If you’re an RVer and haven’t yet heard of Campendium… it’s time you did. Brian & Leigh of Aluminarium have worked incredibly hard to create an important resource for all of us to use, and now they need our help. They’ve earned it, so we encourage every RVer to support their continuing efforts to improve …
One of the great things about RVing is the far-flung friends you make who would never have appeared on your radar otherwise. The route that led us to Jason & Nikki Wynn came through a single RV park, even though neither of us was staying there at the time. Our plan when we hit the …
The only thing better than finding innovative, high-quality RV products… is getting a discount on them! We’re thrilled that some of our favorite companies have agreed to offer special discounts to our viewers on the very same gear we use and love. Since we’ve been full-timing for over 12 years, we’re often asked what products …
Twelve years ago this week, on April 11, 2003, we hit the road full time. A few months earlier, we’d purchased our flat-towable Honda CR-V specifically for that purpose. Repeated exposure to harsh Desert SW sunshine and spending most of your life facing into the rear end of a diesel pusher are apparently not the …
Someone just won a $700 Tire Pressure Monitoring System in our latest RVgeeks Giveaway! Was it you? Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find out. Besides RVs, we have a fascination with flying. In our “pre-RV” life, we were fortunate enough to own our own plane (Peter’s been a pilot since …
About a month from now we’ll celebrate our 12th anniversary of full-timing. It’s hard to believe that our “2- or 3-year” adventure, which started when we drove away from our just-sold house on April 11, 2003, has turned into a bona fide lifestyle. You’d think that after all this time we’d know just about everything …
Does your RV have a block heater? Do you only RV where it’s mostly above freezing, so you never use it? Maybe you should sometimes. Since a block heater is designed primarily for helping an engine start in extremely cold conditions, many people never use theirs, even if their motorhome is equipped with one. But …
We’ve just returned from 2 months away from our RV to discover that we apparently left a little bit of ourselves behind in the UK during our visit to Scotland last summer. Viewers were excited to let us know that we were mentioned on the BBC yesterday morning!
If you’ve been following us for very long, you know that our Newmar Mountain Aire is a featured performer in most of our videos. When we started full-timing in 2003, we had never even been on board an RV before. We just knew it was something we wanted to do. We actually bought our first …
Among the undesirable sounds an RVer never wants to hear while rolling down the highway, a “crack” as another vehicle passes by is surely among them. You know… the sound a flying stone makes when it hits glass? Depending on how loud it is, the next thing you hear might be your heart pounding in …
We love our RV’s windshield screens. On hot, sunny days, the large front and side windows on a motorhome can radiate an intense amount of heat into the RV’s interior. Windshield screens make a huge difference, keeping us a lot cooler inside, especially when we’re boondocking (when we rarely use the A/C). Any RVer spending …
We’re pleased to announce that our recent changes appear to have been successful. We appreciate your hanging with us while we worked out the bugs during our transition. The new website is up and running, with many updates already in place. Launch day was both exciting and alarming all at the same time, as traffic …
We’re hitting the “big time” with our very first YouTube Channel ad, which will also be our new Channel Trailer. Check it out here! As our channel has rapidly grown past 25,000 subscribers, we’re still the most-subscribed-to channel about RVing on YouTube. We’re now rapidly approaching 5,000,000 views and things are continuing to accelerate. Thanks to our most …
We’ve just returned from an awesome two-week trip to Scotland! We saw more motorhomes, caravans, campervans, caravan sites & pitches than we ever expected… especially since we just learned what some of those terms mean! Come along for the ride while we share everything we learned about RVing in the United Kingdom. Starting in Glasgow, …
Besides showing you how we homemade an emergency mousetrap from items we had around the RV, we have winners to announce in our 360 Siphon contest! Five lucky HowToRVgeeks viewers each won two 360 Siphon Roof Vents. Were you one of them? Scroll down to the bottom of this post to find out. ;-) So …
