Bubba On The Road

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, 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...

What went wrong this time?

June 26, 2018 eric

Because nothing seems to go right for us, well, ever, we had another issue with Sleipnir, another tow, and more things going wrong. We really are starting to run out of things to repair or replace, so I hope that soon this is the end of our problems, but I'm always wary of something breaking, something not working right, or...

OvaEasy Egg Crystals Review

June 20, 2018 eric

I had the opportunity to try out some OvaEasy Egg crystals for an alternative to carrying around fresh eggs in our RV. Since fridge space is at a minimum, being able to use something that stored dry and lasted longer was a good idea. Here's how it worked out. First off, in our RV, we have no oven and we...

Keeping the RV Bug-Free

June 18, 2018 eric

Its inevitable, bugs get inside RVs. It can't really be avoided, whether ants, flying bugs, or disgusting crawling things like roaches. This is about the flying ones though. This is about something simple and cheap: a bug zapper. We bought this little bug zapper from Amazon. I wasn't sure it would work, we never used them at home as a...

Nuwave Countertop Oven Review

June 16, 2018June 16, 2018 eric

Our RV is an older, vintage model, and did not come with an oven. As such, for the first few months of our travels, we had no way to bake anything, much to our dismay. That changed when my dad brought us a spare Nuwave oven he had, allowing us to bake things like french fries and even pizza. While...

Building a Raspberry Pi Network

June 13, 2018 eric

This is mainly focused on the full time RVers reading this, but there are still ideas to be mined for others. This is the layout for how our network is getting built and what each Raspberry Pi will do in that network. I've had some new ideas recently, so while I've discussed building a Raspberry Pi network before, this is...