entscheidung.Lassen you is time there. If you set you want to take for a specific itinerary under pressure feel should rental for travel.

A RV purchase is an important decision, and a rental may be a good way to things out first try.

See the spectrum of what available for your selected type of RV istBevor you make a decision, make sure to have a good idea of what is available on the market. Make sure you check our out RV show where you your old RV or search able to sell a new!

Consider a camera.If you look at many potential RVs, it starts get too confusing.Bring a camera or video camera add, what you see and just to keep things.Keep track of which pictures for which RV are, as you go along.If you use a video or digital camera with recording capabilities, use it to advantage.Record are specifically what RV, you, what are you the pictures of what you like about the RV (or things that a little unsure).

Make a list of features wichtigsten.halten this is mind as you shop, shop, shop.Buy something just because it is available.Sure it has the features you want.Even better, limits, enter what you want certain makes and models.

Consider the advantages and disadvantages of the new vs. used.

Fully examine all possible purchase in detail.Use the tips in the books learned to read you.If you feel unfamiliar, you get someone qualified to do the inspection with you or for you.

If you buy an RV, to do, watch out for Details.Eine full walkthrough before to begehen.stellen make sure that all funktioniert.stellen make sure that all Bedienungsanleitungen.Machen you your use, if something doesn't work Notizen.Verstehen or bricht-whether new or used kaufen.holen all schriftlich.Mit your purchase decision RV be comfortable.

Enjoy! taking the time to buy to diligently in RV, helps the RV choice for Sie.Sein careful and thorough, but also enjoy your search! it is an experience you will always remember.

14 Jul, import an RV? My experience that can help you

My experience for shopping and buying a mobile home from the United States.

My search began with a Google search "for sale class A motor home."
I discovered quickly were the best prices in the United States and the vehicles that I was interested in were coming up on E-Bay.
$50,000 and $60,000 of coaches were ausgehend.Wow $10,000 and $ 15,000, what a deal!

I quickly came to my senses and spent a few days will just people, the commandments and what landed coach for.
I did some research on E Bay scams and fraud.

Here is what's really going on.
Almost all of the class A motor homes that I saw were owned distributors.She post a Coache for sale with a hidden reserve.
The hidden reserve is of course the selling price is for the coach to wollen.Es only a business function will make a further marketing tool for Sie.Sie sometimes with a Curber to sell it for you. The Curber then will post as if it is his.
I would a coach will see over a period of 5 days to bid and finally see it for sale at the last minute with a bid of someone that jumped in the final seconds.As much as it against E-Bay rules I'm sure me the seller in many cases are on your own trainers offer is.E Bay have no way this police work and leave to try on complaints, an inexperienced bidders have to kontrollieren.Als no way to tell if they encourage most sellers bieten.Die against the seller phone you and make an offer. This is again against E-Bay rules (no Commission for E-Bay), but you have no way police work.

Here is something I, always still trying'm figuring.
The bid starts low on a coach and I see it slowly over a period of five days. Many bids in the last minute.
If you are for a coach interested in bid to keep why it in 5 days up.All you do is increasing the price be numbers, for it.The best strategy is to get a low bid early and then wait until last minute of bid and bid make.This is again against E-Bay rules, but everyone is doing it and E-Bay are unable to control it.

The scam artists:
In my search I found a coach, which was exactly what I would be suchte.Es a bargain at $50,000, but the seller said in his ad that he needs only $25,000 for it.This was my first red flag. I called the number (a Texas point) and got an answering machine with an Eastern European accent. This was my second red Fahne.Dann in my search for that same make and model was I one on E-Bay, but only from a reseller in an Eastern Zustand.Das problem here exactly the same as the coach who sold out of Texas was the photos of the coach.I'm sure if I called the Texas number, that it was answered by a computer in Estonia.

