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All I really wanted to do was hide out and avoid the excitement of the upcoming 4th of July weekend. I failed. I’ve been camped for three days at the…
Category Archives: Campskunk
70 and Sunny All Year – Moving the RV With the Weather
The main advantage of fulltiming is that you’re not running back and forth from a home base to where you want to be – you ARE where you want to…
Dispersed Camping in National Forests
I have previously written about national forest campgrounds, an affordable and enjoyable way to camp without the crowds and expense of commercial and national park campgrounds. If your rig has…
Boondocking Basics: Solar Panels
In an earlier post, I covered electrical use while unplugged – how your coach batteries store electricity for use while you’re parked and enjoying the scenery in your Roadtrek. There…
Fulltiming in Our Class B RV With Our Cat
We weren’t going to get a cat. Our retirement plans were set – fulltiming in a Roadtrek Class B RV – and our previous cats had just gone to kitty…
Ten Most Breathtaking Boondock RV Spots
Here are some photos and GPS coordinates some of my favorite boondock RV spots I have been fortunate to find since I got my Roadtrek six years ago, and particularly…
Mobile Internet Satellite for Your RV – Campskunk’s Experience
When I was planning how to configure our Roadtrek for fulltiming, I had in mind the design criteria my bride of 27 years had lain down: king sized bed with…
Day Camping Techniques for No-Overnighting RV Spots
Many times in my three years of full-timing I have found wonderful places where you can’t camp overnight – either because of local regulations or because it’s not in my…
How to Set Up Your DirecTV On the Road in Your RV
If you already have a satellite television setup at your sticks and bricks house, it’s easy to take it with you when traveling. I have been fulltiming for three years…
Boondocking Basics: Electrical Use While Unplugged
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batteries being installed on some units, people are looking at their stock Class Bs and wondering if they’re hopelessly outdated.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…
New Mexico State Parks Annual Camping Pass
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…
Fulltiming – What’s Hard and What’s Easy
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…
How to Find and Use National Forest Campgrounds
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…
Campskunk: Our Adventures in Southern Ontario’s Provincial Parks
The wife and I found ourselves in southern Ontario with time to kill and wanted to see the sights, but were dismayed by the high price of camping in Canadian…