Today offered the perfect combination of sunshine, no wind and some helping hands. That made it a good time to set up a clothesline and ha...

A lot of RV owners, particularly those with smaller rigs, complain there isn't enough room for solar panels on their roof. Air condition...

I put a lot of my stuff in storage when I went to Mexico. The idea was to simplify things in case the Rolling Steel Tent were to be searched...

At five-something this morning the wind started howling and the solar panel, which was tilted up, started to rattle. Good morning. I pulled ...

This chair not only keeps me off the ground, it also serves as a step stool when I tilt and untilt my solar panel. I noticed today one o...

Science... data... standards... You'd think those applied to something like the state of charge of a 12 Volt deep cycle battery. Because...

I had debated myself last year about running ads on my blog. The argument for purity won out. But then I got notices from Google that I qual...

This is an end piece of a batch of soap made by part time nomads Laura and Scott. They sell the soap and give pieces like this to friends....

I got out my steno pad the other day to jot something down. While flipping to a blank page I came upon notes I made when planning my van d...

At 10:18 AM it's 54°F outside. And the Mr. Heater Portable Buddy is on inside the Rolling Steel Tent. And somewhere there are people ...

We got our stuff done in Yuma, said adios to the RV "camping" area at the Cocopah Casino, and headed out to the desert. Clear sk...

I posted this last year . It still applies. And I wrote this the year before . It also still applies. My original thought was to do a ...

I started off in the Rolling Steel Tent with just the factory-standard seat, with a small tear made by the previous owner. After a few month...

It was overcast, my laptop battery was almost dead, and my house batteries were kind of low. But I was about to make a 90-minute drive. ...