Here's the Betrug.Ich ran into a few years ago with my first experience on E-Bay in search of a computer.support bad guy gets a Skype phone number (you can have with each number you want what you want whatever prefix).A Texas area code took the RV cheats.Then it searches the Web for something that has the photos he he tell all you display need. If the winning bidder you want to hear and then questions for a small deposit of one or two thousand Dollar.Sie want Union be paid almost always by Western.(Not transparent)

The dealer I bought from, one told me about someone on foot in your Office who want to pick up the trailer described hatte.Er online bought the dealer a few weeks ago sold hatte.Der customer someone had a deposit of $2000.00 via Western Union was bezahlt.Er from $2000.00.

This is still a good way to find what you are looking for.
At the end it worked for me.I ended up with a very nice coach I could easily sell for a good profit in Canada.
You can be sure that many campers Canada you find are sold by Curbers, that have brought us from the.
This is not necessarily a bad thing, as the last two campers I in Canada bought you brought from the USA came from Curbers Sellingg units.
Both units, which I money on made.

Not fully commit until you can check the coach.Check never as good as you do in the photos.Photos do not pick up the detail, the showroom condition coach of lived in mobile home with rock chips loaded and worn Interior stained separates.

I was lucky.
Bought the coach I turned out as well, as the photos it showed.
However, there were a few surprises.
Test told me the shop account and fully maintained coach würde.Sie would also everything and anything that doesn't work, was replaced.
All ready to go when I arrived.
This brings me back to the cold war phrase, "Trust but verify"

It turned out nothing had tested was and there is much you needed to repair before I could go back to Canada.
Make your loan apologized for the problems and offered, while for the fixes saw to pay for a rental car for me.

Then it came to pay you then pay to pay as you told me that I needed the company who wore the debt and then arrange to me the title to bekommen.Nicht!
I told them I didn't that a vehicle to pay for you, that you reluctantly agreed and produced for a few hours indicates a clear title not title to halten.Sie rejects any sich.Sie looked after all the paper work that I would need to get it across the border.
The required fax sent and arranged for a permit for me to go home.

It was a three-day trip for me to get to the border, and I was concerned about getting across the border as I had never done.
"The United States Customs wanted to the original title (not a photocopy) that disappeared original Bill of sale and my Paß.Sie called me to the meter shall provide with you for about 20 minutes then and said you are free to gehen.Dann Canadian Zoll.Sie wanted what I gave US Customs plus the recall clearance of manufacture had geliefert.Ich fill out a short form and pay the GST.Sie were fine with the EC Karte.Sie wanted my email and told me to cope me RIV in a few days, the other be contacted would.""Wow, that was much easier then I thought it would be!"

I now have home and I am very happy with it.
I have 4 other class A motorhomes years owned and this is my fifth.
My last one was a diesel pusher and the new is a gas appliance.
You should look for a diesel pusher or a gas appliance?
That's a different story.

All tips and advice, contained in this article are purely my personal opinion, and I do not accept
Responsibility or liability for any consequence resulting.

10 Aug, affordable Ontario

No, there is no oxymoron. There are something like an affordable Ontario trips.

Although Randy and I are Canadians, we know it is cheaper by almost any of the 48 continental United States as travel through our own province of Ontario travel. There are many reasons for this fees, but, even if our Canadian dollar in a favorable position is cheaper gas and lower campsite total still up on the list for RVers.It is one of the reasons, so much of this Web site is all our travels through the unbound States gewidmet.Nachdem, is the concept of this FRUGAL RV travel website.

But does Ontario (and quite Canada), many beautiful features, natural and man-made, everywhere else are of course the unprecedented in the world. Recently I started a quest to find and identify the best affordable (free and economical) Ontario attractions.

Once again, I realized that I had to go to many different sources, find out what I could see and free or cheap to tun.In of fact, I spent questions a lot of time, locally - at tourist information offices and the people I met during my travels.Now I'm working on the utmost I found in a single source - so you will have to repeat all the legwork.The final result will be a comprehensive guide (at a very affordable price) list of all free and economical attractions I in Ontario - found, I have personally visited and gave a "thumbs-up!"

