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We've heard some RVers use something called the 3/3/3 Rule: Travel no more than 3 hours to your next destination, arrive there by 3:00, and spend a minimum of 3 nights. Some also include something about 3 adult beverages being consumed once you've arrived as well, but I think that part is optional.

We thought the 3/3/3 Rule sounded like a ...

Looks like our weBoost is a success! After install, we spent a night back at Open Pond Campground since we knew what dismal reception we get there. It really helped, especially on my iPhone, which gets much worse signal than Check's iPad (smaller unit, smaller antenna, I guess). I went from usually having one bar of 3G to two bars of LTE on my iPhone7. ...

A lot of our time in Florida this winter has been dedicated to modifying the RV and the trailer. We've settled here in Fort Walton Beach at a friend's machine shop, making changes here then driving an hour north to Open Pond Campground in southern Alabama to try them out. So far our big mod has been adding laundry to the trailer. We'd picked up a ...

As I write this, we've been away from home in Weepy since late October, almost twelve weeks. Before this trip, our longest in Weepy was seven weeks, right after I retired. I have no desire yet to go "home" and I don't foresee feeling that way. If someone called and said the house had been destroyed, it wouldn't really matter. We've downsized ...

We were at the Pisgah Campground on the Blue Ridge Parkway last August, when near nightfall one evening a couple in a similar Winnegabo View pulled into a spot near us. We had been there a couple of weeks by then, entrenched in our routine of blueberry-picking, hiking, preparing meals, conserving water and tank space, advising newbies about nearby ...