We’re making our way south after our extended stay in Fort Myers towards the Florida Keys. The upcoming route will have us cruising through the Everglades, with some reported amazing anchorages along the way. The problem however is that cellular connectivity is likely to be a challenge. Our app Coverage? shows Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint […]
Why Does it Storm Every Time We Leave the Boat?? (A Quick Trip to St. Louis)
One of the reasons we decided to stick around Ft. Myers for another month is family. Chris’ dad had open heart surgery a few weeks ago, and we’ve been on pins & needles during his recovery. We wanted to be near a major airport in a safe place, just in case. His family was also planning […]
Wrapping Up Ft. Myers, Day Cruises and Travel Update
It’s so hard to believe that we’re now approaching 3 months in Fort Myers! This is just a quick post to bring you up to date. Ft. Myers Never would we have imagined that Ft. Myers would be a spot to captivate us. It was never really on our radar as a happening place. But it […]
Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS) for RVs – Why the EEZTIRE is Our Choice
We feel a TPMS (Tire Pressure Monitoring System) is an important piece of safety equipment to have for anyone on the road. With these systems, you install pressure monitoring sensors on each air valve of your tires (ideally including your RV tow-behind), and these sensors transmit pressure & temperature information to a central display screen you keep […]
Sometimes Nomads Need to Grow Some Barnacles (Two Months in Fort Myers)
We generally keep a fairly hyper-mobile lifestyle – changing locations every few days to every few weeks. But every so often, we feel the call – to slow the heck down for a bit. By the time we were ramping up our boat hunt last fall, it was shouting loudly in our ears. But stopping would have meant putting […]
Crappy RV or Boat Mattress?? Tips for a Great Night’s Sleep!
Our RV and our boat are our homes, where we lay our heads down to sleep every night. But so many come with, shall we say, crappy mattresses. Meant more for weekend excursions than everyday living. But you don’t have to put up with it. There’s nothing that says you have to sacrifice a good […]
Florida Road Trip!! A Week Back in the Bus
After getting the boat moved to Fort Myers on our initial leg of the Great Loop, and a couple weeks to get into the swing of urban life – it was time to return to bus life! Well, at least for a week. Our mission was a combination of getting the bus into its longer […]
Starting the Great Loop – First Adventure: Punta Gorda, FL to Fort Myers, FL
We’ve finally worked through making all of the detailed posts about why we picked the boat that we did, and shopping for and buying it – and we can finally get to the REASON we bought a boat: Cruising The Great Loop! We honestly didn’t think we’d be ready to start cruising so soon – after just six […]
Happy Hurricane Season: Our Florida Boating “Plans”
Today, June 1, marks the beginning of the Atlantic Hurricane Season. It’ll run until November 30, and it’s predicted to be an active one. And yup, we just bought a boat in Florida. The way we see it, aside from rushing our cruising up the east coast to say … upstate New York, there’s no […]
Boat vs RV – First Impressions of Living Aboard a Boat & Differences from RV Living
We’ve now been living aboard our boat Y-Not for 2 months, and it seems like a good time to share some of our initial thoughts on the lifestyle differences from our RV-life. This is by no means a competition between RV and boat life – we absolutely love RVing, and look forward to moving back aboard […]
