Are you adventurous? Have you ever had the dream of just leaving it all behind and "hitting the road?" Do you love nature, hiking, meeting new people, and seeing new places? Are you retired or semi retired? Maybe on a fixed income? Do you want to fill your days with more than routines?
If you think the RV lifestyle is mainly about spending your winter in a paved campground with different neighbors than you have at home, I'm about to show you a very different side of motorhome travel.
Even if you don't own a recreational vehicle, but have a car, motorcycle, or bicycle, I've got lots of solid tested advice for your road trip. And it's all based on my first hand personal experience over the past 10 years.
Necessity, being the mother of invention, gives birth to some original thinking when we're traveling for an extended time on a limited budget. I'll even give you the exact expense details for each one of our extended trips.
After nearly 40,000 miles of traveling across the USA and Canada, my partner and I have learned a few tricks along the way...not only about saving money, but also how to do things just a little differently.
In these pages you're sure to find some ideas you haven't seen before. With them, I hope to make your cross-country road trips and camping vacations just a little cheaper, easier, more adventurous, and more enjoyable.
P.S. Can you believe it? This little old website of mine has won a top finalist award in the 2009 Tripbase Blog awards category for budget travel, ranking within the top 20 websites in the world in this category. A huge thank you to all my loyal followers!
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RV Travel Guide For the budget-minded Rver...The Frugal Shunpiker's Guides to America.... Each RV travel guide gives directions to scenic free camping locations and offers other money saving tips.
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Free Camping Texas The Ultimate guide to finding free and inexpensive camping in Southern Texas plus free camping suggestions on your way to Texas from the North.
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Camp For Free In Arizona The ultimate guide to finding the secret places to camp for free in Arizona that many typical Snowbirds never visit.
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Boondocking In New Mexico The ultimate guide to finding New Mexico's best boondocking locations.
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Free Campsites The ultimate guide to southern Utah's scenic free campsites.
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The Best Free Scenic Camping You've seen the ads encouraging you to "Go RVing"...a picture of an RV parked in a scenic camping area...Surprise! The best scenic campsites are often not at a campground!
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Find Free RV Camping 17 tips to help you find free RV camping anywhere
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Why Boondocking? Despite what you may think, the reason we choose boondocking over campgrounds is not just to save money. There are many other benefits.
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Free Camping On Public Lands If you use public lands for camping or recreation you should know that the rules may be changing.
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Boondocking Safety Boondocking safety information and advice to put your mind at ease.
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A Small Motorhome Is Your Best Choice Choose a small motorhome for affordable adventures.
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Buying A Used RV Some common sense advice when buying a used RV
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Import An RV How to buy and import an RV, new or used, from the U.S.A. into Canada
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Traveling Frugally Can traveling frugally actually be fun? Shouldn't a vacation be an excuse to splurge? Here are exact breakdowns of what we spend to see and do everything we want.
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Income While Traveling Want to earn income while traveling? Here are three proven tips.
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Extended Boondocking Extended boondocking - it's all about conservation of resources - extensive lists of how to save power, water, propane to extend your stay in one location
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Shunpiker What is a shunpiker? You might be surprised to find out that you are one yourself.
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RV Repairs On The Road Requiring RV repairs while on the road can be scary. From experience, we've learned what to expect and how to prepare for it.
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Travel Insurance After a lot of research we chose travel insurance geared to Canadian Snowbirds
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Gas Price Comparison For Canadians A simple formula to compare the USA gas price to Canadian.
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Website Creation Using SBI! Build your own successful website using SBI - the best web-building tool for non-geeks like me
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Desert Hiking Tips, tools and strategies for desert hiking.
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Inflatable boat An inflatable boat - a perfect compliment to our RV lifestyle
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Exercise While traveling you need an exercise plan that will adapt to any location.
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RV Travel Activities For a long trip you need plenty of variety in your travel activities. These suggestions should satisfy every need without breaking your budget.
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Trip Checklist Trip checklist and packing tips to get you organized for an extended RV trip
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New Mexico New Mexico, The Land Of Enchantment held lots of surprises for us.
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Favorite Arizona Destination It's impossible to choose just one favorite Arizona destination. This top 10 list includes photos and a brief description of why each made the list.
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Utah destination Have you seen Utah? Explore a new Utah destination that's off the beaten path. As with everthing in Utah, you will not be dissapointed.
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Stillwell Ranch There are many reasons we will return to visit Stillwell Ranch in Texas again.
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Texas Hill Country Photos and description of our 2008 trip as we tour Texas Hill Country
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Travel South Yes, you can afford to travel south this winter!
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Recommended Books For RVing A list of books on RVing as recommended by the author of The Frugal Shunpiker's Guides
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RV Bookstore RV Bookstore has the largest on-line selection of books, ebooks, and dvds about RVing
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Resources For RVers A wealth of resources for RVers is available on the Internet. These sites are geared to those looking for affordable adventures.
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RV Travel Blog Need inspiration to follow your RV travel dreams? Read an RV travel blog posted by a kindred spirit.
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Affordable Adventure We've stumbled upon a lifestyle of affordable adventure and cannot believe more people aren't taking advantage of this opportunity.
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