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RVing Off the Radar "Small House, Big Yard "

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I am not content to be just "off the grid". I want to be totally off the radar!
You can temporarily park at a Walmart parking lot, hospital parking lot, or a free Casino parking lot, or more permanently tucked away at a beautiful state park. We are dry camping, or boondocking; and with no shore power, or water at all. Or, more formally, it is called Independent Parking. We do not need "full hookups". We carry no generator. We chase the sun and fog. And, we are free and green and gone.
But it is not for everyone...

"A man must know his limitations."

The chase: At every stop of green or blue, befriending nature at every breath, eager and pleased to be some kind of glorious part. Not knowing the part, but loving the mystery.

With the RV planted square in a parking area, and a "number" firmly stuck to the window, one seeks to be proclaimed "one with nature". But in the end, only holds many beautiful promises, tenuous as a sea breeze. Magnificence is solidly all around, in endless ocean waves greeting the shore, and towering Redwoods bathed in moving fog and changing light. And yet, the magnificence truly remains just out of reach. Just out of reach from the grasp of human hands and fingers. Nature playfully teases, and that is why it is an endless chase.

I have a big box on wheels, and it is a lot like our round planet without wheels. Both are a small, mobile, isolated, house with limited resources.

Water circulates from the fresh water tank, which is like the ocean, to the roof and water heater, which is like the sun, and through a water filter, which is like the rocks and streams, and finally back to the fresh water tank again. The water's journey in my RV is repeated over and over just like the planet. The water is heated on the roof, and put back into the Fresh Water tank.

My RV has a skin of aluminum that protects from cold and wind. The earth has a magnetic field and ozone, that forms a "skin" and protects from lethal radiation. Both are a protective cacoon.

Both use radiation from the sun for the majority of energy. The sun strikes my solar panels and gives all the energy for my RV. And it is all free as life itself.


Both the RV and Earth are mobile, one round and one rectanular, and give different views of the universe. And yet both are "homes". The price for my RV home was expensive, but the price for the planet-house was free - a gift - for me and you. Never the less, both are mobile houses, perfectly adapted for us.

There is one big difference, however:
I put a lot of effort into my RV, which has personal value.
And humans put no effort into the planet, which has an immense unimaginable value.

I love waking up in a new place. A new place is not a home until you actually wake up there. Because my little "trailer" is an RV, the whole world is my home.

Genesis 6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

My RV is like the Ark upon the waters. It is not tied to the land, and not subject to one place. But once on dry land, the love and appreciation of nature can begin again. Simply by opening the door, and setting forth the woofers to explore and bring back the excitement. When stopped, a white dove is always in the window.


Here are projects related to my RV.
For the three of us: my Wife, Me, and the "Woofers".


I know the energy demands. I know the maintenance. I know my trailer. I know what it is capable of, and what it is not. I have redesigned almost everything.



As a child, I loved to play with boxes, turning them upside down, and making them into houses. Strangely, boxes have always given me a sense of security. Now, I am still playing with boxes; Big and expensive boxes!
I enjoy "going out to the trailer", and working there.


I will tell you about my challenges and changes...
Keystone travel trailer: 2009 SpringDale 179RD



Lexy  


Van, the #1 tow vehicle  


Travel Trailer  


Truck, the #2 tow vehicle  


MPG Miles Per Gallon


Shower Hot Water  


Motion Dectector for Black Tank  


Water  
Accumulators  

Solar Hot Water Panel  


Hitch  
Tires  


Fender Skirts  


Floor  


Solar Panels  
Pilot Sensor Panels  



Solar Controller #1  
Solar Controller #2  
Solar Controller #3  

Solar Controller for Lithium  

Coach (House) Regulators  


Solar Combiner  

Solar Maximum Power Point, MPP  


Wind Vane  
Solar Panel Audio  
Solar Flux Sensors  
EMP Hardening  



Wheels  


Currents  
LED Lighting  
Batteries  


Thermal, Insulation-1  
Insulation-2  
Insulation-3  
Halflife  

Freeze of 2013.12.05  
Insulation 3 Measurement  
Internal Ventilation, Circulation  
Lighting of Cabinets, Drawers, Closets  



Stove  


Refrigerator  


Sinks  


Dinette Table  


Furnace Thermostat  


AC Power  

RV Wiring  


TV and Entertainment


Enunciator and Speech

Examples of Speech  



Brocoli Sprouts


Putting it all together


Putting it all together 2


Putting it all together 3

A trip accros the States


Putting it all together 4


Upgrading Electronics


MasterClocks; MClocks



Putting it all together 6

Handling these two is sort of like driving horses.

Here are my two little horses. When they are both on leashes, they don't always pull together. One will go to the left and one to the right. "Two" is MORE than twice as hard as one; perhaps about three times. The white one on the right is 9 years old, and the orange one on the left is 9 months old. Both are Shih Tzu, but the one on the left may be part Yorkie. She has a bronze color of orange eyes. Both are part of the RV "team" and my family. One veterinary clinic thought the white one was too spoiled. But they are not "spoiled", just well loved. Outings would not be the same without them.

When we get back to the RV, and get back to the outside shower, both dogs will give me their paws for washing. Lexy, the older dog, will actually shift her weight, and lift a paw or leg without me touching it. She knows the routine. When the weather is good the outside shower wand has a doggie application. But in bad weather, for example in the rain, I have to use a different technique. And that is to lift both dogs up at the front door and carry them to the bathtub. I have to leave them in the tub while I go back and shut the door. And the plug has to be in the drain to stop any course dirt getting into the trap or tank.



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