Here are some pics of my babe I have not decided on a name for her yet. Any ideas?

I started on my Vogue 2 Motorhome Renovation. It has been a journey getting here, but I'm grateful she made it in one piece! You are more than welcome to follow me on my journey to restore this classic.

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Wish me luck and energy!

Decided to sell my house and move full-time into a fairly new Travel Trailer, so in November of 2019, I finally did that.

I thought it would take a couple of months on the market before it sold but I got a full offer within a week and they wanted to move in right away! I really had to scramble to get all of my 3 bedroom house and two sheds into storage units (plural)! My niece and her boyfriend came to help me and I swear I don't know how we accomplished all that but we did! ...

The Cabin Fever Cure -- 07/17/2020


New Mexico: Where Everybody is Somebody

Like almost everyplace in the US, the Chicago area shut down in early March. By May we were getting pretty stir crazy, so of course we decided on the perfect, safe solution: Road Trip!



We threw a mental dart at the map and it landed on New Mexico. Having heard good things about the state parks...

Reasonably Priced Unlimited Internet via 4G/LTE -- 07/10/2020


Real-Deal WiFi for RVers

We travel in our RV 4-5 months per year, and when we are on the road we want online access services similar to what we enjoy at home. Who wouldn't?



These are the services we need:

• General internet access for email, news, social media, travel planning, etc.
• Streaming

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We decided to take our first little excursion to try output our motor home. Just a short trip to Biloxi, Mississippi. Majestic Oaks, a nice quite park with all the expected amenities. We got set up easily enough and things went well for a couple hours until all of the 110 power went out. I’m pretty handy and realized that it was probably just a breaker that clicked off. I searched everywhere for breakers. Inside outside, all the storage bins. I could not find them anywhere. My wife pointed out a...

Well, I bought my first Motor Home a real nice used 2007 Winnebago Spirit. It only had 25,000 miles on it and had not been used much in a while. I was super excited to get on my way back home to Mobile Alabama from Waynesboro Mississippi. Everything's going great the motor home is running good, transmission working just as it should. BANG BANG! What the crap is that loud noise. Sounds the tires just exploded. Well one of them kind of did. The tread started coming off the tire. I stopped and checked...

Beating the Battery Burden -- 07/05/2020


Once in a blue moon you stumble upon an affordable solution to a vexing problem that has plagued you for years; we're talking about an invention so elegant but also so simple that you cannot help but lament, "Why didn't we think of that?"

Maintenance of Flooded House Batteries Made EZ



That's exactly what...

During my years of growing up, I knew very little about my overall family History. I was born in Virginia, near Kentucky and at about age five my family moved to Florida. This was done by way of the Grayhound Bus. My father had gone ahead of us to find work for himself and after a year sent for all of us to follow the trail to the deeper south.

Many years and many questions about who our family was and where we all came from with yearly vacations back to Virginia. I began the beginning...

Update: Wet Bay Woes -- 06/10/2020


Our trip out west has been great so far.

Oh Cr@p, It's Leaking!

Great, that is, until we discovered our recently rehabbed wet bay had sprung a leak.

We have been staying at full-hookup parks en route, so there really wasn't much call to fill the onboard water tank. When starting out, it was only loaded with several gallons, just enough to flush the toilet and wash hands.

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[B][I][U][CENTER]My Days as a Young Marine[/CENTER][/U][/I][/B]

About 1963, I had some school friends and together we joined what had been started a few years prior called the "[B]YOUNG MARINES[/B]" His I was all of 14-years old and looking for a life of Adventures. TRUST me we were nothing like the real US Marines, just a bunch of kiddo, want to bees. We learned to march to 120-steps per-minute. We had no guide books as I did in the Boy Scouts and the leaders were all former...

Back in 1999, YTK was very much alive, and well as we had become empty nesters two years prior. Things were looking good with our jobs, as we enjoyed a cool morning walk during the Tampa, Florida State Fair Grounds, Supper RV Show. But once the cool morning and almost noon air had moved along we started another long walk and tour of the many wonderful inside displays setup. Generators, Tow Hitches more motorhomes of all sizes and classes. Wonderful I thought to look to my wife to see if she was...

If the thought of living in your RV full time has been on your mind, and you are reading posts just like this about it, then it is probably time to go for it. As with any change in life, you may have hesitations, but there are many good reasons why you shouldn’t wait any longer.

If any of these signs apply to you, then it is definitely time to start living an RV-life
You are bored with...

Roadtrip: Heading Southwest -- 5/16/2020


Trying to Shake the Stay-At-Home Blues

Just can't take being cooped up anymore, so with masks in hand we're hitting the road in June to put some serious social distance between us and our home turf.



We're planning to do a limited tour of the New Mexico State Park System, which we have heard great things about.
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RV Projects: Wet Bay Rehab -- 5/12/2020


The NewAire Gets a Plumbing Makeover


One of the least impressive things about our original NewAire is its original wet bay. There's a lot of plumbing crammed into a very limited space, several of the plastic shutoff valves were leaking, and the whole conglomeration was covered with screen-printed plexiglass panels that did not hold up well over time. Sound familiar?

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