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Nerdy Travel Apps to Organize Better Trips

For full time travelers, smartphones have become an essential part of booking trips. In fact, 85% of people book travel activities via a mobile device. Once in a new destination, there are apps for every task, from converting currency to translating signs. The role of technology has made global travel not just a possibility for nerds, but…

November 15, 2018

travel gear

The Ultra Useful ‘MyCharge’ Portable Phone Charger

Being on the road or just out in nature all weekend, my phone is usually dead early in the day if I can’t get to a charger. It’s especially annoying when we’re on our bikes out in an area we don’t know (that’s pretty much any area) and my phone starts dying when we need it for GPS to get home.…

April 28, 2015

Tent Camping travel gear

Tent Camping in Hill County Natural Area, Texas

We woke up late this Saturday with zero plans, regretting not making any but also happy for a morning off. After lazing about for a while we decided that it was the perfect weekend to go tent camping for the first time this year. There aren’t many options in the San Antonio area for camping, and of the two that seemed…

May 20, 2014

Indian Paintbrush and Thistle at Navajo Lake

National Forest National Park RV life travel gear

Utah Camping, Navajo Lake in Dixie National Forest

We camped near Phoenix for a night before we went to the UK but otherwise we hadn’t been camping in a long while. Between my broken leg last summer and winter weather in Flagstaff, there wasn’t much opportunity but staying in Utah this month, we have no more excuses and have been looking forward to using our…

June 25, 2013

Environment tips travel gear

My toothbrush has a prepaid envelope

An inadvertent side effect of this trip has been transitioning all of our bathroom and cleaning items into cruelty free, natural products. For most things it was easy or we already used them before we left, like Green Works multi purpose cleaner and Seventh Generation dish soap, but there are definitely more things to think of than…

December 5, 2010

nerding photography travel gear

New Travel Camera: Pentax K20d

I'm really into photography. It's basically the only thing I spend any large chunks of money on before the RV. Cameras, film, scanner, developing supplies, hi def monitor, lighting equipment, frames etc etc and it isn't about to end just because I live in an RV.