One question you should ask yourself prior to purchasing a travel trailer, camper, or RV, is where you will store it. Many of us forget that question and have to figure it out after the fact. Here are the facts to consider when storing your RV at home or at a storage unit. Should you…
What is a Fresh Water Tank? An RV fresh water tank is a place where you can store drinking water safely in your RV, travel trailer, or camper. It is for making water available to you, your family and friends when you are away from home taking that much-deserved break from reality in your recreational…
Installing solar on your travel trailer, camper, or RV can help extend your off grid camping trips from a few days to indefinitely. Essentially, if you have enough solar on your roof for your needs, you will never run out of power. Read the rest of this article to find out the basics of solar…
The inflated costs of hotels and B&Bs spread out over weeks, months, and years on end can take a serious toll on your traveling budget. Because we are on the road a lot, I did some research to determine whether a travel trailer would hold up to my lifestyle and make a good investment. How…
RV’s are the perfect tool for a weekend or summer getaway. While driving, they can be like driving an aluminum can down the road, especially in the heat. Heat can build up in the interior and cause an uncomfortable space, lucky, there is a solution. Run your air conditioner. To do this, you will need…
Our trailer came from the factory with three heating ducts, one in the main living space, one in the bathroom, and one to heat the undercarriage. When purchasing the trailer, we figured this would be good as it is a small place to heat. Overall, it does a great job at keeping the trailer heated…
We spend many nights per year in our travel trailer without a connection to shore power. In fact, this is one of our favorite ways to camp. This makes us rely on our preparedness and the systems in the travel trailer that can be run off grid vs the always being plugged in having every…
As you move up in weight, you can start upping the size and features you tend to expect with a larger RV. We have scoured the market and came up with our favorite 6 trailers under 6,000 pounds that will keep you in the wilderness longer and give you a great camping experience for years…
One of our favorite parts of taking a travel trailer trip is being able to cook in the outdoors. Sometimes, if it becomes rainy, we are forced to hide out under the awning, or even in the travel trailer itself. We like to have a backup indoors meal planned such as soup or lasagna in…
Many people buy travel trailers because they are the outdoorsy type. Lots of outdoorsy types also like to ride bikes. A travel trailer doesn’t give you the best spot from the factory to carry your bikes. Having a bike on a camping trip can give your kids something to do, or provide you with transportation…
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