HOW BIG is and I quickly realized several years to me check it all out wird.Noch take me, I plan exactly tun.In this summer completed I the first stage of this Reise.Randy could not accompany me this time so for me, it was my first solo RVing experience - not bad but I prefer the camaraderie we offer each other on most of our long journeys.

Here are links to some my blog posts, reflections and photos from my solo RV trip by Ontario's cottage country:

Hockley Valley, Labrie

Muskoka and Haliburton Highlands

Kawartha Lakes

You also want, don't miss what I discovered about Boondocking in Ontario.

In these areas, cottage where property values based on Toronto income, is so much to see and do for free or nearly free.

Stay tuned to find out more about the affordable Ontario Guide, (cottage country Edition) to hear that I am currently putting together.

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20 Jan, RV, trips on desert back roads

 

Question: okay, so we would two girls really like Boondocking begin our 30 ft.C are class Jayco.Wir towing might not suitable for our rig worried about travelling, our Toad on desert roads. An off road Atlas or guide there which State/County Highway Road Atlas of DeLorme, etc., similar to the would give us confidence in the desert Southwest off road trips?

A. I know anyone that does not give you the information would need. Dirt road is travel, feel what as individual - with.

Our rig is shorter than yours, but we have no Toad.We below some dirt roads but always careful stoßen.In your case it is probably the best, disconnection and explore the street with your Toad first.As you are probably aware, it is not only to the condition of the road but have the ability to turn when you need.

Ask you for current road conditions at the local BLM, forest or Park Informationszentren.Denken because the streets impenetrable will be so, if wet inventories to wait bring enough it out a few days if necessary.

Make sure other RVs parked in the Wüste.Wenn out there got you can probably also.

We found that not many leaders to determine what the roads accessible RV and lead to Web pages, good Boondocking.Das is one of the reasons I the frugal wrote Shunpiker's guides.

~ Marianne

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Mexico RV travel

We began preparing for our Mexico RV trip with two steps.
One, we bought Mexico insurance.Secondly, we bought the popular book, traveler's Guide to Mexican camping Mike and Terri Church.(Their latest issue is now available!)

Another very helpful his book is the people's Guide to Mexico. Is highly regarded as the book about things to do and to watch for the traveller in Mexico.

Mexico RV insurance:

After a bit of research we found that we should buy a separate Mexico insurance and change our own RV and automatic policy to cover us in Mexico.The separate Mexico policy would us to liability to other property or people abdecken.Der driver, which would damage our existing insurance to our own vehicles, fire, theft and the like covered.

The add on to our own policy was easily achieved for annual riders per car per a call with a price of about $5.

With regard to the separate Mexico RV and automated policies we acquired quotes from multiple Mexico Versicherungen.Wir learned, that we could buy a minimum level of insurance travel a short distance across the border by the driver - the sense of those and then go make very little or no insurance may.

In our case we planned to go both to multiple locations and wanted the flexibility our plans we decided to insure each vehicle on the road to ändern.So selected as standard Haftungsgrenze.Wir bought a higher guidelines that would cover us in a geographical area that beyond Sonora, extends just in case we continue to Mexico gehen.Sicher better safe than sorry wanted.

We also found that it was cheaper to buy an annual policy which would cover only us for a few months vs. one.

Some of the companies we found proposed in different sources:

ADA VIS Mexico of insurance services
http://www.mexicoinsurace.com caravan insurance services
http://www.Insurance@Livingston.NET discover Baja Travel Club
http://www.discoverbaja.com Lewis and Lewis insurance agency
http://www.mexicanautoinsurance.com Miller insurance agency, Inc.
http://www.MillerRVInsurance.com Oscar Padilla insurance services
http://www.mexicaninsurance.com point South insurance
http://www.Mexican-Insurance.com Vagabundos del Mar Travel Club
http://www.vagabundos.com Sanborn of Mexican insurance
http://www.sanbornsinsurance.com

Tourist/auto approvals for Mexico RV travel:
In our Mexico RV book to read, as well as other sources durchlesend, we have learned a few other things:

And our Mexico RV begann.Wir visited travel to read a number of places along the coast can Sonora.Sie over here:

Here are some other interesting options: RV tours caravan Azteca and San Juan del Lago RV Resort and camping sites, want to their brand new RV destination (with 240 pages) in the heart of Mexico einzuführen.Amigos Rodantes Caravan: an RV caravan companies planning on the go maintenance Canadians in Mexiko.Kanadier Mexico in your RV - why not go with a Canadian tour guide and pay in Canadian dollars?

