Tag Archives: mobile living
Your RV Neighbors Are Getting Younger
Make some room, fellow old people, the kids are coming over. Not your kids and not mine, but a whole generation trying to find relief from sky high rents and insane home prices. And, oh yeah, they also like to … Continue reading
Bigger Does Not Mean Better
My House Has Wheels is about RV living and camping but it’s also about housing. Our transition to RV living first started with frustration with our housing options. That frustration still drives us to this day. The two big problems … Continue reading
5th Wheel or Travel Trailer – Maybe Time For Another Look
I just realized recently that a lot of my personal objections to 5th wheels are based on weight. A 10,000 pound fiver is a load to tow and a chore to set up. I can attest to that from personal … Continue reading
Back Into a Commercially Built Camper
We finally bit the bullet and transitioned back to a commercially built camper. We’re going to use our cargo sport for storage, so we’ll recapture some of the value. I’ll be painfully honest, most of the money we spent on … Continue reading
The Downside of a Rootless Existence
For those of you who don’t know our RV nomadic history, Sandy and I have been living in a mobile home the last few years. We were called away from our RV existence when my aunt passed away and we … Continue reading
My Two New Favorite Camp Cooking Appliances
When it comes to technology, I am not an early adopter. It took me a long time to get a cell phone, an even longer time to get one with a camera. I buy used laptops, at least a generation … Continue reading
How campgrounds like Port Canaveral’s Jetty Park discriminate against older campers
One thing that I never once considered when planning my camper build is we might be turned away because we did the interior finish ourselves. I was also stunned because, during all our years on the road, I had never … Continue reading
Four Awesome Things About Mobile Living
The work continues on our cargo trailer to camper conversion and it’s going well. Now that we’re a couple weeks of chasing water leaks away from actually going camping again, I started remembering why mobile living is such a luxury. … Continue reading
The Cargo Trailer Conversion Begins
Our cargo trailer finally arrived and the conversion to a camper is underway. In case you don’t keep up with the blog, we bought an all-aluminum cargo trailer and are converting it into a camper. So far the conversion is … Continue reading
Getting Ready For The Road
Mobile living demands sacrifice and that sacrifice is all the junk you’ve accumulated for years. Surprisingly, this will be one of the hardest parts of your mobile experience and the one for which you are least prepared. Everyone underestimates the … Continue reading