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VIDEO: Sleeping Around … the USA, in an Airstream

A week or so ago, I asked my Twitter friends for topic suggestions. Someone (yes, I’m referring to you JJohnston1975) suggested integrating “creature comforts” and the spa experience with RVing. Personally, I’ve been wanting to do a blog about sleep for a long time. So these two topics dovetail in this LongLongHoneymoon.com entry. I’m a [...]

VIDEO: Did the Ancient Romans Tailgate?

According to Wikipedia, “in North America, a tailgate party is a social event held on and around the open tailgate of a vehicle.” Which begs the question, what is a tailgate party in South America? A form of sociopolitical rebellion? But I digress.

VIDEO: TV Interview with Brooke Smith

From time to time on our spring 2009 tour, Kristy and I are stopping to speak with local media. Our mission: to promote RVing as a fun and affordable way to see our country. If we can do it, you can too! You don’t have to go for months at a time to enjoy RVing. [...]

VIDEO: Life on the Road

‘Tis said that “the journey is the destination.” But what does that mean? For our Long Long Honeymoon, it illustrates a key upside to RV travel vis-a-vis the old fly-and-rent route.

VIDEO: Spring Cleaning

One of our ongoing missions here at LongLongHoneymoon.com is to document the RV ownership experience. After all, many of our readers and video watchers are researching RV purchases when they discover (and immediately bookmark, right?) this site. This leads us to cover a few topics beyond the usual. Sure, it’s fun to capture photos of [...]

How to Lose 20 Pounds in 30 Days

Travel and weight loss really don’t go together. When you think about it, food and culture are closely intertwined. Why travel if you can’t appreciate the local culture? When we travel, there’s always an excuse to indulge. “Hey, we’re in Chicago! Gotta have a deep dish pizza.” “Hey, we’re in Oregon! Gotta have a microbrew.” [...]

VIDEO: Winter Camping

With overnight temperatures dropping into the teens, Kristy and I decided to hitch up our Airstream, tow it to a nearby state park, and do a little camping in the cold. The low temperature was a bone-chilling 21 degrees Fahrenheit, with wind chill dropping into single digits. By any measure, that’s a hard freeze. So [...]

The Best of Times, The Worst of Times

Here I go quoting Dickens again. Recently I’ve come across several news reports about the RV industry. Suffice to say that 2008 was the worst of times, a “perfect storm” of economic trouble. If the skyrocketing gas prices this summer were not enough, the credit crunch and stock market crash made matters that much worse. [...]

VIDEO: Disney’s Fort Wilderness – at Halloween!

Recently, someone asked us to name a few favorite camping locales we’ve discovered on The Long, Long Honeymoon. I’m partial to remote, rural, dry camping sites out West, in obscure places far removed from civilization. But my wife has different tastes. Her favorite is probably that little full hookup spot we found down in Florida. [...]

VIDEO: Wifi in Motion

As a devout online blogger, an Internet connection is as important to me as fresh water and diesel. More than once we’ve made overnight camping decisions based upon the answer to one crucial question: “Do they have wifi?” Thankfully, we no longer have to ask that question. Now we have our own wifi. We’ve installed [...]

VIDEO: When Pigs Fly

One of the best upsides to RV ownership, as we’ve discussed, is the ability to haul around your own hotel room. It’s even better when you park it right next door to a major community event. That’s just what we did in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when we attended the fantastic International Balloon Fiesta. Owning an [...]

VIDEO: The $1,128,000,000 Campground

How valuable was this camping experience? We’ve been told that a half acre of land on the Las Vegas Strip recently sold for $47 million. And yet, here’s a massive swath of such land dedicated to a full hookup RV campground. So I guess our little campsite is worth at least $5,000,000, and the campground [...]

VIDEO: RV vs. Hotel (A Slightly Biased View)

Being travel enthusiasts, my wife and I have stayed everywhere from flea-infested hostels, to skanky motels, to cozy bed & breakfasts, to five-star resorts. I’d like to think we’ve learned something about hotels, and how they compare vis-a-vis RVs. So let’s ponder the timeless question: “What’s better, staying in an RV or in a hotel?” [...]

