New Travel Diary Software

OK – you are almost ready to hit the road. You have been planning your trip of a lifetime for months (or even years) now. For some you have a planned route with day by day stops pinpointed and booked, for others you just have a general direction of travel planned. You have purchased or [...]



What Maps are for: Finding Hot Springs!

by Chris Guld, www.GeeksOnTour.com
Jim and Chris of Geeks on Tour show you a little about their RVing lifestyle as they share computer tips for travelers. In this episode, we’re coming to you from Saratoga, Wyoming. We talk about how Microsoft Streets & Trips helps us find Hot Springs, and then show you how we connect [...]


Facebook and Twitter for RV Parks?

by Chris Guld, www.GeeksOnTour.com
As we were traveling thru Kansas, we consulted our Streets & Trips software to find an RV park.  We found High Plains Camping listed in our ‘Wi-Fi Campgrounds’ Pushpin set.  It was at about the right spot for a night stop, so we called to inquire as to availability and confirmed that [...]


The Rally – our Last Day

by Chris Guld, www.geeksontour.com
We’ve been here at The Rally in Louisville, KY this week and we’ve been hanging out in the RV.net booth.  It’s so fun to have all the people come by and say how much they love RV.net!  Here’s a group that I made repeat it for the camera:

We’ve had our share of [...]


See you at The Rally!

We hope to see you all at The Rally in Louisville, KY this week.  We’ll be hanging out in the RV.net booth (#340) much of the time.  Check out this listing of all 278 Vendors and their booth numbers.
When we’re not in the booth, it’s probably because we’re presenting one of our 5 seminars:

Internet on [...]


Gabbing with the Geeks: Connecting to the Internet with Droid

 
Coming to you from Indiana, Jim and Chris talk about their summer tour of RV Rallies:

The Rally – July 21-25 in Louisville, KY

Family Motorcoach Ass’n (FMCA) Convention -  August 11 – 14 in Redmond, OR

Gypsy Gathering Rally – August 30 – Sept 3 in Elkhart, IN

Escapade – September 12 – 17 in Goshen, IN

Then they [...]


A Visit to Kentucky Horse Park

by Chris Guld, www.geeksontour.com
What’s a horse park?  It’s a park for horses! People from all around Kentucky bring their horses here to play.  Retired racehorse champions get to live here in their senior years.
And, it’s a great place for travelers to visit, learn about horses and get up close and personal.  There’s an RV [...]


Feedburner: Send Readers an Email of every Blog Post

by Chris Guld, www.GeeksOnTour.com
In a previous newsletter article I wrote about “What is an RSS Feed and why you want One.”  That article showed how to make your blog accessible to your readers thru their Feed Readers.  But this is only good for those people who use and understand a Feed Reader.  How many people [...]


Automatically Geotag Pictures with Droid

by Chris Guld, www.GeeksOnTour.com
First, just what is geotagging?  It’s attaching the latitude and longitude coordinates to a picture, a .jpg file, so it can be placed on a map in the location where it was taken.  When a photo is geotagged, these coordinates are part of the ‘metadata’ embedded in the file itself, just like [...]


RV Lifestyle, Education and Safety Conference

by Chris Guld, www.geeksontour.com
We’ve been at the Conference produced by RVSEF this past week. 
This conference was all about giving new RVers access to all the information they need to purchase the right rig, properly maintain it, and enjoy the lifestyle.  Seminars included: Fire Safety by Mac McCoy, Costs of Fulltiming by Howard and Linda Payne [...]