There aren’t many RV parks in the Raleigh area, and the ones close to the city tend to stay full. I called Bannister a few times over several weeks before a spot finally opened up. When it did, we booked by phone, paid by check, and pulled in for what ended up being two full…
Clare is a small town in the middle of the Lower Peninsula, and I’ve been coming here most of my life. We had property near Lake George growing up, and Clare was the town you drove into on weekends. Burgers at The White House, a swim at the Doherty Hotel pool, camping supplies from Jay’s…
The moment I knew I was having a baby, I started reading about babywearing. I loved the idea of keeping baby close to me, and having my hands free to do things like baby was sleeping or hanging with me. What I didn’t anticipate was how much it would change the way we travel. We…
The R-Pod 192 has a surprisingly large awning for the size of the trailer, and honestly it’s one of my favorite features. It’s electric, which sounds like a small thing until you’ve wrestled with a manual one—one button and it rolls out slowly on its own, fully extended, no cranking. Same going back in. There’s…
We’ve done some version of no-hookup camping in some genuinely uncomfortable heat. Two weeks in my cousin’s driveway in Dollar Bay, Michigan, where it hit 90 on several days. One night in a Cracker Barrel parking lot in Bay City in August where the temperature didn’t drop below 76 by 6am. And four days in…
I need coffee in the morning. That part is not optional. But somewhere along the way it stopped being just about the caffeine and became one of my favorite parts of the day — the grinder, the smell of fresh beans, the kettle heating up, that first sip while it’s still almost too hot to…
Munising is a small town on the southern shore of Lake Superior in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and it holds its own—art, breweries, good food, and beaches that would stop you in your tracks even if Pictured Rocks didn’t exist. Chad and I actually spent a week here when we were living in the RV full-time,…
One of my favorite things about living in a small space is how fast I can clean it. Our R-Pod 192 takes me about 20 minutes for a solid once-over, and if I’m doing a real deep clean—every surface, every corner—I’m done in 45. The right products help, but honestly it’s mostly just the math…
When you’re new to RV life, something breaking feels like a bigger deal than it usually is. Most of the time it’s not a repair; it’s just knowing where to look. Here are three things that have happened in my R-Pod 192 that had me stumped for a minute until I figured out the fix….
Leveling is one of those things that sounds simple until you’re at a campsite at dusk, rolling forward and backward three times, wondering why your bubble still won’t center. It took us a few trips to get a consistent system down. Here’s what we use and how we do it. Why Leveling Actually Matters If…