Eric Highland, Author at RV Wanderlust

RVillage: Platform for RVers We Use Daily

March 13, 2015 by Eric Highland Leave a Comment

To be honest, whenever someone tells us about a new online platform, page or group for RVers, we kind of wince and half heartedly agree to take a look. It’s not that we’re too cool for school, believe me. It’s just that we’re already a member of so many, and most of them we hardly ever use.

Hey, it isn’t personal, we just have a life to live and we don’t want to always be online if you know what I mean. After all, we’re supposed to be out exploring the country, right?

So Many Platforms, So Little Time

But this wasn’t always the case. When we first started full time RVing just over a year ago, we tried to be involved in every group, page and platform we could. [Read more…]

McKinney Falls State Park, Where It All Started

March 9, 2015 by Eric Highland 4 Comments

Upper Falls at McKinney Falls State Park in Austin, TX

Brittany and I started our RV adventure at McKinney Falls State Park in Austin, Texas just over a year ago. Today we find ourselves here again. It is sublime. Simply put, we love this place and it’s time to get back into our RV blogging groove…

We’ve received so many messages from folks, asking us to update our blog. Thank you for that! It means a lot to us to know y’all follow our adventures. You are truly our family out here on the road and we’ve been blessed to meet so many of you in person!

We’ve been floored to have 1700+ of you follow us on Facebook, 700+ on Twitter, and even 100+ on Pinterest!

I know we haven’t updated our blog in awhile and this year we resolve to do better. We’ve actually hatched a plan… [Read more…]

Captain’s Log: RV Wanderlust 10-14-14

October 14, 2014 by Eric Highland 17 Comments

Meriwether Navigator Brittany Highland and Captain Eric Highland of RV Wanderlust

Date: 10-14-2014

Current City: Myrtle Beach, SC
Current Location: Pirateland Family Campground
Site Number: 790
Wi-fi Signal: Verizon - Good / AT&T - Good / Campground Wi-fi - Average/Good and Free
Cell Signal: AT&T - Good
Mission: Work / Explore

Compliment: 2 Officers, 1 Crew, 0 Guests
Captain: Eric Highland
Navigator: Brittany Highland
1st Mate: Trogdor the Burninator
Guests: None

Weather: Rain / 74°
Precipitation: 40%
Humidity: 93%
Wind: 1 mph

Fuel: 25 Gallons of Diesel - 1/4 tank
Odometer: 105,479
Generator Hours: 4613.6

Estimated Date of Departure: Saturday, October 25th.
Next Destination: St. Augustine, FL (Tentative)

Special Orders: Continue to enjoy new friendships. Work. Presentations.

Captain’s Remarks

13:16 - When we last left off, we were wrapping up our time in Raleigh, NC and heading to Myrtle Beach, SC. Well we made it! [Read more…]

Captain’s Log: RV Wanderlust 09-23-14

September 23, 2014 by Eric Highland 3 Comments

Meriwether Navigator Brittany Highland and Captain Eric Highland of RV Wanderlust

Date: 09-23-2014

Current City: Raleigh, NC
Current Location: North Carolina State Fairgrounds
Site Number: 101
Wi-fi Signal: Verizon - Good / AT&T - Average / Campground Wi-fi - Very Good and Free
Cell Signal: AT&T - Adequate
Mission: Work / Explore

Compliment: 2 Officers, 1 Crew, 0 Guests
Captain: Eric Highland
Navigator: Brittany Highland
1st Mate: Trogdor the Burninator
Guests: None

Weather: Overcast / 58°
Precipitation: 10%
Humidity: 72%
Wind: 0 mph

Fuel: 50 Gallons of Diesel
Odometer: 105,167
Generator Hours: 4613.6

Estimated Date of Departure: Saturday, September 27th.
Next Destination: Myrtle Beach, SC

Special Orders: Enjoy new friendships, continue client work

Captain’s Remarks

09:35 - Part of the difficulty in keeping up with regular Captain’s log entries has been a lack of free time where we aren’t doing something spontaneous and fun. We have thoroughly enjoyed our time since we last updated the log from Williamsburg, VA.

For our faithful readers, we last left off after visiting the home of Thomas Jefferson (Monticello) and the lovely city of Charlottesville, VA. We’d been staying in Williamsburg, VA and visiting as many places in the Historic Triangle as we could in the time we were there.

On August 31st, we made our way back to Virginia Beach. It was time to head south. This time we stayed at Fort Story in Virginia Beach. We were there for two weeks. Here are some highlights [Read more…]

Building Friendships When You Live in an RV

September 6, 2014 by Eric Highland 6 Comments

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that gives value to survival.
-C.S. Lewis

As full-time RVers, we’re often asked, “What is the most difficult thing about full-time RVing?”

