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RE: How insane is this?
I can't tell you how many times, while at home in our 3500 sq. ft. home I noticed and commented on the fact that all of us, me, DW, son, and dog, were all in the same small place at the same time. The bathroom, the kitchen, the breakfast nook ...didn't matter, we were all crammed into a space much smaller than any motor home even when we had an entire huge house to spread out in. Besides, once you learn where to go and when to be there you will be in mostly good weather and will have the entire outdoors if you wish to get away for a while.
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SteveRuff
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05/24/13 10:47am |
Full-time RVing
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RE: Pets in the coach
I say "kennel up" and Nicky trots right to his crate. He will sometimes stop at the door and look up to see if I really mean it, but he is quite happy once he goes inside. Like a parrot, we drop a cloth over the crate so it is dark and he will sleep until we get back. When we are all in the RV he mostly sleeps anyway so it is really not new to him! When we work at Amazon our shift is 10 hours. While we know he can stay 10 hours in his crate we do not want to come home and then kennel him again so that we can sleep and if we let him roam, he is unaware or unmindful of the fact that we need sleep! He wants his walk and his food and his play time. On those occasions we put him in the bedroom with his crate open if he cares to go inside. We close the sliding door and turn the radio on to help distract him from outside noises. He usually jumps up on the bed and snoozes until we get home. He gets a short walk, a small bit of toy tossing and then off to his crate so we can all sleep. Works for us.
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SteveRuff
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05/24/13 10:35am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: 2013 Major League Baseball Season Thread
DW and I are avid baseball fans. We take every opportunity to go to a game. In our travels we frequently come across minor league games that are usually quite fun and we are always on the lookout for college games. Major league baseball has gotten almost out of hand with ticket prices but we still manage a half dozen games or so a year. Sadly, we are Astro fans and that has been a challenging road these last few years, but they are still our team even if we don't know who the players are any more!
The Astros have hosted a Black Tie and Baseball Cap event for the last 23 years. This is a gala hosted by the Astro wives organization and raises money for a local women's shelter. There is no event this year because there is no wives organization. Our team is so young most of them are not married!
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SteveRuff
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05/17/13 06:47am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Generator/Electrical
The last thing you need to be is embarrassed. The one thing we ALL have in common here is that at one time we were ALL new to RV'ing and motor homes.
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SteveRuff
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05/16/13 07:25am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Is a generator necessary?
No. You do not NEED a generator. Living without hookups is much easier WITH a generator. Asking how far the batteries will take you is like asking how long a 6 pack of beer will last. Some people can make it last 6 days, others 6 weeks, but some can't last one day! My 2 12 volt batteries, with careful monitoring and minimum usage will last 3 to 4 days. Solar panels will not do just as well as a generator unless you have a serious setup. Typically, when not on hookups, I like to run my generator about an hour in the morning. During this time I try to get my coffee made, and any microwave usage I need for the day as well as letting it charge my batteries. I will usually run it an hour in the evening around supper time, again for some microwave use, maybe the news on television, and topping off the batteries for the night. There is nothing worse than having your propane alarm go off at 3:00 AM because your batteries have gotten too low!
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SteveRuff
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05/15/13 07:36am |
Full-time RVing
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RE: Im so excited, Walmart wants me to have their credit card!
I have been using their card for quite some time now. Until this promotion I always got an extra $.05 off the pump price and now I get $.15 off. I pay off the card each month so there is no cost to me. I filled up recently at $3.02 although it has gone back up now. I only use the card for gas.
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SteveRuff
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05/14/13 06:20am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Amazon Camper Force
I did know of a couple of people who worked a part time shift at Campbellsville last year. If I remember correctly they worked regular hours but only 2 days a week, weekends I think and they were partners of full timers. I wish they had a half time shift that worked all the days but only 5 hours a day. I guess they can't justify paying for a site and full hookups if they are only getting 20 hours a week out of you and if you have to pay for your site then the 20 hours wouldn't leave much in the bank.
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SteveRuff
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05/12/13 07:37am |
Workamping Forum
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RE: Five Lakes area of Kentucky
Surely he means Land Between the Lakes. Did this last year for a week. There are several campgrounds to choose from and many that are not on RVparkreviews.com once you get there.
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SteveRuff
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05/12/13 07:30am |
RV Parks, National Parks, State Campgrounds & More
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RE: Cape cod
spent my honeymoon on cap cod may 8th 37 yrs ago. beautiful area.
Seriously now! Did you actually get to SEE any of the Cape? :)
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SteveRuff
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05/09/13 09:32am |
RV Parks, National Parks, State Campgrounds & More
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RE: WW Recipes That Can Be Frozen
The crockpot chile recipe freezes really well and fits what you are looking for. Also I think the Santa Fe Chicken would do well for you.
