Black tank troubles
No RVer ever wants to experience trouble with their black wastewater tank, the one where all the sewer goes. Just the thought of that brings up images of the memorable scene in the movie “RV” when Robin...
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Fifth wheel vs. a tree
Rain is a good thing, as a Luke Bryan country song says. It makes the beautiful greenery we enjoy in places such as Northern Arizona. It also creates mud, something we try to avoid as the owners of a...
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A mouse in the RV — and a snake!
For more than a year, we had succeeded in not acquiring any stowaways while boondocking. Then one night near Salt Lake City, Utah, while Bob was up late playing a computer game, he saw a little mouse...
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Why we should have avoided a Buc-ee’s stop
En route from Eutaw, Alabama, to Nashville, we encountered the first Buc-ee’s of our 2025 travel season. Since we needed fuel and a potty break, we decided to stop. That turned out not to be such a good...
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Close coon encounter in critter country
A wonderful couple we met on our Mexican Riviera cruise in January invited us to park our rig on their property in Southeastern Oklahoma if we were passing through. When Norm and Susan extended that...
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Slow and steady gets the RV up the mountains
We started our sixth year of full-time RV living in slow motion. We only moved 5 miles away for our first stop, and we didn’t leave that spot until 10 a.m. on our departure day. After emptying our wastewater...