Guest post written by my buddy Angelo Cooper

My husband and I were watching direct tv Seattle last night before we went to bed. We were watching the Travel Channel and we saw a great show on travel in Italy. Neither of us has ever been to Italy, but we are dying to go. The show showed some great places to visit. It highlighted the Almafi Coast on the sea. It showed the famous island of Capri. The waters were translucent blue and glittering, absolutely beautiful. It showed a city on the mountains, Positano, where a lot of movies have been filmed. It is even said that the Rolling Stones wrote a lot of their songs in the town. Lastly, they showed another beautiful city of the coast, Portofino. Portofino is famous for being the resort town of the rich and famous. Almost every movie star that you can think of has been photographed on vacation in Portofino. Watching the show took us one step closer to planning our dream vacation in Italy. I hope that we get to go soon!

Chucktown

Thanks to Olga Quinn

Living in Charleston is truly a dream. I wake up every morning to cool, beachy breezes, and walk to work on cobblestone streets. The temperature never gets above 80 in the summertime, and the coldest day we had last winter was 40 degrees. Just the perfect temp for a Patagonia and leather boots. When we moved here, I thought it was only temporary. Drew and I spent a week researching the best pizza places (obviously the “research” for this was delicious), the differences between DIRECTV Or Dish Network, and the quaintest little coffee shops. Turns out, I think I’m here to stay. Drew has gotten into law school, I’m teaching at a middle school in Mt. Pleasant which I love, and we’ve gotten pretty comfortable. We’ve made some incredible friends who appreciate the simple, slow life here. We walk to the Corner Bakery for the world’s best coffee on Sundays, grab a pesto Pizza from Louie’s on the way home, and curl up on our dilapidated sofa to watch Entourage on our way-too-small TV. Life sure is sweet.

Favorite educational show

This guest post from Daryl Glass

My mum and dad are television mad. They love to watch it every day whilst telling me not to spend to much time on the computer. To me it does not figure. They watch http://www.expertsatellite.com daily and their favorite program is the most intense program that I have ever seen called The Deadliest Catch. It is a reality program a bit like Big Brother only with much more action and swearing. The Deadliest Catch is based around giant crabs which can be found on the sea bed of the Bering Sea. My parents watch it on the Discovery channel and I have watched it because I needed to do an assignment for school and decided to do it based on the fishing of these monstrous crabs.

The way the crews bond like a family in such a short space is intriguing. If my family were in a small space like the crew are they would argue every fifteen minutes and my dad would probably throw my uncle overboard. The engineer on the boat called Wizard really cracks me up. Lenny Lekanoff is his name and he is just like my dad, short tempered and can fix any electrical item with a screwdriver and a sledge hammer. This is an excellent program which I will recommend to my children to watch.

Family Piling In

Easter has always been a huge deal in my family and everyone expects me to come up with some gourmet brunch ideas after church on Sunday. I usually do the same old thing with ham and eggs and smoked salmon but this year I wanted to do something special instead so I’ve been looking up recipes using my wireless from www.wirelessinternetproviders.net and I think I’ve found some good ones. I know my husband’s going to be particularly excited about the cheese and bacon quiche and my mom is definitely going to love the ambrosia salad I found…it’s got lots of pecans, her favorite. The kids won’t eat any of it (they never do) but I don’t care because I’ve bought four egg dying kits to keep them busy. I even got a huge chocolate bunny to hide outside where they can have a huge Easter egg hunt after the meal! It’s going to be a good holiday and I can’t wait for my family to get here so I can get to cooking!

Get The Chill Out

Since it has been very cold in the RV again from the dropping temps outside, I wanted to find a way to keep the chill out.  I did some looking around at my local home improvement store and then it dawned on me, drafts were coming from doors and windows.  I found these great weather stripping rolls and immediately brought home 3 of them.  I found that the doors and windows had weather stripping on them, but where they touched the RV was just metal.  I then added this weather stripping and found that things stayed much warmer.

I still wasn't as happy as I knew I could be so I started looking for other ways to keep the RV warm.  I noticed that around the roof vents, lots of air was coming in, especially when it was windy.  I inserted a Camco roof vent insulator and noticed that after a day or so, the temp warmed up about 10 - 15 degrees inside!

With the combinations I mentioned above, you could keep warm for a very cheap investment. 

Care for that engine!!!

If your like me and put hard towing or heavy mileage on your tow vehicle, then you are going to want to protect that engine.  I use and recommend in all diesel and gasoline engines the Lucas Heavy Duty Oil Stabilizer.

All you do is add one of these to your next oil change by replacing one quart with this oil additive.  This will keep everything nice and slick and will help prevent spinning a bearing, throwing a ring, or even just running a quart low on oil.  This product is pure petroleum based that equals, won't burn off.

Check it out with your next oil change!

Shine some light on the subject....

If your like me, hitching up in the dark is quite a task.  Why not shine some light on the subject with a 12 volt utility light?!  I have installed two of these lights in the bed of my truck using my in-bed toolbox as a mounting point.  I ran a wire to the cab of the truck where I can turn these lights off and on at will.  They are great for backing up, hitching up, and warning off those tailgater's when they get too close for comfort.

Happy camping and see you down the road.