If your RV is a diesel pusher like ours, and you sometimes find small specks of oil on the front of your toad (towed car), there’s a little black tube under the engine that just might be the source. It’s a part of the crankcase ventilation system commonly known as the breather tube (some mechanics …
You don’t have to be an RVer for very long to come to the same conclusion we did: breaking camp in the rain kinda sucks, especially if you have slide-outs. Pouring rain is just about the last thing you want to see out your windshield on the morning you’re planning to leave a campground. If …
Whether you live in an RV like we do, or in a regular house, corn on the cob is a great summer treat. But did you know that you can microwave corn on the cob? And that it may be the best way to prepare it? We saw this trick online and thought we’d give …
Like most RVers, we love the outdoors. But when the mosquitoes fly, we hate having to cover ourselves with slimy, smelly, or even toxic (for products containing DEET) insect repellent. Citronella candles and other repellents don’t seem to work much better and those expensive mosquito magnets seem to draw them in from all over the …
The RVgeeks popular video intro music: Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin — Live from Las Vegas! I occasionally get asked about the Ragtime piano music that we use in the intro on most of our videos. That’s me playing Scott Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag, recorded several years ago. I took advantage of our recent …
Most RVs are equipped with lockable outside storage compartments, including our first motorhome, a 2002 Fleetwood Bounder Diesel. Since our basement doors had no central locking mechanism, we got used to carrying the keys whenever we were working outside around the RV. We got so tired of locking and unlocking compartments, that we put “Power …
In ten years of full-time RVing, we’d only taken our motorhome aboard a ferry twice before, on a round-trip sailing from Horseshoe Bay in Vancouver, Canada to Gibsons, on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast. That trip, on a huge 450-foot-long BC Ferries vessel, took about 45 minutes each way and was very expensive for the RV, …
Like most RVers, we spend a lot of time exploring the wide open spaces of the great outdoors. But there are definitely times we like to visit large and medium size cities too. New Orleans is definitely one of those places and a great topic for our 50th YouTube video! One problem with RVing in …
We take you on a video tour of the Tiffin Motorhome Factory in Red Bay, Alabama. 2013 marks Tiffin’s 40th year, so what a great time to visit. We’ve taken an awful lot of factory tours at various RV manufacturers: Monaco, Entegra, Winnebago, Newmar (of course… twice!), Travel Supreme, Rexhall, Country Coach and even high-end …
Using this simple trick, you can keep celery fresh and crisp for a month or longer in your refrigerator. Hummus and celery is one of our favorite healthy snacks. But since we’re faithful Costco shoppers, using up the large packages of celery before the last of it goes bad can be a challenge. Here’s a …
Mention Yellowstone National Park, and most people probably think of Old Faithful. While we love the geyser basins, our favorite part of the park might be just a little less famous: the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. This spectacular canyon and its two powerful waterfalls seem more accessible to us than the more well-known “Grand …
Using a simple plastic water or soda pop bottle, here’s a quick trick for separating the white from the yolk the next time a recipe calls for you to separate eggs. We’re off the RV and visiting family in their “stick houses” and saw a video from China of a woman separating an egg with an …
We’re serious ice cream fans. Seriously. Big. Fans. Suffice it to say that we’re on a first name basis with both Ben and Jerry. We’re also partial to Cold Stone Creamery and Culver’s Custard too. One nice thing about RVing is that we get to discover lots of hidden gems in many far-flung places. We’re …
While Mount Rushmore is the most well-known attraction in the Black Hills of South Dakota, there are lots of great things to see and do here. We just scratched the surface on this easy, one-day scenic drive. Although Yellowstone National Park is probably the most famous place to see bison (buffalo), Custer State Park has …
One of our favorite RVing destinations in the U.S. is Glacier National Park, where you’ll find one of the most spectacular scenic drives in the world: Going to the Sun Road. The road itself is an engineering marvel, but the views are absolutely incredible. If you’re afraid of heights, best to sit on the side …