Moving day, which happens about once a week, is a lot of work. Actually, I call it “relocating,” not “moving,” because somehow that makes it seem easier. I’m not sure that my strategy is working. At any rate, when we say, “we are relocating to [place] tomorrow,” this is what moving day actually involves. Usually… Read More Moving Every Week, Part 2
When we first started planning, it looked like once we got done with Allison’s races, we would be nice and slow. We’d spend a full week at each stop to really get a chance to see all the things nearby. We wanted to take our time and check out some of the towns and minimize our… Read More Moving Every Week, Part 1
We are officially full-time and on the road as of 6 AM on May 18th! I’m writing this from our first stop, Cotopaxi, CO. We are here through the weekend for Colorado Whitewater’s training camp, where Nik will be teaching some kayak lessons.… Read More On the Road
We installed a fairly large (for an RV) completely custom solar power system all by ourselves for right around $3000. It has 660 watts of panels, 540 amp hours (~6.5 KWh) of AGM batteries, and a 3000 watt pure sine wave inverter. This should be more than enough for us to have 2 people living… Read More DIY RV Solar
Again, we’ve been doing boring stuff. None of it is really big enough for a full blog post so here are some mini things. The Back Room is Complete! I finished the plywood in the back with some leftover Waterlox from when we did the floors in our house. It looks pretty good but the texture… Read More April 19th 2016 – Status Update
We completed 3 major projects this weekend. First, we got all of the electrical system in the RV (minus the solar panels themselves) working together. The batteries are in, the inverter/charger is installed and the 12V system is working correctly. But that’s boring stuff. Next is the flooring. Originally we were planning on doing laminate… Read More Painting and Flooring
We’ve done a lot of work on the RV but none of it is impressive enough by itself (yet) for a full blog post, so we decided to just post a bunch of pictures of our progress so far. We finished installing the dinette in the back room. We also made the storage area behind… Read More Progress Report – March 19th 2016
A while ago we were really nervous that we were going to be over the weight ratings for our RV but then we found a solution. In order to meet the manufacturer’s weight ratings, we needed to have a transmission cooler and we needed to upgrade the springs. In that post I said, “If I can do all the… Read More Air Spring Install
The “home” part of the RV is gutted! We have finished ripping out the carpet and in the process, most of the furniture. RV carpet is awful, even before you take the fact that it’s been there for 27 years into account. Or to be more specific, it’s awful to remove. They installed it before… Read More Demolition
Normally the back room in our house isn’t a very useful room. In fact it usually just causes a lot of frustration. But not anymore. Now it is the home of my not-so-secret lab… Read More The Lab
The Reckless Choice 