Oh, and an other Spitze.Watch out for the Mexican version of a speed bump, a home screen (pronounced TOW pay) .Achten characters and take slow.

Other than this interesting feature, we were very glad we had the traveler's Guide to Mexican camping in hand for driving tips and other advice on Mexico RV travel.

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20 Jun, Ontario passion

A month on the road and, as planned, the first segment of my Ontario trip has come to a close. I'm now back at home but, by mid-august, when Ontario's tourist season begins to wind down, I hope to venture out again - covering a different route.

This has been a month of wonderful new discoveries - about myself, people, and passions. I met some of the nicest people!

In Bobcaygeon, I met Barbara Puxley, a woman who has certainly identified her passion and found a way to run with it. Known locally as "Mother Osprey," Barbara founded the "Friends of the Osprey," an organization that has set the Kawarthas area apart as the largest osprey nesting grounds in North America.

Barbara took me under her wing (pun intended) and showed me, not only the location of, at least, a dozen osprey nests, but everything else she could think of that is interesting, free, or frugal in the Bobcaygeon area. She was even able to arrange a guided tour at the local museum - no small feat on a Monday when it is closed for the day.

Barbara (on the left) with our knowledgeable and charming museum tour guide.

Barbara and her husband are avid RVers themselves and members of the Escapees RV club that I recently joined. So, although we had never met before, they welcomed me to park in their driveway overnight, and even offered me hook-ups. Now THAT'S hospitality!

Gravenhurst is the birthplace of one of the most world-famous Canadians in history, Dr. Norman Bethune. Talk about a man who let nothing, even his own health, stop him from following his passion to help the poorest of the poor wherever he found them. Revered in Spain and China where he spent most of his medical career, Bethune is honoured in Gravenhurst by a National Historic site at the house where he was born, which stands in its original location.

I was in the bedroom where Dr. Bethune was born and lived as a child.

Breast cancer survivors from all over the world participate annually (this is the third year) in the International Dragon Boat Races. This year Peterborough, Ontario hosted the event on Little Lake at Del Crary Park, where this particular frugal shunpiker arrived early Saturday afternoon, wondering why I couldn't find a parking spot.

I was innocently and completely unaware of what these races were about or of what I was about to witness.

When I saw all these middle-aged women, paddling literally "for their life," it dawned on me how much strength, endurance, and passion are interconnected. Perhaps, it is only by following our passions, commiting ourselves wholly, body and soul, that we can come to feel truly "alive and well."

But, of course, we can't all be world class paddlers, heal the poor, or mother the birds. We each dance to a different drum.

Speaking of different drums.... one of many unique, native-inspired pieces at Whetung Ojibwa Native Art Gallery. It's a big drum!

I also met a most interesting man. When I mentioned that I was doing a bit of research to publish a travel guide, he made me promise not to promote him or his wagon rides so, I can't tell you his name or where in Ontario I met up with him. To fully honour his wishes, he's not even in the photo.

If you live in the area, especially if you're a young person, you probably already know that all you have to do is ask, and you will be treated to a wagon ride.

And forget about asking him how much it costs. This passionate horse and wagon master, a retired teacher, told me, " I do this purely for fun - I love to put a smile on people's faces. If there was money involved, it wouldn't be fun anymore."

Unusual for me, I was on a schedule that day, having promised my aunt I'd be at her place for dinner, so I was unable to take advantage of his kind offer to give me the grand "wagon tour" of the area. It's one of my few regrets of the trip.

