Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Banana Boat Bytes - Adventures With Rich & Donna
Rich & Donna Bauer say they are fortunate to be able to travel in their motorhome approximately 6-months of the year, mostly in the spring and fall.
The use their website to share there experiences and photos with our friends and family.
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A good friend of ours, Mike Saccomano, has been very helpful to us with website & webmaster advice. We get together a couple of times a year to discuss what's new in the world of the internet and he always has great advice for how I can improve RVbasics.com.
As well as being an avid RVer & camper he also runs a successful website called AwesomeTools.com. I think its a great site with some interesting products you won't necessarily find at Home Depot.
Mike has a webpage on AwesomeTools.com with products he feels may be of interest to campers and RVers so we said we'd help spread the word. Its the least we can do for all the help he has given me.
I think the Grizzly Spit Portable Campfire Rotisserie System is kinda neat. And, if you use 5# propane cylinders check out the Grill Gauge.
Mike says he uses one on his camping trips and it really works. So, if you have a few minutes and an internet connection, please check out Mike's Awesome Tools website.
The use their website to share there experiences and photos with our friends and family.
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A good friend of ours, Mike Saccomano, has been very helpful to us with website & webmaster advice. We get together a couple of times a year to discuss what's new in the world of the internet and he always has great advice for how I can improve RVbasics.com.
As well as being an avid RVer & camper he also runs a successful website called AwesomeTools.com. I think its a great site with some interesting products you won't necessarily find at Home Depot.
Mike has a webpage on AwesomeTools.com with products he feels may be of interest to campers and RVers so we said we'd help spread the word. Its the least we can do for all the help he has given me.
I think the Grizzly Spit Portable Campfire Rotisserie System is kinda neat. And, if you use 5# propane cylinders check out the Grill Gauge.
Mike says he uses one on his camping trips and it really works. So, if you have a few minutes and an internet connection, please check out Mike's Awesome Tools website.
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Parents, Driven to Educate Their Sons, Plan Cross-Country Motorhome Adventure
The planning began more than a year ago, but the real commitment came during Christmas when Dan and Jennifer Taylor invested $135,000 in a used RV and mapped out a year-and-a-half journey across America.
Dan and Jennifer Taylor, along with sons Griffin and Mason, will visit 52 cities and make dozens more day trips on their adventure. The trip will supplement the children's home-schooling curriculum.
The family's blog takes readers along for the ride.
Dan and Jennifer Taylor, along with sons Griffin and Mason, will visit 52 cities and make dozens more day trips on their adventure. The trip will supplement the children's home-schooling curriculum.
The family's blog takes readers along for the ride.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Jim Nelson and Rene Agredano - Live. Work. Dream.
Too young to retire? Have you ever considered taking a long sabbatical to really explore what you want to be when you grow up?
In May of 2007, one couple did just that. After years of growing a small, web-based graphic design and large format printing business from their home in rural Humboldt County, CA, the husband and wife team of Jim Nelson and Rene Agredano began to yearn for a change in scenery. For almost two years, they planned and budgeted to take some time off, see the country, and figure out: what’s next?
After taking critical steps necessary to successfully sell their business, the couple marketed and sold their little enterprise in just six months! And they didn’t just sell their business – they sold everything else too; their home and most of their possessions also went. Then, after more research, they purchased a top-of-the-line, four-season 24′ Arctic Fox fifth wheel trailer and a Dodge Ram 2500 that they fuel up with biodiesel whenever possible.
In June, 2007, they packed up and began traveling around North America with their three-legged dog Jerry in search of the next big thing in the new mobile headquarters of Agreda Communications. As they criss-cross across the country, they are sharing their road trip experience on their Live. Work. Dream. blog.
This is a great blog with lots of reading on many topics and a bunch of vidios of their travels and the people they've meet alog the way.
Live. Work. Dream. blog.
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Take the Full Time RVer Aptitude Test It's mostly just for fun but it will help you decide if full time RVing is right for you.
In May of 2007, one couple did just that. After years of growing a small, web-based graphic design and large format printing business from their home in rural Humboldt County, CA, the husband and wife team of Jim Nelson and Rene Agredano began to yearn for a change in scenery. For almost two years, they planned and budgeted to take some time off, see the country, and figure out: what’s next?
After taking critical steps necessary to successfully sell their business, the couple marketed and sold their little enterprise in just six months! And they didn’t just sell their business – they sold everything else too; their home and most of their possessions also went. Then, after more research, they purchased a top-of-the-line, four-season 24′ Arctic Fox fifth wheel trailer and a Dodge Ram 2500 that they fuel up with biodiesel whenever possible.
In June, 2007, they packed up and began traveling around North America with their three-legged dog Jerry in search of the next big thing in the new mobile headquarters of Agreda Communications. As they criss-cross across the country, they are sharing their road trip experience on their Live. Work. Dream. blog.
This is a great blog with lots of reading on many topics and a bunch of vidios of their travels and the people they've meet alog the way.
Live. Work. Dream. blog.
