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RV Daily Tips. Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Issue 2467 “Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.” ― Need an excuse to celebrate? Today is National TV Dinner Day! On this day in history: 1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine. By Greg Illes As we prepared for our Alaska trip, we read many warnings about damage caused by flying rocks.
RV Daily Tips. Thursday, October 19, 2023
Issue 2234 Welcome to RV Travel’s Daily Tips Newsletter, where you’ll find helpful RV-related tips from the pros, travel advice, RV videos, product reviews and more. Today’s thought “Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” —George Washington Need an excuse to celebrate?
Taking care of RV batteries, high-tech style
By Greg Illes Sometimes RV batteries seem ridiculously simple—we tend to see them as either working or dead. But there is way more than meets the eye in this 2,000-year-old technology. [According to panasonic.com: The “Baghdad Battery” – ceramic pot battery and the world’s oldest “ceramic pot battery” was discovered in the remains of Khu jut Rabu, a village in the outskirts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
RV Daily Tips. Friday, September 8, 2023
Issue 2205 Welcome to RV Travel’s Daily Tips Newsletter, where you’ll find helpful RV-related tips from the pros, travel advice, RV videos, product reviews and more. Please tell your friends about us. Today’s thought “Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.” ― Need an excuse to celebrate?
RV Mods: Protect your headlights!
By Greg Illes As we prepared for our Alaska trip, we read many warnings about damage caused by flying rocks. Having traveled thousands of miles of dirt roads in the Desert Southwest, we are no strangers to road hazards. But this time, the hazards were to come from other vehicles tossing stones up off the roadway. How could we protect our RV’s headlights?
RV Daily Tips. Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Issue 2038 Welcome to RV Travel’s Daily Tips Newsletter, where you’ll find helpful RV-related tips from the pros, travel advice, product reviews and more. Thanks for joining us. Please tell your friends about us. Today’s thought “There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…” ― Need an excuse to celebrate? Today is National Michigan Day! On this day in history: 1896 – An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
"To sleep, perchance to dream ..." — but not behind the wheel
By Greg Illes (with apologies to Billy Shakespeare)Healthy sleep is one of the most talked-about subjects in many walks of medicine, and with good reason. Good sleep makes for a good life. Sleep – really solid, deep sleep – is the time when the body and mind heal up from the day’s rigors. Sleep time is about the only time in our lives when we are truly masters of our souls. But for some, good sleep can be elusive. If you have a sleep disorder, you are probably already dealing with it.
Use self-fusing silicone tape for weatherproof connections
By Greg Illes Standard vinyl electrical tape has been around for a long time – too long, some would say. The problem with this commonly used product is its adhesive. It doesn’t really stick very well and after awhile it starts to peel loose, leaving a gooey mess behind. But there’s a self-fusing silicone rubber tape for weatherproof connections which works great.
RV Daily Tips. Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Issue 1973 Welcome to RV Travel’s Daily Tips Newsletter, where you’ll find helpful RV-related tips from the pros, travel advice, product reviews and more. Thanks for joining us. Please tell your friends about us. Today’s thought “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.” ― Need an excuse to celebrate? Today is National Seafood Bisque Day! On this day in history: 1789 – John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
Taking care of RV batteries, high-tech style
By Greg Illes Sometimes batteries seem ridiculously simple—we tend to see them as either working or dead. But there is way more than meets the eye in this 2,000-year-old technology. RV batteries are made with lead plates interleaved with lead-dioxide plates. The plates are immersed in sulfuric acid, and the electrochemical reaction creates the battery effect. The whole bundle is wrapped up in a big plastic box with the electrical terminals on top.
RV Daily Tips. Thursday, September 8, 2022
Issue 1944 Welcome to RV Travel’s Daily Tips Newsletter, where you’ll find helpful RV-related tips from the pros, travel advice, product reviews and more. Thanks for joining us. Please tell your friends about us. Today’s thought “Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.” ― Need an excuse to celebrate?
RV Mods: Protect your headlights!
By Greg Illes As we prepared for our Alaska trip, we read many warnings about damage caused by flying rocks. Having traveled thousands of miles of dirt roads in the Desert Southwest, we are no strangers to road hazards. But this time, the hazards were to come from other vehicles tossing stones up off the roadway. How could we protect our RV’s headlights?
RV Daily Tips. Thursday, July 14, 2022
Issue 1904 Welcome to RV Travel’s Daily Tips Newsletter, where you’ll find helpful RV-related tips from the pros, travel advice, product reviews and more. Thanks for joining us. Please tell your friends about us. [activecampaign form=34] We’re hiring! We’re looking for a part-time comment moderator to join our team. This person would be in charge of waking up early (East Coast location preferred) and helping us moderate our comments as they come in, especially on Saturdays and Sundays.
RV mods: Screen your engine for protection
By Greg Illes We were happily driving along the highway, enjoying the passing scenery, when suddenly a small flock of sparrows crossed our path, darting frantically about in front of our Class A before escaping. Alas, one of the tiny birds was not as adept an aviator as his fellows and I heard/felt a small “thwack.” So we pulled over to investigate the front of the RV, including the engine grill. We were both glad that we stopped.
Full-Time RVer Newsletter #28, April 27, 2022
Volume 2. Issue 28 Welcome to the Full-Time RVer Newsletter, published every other Wednesday by RVtravel.com. Here you’ll find helpful RV-related and full-time RV living tips from the pros, travel advice, and anything else of interest to full-timers or those who aspire to be. Thanks for joining us. We appreciate you. Please tell your friends about us. Please consider signing up for other newsletters from RVtravel.com. Easy unsubscribe if you don’t like what you see.
Full-time RVing-Don't you get lonely?
One of the most-asked questions from my non-RV friends is, “Isn’t it awful lonely traveling full-time in a motorhome?” It’s a somewhat ingenuous query that always makes me smile, but I try to answer seriously, in a way that the novice can understand as a takeaway from our conversation. Fact is, my wife and I meet more people, and we meet more-interesting people, and we have more time to spend with them, than when we are at home.
RV Daily Tips. Friday, February 19, 2021
Issue 1540 Welcome to another edition of RV Travel’s Daily Tips newsletter. Here you’ll find helpful RV-related and living tips from the pros, travel advice, a handy website of the day, tips on our favorite RVing-related products and, of course, a good laugh. Thanks for joining us. We appreciate you. Please tell your friends about us. Today’s thought “They laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at them because they’re all the same.” ―Kurt Cobain Need an excuse to celebrate?
Be kind to your differential – It's all you have - RV Travel
By Greg Illes Deep down under your rig, far behind the driver’s seat and usually caked with dirt, grease and road grime, is one of the most critical members of your drive train – the rear axle and its differential. From Wikimedia Whether you drive a motorhome or pull a trailer or fifth wheel, you and your entire load rely on that rear axle to propel you down the road.
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