Month: September 2015

Eastward!

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Deer season is still underway in Colorado, but we could only stay for the opening weekend. On the plus side, of all the other hunters in the area, it seems we were most successful in finding deer. On the down side, we weren’t successful in harvesting one. But there’s always next year!

The reason, of course, that we it stayed for the opening weekend is that I’m using the rest of this vacation week for our drive out to Indiana to pick up our new fifth wheel!

Currently, in the road in Kansas where the temperature is a very warm 93F, with that classic Kansas wind pushing us around.

Kanz Outdoors | Field Power Desk

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I’ve been looking for many weeks for a nice, safe, contained box to keep my work laptop and assorted work necessities well-protected and accessible. This, I absolutely love, but I’ve no need at all for the power options – it’ll be forever connected to our RV and its power.

I should call them and see if they’d sell just the box without all of the power/charging/distribution parts.

Kanz Outdoors | Field Power Desk

Broadband a “Core Utility”?

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Broadband is a “core utility” like electricity, White House report says – Ars Technica

In particular, it calls out wired broadband. And I read the article from a wireless device, while in our house on wheels, parked in an entirely empty campground that has no running water or sewer hookups.

You know: core utilities.

Actually, this got me to thinking: we should see about getting the obscene cost of RV dumps lowered to something realistic and make potable water hookups more accessible.

RVing is, of course–as long as one isn’t constantly in transit–far less expensive than a house or apartment.

An RV Update

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It seems like a lot of things fell into place the moment we closed on our house.

One huge thing that will change for us–aside, obviously, from the whole “unlocation” thing–is that we’ll also be upgrading our tiny, 17’ Jayco hybrid travel trailer to a much, much larger trailer. While we have stayed relatively comfortable for several weeks at a time in our trailer, we’ve never intended to make the tiny trailer our long-term unlocation home.

Saturday, we started making some calls to a few dealers to locate the specific trailer we wanted. After a bunch of calls, lots of questions, and several emails, we finally submitted a deposit with one specific dealer.

About three weeks from now, we’ll prep our little Jayco for its last long trip out to Indiana to be traded for a new fifth wheel.

Very excited and bit anxious–okay, a lot anxious. Hoping everything goes smoothly between now and then!