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SteveRuff
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05/08/13 07:26am |
Camp Cooks and Connoisseurs
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RE: RV'ers wanted (or should be)
DW and I have spent the past several days sketching out our trip to the Pacific Northwest. We are leaving May 19th, and plan on traveling that area until Sept. We have identified 14 National Parks we intend to visit as well as many many State Parks. Surprisingly, what we have discovered is that it is often economically unfeasible to stay in state parks due to the camping fee being compounded with either a "use" fee or a "vehicle" fee. $25 to $30 a night is certainly a reasonable, even very good, price to pay for a site that might not have sewer hookups but does provide water/electric and perhaps a dump station, but then to add another $5 per vehicle per day and suddenly we are paying $40 a night when full hookup commercial sites are available for less. Of course, many of these facilities offer no hookups at all but still maintain the price structure with the added use or vehicle fee making it impossible to justify unless one feels the need to commune with nature. I have no problem with this style of camping and even enjoy my brief stints at boondocking, but I will choose the National Park using my "Geezer" pass and do it for the $8 to $10 rate. I will not be in any one state long enough to justify buying their annual pass, so, they, in effect, lose my business. What the state system loses goes into the local economy so they are happy, and next year the state fees will need to increase because they have too many empty sites and it costs almost as much to maintain an empty campground as a full one.
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SteveRuff
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05/06/13 07:58am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Is our summer trip out West too ambitious?
In the 17 days you have allotted I would never get out of the Black Hills and even then I would be moaning the fact that I had to leave so soon. That area alone has so much to offer for the whole family. Scenery on par with the best in the world and it goes from the desolate in the Badlands, to plains, to mountains, and also includes lush forests. Wildlife in abundance, tourist attractions, shopping, National Monuments, museums, lakes and streams .... Truly something for all ages and all tastes. For a first trip you could do no better IMHO.
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SteveRuff
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05/04/13 09:31am |
RV Parks, National Parks, State Campgrounds & More
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RE: Best gas card
Right now the Walmart credit card is the best around for many places. Using it I get a $.15 discount on Murphy gas. Actually filled up at $3.02 earlier this week.
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SteveRuff
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05/03/13 07:55am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: My last two weekends were not TT related..
Major project!
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SteveRuff
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04/29/13 07:45am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Zip Code required to buy gas
Just last week I received a phone call and an email from American Express that my credit card had been swiped with a different zip code. The purchase was refused at the pump so the person went inside and swiped the card to complete the purchase. Turns out our cards had been switched at a restaurant. I had his card and he had mine and neither of us had bothered to look at the name on the card. There was no fraud here since I knew the guy and I had also charged some things on his card! Amex straightened it all out for us and I had a new card the next day. I, for one, am pleased they are watching so closely.
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SteveRuff
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04/27/13 08:09am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Kemah,Tx
There is also the Kemah RV Resort
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SteveRuff
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04/27/13 07:50am |
RV Parks, National Parks, State Campgrounds & More
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RE: Contemplating the change
One thing I haven't seen anyone point out yet is that at one point we were ALL taking an RV out for the first time. The learning curve probably isn't quite as steep as you might think because you have been part of it even though you weren't actually doing the work yourself. With the Internet, campground friends, and forums like this one you will be fine. Going solo just means you need to take it slow and don't worry about doing things perfectly. Backing into a site for instance might take you much longer without a spotter, you have to constantly check to make sure you are on the right track which probably means getting in and out several times to get in just right. Don't worry about that. Take comfort in knowing that each time will get easier and your store of knowledge will increase. I say GO FOR IT!
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SteveRuff
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04/26/13 07:19am |
Full-time RVing
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RE: rolling stones - if we dont, we're gonna blow a 50 amp fuse
For us when having to exist on only 30 amp service we run only one air conditioner, I put the water heater on propane and sometimes switch the refrigerator to propane. If DW is going to use her hair dryer I try to make sure the air conditioner doesn't cycle. Our coffee maker uses a lot of power so it gets the priority when we first get up. Often, if the 30 amp service is strong I can even use both air conditioners if nothing else is running.
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SteveRuff
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04/26/13 06:59am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Travel to Seattle, Washington and Vancover, Canada
Passports.....you have to have a passport
DW and I went through Canada to Prince Edward Island last year and have also been into Canada at Niagra Falls. We opted for the passport card which is good for ground crossings into Mexico and Canada. The passport card is not good for air travel to foreign soil.
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SteveRuff
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04/24/13 08:55am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Nova Scotia
We rode over and back to PEI on the bridge. Going was free, coming back cost us $55.
Children: Beginning June 1, 2009, U.S. and Canadian citizen children under age 16 arriving by land or sea from contiguous territory may also present an original or copy of his or her birth certificate, a Consular Report of Birth Abroad, a Naturalization Certificate, or a Canadian Citizenship Card.
We stayed in the central part of the island so we could use our toad to go all four directions easily. I think our campground was in Oyster Bed Bridge and was very nice.
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SteveRuff
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04/22/13 06:58am |
Roads and Routes
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