We've been wanting to extend our stays Boondocking and at Harvest Hosts beyond a single night without having to run a generator every time we wanted to make coffee or microwave something or to top off the battery to stay another night. After looking at all sorts of
As a full-time RVer nothing, except a roof leak, scares me more than a deep, hard freeze! Even though our RV is considered a "4-seasons", it is still very drafty when the freezing weather hits and it's not perfectly prepared for deep freezes. Having a water
This is the last in my series on Some Thoughts on Full-Timing. If you've missed any of the previous ones, you can catch up here: https://www.braysaway.com/ Our experience has been awesome! We are getting around to as many National Parks as possible and plan trips
This is the fifth article in a series on full-timing and we'll be discussing solar upgrades. If you missed any of the previous 4 previous ones you can catch up here: https://www.braysaway.com/ While I call this "solar" it would be better called "
Congaree National Park protects the largest remaining old growth bottomland hardwood forest in the southeast. Much of the rest have been harvested over the years but this swampy lowland has protected much of the trees from being cut down. It contains a large concentration of state and national record holding
This is the fourth installment in the series "Thoughts on Full-Timing". If you have missed any of the previous you can catch up here: https://www.braysaway.com/ In today's article we discuss different styles of camping. For instance, some people always camp at a campground
This is the third installment in this series. If you missed the first two you can catch up on them here: https://braysaway.ghost.io/ghost/#/posts We'll cover both "weight" and "stuff" in this article since they are closely related. First up is
This is the second in a series of "Thoughts on Full-Timing" articles I'm posting and this time we talk about the "best" RV type and size. If you missed the last one on budgets you can catch up here: https://braysaway.ghost.io/ghost/
Now that we’ve been full-time RVing for over a year and are heading into our second winter, I’ve had time to reflect and come up with some thoughts on going full-time. I'll be releasing these thoughts in a series of posts. First up is Budget! Unless
On a cloudy and cool morning, we steeled ourselves for a somber day on the Hallowed Ground of Vicksburg National Military Park. The tour begins by passing under the Memorial Arch and winds around the battlefield where so many Americans died in the battle for Vicksburg and subsequent control of
After a month of hanging out with family and doing maintenance, we’re finally back on the road again! This time we’re gonna do a Southeast United States tour working our way from the San Antonio area up to Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, down to Chattanooga to visit
On the way back, we stopped by the New River Gorge and Mammoth Caves National Parks but the government shutdown impacted what we could see and do. The parks were open for hiking and things like that but all the visitor centers and cave tours were shutdown. We were able