There is so much to see and do in the Atlanta area, there's no way you can do it all in just one day.

On your second day in Atlanta, take the MARTA train to the Five Points Station, then change trains to the east-west line going west. Get off at the first stop for CNN Center and the Georgia Dome.

A trip into downtown Atlanta can be a real adventure.

Whether you are staying at a campsite on the north or the south side of town, taking MARTA into the city is a fun way to begin. 

If you’re like me, when it comes to shopping for groceries and cooking meals, you want to spend as little time as possible doing either one. Being able to stock up so that I can shop less is important to me.

So, one of my biggest worries when I was getting ready to move into an RV and kiss my house goodbye (along with my huge residential refrigerator) was how I was going to cope with that teensy tiny refrigerator, because RV refrigerators aren't known for holding a lot of stuff.

Austin, Texas is one of my favorite places.

We went there a couple years ago to attend a Hot Tuna concert at the University of Texas Austin campus. The venue was small, but we thoroughly enjoyed the 2 shows.

The list of fun things to do in Austin is practically endless. Here are some ideas...

A subject that often comes up when I am talking to people about my lifestyle is “What do you do for the holidays?

Don’t you miss spending it with your family?

For us, the answer is “Yes” and “No”. 

Early one morning I was sitting at the kitchen table reading my email and having a leisurely cup of coffee, when suddenly I heard a hissing noise coming from the back of the RV.  Jim was still in bed, so I got up and went over to where the air conditioner unit was, because I thought the noise was coming from there. But that wasn’t it.

It turned out to be the toilet! It had sprung a leak, and water was spewing out like a fountain from a tiny plastic pipe at the back of it.

I yelled at Jim to get up quick, and he ran outside and turned of the water at the source. As I mopped up the mess, Jim was calling the tech at the nearest camper store. The guy came out and discovered that the clamp that holds the pipe onto the toilet fixture had broken. It was in a place where it could not be repaired, so it meant getting a new toilet.

You wouldn’t think that getting a new toilet for the RV would be such a hard thing to do.

You may be wondering how you can make the transition to living fulltime in an RV, and still be able to support yourself.  How can you live the life and still be able to afford to eat, travel, and just... well, live?

The ideal life would be to have an excellent retirement income, and just be able to travel from one place to another, without a care in the world. But, Jim and I have been doing this since I was 48 and he was 51 -- nowhere old enough to retire. So, how do we do it?