Without further ado, we are ready to give a real tour to our virtual friends and those who didn’t have a chance to see the rig at our “housewarming/going away party!” We unfortunately don’t have a fish eye lens on board so we had to make do with some panorama software which had some trouble… Read More Interior Tour
Oh my goodness, where do I start? First things first, WE ARE ON THE ROAD! I’ll write a full post on that next (with plenty of pictures!), but I would be remiss if I did not cover the craziness that was the last 2 weeks. Our to-do list for the last three days was… Read More Packing Up and Moving Out
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
This is a tutorial by a sewing-impaired person for other sewing-impaired people. My sewing isn’t that great, and my project design skills are worse. If that sounds like you, join me on a reupholstery adventure, won’t you? (If you are really good at crafting, you are welcome to read along, but NO JUDGING ALLOWED,… Read More Tutorial: How to Reupholster RV Cushions
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
I will never complain about moving furniture again. Even a giant bookcase full of books is simple to move compared to moving furniture in an RV. We’ve mentioned some of our plans for how we wanted to re-arrange things in the RV and we had some other plans that we hadn’t fully fleshed out yet. For… Read More Changing the Layout
The Reckless Choice 