Mistakes Rookies RVers Make

Disclaimer: BC Ferries and Camping and RV in BC sponsored our travels. With a week of RV camping behind me, I realize there’s still loads I don’t know about traveling by RV. I had wrongly assumed that because I have been a seasoned camper for many years, I would take to RV life as though …


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Video: Meet the Big Rig

Disclaimer: BC Ferries and Camping and RVing in BC sponsored our travels.

The RV Life

Disclaimer: BC Ferries and Camping and RVing in BC sponsored our travels. Peter and Kelly are still asleep in their bunks. I’m in the back alcove, it’s almost a real bedroom. Kelly has the fold out couch in the kitchen/living area, and Peter is in the bunk over the cab. We skipped out on our …


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Beachcombing in the Gulf Islands

Disclaimer: BC Ferries and Camping and RVing in BC sponsored our travels. Craggy shoreline, scooped out little coves lined with shells. Sometimes, it’s all smooth pebbles, other times, ground up shells with bits of purple from the mussels. The water has been glassy and green black, the sky gray to blue as the rain cleared …


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Postcard from the Rig

Disclaimer: BC Ferries and Camping and RVing in BC sponsored our travels. It’s big. It’s silver and maroon. And it’s upholstered in many shades of brown and tan with oak front cabinets and parts that slide out to make it even bigger. It’s got outlets and burners and a toaster, even, which you have to …


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British Columbia, Here We Come.

It’s many months back that I got the pitch mail from BC Tourism. Camping is in, it said, or something like that, and BC is an awesome place to camp. I summarize, of course, they were considerably more poetic, as those pitching tourism are wont to be. The crux of the matter was this: Did …


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