A lot has happened relating to this blog since my last "update." We've changed web hosts and haven't uploaded everything, Google Video finally is letting people convert to YouTube, and I've gotten a lot more photos uploaded on Picasa, but we are still missing about 10 days worth from September, 2007.
So there are a lot of broken links, broken videos, and no new posts, though they STILL might actually happen - photos are up, I found my journal of the trip, so now I just have to put the two together, right?
About Us
- Devin and Maggie
- In 2007, we had an adventure, traveling through North America in an RV. We moved out of our apartment and into the RV and headed to Baja California to begin, then headed north to explore some of our favorite places in the US, explore Canada, and return to Alaska. We spent 9 months traveling, or , as we like to call it, "practicing for retirement"! Now we are back in California, but living in the beautiful eastern Sierra in Bishop, working and saving up for a house without wheels.
RV and Travel-related Links
General RV References
- Camping World - RV & Camping Experts Since 1966
- Open Roads RV Forum an often used source of information!
- Baja Nomads Forum - "Peace, Love, and Fish Tacos" - a great forum for traveling/ camping/ RVing in Baja
- RV Consumer Group Where we learned about buying our RV
- Good Sam Club For 10% discounts at most RV Parks, Emergency Road Service, and Continued Service Plan for the RV
- Coach-Net Emergency Road Service and more
- Vagabundos del Mar - Baja Travel Club with inexpensive Mexican Insurance
- RV safety videos - how to handle a blowout, and more, from Michelin
- Mountain Directory (for mountain road information)
- Full Time RVer Newsletter and Blog
- Escapees Club a club for full-time RVers
- Phred's Poop Sheets! Great sources of info on RVing
- Mark's Fulltime RV Resources, including "The 12 Volt Side of Life"
- RV Life on Wheels
- Mobile Mavericks
References for the Road
Campground Links- National Park Service
- US Forest Service
- BLM
- Recreation.gov guide to finding a federal recreation area with camping! Includes NPS, BLM, Army Corps of Engineers, USFS all in one!
- Public Lands Information Center - guide to public recreational lands in the west
- State Parks Web Guide
- National Forest Campground Guide a GREAT resource from Fred and Suzi Dow
- Interactive Google Map of Campgrounds from epgSoft - great resource!
- Desert USA - great site for info of all kinds on deserts
- Monthly Sky Almanac
- TerraPass a way to try to balance out our emissions for the year - we bought 3: two "Road Tripper" passes for the RV and one "Around Towner" for the Jeep (since it's being towed, we'll have very low mileage for the year).
- Carbon Counter for figuring out our carbon offset for the year
- Basics of Electricity (pdf) Solar Energy Info from Kyocera
- Batteries More info for solar from Kyocera, the makers of our four large solar panels mounted on the RV roof
- Banks Power Pack Exhaust System
- an exhaust system that not only increases power, but gives our model of RV 7% better gas mileage!
- ScanGaugeII
which has digital gauges letting you know fuel economy - allows you to figure out optimum driving speed/rpm for best mpg
- SmarTire Tire Pressure Monitoring System
lets us know what our tire pressures are at all times (keeping tires properly inflated can make a big difference in fuel economy)
- Air Lift Heavy-Duty Air Compressor
(for filling tires using our batteries and keeping them at optimum pressure)
- Farmer's Markets where we can buy local, wherever we are
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