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Issue 1433
Welcome to another edition of RV Travel’s Daily Tips newsletter. Here you’ll find helpful RV-related and living tips from the pros, travel advice, a handy website of the day, tips on our favorite RVing-related products and, of course, a good laugh. Thanks for joining us. We appreciate you. Please tell your friends about us.
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Today’s thought
“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.” ―
Need an excuse to celebrate? Today is Elephant Appreciation Day!
On this day in history: 1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
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Tip of the Day
Happier full-time RV living with your partner
By Ray Burr, loveyourrv.com
Thinking about full-time RVing with your significant other? If not full-timing, how about extended RVing? Anne and I have been together over 16 years and lived full-time in an RV for over nine. Thankfully, we’re very compatible and have grown even closer while RVing. We manage to cohabit in 180 square feet of living space. How do we manage it without killing each other? Ray has some great tips here.
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Don’t use the wrong math comparing full-time to vacation RVing
If you’re pondering whether you should jump into the full-time RV lifestyle, don’t make the mistake that some do. They think about the times they’ve taken the rig out for a vacation trip, then they do some kind of weird math in their heads and say, “Well, that’s what full-time RVing must be like.” Not! Here are some comparisons between vacation and full-time RVing to consider. Read more.
Yesterday’s featured article: Sagging slideout topper – What’s an RVer to do?
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Quick Tip
Easily keep pet feeding area clean
Travel with a pet? Michael Hoffman passes along a neat tip: “I use a cheap boot tray in an out-of-the-way spot” to rest food and water bowls in. “It collects all the spills and sloppiness,” he adds. Thanks, Michael!
Website of the day
Fall colors state-by-state
Hard to believe it’s already fall, isn’t it? Here from tripsavvy.com is a state-by-state guide to fall colors. This is handy!
Fire Extinguishing Aerosol, Two-pack
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And the Survey Says…
We’ve polled RVtravel.com readers more than 1,500 times in recent years. Here are a few things we’ve learned about them:
• 40 percent have never broken a bone in their body
• 49 percent received an allowance as a child
• 12 percent carry at least four credit cards with them at all times
Recent poll: For couples, do you get along better at home or on the road?
Trivia
The first time a toilet appeared on TV was in 1957. The popular show “Leave It to Beaver” had a scene where the main characters were keeping a pet alligator in a toilet tank. They ran into a problem, though, when the Standards and Practices department of TV told them they couldn’t show a toilet on screen. They compromised and were allowed to show the toilet tank, as long as the toilet bowl was kept off-camera.
*What’s so special about an armadillo giving birth? We told you yesterday.
Readers’ Pet of the Day
“Our Golden Doodle, “Hooch”, loves to relax on our 3rd floor balcony. He may look calm in this favorite way for him to watch the world go by …. until a UPS truck or FedEx truck goes by. Then, those drivers know that Hooch is on post protecting his street corner!” —Greg Johnson
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A.) It lets out a little wine.
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Our Yellow lab Gabby (was featured a few months ago). Loved the UPS and Fed-X trucks because she knew she would get a treat from the driver. She loved them so much she would go inside and lay down in the back and ended up taking a ride to their next stop, the furthest she went was about a mile.
LOL … stepping on a grape.
I almost bought my local supermarket the other day, because I stepped on a runaway grape, a very large one.
Fortunately, I was able to hold on to my cart and didn’t go down, but I bruised my shin when my foot tried to faster, farther, than the rest of me. (Beer rack at the bottom….)
Otherwise, I’d be in the process of rehabilitating my tailbone today… and for the foreseeable future. (Been there, done that.)
Hooch has a friend, our Casper, a three legged Maltese has the same feelings about UPS and FedEx trucks and drivers. Once on our way to FL going down I75 as we were going past an on ramp in GA Casper whose traveling spot was in his bed on the dash noticed a UPS truck coming down the entrance ramp and went ballistic until it disappeared behind us. As the truck gained speed and started passing us Casper spotted him coming around and went ballistic all over until it got out of sight.
And you are proud you cannot control yer dog?
That’s kinda harsh, WEB. My 100+ lb., hyperactive dog gets excited when he hears the UPS truck coming up the street — just in case UPS is going to deliver something to me. My dog is very protective of me, and I think it is because he was severely abused for the first three years of his life. Now that he has a very loving owner, he wants to do everything in his power to protect me as his way of “repaying” me. That’s fine with me because there is a drug house down the street so I am glad Buddy is overly protective (and very noisy) if anyone comes in our yard. 🙂 —Diane at RVtravel.com
My POMERANIAN could get completely out of control.
IT HAPPENS. That’s what dogs do!
And … if you notice … it always works. The threat always goes away without a fight.
Hi, Connie. I know, right? I always tell Buddy they’re gone, and that he did a good job guarding me! 🙂 —Diane at RVtravel.com
Today’s thought is perfect for today.
Where oh where have the Standards and Practices Department gotten to?
I don’t think it exists anymore.
Hooch is a great looking doodle!
The toilet issue on TV is reminiscent of when you had to show two beds (not one) for married couples. Or when old time Tonight Show host Jack Parr walked off the show because the station deleted the part of the show when he told a joke which included the term water closet the previous night.