RV Insurance 101
So you’ve been daydreaming about hitting the open road in your brand new RV for months now. You’ve attended a couple RV shows, diligently studied specs and floorplans, and watched dozens of hours of...
View ArticleThe Fix is In
After a day of driving that included the sandstone iconography of Monument Valley, we pulled into the Spanish Trail RV Park in Moab for a special appointment. We were meeting our friends Tom and...
View ArticleGet your grill on. . .fast
The Lotus Grill is a clever Australian import that has a lot of RV friendly points going for it. It runs on a very small amount of charcoal, heats to full cooking temperature in under five minutes,...
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GoGear: Our RV is Streamin’ now!
If you’ve toured some high end coaches these days you’ll find they have some pretty sophisticated home entertainment systems that allow you to switch multiple inputs and send signals to multiple TVs...
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GoGear: RVer’s Guide to Streaming Media
The seismic change in how we consume and use video has been making its way into our homes and our RVs, but all this great choice comes with confusion. Entertainment technology is quickening in pace....
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GoGear: The Magnetic Lure of Induction
Above photo: Dinner prep looking out from Gouldings in Monument Valley. It still seems pretty magical to me that a cooking surface, which doesn’t itself get hot, can still boil water. I won’t get...
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The BIG one is coming
So RVers where’s the largest RV show in the world? Is it the California show in Pomona? Hershey, Pennsylvania? The Super Show in Tampa, Florida? Well it’s: “D”. . . .none of the above. The largest...
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GoGear: High-tech Camping Chair
Nearly 40 years ago my dad bought a classic Zip Dee metal and canvas RV chair for his motorhome. I never had the heart to part with it and, when we bought our first Navion and wanted a second one, I...
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Healthy RV Eating: Curried Cauliflower Bisque
A warm comforting soup is one of my favorite RV meals when the temperature turns cold outside. I like to make them pre-trip, and then stick them in the RV freezer for an easy heat-and-eat dinner when...
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GoGear: Cupholder Table Trays
Ask any three RVers about a device or modification and you’ll usually get four or more answers. And so, we’ll open today’s discussion with a question? Where do place your going-down-the-road nibbles?...
View ArticleGoGear: The Apple Watch Goes RVing
Sometimes I’m the first in line. Sometime’s I’ll hold back. In the case of the new Apple Watch I pushed my wife out of the airplane first, but kept my hand on her ripcord. I easily adapt to new...
View ArticleGoGear: Scrubba Wash Bag
The Scrubba wash bag is an interesting take on a dry bag for doing laundry. It looks like a dry bag on the outside, but the interesting parts are on the inside. There are lots of little silicone...
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Go Gear: Music for your RV
Being of a certain age of majority I smile when I read of a millennial’s account of their RV experience as if they were the first to discover fire. And now I find myself probably in a reverse...
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Our Class B Kitchen
James and I love rolling in our Class B campervan, “Lance.” Having such a small RV makes us incredibly mobile. We can do U-turns, fit in parking spaces, and even parallel park! But having our nimble...
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GoGear: Cell Boosters
Cell service and an internet connection is no longer “nice to have” in many RVs, it’s a downright necessity. Take me, for example. I work in the IT industry, and Stefany and I also run an RVing...
View ArticleThe Joys and Perils of GPS
While navigating to and fro across the streets and freeways of the Phoenix area in both our Navion and new Ford Focus tow car, I’ve been thinking about how blessedly removed I’ve become from the hassle...
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GoGear: Helinox Table One Hard Top
Some months ago, our own GoLife editor, Don, wrote about the Helinox backpacking chairs. Since Stefany and I travel in a Class B Winnebago Travato, any RV accessory that’s smaller and lighter...
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Go Gear: How we tow
The idea of towing a car behind our first Navion alternately sounded like a liberating and terrifying idea at the same time. One of the reasons we chose to buy the Mercedes Sprinter based Navion was...
View ArticleCare of Vinyl Graphics
Vinyl graphics emerged in the marketplace in the late 50s in the form of wood graining on the side of automobiles. Early vinyl graphics were viewed as a low cost / short-life product and used as an...
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Water Pressure Regulator Round-Up
One of the great things about traveling in an RV is that you’ve got a more or less “regular” plumbing system with you, even in some pretty remote and beautiful places. Sometimes, you run that system...
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