Category: RVing

  • Welcome 2025!

    Welcome 2025!

    Happy New Year, good bye 2024 and welcome 2025 but in my opinion the years are clicking by a bit too fast for my liking. 2024 was a blur and each new year seems to wiz by faster and faster. As a teenager I couldn’t wait to be old enough…

  • Cheap ‘wood’ in RVs

    Cheap ‘wood’ in RVs

    We have owned our new to us 2013 Jayco Greyhawk 31DS for a little over a year. When we first viewed the coach prior to our purchase we thought the decorating was very good, but shortly after owning the coach we thought the coach interior was dull and dark. Our…

  • Dumping more money

    Dumping more money

    Owning a motorhome is not a cheap endeavor nor is one where you never are doing maintenance. We just got back from a week long trip to Cape Cod. The weather was perfect and location was spot on. We boondocked two night prior to arriving in Provincetown and boondocked one…

  • Summary of 3-weeks on the road

    Summary of 3-weeks on the road

    Summary of taking an RV from Connecticut to Wyoming and back.

  • Service Service Service

    Service Service Service

    Another title for this edition of the coach blog could have been “The key to keeping your RV road worthy and safe”. My wife and I entered the RV world with our eyes wide open. We had friends and family that have owned and still own motorhomes and we weren’t…

  • PU

    PU

    OK, you think this blog is going to stink? You may be partially correct, but this blog will focus on the fabric most motorhome manufacturers use for their ‘leather’ furniture. PU is Polyurethane Leather and years ago we were fooled into purchasing an overstuffed couch and loveseat made with ‘bonded leather’ on…

  • Westward

    Westward

    Happy New Year. Planning for 2024 trips

  • Getting stuff ready for 2024

    Getting stuff ready for 2024

    Owning Coach Ella now for a little over a month, a lot of issues have been addressed; There are still a few things to address in the spring Now that it’s cold weather I’ve been working on getting all the electronics in order, mostly the TVs. Not that we are…

  • Details of repairs

    Details of repairs

    UPDATE – JUNE 2024 Well the generator ‘fix’ I did last fall did not stand up to the rigors of the road. The Velcro failed and the air cleaner was laying next to the generator when I inspected it during our trip west. I contacted my local Cummings Service Center…