Adding a Swiveling TV Mount

Another RV upgrade we recently made was installing a swiveling TV mount for Rover’s main TV. We’re lucky that the living room TV in the Allegro 36LA is directly opposite the sofa, which is a much better placement than in most other RVs we’ve seen. Take a look at many RV floor plans and you’ll see that their TVs...
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Adding RV Power Protection to Rover

One of the upgrades on our wish list since we purchased Rover was a full-featured RV power protection system. Every week or two we’re plugging into a different RV park or campground, and there’s no guarantee that they all have consistent and reliable power circuits. We’ve heard from RVers who have had systems in their...
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Newbies no longer

Quartzsite, AZ located near the borders of Mexico and California, is one of those experiences every RVer should do at least once. Quartzsite is usually a sleepy little town of about 3,500 people surrounded by lots of desert; however it comes alive in January and February with the yearly migration of RVs coming to take...
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2014 Year In Review

Our first year of RVing is over, so it’s time to take a look back at a few milestones for 2014. First, some events leading up to our life reboot: January: Ordered our Tiffin Allegro 36LA motorhome at the Tampa RV Super Show. February: Lots of work to prepare the house for sale, and lots...
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Warmth, wonderful warmth!

We spent a wonderful two weeks in Tucson, AZ thawing from our last two cold stops. I can see why Tucson is a great snowbird location! While the mornings are a bit nippy, by early afternoon it’s warm enough for a t-shirt or light sweatshirt. Everytime I saw a facebook post on the weather back...
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Creating Route Maps with OpenStreetMap

When we started our full-time RVing, I knew I wanted to keep a map of each year’s travels. I started by creating Google maps with our approximate route from campground to campground, but I soon ran into a limitation: Google now only allows up to ten destinations on a map. After trying many solutions, I...
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Boy, we really did that wrong.

above: Our very nice campsite at Davis Mountains State Park As I’m finally thawing out in the Arizona sun, my fingers have become nimble enough to write about our last 1.5 chilly weeks. After Lajitas, we headed to Fort Davis in the mountains to the north, at 5,000 ft elevation. We knew it would be...
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