The Hurricane Mountain Bike Festival is a 3-day event where a bunch of bike vendors are on-site with demo bikes for festival goers to ride. Shuttles for JEM trails are provided, breakfasts and a dinner are included and there’s a beer garden, raffle giveaways, and music. All for the price of $55. Which is a really good deal.
Read MoreThe Aquatank2 30 gallon water storage bag was something we had been eyeing for awhile, but for $100 we kept putting it off until we really had a good reason for getting it. As soon as we realized that one of our main boondocking limiting factors was fresh water we got on Amazon and purchased the bag.
Read MoreWe survived our first year on the road! And we didn’t kill each other or the dogs. I call that success! Check out our infographic below.
Read MoreBlue Ridge Outdoors, our hometown outdoor magazine, did a Q & A with us and we're psyched. This is the magazine that we used to pick up monthly to read, so it's super cool to be featured online! The timing also worked out nicely since it was just a few days before our one year anniversary.
Read MoreFolks are getting really excited about residential fridges in RVs. Seems like a lot of this is driven by the desire for larger, more feature-rich refrigerators. But the move away from 2-way and 3-way fridges is exciting to boondockers like us, too. If you’ve been wondering what it takes to run a residential unit in your RV – and whether you could use one while boondocking – I’d like to share some info that might help you decide if it’s right for you.
Read MoreHere’s a post with some yucky photos for you: Today I cleaned out our P-traps, and I learned a few things along the way!
Read MoreEvery year we fly out west somewhere to go snowboarding. The last two winters the annual trips didn’t happen because we were rebuilding the Toaster. But this year we made it happen. It’s Andrew second winter in Jackson and we decided to meet there.
Read MoreOur plan for the beginning of February was to drive to Jackson, WY to visit friends and go snowboarding. But we didn't want to tow the Toaster up there with us since we would only be there for two weeks before returning south where we would stay for awhile. So we decided to store our RV during that time.
Read MoreAfter Borrego Springs we were really itching to get some mountain biking in. We still had about 2 weeks before we had to be in Jackson, WY so we decided to detour east over to Tucson, AZ to ride. While neither of us had ridden in Tucson, we heard it had pretty good trails.
Read MorePeggy and Bernie of Places and Platypie came over with their fisheye lens and took some wonderful photos of the interior of the Toaster.
Read MoreOur main reason for going to Mittry Lake Wildlife Area in Yuma, Arizona was so Tybee could go swimming. While we were in Borrego Springs, we had a conversation with a vet about Tybee that left us frazzled, sad and more aware of the potentially limited amount of time we have with her.
Read MoreIf you start reading about off-grid electricity or RV boondocking, you’ll come across mention of phantom loads pretty quickly. A phantom load is something that draws power but isn’t doing anything useful for you directly (and might be keeping itself secret, just to piss you off). Reading about these, they sound like a major obstacle to off-grid living, but our personal experience has shown that these loads are manageable once you understand them.
Read MoreHere are some photos of how we spent our time in Borrego Springs when we weren't hanging out with other RVers at camp.
Read MoreIf you have magic rectangles on your roof that turn sunlight into electricity, you probably want to make sure they get plenty of sun. You probably would go out of your way to make sure nothing else on your roof is casting shadows on them, right? But that’s pretty hard, on an RV roof. There’s not much space, and lots of other things up there to cast shadows. So what about little shadows? Exactly how much do you need to freak out about shading on your solar panels?
Read MoreA commonly asked question by soon-to-be-travelers and non-travelers is: Do you get lonely on the road? The answer we always saw on other full-timers websites was no because they had this great community of friends who also lived on the road.
Read MoreIn Electrical System Design - Part 1 I broke the electrical systems of our trailer (the Toaster) into the “solar” side and the “load” side, and discussed the solar equipment we are using. This post describes the other half of the system -- the loads, and how we use them.
Read MoreMy initial thought after seeing Government Wash, our boondock site at Lake Mead, was that it looked like the place had blown up. There were rocks everywhere.
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