Category: Season 0 – Before Full-time
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Potty Training: Toilet Teardown! Thetford toilet seal replacement | Host Truck Camper |E14
Continue Reading: Potty Training: Toilet Teardown! Thetford toilet seal replacement | Host Truck Camper |E14Ok, not the most glamorous of jobs, but it was fairly simple to do. So don’t fret if your toilet isn’t holding water to keep the seal from drying out…. Come along for our version of Dirty Jobs! The removal of the toilet to get at the source of the problem wasn’t too bad. Just…
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Happy Thoughts… still stuck in Illinois, but at least we’re at Comlara Park! | Full-time RV |E11
Categories: Season 0 – Before Full-timeContinue Reading: Happy Thoughts… still stuck in Illinois, but at least we’re at Comlara Park! | Full-time RV |E11Well, we’re trying to leave our home town and simply not succeeding yet. Well, at least we’re still enjoying the ride… After being in an efficiency apartment for the past 6 months, we are thrilled to finally be “officially” living in our 2018 Host Cascade Camper. Well, that’s the good news. The bad news is…
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Ram 5500 Chassis Truck Parts Shortage on our way to Full-Time RVing | E10
Categories: Season 0 – Before Full-timeContinue Reading: Ram 5500 Chassis Truck Parts Shortage on our way to Full-Time RVing | E10It’s never fun to have vehicle problems but boy this one hit us a bit hard. Guess we’re getting our training on being able to quickly change plans as we begin our transition to full-time RVing! It still doesn’t make us happy campers, though!
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Our fix FAILED – RV Leaks and delamination on our Truck Camper |E9
Continue Reading: Our fix FAILED – RV Leaks and delamination on our Truck Camper |E9Well, we found some delamination on the side of our camper after some significant rain. Here’s what we did to try and reduce the bulge as well as prevent any water from getting in from here on out… PRODUCTS we’ve purchased & mentioned in the video:
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Banish the Beep: Reduce that RV electric fireplace noise! |E6
Continue Reading: Banish the Beep: Reduce that RV electric fireplace noise! |E6While I certainly love our electric fireplace in our truck camper, one thing I could not STAND is that very loud beep every time I turned it on or moved to a different setting. I swear that thing could be heard for miles! And with me as an early riser and Gary someone who can…
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Today’s projects and apartment walk-through: Prepping for Full Time RV Living! |E5
Continue Reading: Today’s projects and apartment walk-through: Prepping for Full Time RV Living! |E5We’re in the final month (ish) before we head off on our full-time adventure. Sometimes it’s the little things that get ya, like spices! I am very grateful that we had the opportunity to downsize to an apartment before heading into our truck camper full-time. That allowed us two major purges so it wasn’t as…
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How to install an RV Kitchen Backsplash! | Host Truck Camper Upgrade |E4
Continue Reading: How to install an RV Kitchen Backsplash! | Host Truck Camper Upgrade |E4As part of our continued upgrades on our 2018 Host Cascade Truck camper, I thought adding a backsplash in the kitchen area would reduce the cleaning effort after cooking as well as enhance the look of the camper. So, I set off to find some peel-and-stick tile locally. I wanted to physically see the tile…
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SeeLevel Tank Monitoring Installation
Continue Reading: SeeLevel Tank Monitoring InstallationWhile Gary was working on installing our new Battleborn batteries, I was working on installing this SeeLevel tank monitoring system. The old level monitor was barely functional so we really wanted to get a better monitor that we could trust. We ended up going with the SeeLevel tank monitor system, which in general has quite…
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Beat the Heat/Cold: Improve your RV Insulation! | Host Truck Camper Upgrades | e2
Continue Reading: Beat the Heat/Cold: Improve your RV Insulation! | Host Truck Camper Upgrades | e2Here’s our method of insulating our 2018 Host Cascade Truck Camper RV. This is an alternate option to Reflectix Insulation for RVs to keep you RV warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer. R-Matte 1/2″ insulation – Is it necessary? No, not really. But my thought was any additional insulation can’t hurt anything…
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Drive to Price Lake (Blue Ridge Parkway)
Categories: Season 0 – Before Full-timeContinue Reading: Drive to Price Lake (Blue Ridge Parkway)On our way back from North Carolina, we decided to take a detour through the Blue Ridge Parkway. Here are a few pictures from Price Lake. It was rainy that day, but still a great 2.5 mile hike around the lake. It was a bit muddy, but the ground was fairly level. It would be…