PHOTOS: Silver Beans & Giants

They say that over 70% of all Airstreams ever built are still on the road. When you consider that the company is almost 80 years old, that’s really a stunning number. Of course, we’ve seen a few that have been converted into businesses. (We documented a great one in the “Raw & Juicy” video.) There’s [...]

VIDEO: Axle Woes

In a recent blog post, we discussed our mysterious tire wear. One of our tires has been rapidly wearing on the inside, in a pattern suspiciously reminiscent of crop circles. What was causing this strange phenomenon?

PHOTOS: Not-So-Scenic Camping

We’ve done our fair share of “overnight parking” on this trip. It’s free, it’s convenient, and there’s no check-out time. But unless you like acres of asphalt, the ambiance is lacking. Wal-Mart is the undisputed King of Overnight Parking. It offers reasonably secure, reasonably quiet, massive parking lots in every corner of our continent. And [...]

VIDEO: Locked Out… And Lovin’ It!

Okay, so it finally happened to us. We managed to lock ourselves out of our Airstream. “How did this happen,” you ask? (And yes, I can hear you snickering.) It was easy! On an Airstream there are two door locks. One of these is a deadbolt-style lock. We use it on a daily basis. The [...]

PHOTOS: Glance in the Rearview Mirror

As you shall soon see, I’m not much of a photographer. My mental bandwidth is usually occupied by video production. It’s tough to snap photos when you are juggling three HD video cameras, assorted microphones, tripods, and the like. However, from time to time we do break out the digital SLR and fire off a [...]

VIDEO: Camping on Route 66

America is replete with privately owned RV parks. Some of these parks have been in operation for decades. The best deliver not only a pleasant camping environment, but also a sense of history. It’s more than a good night’s rest. It’s a cultural experience. It’s always a good sign when your campground hosts also own [...]

VIDEO: Happy Packers?

One mission of this website is to document the details of RV life. Want to know what RV travel is REALLY like? We’ll lift the curtain for you.

VIDEO: Sean Gets Injured – Again!

If you lead an active lifestyle, eventually you’re going to suffer an injury. Your odds of injury may actually increase when you travel.

VIDEO: Camping & Cooking

The subject of cooking aboard an RV is not as simple and straightforward as one might think. Every RV is equipped with different cooking capabilities that range from “hunter/gatherer caveman” to “Julia Child’s kitchen on wheels.” Our Airstream falls somewhere in the middle on this scale. We do have a full kitchen on our rig, [...]

VIDEO: The Dump Station Experience

They say there’s camaraderie in campgrounds. No matter how large or small the RV, it’s pretty much a class free society. Perhaps this is because it’s tough to be a snob while you’re holding a sewer hose. In RV parlance, sewage (that which goes into the toilet) is referred to as “black water.” Water that [...]

VIDEO: Dry Camping

When we first started traveling in our Airstream, I sometimes referred to no hookup camping as boondocking. After all, boondocking is no hookup camping – right? It depends on who you ask. Confused? Allow me to shed some light on this subject, or at least to confuse you a little more. The term boondocking refers [...]

VIDEO: The RV Exercise Paradox

Here’s a paradox about full-time RV travel. Let’s call it the RV Exercise Paradox. If you camp for a short period of time, you probably spend a LOT of time outdoors getting exercise. You go to your campsite, set up camp, and explore your surroundings with gusto. But if you camp a long period of [...]

VIDEO: Ants!

Having traveled some 40,000 miles around the continental United States, I can draw a few conclusions about regional insect behavior. Overall, our Airstream cabin has remained blessedly free of multiple legged creatures. Sure, the occasional bloodthirsty mosquito manages to invade our inner sanctum. But mosquitoes are easy to spot against the white lining and wallpaper [...]

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