Fulltimers Put Togetherness to the Test: Fulltime in a Truck Camper

You gotta like togetherness. It’s a good thing that Sasha and Laura Jevetich like it, because their fulltiming world is compactly put in an 8′ 10″ SnowRiver truck camper. We’ll let the Jevtichs explain their reasoning:
“We sold our home May 2007. With the mortgage, the property taxes, utilities, lawn care, storage, newspaper, maid, insurance, HOA […]


Laptop or Desktop–Which Computer for Fulltiming?

It practically become a “campfire discussion point” among fulltime RVers, what kind of computer is best for the lifestyle? At the risk of setting off a “Ford v Chevy” style debate, we offer a few thoughts on the matter.


Trick Out That Rig With Diamond Plate

Need to give the old interior a shot in the arm? Nancy Einheuser’s vision may be what you’re looking for. In spiffing up her travel trailer she’s a long way away from pretty pillows and wallpaper. Check out the full story.


Fulltiming Doesn’t Mean Major Eating Change

Do fulltimers spend all their food budget in restaurants? Or are “TV dinners” more the fare? Check out results from a survey and some candid comments.


Six Rules for Traveling In Tight Quarters

“The Johnstons just completed another three-month motor home journey. Three months is a long time to be on the road with someone else in a vehicle not much larger than a Wal-Mart dressing room.”
Thereafter follows the six rules, which look like so much extinguishing for the fire that rises between the sexes. […]


Guide helps fulltimers decide on an RV homebase

For anyone considering the fulltime RV lifestyle, a state to establish a home base can be vitally important. For these RVers, the new 2008 guide “Selecting An RV Home Base” from the editors of Trailer Life and Motorhome magazines is a “must-have” planning tool for selecting a state to call “home.” Among the most important […]


Keeping Timely: Fulltimer’s Maintenance Checklist

Life is pretty busy, even for fulltiming RVers. Actually, maybe it’s “mow busy” for us fulltimers. It seems like if we have a spare moment, something comes up that eats at that spare moment, to the point we find ourselves coming and going.
But if we slip up and forget something important, we all […]


Firemen Ask for Solo RVer’s Help

In a free seminar put on by the Quartzsite, Arizona fire department for RVers, an interesting–and somewhat ’stop and think about it’–topic was brought up. Almost every year, says the fire department representative, a body is found in the Quartzsite desert, usually of someone who wandered off, got disoriented, and never made it back […]


Electricity or Gas–Whatcha Gonna Heat Your RV With?

If you’re sitting in an RV park or other place where you pay for your electricity, you may wonder if it’s cheaper to heat with propane or with electricity. This is far from an academic question, since the price of propane is shooting up–probably trying to keep pace with gasoline and diesel for some […]


Keeping Track of the Details: RVer’s Notebook

As RVers–and particularly as fulltimers–keeping track of the details is both necessary, but time and space consuming. For years RVers have been carrying notebooks in the cab of the tow vehicle, writing down such necessary information as fuel costs, trip distances, expenses for maintenance and repairs. On the road it’s nice to know […]


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