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9/24/2018

Since I'm just learning how to put some animation in a picture here are a couple of things that I've learned. Depending on the viewers Internet connection the picture may take as much as a minute before it starts to animate. And the smaller the screen the slower the animation goes, so what looks right on a computer screen will look very slow on a cell phone. But despite that, they're fun to make, and I hope interesting to look at.

I've always felt that you're never too old to learn new things especially when it comes to RVing and boondocking because places and things change over time. But in the past when it came to furthering my RVing knowledge, I always listened to people who were considerably older than I am, people with eons of RVing experience, people who started RVing before America's roads were paved and whose first RV was a covered wagon, people like.... Barney the Old Fat Man.

But recently I started watching some RV videos on "Creativity RV" by a young woman who specializes in boondocking much like the old boondork, but who seems to have caught on to the concept much faster than I ever did. She has a lot of videos out there, and I've only watched a few, but even though I've got socks older than her, I think I gained some insight and information about boondocking in each video I've watched. So it looks like I may have to change my way of thinking and start listening to RV advice from people that are younger than me, which is darn near everybody.

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Since It's late in the season the flowers in the garden are starting to look a bit ratty. the wind has torn the petals, pesky bugs have taken a bite or two, and the roses are almost entirely gone. But just like me they will return in the spring, but unlike me they will look fresh and new.

8 Comments

Barney Ward

9/24/2018 07:12:36 pm

Now you are getting on the right track. I know a lot of technical things about RVing but she is doing great to cover a lot of other things about Boondocking in particular which is my weak part of RVing. By the way my first RV did not even have the cover.

Tom

9/25/2018 09:51:48 am

If your first RV didn't have the canvas cover over it then technically it might not be considered an RV, it was just a freight wagon or a buckboard. Then we would have to get into whether it was pulled by horses, mules, or oxen, oxen would be considered a class "A"

I was surprised how much knowledge she has about boondocking and her desire to camp that way most of the time.

Tom

9/25/2018 11:47:02 am

From the Texas Travel Stop near Sabinal Texas. WOW it is nice out here. Dry and no mosquitoes but lots of flutterbys. Looks like I might make it to Del Rio easily. Traffic has been nearly nonexistent. 88 deg with good breeze.

9/25/2018 12:33:48 pm

Sounds like things are improving for you, sometimes getting away from the coast is a good thing.

Del Rio sure sounds good, I miss the Chinese buffet, and that country buffet place. Just thinking about it makes me want to ease on down the road.

Tom, getting toooo jealous.

Tim

9/25/2018 12:14:31 pm

I'm really liking your animated photos. I haven't seen any other sites (that I can think of), doing similar animations. Whenever, I see your AF at different spots like that, it makes me want to hook up and take off, which it will be time for before I know it. It's starting to get cool here, so I'm really getting that feeling now.

I've been watching Creativity RV for awhile now - I think she does a really good job with her channel. She hasn't been RVing fulltime for very long, which I think gives her a different perspective from YouTubers that have been boondocking for years (although I do watch a lot of those as well). One of her videos that really stood out to me was how to find boondocking sites; I've watched those kinds of videos from others, but I thought her's was especially helpful.

I did get my AF winterized on Sunday. It went really smoothly and I didn't have any issues, other than spraying pink stuff all over myself at the outside shower - I though I had a hose and nozzle for outside, but couldn't find it if I do, so just depressed the valve to spray out the water and some pink stuff. Of course, if I'm going to be sprayed by fluid coming out of the RV, it could be worse than pink anti-freeze.

I had also bought a really nice air compressor (a Viair) before the trip to Minnesota, but hadn't used it yet. So, I got it out, figured out how to use it, and aired up the tires. It worked great and I think it's going to be really useful and a good purchase.

So, now that the RV is winterized, it's on to the other projects on the list.

9/25/2018 01:26:58 pm

Thank you, I do enjoy making animations, it gives me something to do in my abundant spare time, and I think it puts a little life in the blog.

I think what the lady on Creativity RV does best is she explains things in detail that a lot of us old-timers either leave out or don't think it's important to talk about because we think everybody already knows it. But by her being new to this lifestyle she talks to the audience as if there also new and need to learn the details that she just recently learned herself.

That feeling of wanting to hook up and take off when you see a place you would like to go is something all we full timers feel. In the winter when I'm moving a lot it doesn't bother me as much. But when my summer is almost over, and it's starting to get chilly, I really get the desire to be on the road. It's really a mixed feeling because I'm leaving my family and a place I'm very happy and content at. But the call of the road is strong and my kung fu is weak.

The secret to not getting sprayed when you push in that outside nonreturn valve is to turn off the water pump and open an inside faucet to release most of the pressure, then the nonreturn valve will be very easy to push in and only a little water and antifreeze will come out. But don't worry about it, if you live the full-time lifestyle the way you're supposed to that maybe the last time you ever have to do that.

I've had my Viair air compressor ever since I went full-time and its done everything I need to do quickly and easily, they're not cheap but they have a very good reputation especially with the off-road four-wheel-drive guys.

Good luck with your other projects. For me I've always got another project I would like to do but my inherent laziness often prevents me from doing anything, so the list keeps getting longer and longer.

Tom

Linda Sand

9/25/2018 02:17:48 pm

Teaching is easier if you learned recently yourself. When my Dave wants to teach me something about computers I always have to remind him he can't start at step three.

BTW, my first RV had a canvas top.

It was a tent trailer in the 70s. 1970s not 1870s, though. With a furnace!

9/25/2018 03:25:51 pm

LOL, I forgot about pop up tent trailers. But Barney, The Old Fat Man, started full timing way before tent trailers were invented. He is the only RVer I know that started full timing while heading West on the Santa Fe Trail. When everyone else found a plot of land and stopped, Barney just kept going.

Some people are good teachers, and some people are good learners, I'm only good at relaxing and whatever I learn is through osmosis.

Tom

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