From RVTravel.com

How often do you use your RV? A couple of weeks a year? A few months? Probably not surprising to you, there are hundreds of thousands of RVers who live all the time in their RVs, or at least most of the time. Nobody knows how many people live full-time in RVs. It could be a million or more.

But what I do know is that a lot of people live and travel full-time in an RV and many others dream of the day when they can, too. For most, it's a very good life.

RVs are so comfortable now that it's easy to live in one, enjoying nearly all the comforts of home. And the freedom is incredible -- to go where you want, when you want and bring along your easy chair, too. It's a satisfying, stimulating life for people who yearn for adventure.

Recently, during a brief visit to Quartzsite, Ariz., I was invited into the fifth wheel winter home of a full-timing couple. They were parked in the wide-open desert with no hookups. As I drove toward the RV, it seemed lonely out there. But as I got closer, I noticed that the couple had manicured their little piece of desert with a rock-lined front walkway and had placed a few potted plants in the shade of their awning. And several lawn chairs were atop a few square yards of artificial turf.

Inside, there was plenty of room for two people with all the creature comforts -- spacious kitchen, TV, computer, big bedroom with bathroom -- everything two people would need to live with ease and comfort. Outside, solar panels harnessed the energy of the sun to provide ample electricity.

Just as I had entered the RV, the cell phone rang: one of the couple's children was calling from the Midwest. The cell phone did double duty as the link to the Internet. "How different was this from a 'home' that didn't move?" I thought.

It seems to me, as even more of the baby boom generation enters their senior years, that even more of them (as well as younger people who can work while on the road), will take up full-time RVing. It's a heck of a lot less expensive in most cases than maintaining a home, a lot "greener" (overall, even factoring in gas for travel, you use less energy in the small space than in a traditional home), and in most cases more exciting than sitting at home.

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Wow!

I posted a disapproval on the computer ads and now I looked and they are gone! Is it really that easy! Way to go google!

Don't look

I signed up for AdSense in connection with this blog. They will supposedly pay me if you as a viewer click on any of the ads you see on this site. I thought I would see how well this little ditty worked. In my previous post about computer cleanup they posted several ads. I DO NOT APPROVE of any of them. A free scan is simply that, a free scan.If you scan,they will then tell you your computer has a gazillion problems and if you pay them a few bucks they will fix them for you. It is a waste of money. Do not believe it.

All you blog watchers...

Hey when I am not doing much I do not post much. Hmmm...yesterday I decided to get into "detailing" or spring cleaning the motorhome. The inside that is. I washed bedding and dusted in all the nooks and crannies. Most of the time it gets a quick once-over but just like a stick built home now and then you have to dig deep. I will be digging deep again today. I think the refrigerator needs a good clean out. Especially since it will be getting minimal use the next two months at Snow Mountain Ranch. I try to have the food down to a bare minimum as we leave Iowa.
Also yesterday, Susan & Myron Van Houweling stopped by. They are friends we met at Magnolia park but they live in central Iowa. I helped them a bit with their computer and we had a great visit.
Speaking of computers, this is as good a place as any to remind you to do spring cleaning on your computer too. Although computers do not need nearly the maintenance they did in years past they can still benefit from a little attention now and then.
Check on your Anti-virus program to make sure it is up to date and functioning properly.
Run your anti-spyware program and rid yourself of all the little bugs it will find.
I still run disk clean up and defragment now and then even though we are supposedly free of that chore with Win XP and Vista.
Butch's computer is 9 years old and still working fine. I bought mine 4 years ago because I thought the one Butch has was soon to go belly up. Who knew!!

Yesterday

Yesterday we went to see "OLD" friend Mickey which is always a treat. Mickey and I visited while Butch went car shopping. Many of you already know how tired I am of that venture.
On the way home we stopped to pick up my nieces computer for repair. We have to get that girl up to speed. The computer was a big virus-laden mess. Only option was to wipe it clean and start over. I consider this kind of thing fun. I am very nearly done with getting it reloaded with necessities and returning it to her. My south Texas students will be glad to know I am not losing my touch! HA

We are not far from heading west. It will be here before we know it!!