Blog to provide real life RV tips

Hi there,

My intention for the OuRV Roadrunner blog is to write about our journey as new RV owners and journal on our travels, first in New Mexico and later further afield, in our new-to-us vehicle. I hope to provide information for readers in terms of what to see along the way to our destinations, hiking and nature notes and to compile helpful resources for maintaining our RV.

I also would like to share a little bit about us. If we are similar in how we travel, you might find this blog helpful. And if we are very different people, well maybe this blog will give you a few laughs over our mishaps.

Trip Notes

Our trip notes, at least right now, will focus on the road and camping in New Mexico. We both work full-time, so most of our RV trips will be weekend excursions. In a few years, we hope to travel across the United States and Canada. We like to explore. We are interested in nature, history, oddities. We find beauty and peace in getting off the beaten path and feeling like we are alone in the world. If you’re looking for resorts and swimming pools at every stop, we probably won’t be much help. Though, sometimes we like those comforts, too. Heather is also a birder, so many of our trips are geared toward adding to her birding life list. We also travel with our dog, Polka, so campgrounds that don’t allow pets are probably places we’ll avoid for now.

Hiking Notes

We’ll also include hiking notes. We are nearly as old as the wind and we are no longer interested in moving fast. In addition to birds, we like photography, looking at rocks, trying to figure out the geology, botany or history of an area and napping in the sunshine on a warm rock. All this means, our hiking times are sloooooow. You can go much faster, so hopefully our hiking notes will help you find the trail head and describe the early part of your hike. But know that you will likely cover much more ground than us. Good for you! I’ll plan to link hiking notes chronologically to our blog, but if possible organize them geographically and add to them over the years and in different seasons.

RV Tips

On our RV notes, we are also new RV owners, though not new to camping. We can start a decent fire in most conditions. We don’t mind a few days without showers. We know the importance of water, sunscreen, head cover and a rain proof jacket in New Mexico’s outdoors. We are about as far from being mechanically inclined as we are from our teenage years. When we get help from the universe via the internet, we will share any open source links. We will also let you know the real side of owning a small RV. So far, we are a bit worried about this, but hopefully our expertise will grow with time and our anxiety will lessen. So if you’re a mechanic or a long-time RV owner, skip our notes. You’ve already got this!

If we do stop at restaurants or other things along the way, we are pretty well traveled and I think we are fairly discerning diners, so we’ll provide basic reviews when we can.

I think those are some basics that should help you decide whether this blog is for you.

Until next time,

Heather