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Stove Cover
Space is at a premium in an RV, and nowhere is that either more evident or more important than in the kitchen area. Usually, if you’re lucky and you have a larger RV, they will put both a sink and an oven/stove combo in the kitchen, and then that’s about all you have room for. Your entire kitchen counter space is now taken up with those two surfaces. The most common solution to this problem is to just build covers, so that when you’re not actively using either the sink or the stove, there is a solid surface over one… read more…
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First Look
Franklin and I had looked at a handful of RVs before finding this one for sale on Facebook Marketplace. All of them were older because the budget is very small, but they all looked like … well, like RVs. Any Boomers or GenXers who ever had a motorhome back in the 1970s, ’80s, or ’90s – whatever you remember from that era, that’s what we saw. We saw lots of brown wood paneling. We saw lots of brown carpeting. We saw lots of seafoam green upholstery. We saw lots of formica countertops. And all of that was fine, because I… read more…
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Electrical Misadventures
I tasked Franklin with designing and setting up the electrical system, which involved converting the battery system to lithium-ion and putting solar panels in the mix. It also, apparently, required rewiring basically any and all plugs and electrical devices going to or from or into both the new RV and my old RV (which I am currently living in) as well as installing surge protectors and circuit breakers in various places. I’m doing all of the cosmetic and carpentry work so I off-loaded the electrical labor to Franklin who is better at it than I am (even counting in my… read more…
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The Deal (pt. 4)
July 7th, 2025 – was this the day? Would I be driving home a new-to-me RV, or would I show up and find an abandoned vehicle graveyard, minus the one vehicle I was interested in, and down several thousand dollars? Once more, Franklin and I woke up early (to us) and drove, yet again, across the state. I pulled into Schrodinger’s Fae Graveyard, and as I came around the corner through the gate, I breathed a sigh of relief to see the now-familiar giant white box sitting on the asphalt near the office (that I had never once noticed on… read more…
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The Deal (pt. 3)
The next day, the woman messaged me that her boyfriend was out and had looked at the problems we noticed on the RV. She said that he said that it was just air in the line and he was totally qualified to bleed the brakes for us and he wanted to show us around the RV himself. She also insisted that there was no oil in the RV which, as you, dear reader, might remember from pt. 2, had just been replaced by a mechanic. So I once again wake up Franklin to ask WTF and he insisted that he… read more…
