Winter Holiday Safety Tips
Whether you’re planning to stay home, travel by car, or hit the road in your RV, implementing some safety practices beforehand will ensure you have the best winter holiday possible! Here are some safety reminders to help keep things merry and bright this holiday...
Grilled Five Spice Wings and Ribs
Call me stubborn, but I am determined to keep grilling in winter. The barbecue grill is connected to residential gas and outside my back door. With tongs in hand, I'm only a step or two to get to the barbecue. Why not grill some Asian-inspired finger foods to serve...
Holiday Gifts for RVers
The holiday gift-giving season is approaching, and we're already asking ourselves the same challenging question: What to give those special RVers in our lives? Before we answer that question (and check out the suggestions below), let’s step back and remind...
Thanksgiving Dinner on The Barbeque
Summer is the time to cook outdoors. The heat this past year has had me testing and expanding the use of the barbeque to include baking bread and pies. Why not continue the trend and roast a turkey on the barbecue? Fire up that BBQ to cook Thanksgiving dinner and...
Fire Roasted Vegetables
Why let a good fall fire go to waste? Why not cook some vegetables right in the fire? It seems caveman-like to cook food on the coals, but this project was fun and delicious. You may be surprised to find squash, beets, yams, carrots, and corn deliciously sweet...
Trailside Plumbing: How to Replace an RV Water Heater Yourself
It was the middle of February; we were enjoying a month of luxury camping at Retama Village, in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. At the end of March, we would head back to Canada. After fourteen years of faithful service, our RV water heater sprung a leak. “What!”...
Chargrill For A Perfect Steak
“Salt meat as soon as you get home from the butcher.” This is advice from Michael Ruhlman, prodigious chef, cookbook author, and someone who knows what he’s talking about when it comes to making food delicious. The second chapter of Ruhlman’s Twenty (20 Techniques,...
Weather Apps for RVers
Planning for that epic road trip this year? In addition to checking we’ve the right insurance coverage, it’s becoming increasingly more important to also plan for the possibilities of extreme weather and wildfires on our journey. Last year (2023) more people were...
How to Keep Your Portable Electric Generator Running Smoothly: A Practical Guide for RVers
Imagine this: You’re camping in the Arizona wilderness in your RV, enjoying the peace and quiet of nature under a star-studded clear January sky. You have a portable electric generator for emergencies. You think you are prepared for anything until one night when...
Gas or Charcoal? Choose your grill and up your game
Charcoal or gas? We have been cooking over fire for a very long time. It's not just that our ancestors wanted to avoid raw meat, fire when correctly managed makes things deliciously tender. A suitable fire for the correct amount of time at the right intensity adds...
Top tips for planning a successful RV trip
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.- Attributed to Gloria SteinemBefore there’s a plan, there’s a dream. That’s the first step in any plan. Start your planning early by...
What’s New in Motorized RVs
In the fleet of motorized RVs, new designs are following a trend towards the wants of younger buyers. Class B motorhomes, in particular, are increasing in popularity – hence why more versions are available. The younger demographic spends more time on the road and...
