By Bob Difley
As recent events show, even though our food sources are likely among the most inspected and safest to eat on earth, pathogens do make it into foods available to us. While most of us are familiar with and have confidence in our local food suppliers, how and from whom do we pick our [...]
By Bob Difley
Containment of gray water from the shower and sink is the weak link in the chain of methods we boondockers use to lengthen our stay between trips to replenish resources or discharge waste. These trips, where we have to pack up, put all the stuff that has accumulated on counter tops and outside, [...]
By Bob Difley
RVers and normal people call camping without hookups boondocking, regardless of whether it is on the baking black asphalt in a Walmart parking lot or so far back an old forest service logging road even the coyotes can’t find it.
But you rarely see a magazine ad photo of that sparkling new 40-foot diesel [...]
By Bob Difley (with a push from Lynn Difley)
If you are like me, you often turn a deaf ear or blind eye to your usual healthy eating habits when the summer camping and barbecue season kicks in? Staying healthy on the road is as important as keeping your rig in tune. There is nothing that [...]
By Bob Difley
The slowly fading recession seems to have energized campers this season as campground usage is up and reservations become harder to nail down. This becomes a particular problem with those of us who procrastinate, make last-minute travel decisions, or find ourselves wherever our RVs lead us–and most of the time without campground reservations. [...]
By Bob Difley
New York Times columnist Tom Friedman published a letter in his column last week written by a friend of his and published in his friend’s local newspaper. As he stated, the writer makes a good point, which I repeat here.
“I’d like to join in on the blame game that has come to define [...]
Happy Birthday Old Glory! Today, June 14th is Flag Day in the United States of America. On this day in 1777 the Continental Congress officially declared the “Stars and Stripes” the National symbol of the United States of America.
On June 14, 1885 a young teacher, Bernard John Cigrand, [...]
By Bob Difley
Thursday’s torrential rainfall and flash flooding of two rivers in the forests of western Arkansas killed at least sixteen campers with three dozen or more still missing. The Caddo and Little Missouri rivers rose after 7.6 inches of rainfall fell overnight and by early morning the Little Missouri River had risen to more [...]
When you live full-time in an RV, like we do, everything you own is with you, including any medical records. What happens if you visit a Doctor in Arizona, and lose the written report? Your medical records will be incomplete, and your regular Doctor in Florida won’t know anything about it. We try to get [...]
by Chris Guld, www.GeeksonTour.com
When you live fulltime in an RV, like we do, everything you own is with you, including any medical records. What happens if you visit a Doctor in Arizona, and lose the written report? Your medical records will be incomplete, and your regular Doctor in Florida won’t know anything about it. We try to [...]