Passions don't have to be charitable in nature. What if we could all make a living doing what we love?

Dawn, at Gardens Plus, in Donwood, (just east of Peterborough) says: " I'm just like many of you who are passionate about gardening. I like to add new varieties to my gardens, (only I am obsessed and out of control - ha, ha.) As a result, she has more than 200 varieties of hostas and even more day lilies planted all around her home. You can tour her gardens just for fun but, also, purchase any plant she has in a variety of sizes.

Working for someone else, even "the government" doesn't mean you cannot feel passionate about your work.The locks along the Trent-Severn Waterway are scenic, historic and interesting to see in action. They're also a free attraction so, of course, I stopped by many that happened to be on my route.

At every stop, I found the lockmasters (federal employees), to be extremely personable and pleasant - going way beyond the call of duty to answer my umpteen questions, not just about the locks but about other things to see and experience in the area.

Perhaps it's because they only work half the year (at least, I presume that, since the locks are only open May to October) or because they're working outdoors, on the water, in a beautiful scenic part of Ontario. I'm not sure of the exact reason, but I saw nothing except extremely happy employees. ( I hope it's not because my taxes are paying them an extremely exorbitant wage. I don't think that can be it - I know too many miserable people who make tons of money.)

At the Sawer Creek Lock, south of Lakefield, I watched as two female lock workers operated heavy machinery to remove several layers of large beams, which lowered the dam to release more water. As the woman who was operating the machine told me: "It's fun - like playing with giant tinkertoys."

She likes her job. I like watching women operate heavy machinery.

Passions are so individual. How do you find your soul's passion? The secret, I think, is to follow whatever small instinctive urges present themselves in our daily lives. Try many, many different things, trust your instincts, and remain open to anything.

Do you see the white chair in the picture just above the falls?
I know you see it now. Do you think it was there when I took the picture?

This is Fenelon Falls. I stood and admired the falls, took three different shots, from two different sides of the same river, and never noticed that white chair at all. It was only now, while I was looking through my pictures for this blog, that I noticed it for the first time.

I guess that's the second regret of the trip. I didn't ask how it got there. I'm sure, someone, (a fisherman?) followed some sort of inspiration. Was it one of the local "town characters?" If you've ever lived in a small town, you'll recognize that every town has them. Here in my small town, I realize that each one, is someone whose identity is defined by their passions.They're just so comfortable with themselves that they wear their passions on their sleeve for all to see.

Me - I've never been that transparent but I'd like to be more so. I do have many loves, obsessions, and passions. Over the past month I tried to soak up and enjoy whatever the trip offered.

Here's a sampling of things I enjoyed and, yes, maybe even passionately so, during the last week of this trip:

Hiking - I can't resist a hike with the promise of a lookout or a waterfalls.

Natural Wonders - McGinnis lake, at Petroglyphs Provincial Park is very unique in that it is a meromictic lake, which means it is very deep and has distinct layers of water that never intermix. As a result, the deeper layer receives little or no oxygen and living organisms cannot survive but 10.000-year old pollen and algae can.

Natural Wonders - McGinnis lake, at Petroglyphs Provincial Park is very unique in that it is a meromictic lake, which means it is very deep and has distinct layers of water that never intermix. As a result, the deeper layer receives little or no oxygen and living organisms cannot survive but 10.000-year old pollen and algae can.

Waterfalls - In case you haven't figured it out - I'm a sucker for them. This is Healey Falls - the rocks are as stunning as the falls!

Provincial Parks - Especially those with unique features - like this suspension bridge over a gorge at Ferris Provincial Park.

Art and culture - So much amazing talent in the world and so much beauty created by human hands.

History - Okay, I'm not actually passionate about history. I hated the subject in school, so the fact that I actually enjoy touring historic buildings and museums now, is worth mentioning.Is it a sign or maturity? Maybe, just a sign that I'm getting old?

