When we first hit the road, we started getting invitations to come park in people’s driveways. I found it odd at first. Did these well intentioned folks think we couldn’t afford to stay where I thought RV’s belonged – in campgrounds? I was on a mission to prove we weren’t moochers, and could pay our […]
Lifestyle
Travel Like A Local? or Travel Like a Tourist?
As perpetual nomads, with intentional blurry lines between ‘every day life’ and ‘travel’ – we’re always experiencing new places while technically living there too. But we’re not quite tourists, and we’re not quite locals. Our lives are often confused for being in perpetual vacation mode, a topic we talked about on camera last week. Today, […]
Nine Years On the Road: How Long Will Our RVing Nomadic Lifestyle Last?
Bon Jour from Montreal! Where we just completed our awesome 13-day Canadian cruise (recap coming soon), and are spending a few days in this glorious city exploring before we return home to our RV parked in Florida. Today also marks my ninth year on the road as a perpetual nomad. It’s actually sorta hard to […]
The Sucky Sides of RVing: 10 Things that We Hate about Full Time RVing
Every so often we see a rash of comments in RVing groups, blogs and forums from folks who hit the road and are now disappointed with their choice. And they almost always blame all the bloggers, vloggers and Instagrammers out there who seemingly focus on the positives and oversold the lifestyle (as if we earn a […]
Can You Stay in 55+ RV Parks if You’re Under 55?
Even us road veterans are constantly learning new things. Today, I wanted to share with you something that we were never clear on and had to dig deeper to understand. I want to be very upfront here… I’m not posting this to make an argument if this is right or wrong, or to start a political debate (and […]
You Can Climb Mountains
I don’t have a fear of heights. I have a fear of tumbling down to my doom. Ask me to join you for a hike to the top of anything resembling a mountain, and I’m likely to politely decline. It’s not the up part that scares me, it’s the coming down part. We’re currently parked […]
Nearly 5 Years of Flat Towing a MINI Cooper Behind our Motorhome
When we first started off full timing, we used a Jeep (and then eventually a truck) to pull small travel trailers. When we were settled into a camping spot the house was unhitched, and the tow vehicle became our local transportation. That lasted about four year. And then we got a motorhome, or more precisely, […]
Another Xscapers Convergence for the History Books: Quartzsite, Arizona 2016
For many years, the Escapees RV Club has had a presence at the big Quartzsite winter event that brings hundreds of thousands of RVers to one huge spit of desert. We attended the Quartzsite fun for the very first time last winter, and were blown away by the variety of places to camp, things to […]
What can a Boondocker Learn from a Martian?
Last evening we hosted an outdoor movie night for our fellow Xscapers friends camped with us at the after-convergence here in Quartzsite. (The main convergence was a huge success, and several of us have retreated further into the desert to continue the bonding – only away from the freeway and much more spread out.) The movie selected […]
Our 12 Favorite Campgrounds of 2015
This year, we stayed in 59 different locations in our RV, and several more in our months of non-RV travel. In this post, we’ll pick our 12 favorite RV camping locations from our past year’s travels. Each spot we stopped at brings back a special memory. People we were visiting or traveling with, a fabulous view, great hiking […]
