Jim Hammill’s Top Ten Roadtreking Bucket List

Jim Hammill’s Top Ten Roadtreking Bucket List

Written by on June 18, 2013 in Jim Hammill, Roadtreking Reporters with 7 Comments

So much on the go, I thought it was a good idea to put my current bucket list on the table for me to visit, and for me to show and take my family.  I have seen a lot, some of which is not on the list anymore. But this list is one of the ones [...]

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An RV boom town in a Western Boom Town

An RV boom town in a Western Boom Town

Written by on June 17, 2013 in People & Places with 4 Comments

Gillette, Wyoming is a certified American boom town. It’s 30,000 residents have grown by a whopping 48% in the past decade as this western city has become the nation’s self-declared “energy capital of America,” thanks to its vast quantities of  coal, oil and coal bed methane gas. But today, it just grew by thousands more as [...]

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Boondocking Basics: Electrical Use While Unplugged

Boondocking Basics: Electrical Use While Unplugged

Written by on June 17, 2013 in Campskunk with 6 Comments

With all the solar retrofits and additional batteries being installed on some units, people are looking at their stock Class Bs and wondering if they’re hopelessly outdated. The answer is no – Class Bs have been out there for decades without all these recent innovations, functioning just fine, as long as you know how to [...]

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A study in contrast: From the Badlands to the Black Hills

A study in contrast: From the Badlands to the Black Hills

Written by on June 16, 2013 in People & Places with 3 Comments

It’s pretty amazing what a few hundred miles can do to the view. That was driven home to us today as we made our way across South Dakota taking in the vast green prairie and its lush grasslands, the wind carved canyons, ravines and hoodoos of the Badlands and the rolling thick pine forests of [...]

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New Mexico Parks Annual Camping Pass

New Mexico Parks Annual Camping Pass

Written by on June 16, 2013 in Campskunk with 5 Comments

One of the sweetest deals I’ve run into in my three years of fulltiming is the New Mexico State Parks annual camping pass.  Annual camping pass? Yep, all the camping you want for a flat fee. It’s the only one in the nation that I know about – other states have annual day passes, but [...]

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A South Dakota bugout

A South Dakota bugout

Written by on June 16, 2013 in People & Places, Videos with 8 Comments

Last night in Iowa, I was complaining abut the gnats. Tonight in South Dakota, it’s the Frankenbugs. The bugs have only gotten bigger as we’ve moved west Honestly, I dont know what they are. Way bigger than a gnat. Some are beetles, or what we used to call June bugs. But there are so many [...]

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Jim Hammill: Standing up to the Man (We all have to be rebels sometimes!)

Jim Hammill: Standing up to the Man (We all have to be rebels sometimes!)

Some of my favorite travel experiences are about people and their everyday activities.  Roadtreking is a life, not limited to four wheels.  It’s a philosophy, not limited to an RV.  It’s a state of mind, and as my good friend Campskunk tells me, I need to drink the Koolaid…….. Some time ago, I was in Japan, (home [...]

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Dag nab dem gnats

Dag nab dem gnats

Written by on June 14, 2013 in People & Places with 2 Comments

I could kick myself. If I wasn’t so busy swatting gnats, I would. Come to think of it, Jennifer will probably do the kicking herself. That’s because I forgot to set the GPS to “avoid toll roads.” After spending $13.20 on tolls driving the Illinois tollway, US 88, from Chicago to the Iowa line, that’s [...]

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Laura: The Mystical Morel Mushroom

Laura: The Mystical Morel Mushroom

Written by on June 14, 2013 in Laura Robinson, Roadtreking Reporters with 3 Comments

Call it the great morel mushroom hunt! After a few days in Rexburg, Idaho and dealing with my very sick pooch at a local vet, are now in Salmon, ID, staying at a stunning little RV park right on the Salmon River, located in the Lemhi Range in the Sawtooth Mountain Region.  This is prime [...]

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Fulltiming – What’s Hard and What’s Easy

Fulltiming – What’s Hard and What’s Easy

Written by on June 14, 2013 in Campskunk with 6 Comments

On August 9, 2010 my wife Sharon and I and Fiona the Fearless Kitty got in our 2003 Roadtrek 190 Popular and headed out to… nowhere special.  After configuring our campervan for extended boondocking capability with solar panels, an inverter, and extra batteries, we had cut our earthly ties and were embarking on an endless [...]

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How to Find and Use National Forest Campgrounds

How to Find and Use National Forest Campgrounds

Written by on June 12, 2013 in Campskunk, Roadtreking Reporters with 11 Comments

Want to get away from the commercial campground scene, and tired of the mad crush in the national parks? There are 155 national forests in the US with a combined land area the size of Texas, where it’s not uncommon to have a section or even a whole campground to yourself. The challenge is how [...]

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How we Roll in our RV – Budgeting for a long trip and odor control

Written by on June 11, 2013 in How We Roll with 4 Comments

In this edition of “How We Roll,” Jennifer answers a question about budgeting and how much it costs us to take a typical week to 10 day trip. In these days of $4+ fuel, that’s the killer to any budget that involves mileage. Jennifer shares our actual costs and ways we try to save money. [...]

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Laura Robinson: Ruka gets lucky and a near cliffhanger in Spud Country

Laura Robinson: Ruka gets lucky and a near cliffhanger in Spud Country

Written by on June 10, 2013 in Laura Robinson, Trips with 4 Comments

I have been weaving in and out of the incredibly gorgeous Wyoming/Idaho border the last 3 days, working my way up north through the Caribou/Targhee National Forest. I came along Alpine Lake, then into west Yellowstone, north again to Mesa Falls.  Spending nights at National Park Campgrounds where the flowers are in full regalia, perfuming [...]

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Jim Hammill: The Cowboy Way and RVs

Jim Hammill: The Cowboy Way and RVs

Written by on June 9, 2013 in Jim Hammill with 10 Comments

As I write this, the trickling Sunday morning sun is coming up over the horizon, in the beautiful province of Saskatchewan.  We are just outside of Saskatoon, a booming town here is the middle of Canada’s huge west.  We are getting up, sliding out for a quick churching, and then back to the grind.   It [...]

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