We feel it’s important to keep some consistency in our kids’ daily life to ease the transition to life in an RV and on the road. With this in mind, we’re trying our best to maintain our kids’ typical nighttime routine, but the realities of the RV make it difficult to keep the rituals entirely […]
Complexities of Water in an RV
The convenience of water is certainly a resource we took for granted at home. Just turn the faucet, and cold or hot water flowed instantly. Even more taken for granted, the drainage system that carried all of that water effortlessly out of the house to make it someone else’s problem. In our master shower at […]
The Challenges of a Family of Four Sleeping in an RV
Our Airstream travel trailer is pretty small, 21 feet from tongue to rear bumper, and we’re squeezing a family of four into that space. Sleeping has been a big challenge for us in the small space, but we definitely got better at it on in the last week in the Everglades. The first part of […]
Is Life Better in an RV?
Prior to embarking on our one-year tour of US state and national parks in a vintage Airstream travel trailer, we’d never spent a single night in an RV. Not a single one of us, not even as a kid. Needless to say really, we had (and still have) a heck of a lot to learn. […]
Modifications to the Airstream Travel Trailer
Our Airstream travel trailer is mostly original, though the previous owner made improvements such as install a new air conditioner, a new hot water heater, and replace copper water lines with PEX tubing. You can see pictures of when we bought the Airstream here. We’ve owned our 1969 21′ Globetrotter Airstream for about eight weeks now, […]
How do appliances work in our Airstream travel trailer?
I’m learning as I go and don’t everything about how our Airstream travel trailer works. Every time I speak to someone who owns at travel trailer or visit a forum or blog, I learn something new about an appliance or a system that I have on my trailer. Despite my novice knowledge about the appliances […]
Preparing the family Tahoe to be the tow vehicle for the RV trip around America
We’re towing our 1969 21′ Globetrotter Airstream travel trailer with our family’s 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe. Before the RV trip, the Tahoe was a daily driver, making trips to run errands, shuttling kids around town, and taking the family to the beach and mountains. We had to make some repairs and enhancements to convert the Tahoe […]
How much does it cost to RV around America for a year?
The common questions that we receive about our RV trip around America are “How are you going to do this with kids?” and “How much is it going to cost?”. We’ve still got a lot to figure out about how we are going to do this with two small children, but we have a pretty […]
Buying Our Airstream Travel Trailer
We’re traveling the country in a 1969 21′ Globetrotter Airstream travel trailer. More about our trip on The Kelleys page. Below are pictures of our vintage Airstream when we bought it, and here is the the story of how we bought it. The Buy Story I was amazed at the competitiveness of the vintage Airstream […]