Making History - I witnessed history in the making at this small Bracebridge brewery. They told me I was the first person on the plant tour to witness the filling of the first Dockers - a mini keg - a new product launch that I'm sure will be popular on the boat docks this summer. Okay, I admit it, I was probably as passionate about the beer samples as I was about witnessing the historical event.

Fun - I definitely need a chuckle and a little fun whenever I can find it. But get it straight, I'm laughing, not remembering these swimsuits. How old you you think I am? Actually...they do look slightly familiar.

Free festivals and concerts - (Rain or shine) I love to luck into them when traveling.

Quiet moments for reflecting - Like oxygen - one of life's necessities.

In closing, I feel very lucky to be have discovered a way to travel without the cost that many presume is necessary.

I AM following my two passions - traveling and writing - and I feel truly blessed to have a life that allows this.

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Come 15 Jun, travel dreams true?

Question: my husband and I are both 44 years old and we are ready to sell anything in this ugly economy and enjoy each other and more work only to the relevant invoices, but neither one of us have to pay traveled throughout a fifth wheel for a long time and we have been camping not together, because we a deal never gives time in the present time and it to play.

We want to have both afraid to travel, but really wollen.Wir live timer and have fun and experience life.

Is there anyway to communicate over the Internet with live timer?I seem to read about great times on the road, but I know the reality is nicht.Beide we experienced 5th wheel learn to travelers. I suspect I someone who will tell me everything.

We will set out middle of next year but to buy a fifth wheel.Thank you for your time.

What do you do in the times of the day, while on the road?
What is the average cost to stay in a park?-I see that it can be $ 10-$ 15 per night on the Internet, but in reality is that true?

What are the main issues on the road?

My husband is not practical vehicle repairs so, what can we expect? Are there any clubs that are better than others for discounts for rv travelers?

What is the average cost per year, we have to have enough money to begin with?

If there something I am missing please let me know!

A.
I can some of your questions to answer and then pass on experienced full-time that hopefully you can help even more.

The main issues on the road are typically fuel and campsites.

The cost of camping sites - can price range but it see the $15.00 rates and most is always more and more difficult to find likely that include no ports such as electricity and water.More realistically, free campgrounds between $20 and $30.00 per night in the Durchschnitt.Viele RVers save money by paying for a camping of only two or three days per week, and search for free Boondocking of some sort, on the other days.

Their personal standard of living will determine what you will spend while Reisen.Zum, I think can expect most people to live for the same amount well on the road you would spend a year in your current home.

What do we do during the day?Of course we try to find things to see and to do that are unique to the area we out on the road sind.Nach visit the tourist office info, our list of things in the area to see typically quite long. personal, we limit our activities on "low cost" and how to nature, hiking and kayaking to entdecken.Oft part our days is also spent doing normal household tasks: cooking, food, clean up and some telefonieren.Nach some initial activity as we relax time, read and just enjoying to spend eachother and the landscape.

To answer your other question, you can refer to my page on RV repairs and my page, a comparison of the various RV discount membership clubs.

Although we travelled as long as 12 months at the time have, we have full-time gewesen.Wir (never) have not also a 5th Rad....Hier is a site for you to check out: www.fulltime-rving.

Also provides many full-time which suggest different wallpapers on my blogroll aufgeführt.Ich, make contact with some of Ihnen.Insbesondere full live, work, dream and the wandering of Wishnies, which, I believe, are currently traveling in a fifth wheel.

Hope that a little Hilfen.Und, if you are a little fear, thats normal.Geben you him be a couple of weeks, and these fears right below vereinbaren.Es is a great way of life!

Mesa Verde RV trip

Our southwest Colorado travels included a Mesa Verde RV stop. The cliff dwellings were a sight that we do not want to miss. We came from Gunnison by Montrose. We took route 62 State Highway 145 and enjoyed the scenic ride on this part of the San Juan Skyway. (We had mentioned was that this less of a departure than taking route 550 would be South of Silverton to Durango).

