Taking Your Camera on the Road

Water damage from moisture inside and leaks outside can do amazing damage on an RV, especially an older one. Phrannie's Handling Moisture in RVs article is a great indepth, step-by-step description of what to look for in every part and piece of your trailer, motor home, or van to stop the drips, leaks, rot, mold, [...]

One of the burdens and hassles of living in an RV is the issue of water. Water inside and water outside, and preventing water outside from coming inside.
RVers Corner shows off a device for testing leaks from the inside out. They use a new machine that pressurizes the inside of the RV and fills it [...]

RVers Online has a great article on "So You Want to Pick It Up At The Factory" by Bob Gummersall. I think it should be the core policy for buying or picking up your new or used RV, be it trailer, motor home, or van, before you put down the money. After all, you will [...]

If you are looking to find trailer, motor home, or even mobile home parts, pieces, and manuals for RV refridgerators, hot water heaters, stoves, ovens, sinks, water tanks, showers, toilets, heaters, air conditioners, electrical systems, generators, and all other parts that make an RV a portable home, instead of buying new, try surplus and salvage [...]

It is amazing the toll heat, sun, cold, and time can do on your trailer when it sits for five years. While we were in Israel, the trailer sat in a storage yard, cleaned out and protected but not shielded by the abuse of time. Over the new few weeks, I'll be writing more about our Travel Tales and the tips and techniques we use to customize and repair our traveler for our life on the road. Some of these things are simple, and some complicated, but they are all part of the fun of life on the road in a trailer. One of the things that should have been simple but turned out a little complicated was the cleaning of the stove and oven. Five years of dust, bugs, and grime had piled up, so a little elbow grease scrub was in order. Little did I know that it would lead to a bigger mess.

The convenience of having water available while you travel - in fact, the convenience of having your home with you on the road while you travel - is great. But not when you get up in the middle of the night and someone forgot to turn on the water pump. The switch for the water pump is in the kitchen, and you are stuck in the bathroom, unable to flush. After many, many of these occassions while traveling cross country, stopping for the night without hookups, and having to scramble through the trailer to the kitchen to turn on the water pump and then go back and flush, Brent finally gave in and built a switch to bring water to the bathroom. We tell you how to easily build your own water pump switch for easy access.

After banging and smashing our bodies and truck and trailer back and forth across the United States, and breaking two sets of dishes, we got smarter about how we store and protect our fragile dishes. Brent designed a fantastic and beautiful latch system and I went fabric shopping for padding to put between all the plates, bowls, and pots and pans to protect them while we travel. We share these and other tips for protecting your kitchenware on the road.

Open the scrapbook of a trailer or motor home lover and you will see a few photographs of grandchildren, friends and family, and the occasional candid picture of life on the road. Here's a picture of Brent and me in front of the trailer in Alaska. Here is a picture of the trailer in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And another of the trailer in Denver, Colorado. Here is a picture of....

As you can tell, most of these pictures are of us and the trailer. A lot of times we can't even tell where we are. There was some reason that compelled us to take the picture, but we can't remember what it was. Pictures of our trailer bores most other people, but it is our home and life on the road, so important to us. We want to share it with others. So how do you capture an image of your motor home or trailer and make it look like the cover of Trailer Life?