Freedom in a Can: Adventures with Hamlet

Are you seeking to go full time or even take an extended trip in an RV?  We've been asked a ton of great (and sometimes hilarious) questions over the past few years.  Here are a few bits of advice for folks seeking their own adventure.  For this and a WHOLE LOT MORE, check out the online RV + Travel Summit .  We were invited to share our story on Day 3.  Enjoy hundreds of tips, advice, great stories, etc. from veterans who have lived full time in their RV's.  Here are some of the most FAQ's (if you have others, please feel free to comment/ask and we'll answer them here ) What do you eat?   Food…good healthy whole, often organic and local, food.    We have a 2 burner propane stove, a small grill, and we almost always have a campfire pit in which we can use our fry bake or Dutch oven.  We just recently bought a small toaster oven to use when we are plugged in.  We have whittled our kitchen supplies down to a few things that have multiple uses (e.g., a me

We may be the last people under the age of 50 to have done so in the developed world, but we have now officially joined the 21 st century through the purchase of a smart phone.   And I have to say, I freakin’ love it.   I hate how much I love it.   It is fast, knows where we are, where to get the cheapest gas, posts cheesy selfies, allows us to deposit a check from the passenger seat, helps us find a Camp Wally which hasn't banned overnight parking when we can't find an open campground, and answers questions anytime I wonder aloud about something I don’t know. Being a phone, not so obviously, is the least of its handy functions and calling it as such seems a limitation.    At first, I resisted the programming of our robot overlords and took to calling it, “the device,” the disdain dripping heavily off my tongue, delighting my inner luddite.   As much as this amused me, it annoyed my wife to no end -- a common enough occurrence.   We settled instead on calling i