You know you’re in Texas when: Taking the tollway means you can haul ass You measure distance in time, not miles You’re not considered a real driver until you’ve survived Houston in rush hour traffic At least one member of each couple drives a pickup You take a road trip, and the longest part is…
This post contains affiliate links from Amazon.com We are currently in Texas. And when in Texas, we do like the Texans do and eat Chili!! It was our honor to share this meal with The Weed Family, who we visited during our brief stay in Austin last week. We had a lot of fun eating…
This post contains affiliate links from Amazon.com Of course every RV needs to fly the flag, and ours won’t be an exception. I looked at a lot of different flagpoles and brackets on Amazon. I also studied them in use in campgrounds, and also at Chicagoland Speedway, where we’ve been season ticket holders and infield…
This post contains affiliate links. I hope everybody had a great Christmas and New Year’s holiday!! We haven’t blogged in a little while because we were busy visiting family and friends, and enjoying the holidays ourselves. But now, it’s time to get back to work!! Since it’s Monday, we will continue our Location Independent Lifestyle…
We (RVers) all dream of unlimited power. Power to boondock anywhere, to live far from the nearest extension cord. Our motorhome came with 4 golf cart batteries and a 2000 watt inverter that can run nearly everything, for a while. To charge those batteries, we can use our generator, but wouldn’t it be nice not…
This post contains affiliate links from Amazon.com. When we chose this lifestyle, we chose to simplify our lives. We purposely sold all of our “stuff” and took with us only the bare essentials – the things we couldn’t live without. So now that we don’t have room for lots of “stuff”, how do we handle…
A lot of people are scared to death of electricity. Glad I’m not one. Our motorhome has a dozen 115v AC breakers in the main power center, 40 or 50 12 volt fuses in 2 different fuse panels, plus various other relays, switches, controls, etc. And maybe 2000 feet of wire. And all this stuff…
This is a GREAT topic for me to write about today! Yup, I’m late getting this post out! I have been running The Location Independent Lifestyle Series blog posts every Monday, and here it is Monday at 5:22 PM and I don’t have my blog post for the day!!! Why? Because I’m feeling unmotivated –…
Eleven years ago, My lil Brian announced “I wanna join Cub Scouts.” Our 2 older boys had both been in scouting, it’s a quality organization, we signed him right up. Brian liked Cub Scouts, and before long, he was announcing to anyone who would listen “When I get big, I am going to be an…
As we were getting ready to go full time, we took a long hard look at our inside storage. We had lots of raw room, we just needed to configure it to work for us. The first thing was files. Try as we did to eliminate paper, we still had some. We needed someplace where…