Bubba On The Road

Projects in the works

August 19, 2018 eric

We've been at our current campground for just over two weeks now. I've been working those two weeks as well, doing twenty hours a week in exchange for a place to stay. This means we no longer have to worry about traveling, which means we no longer have to worry about things breaking at least as far as the engine...

Severing Ties with Amazon.com

August 12, 2018August 12, 2018 eric

I've had bad feelings about Amazon for awhile and it has been steadily growing. Sure, they have almost anything we could ever need to buy, free two-day shipping with a Prime membership, and usually their prices are lower or low enough to justify using them. However, recently, things have gotten worse and I can no longer justify the savings for...

Living with someone with a disability

August 10, 2018 eric

I write this both as a person with a disability and as a person who cares for someone with one. It may be easy to see that someone has a physical disability, missing a limb, paralyzed, blind, whatever, but there are so many other forms of disability out there. Just because someone appears physically fine does not mean that they...

Change in Tone

August 1, 2018 eric

For the past year, we have lived and tried to travel in our RV. We've not seen nearly as much as we would like, we haven't done as much as we'd like, and we haven't spoke up about some of the problems we face every day as we struggle with issues in the RV, struggles with our health, struggles with...

Workamping soon!

July 25, 2018 eric

I have accepted a workamping position. I'll probably never give the exact campground where we will be, just for privacy reasons, but I will be posting photos and information and stuff like that. I'm excited to be making this step, I'm hoping it will make things easier for us, and we should be able to work on some projects on...

Getting a Schedule Set

July 15, 2018 eric

It is important when living full time in an RV that you have some sort of structure. It is all too easy to wake up whenever you want, go to bed when you feel tired, and float through each day with no sense of direction. Days turn to weeks, weeks to months, and pretty soon you wonder what the hell...

Setting up an Ubuntu Server

July 12, 2018August 12, 2018 eric

I always have projects I'm working on in the RV, and I always come up with new and better ways to get them accomplished. I find a problem, figure out a solution, and before I implement that solution, I re-examine it to see if that is the best, most reliable and most affordable solution to the problem. In this case,...

The Next Pi Project: Smart Pantry

July 4, 2018 eric

As new ideas come to me, I have to come up with new solutions. My latest problem to solve is how to know what is in our pantry when I can't easily see what is all the way in the back. We used to have a slide out shelf in the pantry, but it used about half the space, made...

Dealing with Mania

June 29, 2018 eric

I've delved into some of our personal lives here on Bubba On The Road, but kept most of it in the background. I've talked about anxiety and OCD, stress with living this way, but I want to expand on something that keeps me busy most days. Whether good or bad, I have to deal with manic episodes and learn how...

Running Ethernet Under Sub-Optimal Conditions

June 27, 2018 eric

Rvs are not generally wired for ethernet. In fact, I've never heard of one that had ethernet run through the coach. Its also not like a house where there are voids in the walls and other cables that can be followed and used to pull cables through. With the availability of wifi, you may wonder why one would even use...