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Take the Full Time RVer Aptitude Test It's mostly just for fun but it will help you decide if full time RVing is right for you.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Ohioans stayed closer to home, used state parks in 2007
The way Dan West looks at it, 2007 was a good year for Ohio's state parks. The parks had an increased number of visitors and revenue gains from several sources.
West, a native of the Springfield area and 1974 Northeastern High School graduate, is chief of the Ohio Division of Parks. He pointed to 50.4 million visitor occasions (some people visit more than once) at the state's 74 parks in '07, up 2 percent from '06, and increased revenue from campgrounds, up 5 percent from '06, as positives and something to build on for 2008.
Studies have shown that people are staying closer to home these days, and it's probably due to gasoline prices. In some cases, we've seen people are taking even more trips than before, but they've been shorter.
Instead of going someplace for a week or more, they are going to state parks and staying a couple of nights in our campgrounds and get-away rentals (cedar cabins, rent-an-RV, camper cabins, Conestogas, rent-a-camps and cabents). People might not be able to afford a cottage or a lodge room, so they have made these hot sellers.
Full Story...
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RV Education 101 has bundled it's instructional DVDs into cost saving Value Packs. Each of the three packs includes four training DVDs (3 hours of information) that help RVers understand how an RV works, and how to maintain and use their RV. There are DVD sets for motorized or towable units.
West, a native of the Springfield area and 1974 Northeastern High School graduate, is chief of the Ohio Division of Parks. He pointed to 50.4 million visitor occasions (some people visit more than once) at the state's 74 parks in '07, up 2 percent from '06, and increased revenue from campgrounds, up 5 percent from '06, as positives and something to build on for 2008.
Studies have shown that people are staying closer to home these days, and it's probably due to gasoline prices. In some cases, we've seen people are taking even more trips than before, but they've been shorter.
Instead of going someplace for a week or more, they are going to state parks and staying a couple of nights in our campgrounds and get-away rentals (cedar cabins, rent-an-RV, camper cabins, Conestogas, rent-a-camps and cabents). People might not be able to afford a cottage or a lodge room, so they have made these hot sellers.
Full Story...
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RV Education 101 has bundled it's instructional DVDs into cost saving Value Packs. Each of the three packs includes four training DVDs (3 hours of information) that help RVers understand how an RV works, and how to maintain and use their RV. There are DVD sets for motorized or towable units.
Two drifters off to see the world... at least the USA
Follow along as Bob & Molly and their black cat Minkie, travel across the USA via motorhome... We left our home in Warsaw, Va early on Christmas Eve, 2007 to commence our travels westward, first headed to Yuma, AZ, then Quartzsite, AZ and ultimately to California and several points in between. Thus begins their travel diary...
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Motorhome Bus Conversion with stuff from the swap shop & dumpsters
Ever since Sean Slattery was a boy in Newton, he loved trash day. Or more precisely, the evening before, when his neighbors would put out the stuff they wanted hauled away.
He’s all grown up now, but continues to bring things home from the Littleton, MA transfer station and remake them into household objects.
“It’s amazing what people throw out, especially here,” said Slattery. “Littleton seems to have really good trash.”
Perhaps his biggest find is a 35 foot long 1989 Thomas school bus that he bought on eBay two years ago. He paid $2,000 for it, and another $750 to have it delivered to his house on a flatbed truck. He said when the truck rolled up and tipped the bus off, the front end reached higher than the telephone wires on his street.
Sean bus, dubbed, The Seeker, is fully converted to a motor home now, a process that took a year and a half on weekends and an hour here and there during the week. The conversion cost only a few thousand dollars—mostly the cost of tools—since almost everything he used came from the swap shop or the dumpsters. Sean Slattery's Website
He’s all grown up now, but continues to bring things home from the Littleton, MA transfer station and remake them into household objects.
“It’s amazing what people throw out, especially here,” said Slattery. “Littleton seems to have really good trash.”
Perhaps his biggest find is a 35 foot long 1989 Thomas school bus that he bought on eBay two years ago. He paid $2,000 for it, and another $750 to have it delivered to his house on a flatbed truck. He said when the truck rolled up and tipped the bus off, the front end reached higher than the telephone wires on his street.
Sean bus, dubbed, The Seeker, is fully converted to a motor home now, a process that took a year and a half on weekends and an hour here and there during the week. The conversion cost only a few thousand dollars—mostly the cost of tools—since almost everything he used came from the swap shop or the dumpsters. Sean Slattery's Website
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Country Discoveries
If you are interested in places to go in your travels, check out the following web site:www.countrydiscoveries.com
The online version of the magazine Country Discoveries has a short summary of various places to visit both in US and Canada.
The online version of the magazine Country Discoveries has a short summary of various places to visit both in US and Canada.
Monday, March 26, 2007
MacandChris.com Full Timer Rvers Mac & Chris McClellan
Mac and Chris McClellan say they are escapees from the prison of "normal" life. They've been full time RVing since September, 2004 and have chronicled their travels in their blog.
They also have lots of great info on the site covering technical as well as the practical aspects of full time RVing. It's a great web site with lots of good info of interest to all RVers.
They also have lots of great info on the site covering technical as well as the practical aspects of full time RVing. It's a great web site with lots of good info of interest to all RVers.
