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I (Rich) think the full time rv lifestyle offers many opportunities to learn about a lot of different things and we can learn as much or as little as we want to. To keep it simple I like to break it up into 3 categories People, Places, and Things.
- People; among travelers there seem to be a willingness to share their ideas, travel stories, and personal experience. Traveling the Eastern part of the country and experiencing the willingness of the people I have met to share what life is like for them has giving me a more balanced view of what an American is, and what effect government has on different parts of the country. On a personal level it has giving me a better understanding of myself, my wife, and how important family and friends are.
- Places; The United States of America has so many beautiful places to see and experience but most of them can’t truly be appreciated in a matter of days. I noticed early in my travels that geologically the country flows from one state to another and if not for the ” Welcome To” sign I wouldn’t know I just left one state and entered another. Landmarks, Histortic Sites, and National Park serve as a contrast between where we started as a Nation and where we are now. Example while traveling in Wyoming I kept seeing Historic markers for the Pony Express and it caused me to think about how many times I had been upset in the past that an important letter didn’t arrive in just three days from the other side of the country, when in fact, back in the day I could have waited weeks or month while that letter was delivered by horseback. I was standing at the Registry Rock in Wyoming where people migrating from the East to the West via the Oregon Trail wrote their names and the year they were traveling on the rock and continued on their journey. It was 90 degrees and it caused me to think about those people they didn’t have a truck with air conditioning, short pants, or even a thin t-shirt but they endured and some even died chasing their dreams. Today you can get anywhere in the country in a matter of hours, back in the day it took months maybe years to get across this country.
- Things; RV operation, trip planning, technology and anything else that doesn’t fit into the other 2 categories. Of the three technology is the most important for the modern day nomad. The internet can provide many answers to questions about RV operation, it can provide information about campgrounds or even routes to travel for trip planning, but as with most important things when you don’t have it you realize how much you relay on it. We recently had to make some upgrades to our technology to make sure we can communicate and plan when we need to. First we upgraded our GPS to a model that is specifically for RV’s.We can put in the dimensions of our RV and it will select routes that don’t have low bridge based on those dimensions, we can tell it to stay off toll roads, we can search fuel, stores, campgrounds, banks, truck stops, rest areas and the list goes on. We have only had it a couple of weeks so it’s a little early for a product review. Internet most of the time campgrounds have WiFi and if they don’t or its slow we use the hotspot on our cell phone. The campground we are currently staying at is in a no coverage area for our current cell phone carrier so we moved one of our phones to a different carrier which increased our data for the hotspots and gave us better cell coverage. Again this upgrade is too new to do a product review.
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