We stayed at the Mesa Verde RV Resort, one of our happy Camper Park. It is only half a mile from the entrance to Mesa Verde National Park.It is a good starting point for excursions to the nearby cities of Cortez, the Anasazi Heritage Center, the Durango-Silverton railroad, Durango and other locations in the four corners Bereich.Es is a swimming pool and two hot tubs, and really we appreciate the free WiFi from our website.

Some of the great features of Mesa Verde RV Resort are the cosy touches of the lodge-like living room and the warm welcome of the owner-run Park.

The lodge has interesting furniture and Nippes, TV, games and puzzles, a book Exchange, free coffee and Popcorn.Es is a beautiful place to the relax and socialize.

The National Park was our primary site visits on this Mesa Verde RV adventure.On our first visit to Mesa Verde National Park, we stopped in the visitor center to view the exhibits and get a ticket for the cliff apartment tours.

There are three Cliffside sites you visit on a Ranger guided tour: balcony House and Cliff Palace on the Chapin Mesa and long House at Wetherill Mesa (open seasonally) worth it the fee to learn more about the building of the estate and the people, $3 per person lived here.

In addition to the paid tours there is much to see two full days spent on own Faust.Wir Park and could have more easily spent.Reflect back what we have seen, it is of worth to all of these sights for a good appreciation of the history and culture to see ancestral Puebloan people.

Balcony house tour is an interesting tour and crawl through a few narrow tunnel because you get to climb a few heads.

Cliff Palace is the largest town and is a must for park visitors.

In addition to Thses tours we stopped points along the cliff Palace balcony House loop also at some the overlook.

The Museum is very interesting, in addition to the 25-minute orientation film that many exhibits to devote some time.

In the immediate vicinity of the Museum is one of the self-directed Cliff apartment Websites.Bei spruce tree house spruce tree house, can a reconstructed Kiva roof (a Kiva is a ceremonial rooms) and can down down in a Kiva climbing a ladder.

While we were there, we wandered the 2.4 sure mile roundtrip ticket petroglyph point trail - to make the starting point for the hike leader to take one the trail more interesting.

Be sure to make the Mesa top loop road.The overlook show different phases of construction types from the early pit houses points here that uses the walls in the cliff dwellings.

Along the road entrance is far view sites complex a great website with several villages. can a close-up view of the Interior, kivas and towers get.

It is noteworthy that the visitor center about 15 miles in from the park entrance is located and there is a picturesque ride ist.Wir a Coyote as we saw in drove!(We hear that it eventually a new visitor centre right be off highway 160.)

In summary, we found that was next time be our Mesa Verde RV stop fascinating we plan to be here during the summer season, so we can go on the long house tour and see Wetherill Mesa.

10 April, abduction of UFO camp Boondocking

"Be prepared" was a racing the Boy Scout motto as I (then again, the merit badge involved in starting a fire by rubbing two dinosaurs). Simply enter your Foil Hat when you sleep. You will get worse than an anal probe not located with something. Who knows..., the possibly fun!

Also, hanging Tin pie plates to string from the ceiling in the bedroom of your plant and throw a handful of kid's-jacks on the carpet zu.Planen you just not on your visit to the head while half sleeping.

Of course, there are many people who tell you that prayer the answer ist.Kann not hurt...

RV vacuum cleaner?

Question: I am that I have seen that for a good but small vacuum for our new RV seem to have suction to insufficient power supply.

I want something compact in size, but with enough power and flexibility, the RV floors and upholstery reinigen.Haben you any suggestions?

Reply:

You might want to check out of the central vacuum systems at Camping World .We use the Dirt Devil CV950 central vacuum .

Some people put it in a Bay and install things so that only the hose in a convenient place within the RVWir no problems didn't bother and instead just hold the unit in a closet with the hose and the plant in a nearby storage drawer.

It makes much ADO, but works gut.Wir had tried before other small vacuum systems it, and as you say, nothing is small enough for a camper has enough saugen.Wir had the Central VAC for several years and are very happy with it.

Ensure the device with the RugRat system - comes or it separately acquire - it works really well on carpet.