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Flushing the Hot Water Tank
The Roadtrek has a propane hot water heater to heat your hot water and a six gallon hot water tank to hold that water and keep it hot. Inside you can see the tank inside one of your cabinets - mine is...
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Living in the Roadtrek - Dumping the Waste Tanks
In this article we are going to talk about the pleasant subject of dumping your waste tanks. Some of what I will tell you about applies basically to all RVs and some applies only to Roadtreks since...
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The Water System
I wrote what follows on a forum in response to a fellow Roadtrekker who was having problems getting the water to work on a Roadtrek 210. While it seems that the layout of plumbing is different on...
View ArticleHotter than a Firecracker on the Fourth of July - PART 1
The title of this article is an expression that I am using a bit differently. Fourth of July - and the days before and after this year in the Middle Atlantic states - were hotter than a fire cracker....
View ArticleHotter than a Firecracker on the Fourth of July - PART 2
I left off in the last article with the arrival at the campground. We wanted to get out of the campground as quickly as possible and get over to Roots Market, the local farmer's market that I wrote...
View ArticleA Roadtrek Can Go Anywhere - Almost...
To be fair this is not just about Roadtreks but motorhomes in general. One of the things that is attractive about a Roadtrek is that it can be parked in any surface parking lot. It drives the same as...
View ArticleTHE ROADTREK ELECTRIC SYSTEM
Most Roadtrek models have four methods of bringing electricity into the coach:Battery"Shore Power"InverterandGenerator (optional)The batteries supply 12 volt DC power. "Shore power" or hooking up to an...
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THE ROADTREK ELECTRIC SYSTEM - THE BATTERIES
I am going to start right off saying that I am not an "expert" in vehicle or RV batteries. I do know what I have learned from others before and after we got the Roadtrek about the batteries that the...
View ArticleLiving in the Roadtrek - Watching TV
At home you turn on your TV and sit down and watch. You can do this in your Roadtrek also, BUT there are a few things that you have to do first - in each new location you travel to.Roadtreks have...
View ArticleTalk to the President of Roadtrek
Jim Hammill is the president of the Roadtrek company. Recently he has taken up residence on a Roadtrek Facebook fan page and has been responding to Roadtrek owners, answering questions, and helping to...
View ArticleHow I Spent My Summer Roadtrek Vacation, Part I
School has started and many returning scholars have had to sit down and write an essay just like this one - "How I Spent my Summer Vacation". We'll I spent my summer vacation in a Roadtrek. We were...
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Richmond N/Americamps KOA, Ashland, Virginia
Our first night on our trip this August was spent at the Richmond N/Americamps KOA located in Ashland Virginia. The odd name is because Americamps is - was - a campground chain that ran a number of...
View ArticleHow I Spent My Summer Roadtrek Vacation, Part II
Continued from Part IWe spent the night at the KOA RichmondNorth campground, as I wrote about last week. That morning we were heading off to do some sight seeing before we continued along to our next...
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Museum of the Confederacy, Appomattox, Virginia
The place in Appomattox, Virginia that I most wanted to visit was the new annex of the Museum of the Confederacy that just opened in March 2012. The Museum of the Confederacy is a Civil War museum that...
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Charlottesville KOA Campground, Charlottesville, Virginia
We stayed for one night at the Charlottesville KOA Campground in Charlottesville, Virginia. When I was planning our trip I did a lot of looking for campgrounds in the Charlottesville area and this one...
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Monticello - Home of Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, Virginia
We came west in Virginia in our Roadtrek primarily for one reason, to see Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. We have been to Monticello in our pre-Roadtrek travels many times. We have not been there in...
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How I Spent My Summer Roadtrek Vacation, Part III
We left Monticello and started directly for out next stop - Williamsburg, Virginia. Monticello to Williamsburg is a direct route east on Route 64 with a bypass around the city of Richmond on Route 295...
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An Enlightinging Idea about the Continental Spare Tire Kit
When we are in Williamsburg, Virginia, we like to walk around the historic area after dark. It is quiet, peaceful, and history seems to come to life in the shadows. We park in a lot on the edge of the...
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Jamestown Settlement, Jamestown, Virginia
In the year 1607 three ships full of colonists landed on the bank of the James River in what we know today to be Virginia to undertake a business venture. The settlement that they established was names...
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The Williamsburg Pottery. Williamsburg, Virginia
For many, many years The Williamsburg Pottery, known by many as just "The Pottery" was one of the must stops when visiting Williamsburg, Virginia. It was a conglomeration of warehouse buildings and...
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