Monthly Expense Report – July 2019 – Full-time RV Living

It's time once again for our monthly expense report where we share the costs associated with our full-time RV life. We live in a 24' Thor Chateau 22E Class C RV with our two cats, Maggie and Molly. We do not have a sticks-and-bricks home base, but travel wherever the weather takes us as we …

Eleven-Month RVersary, Museum Fire Update, Major Rig Upgrade

Today marks the eleven-month anniversary of the day we moved out of our sticks-and-bricks house and into our little RV to start our new life as full-time RVers. It's hard to believe that we've been out here for almost a year--time just seems to fly by. But we're still having the time of our lives, …

Expense Report for January 2019 Full-time RV Living

It's time once again for our monthly expense report where we share the costs associated with our full-time RV life. First, a reminder of the caveats. Every RVer is different--different rig, different diet, different interests--so our expenses are unique to us. Also, I'm not going to share every single personal expense that we incur each …

Pilot Knob LTVA, Solar Power, Geocaching, Los Algodones Mexico, Missing Family

We just spent our twelfth night boondocking here at the Pilot Knob BLM LTVA (that's Bureau of Land Management Long Term Visitor Area). So far we are really enjoying it, even though we haven't spent a whole lot of time exploring the area. The first few days we were here were spent getting our solar …

RV Expense Report – December 2017

Happy New Year, everyone, from our campsite in the BLM Pilot Knob LTVA in Winterhaven, California, just west of Yuma, Arizona. We hope your 2018 was as exciting and fulfilling as ours was, and that this new year brings you nothing but great things! Get out there and make it happen!! Now it's time for …

Vet Report, Completing Our Solar Setup, More Toilet Woes

Merry Christmas, everyone!! We hope this holiday finds you happy and healthy, wherever you may be! Our very first RV Christmas has been spent parked in a mobile home park in Glendale, Arizona. Not the most scenic surroundings, but being here has made it possible for us to take care of some important issues before …

Solar Equipment, Battery Monitoring, True Cost of Dumping

Our primary focus over the past week has been learning to manage our power consumption and battery charging. We have not had another episode of dead batteries, but we're very diligent about manually checking the voltage on the batteries several times a day. Andy is still convinced that they are not holding a charge the …

Battery Update, Christmas Plans, More Geocaching

As I reported in the last post, we had another episode of battery death, this time with our brand new 150 amp-hour batteries that we just purchased last week at Camping World. At the time of that post, we had let the generator run all night to try to recharge the batteries. Here's what happened …

Dead Batteries Again, Geocaching, Maintenance

It wouldn't be RV life without something in the rig breaking or malfunctioning, but we didn't expect it to be the house batteries. We just replaced them a week ago. As I mentioned before, since we've been boondocking in the desert, we've been running the generator for an hour in the morning and an hour …

Museum, Enchilada Fries and We Go Solar

We're down to our last few days here in New Mexico and we're trying to make the most of them before we pull up stakes and head to Arizona for the winter. On Wednesday morning we visited the Columbus Depot Museum which is housed in the old train depot and operated by the Columbus Historical …