I could easily make a list of our standard answers. But one that we feel merits discussion, is building friendships when you live in an RV full time.

Eric and Brittany Highland with Ryan and Michele Newbrough

Our newest RV friends Ryan and Michele Newbrough. We’ve been talking for months and finally met up in Virginia Beach. We’ve already gone out twice and have a third time planned before we leave the area.

We start with the premise that friendship is usually predicated on the fact that you spend time in person with those whom you call friends. [Read more…]

Captain’s Log: RV Wanderlust 08-29-14

August 29, 2014 by Eric Highland 1 Comment

Meriwether Navigator Brittany Highland and Captain Eric Highland of RV Wanderlust

Date: 08-29-2014

Current City: Williamsburg, VA
Current Location: King’s Creek RV Park (Naval Weapons Station Cheatham Annex)
Site Number: 42
Wi-fi Signal: Verizon - Good / AT&T - Weak / Campground Wi-fi - Intermittent but Free
Cell Signal: AT&T - Extremely Poor
Mission: Work / Explore

Compliment: 2 Officers, 1 Crew, 0 Guests
Captain: Eric Highland
Navigator: Brittany Highland
1st Mate: Trogdor the Burninator
Guests: None

Weather: Mostly Cloudy / 73°
Precipitation: 10%
Humidity: 78%
Wind: 0 mph

Fuel: 66 Gallons of Diesel
Odometer: 104,697
Generator Hours: 4613.6

Estimated Date of Departure: Friday, August 29th.
Next Destination: Williamsburg, VA

Special Orders: Prepare to shove off

Captain’s Remarks

08:58 - Since we left Fayetteville, NC much has happened. We went to Little Creek, VA and spent time with some friends and even met some new ones. Connecting and reconnecting is one of the really nice perks of full time RVing. [Read more…]

The Mystery of the Meriwether Ghost

August 12, 2014 by Eric Highland 6 Comments

Have you ever had one of those moments in life where the most bizarre and unexplainable thing happened?

The kind of thing that if you told people, they wouldn’t believe you?

The kind of thing where you wish Scooby and the gang were real?

Where are you Scooby Doo? (Photo courtesy of austinot.com)

Well, I think we may have picked up a Confederate soldier ghost somewhere along our journey, and I’ve got him recorded! That’s right folks. We’ve got evidence. [Read more…]

Captain’s Log: RV Wanderlust 08-07-2014

August 7, 2014 by Eric Highland 3 Comments

Meriwether Navigator Brittany Highland and Captain Eric Highland of RV Wanderlust

Date: 08-07-2014

Current City: Fayetteville, NC (Fort Bragg area)
Current Location: Smith Lake Army Campground
Site Number: 2
Wi-fi Signal: Verizon - Good / AT&T - Good / Campground Wi-fi - None
Mission: Work / Explore

Compliment: 2 Officers, 1 Crew, 0 Guests
Captain: Eric Highland
Navigator: Brittany Highland
1st Mate: Trogdor the Burninator
Guests: None

Weather: Mostly Cloudy / 85°
Precipitation: 10%
Humidity: 59%
Wind: 6 mph

Fuel: 6 Gallons of Diesel - Yikes!
Odometer: 104,218
Generator Hours: 4613.6

Estimated Date of Departure: Saturday, August 9th.
Next Destination: Virginia Beach, VA

Special Orders: None

Captain’s Remarks

10:17 - We made it to Fayetteville, NC. Our first time in North Carolina in Meriwether! Home of Army Airborne Special Forces and Fort Bragg. [Read more…]

Top 10 Life Lessons Learned in Our First Year RVing

August 1, 2014 by Eric Highland 44 Comments

We all have those moments of clarity, when the cobwebs of life are brushed aside from the recesses of our mind and we’re able to grasp something useful enough to be considered a life lesson.

Shifting from a stick and brick home to the full time RV lifestyle definitely speeds up that process. If you’ve ever made this transition, you may be able to relate to the top 10 life lessons we’ve learned. If you’re still thinking about making this change, we hope our experiences will be of use to you.

We promised to be transparent at the outset of creating this blog. By doing so, we hope you’ll learn from both our victories and mistakes. If you read this article, you’ll know we really don’t hold back on our flaws.

In order from 10 to 1, these life lessons refer to when we first made the transition, to now that we’re making our life on the road.

So without further ado, here we go…

Life Lesson #10: There is no shame in not knowing.

[Read more…]

Captain’s Log: RV Wanderlust 07-21-2014

July 22, 2014 by Eric Highland Leave a Comment

Meriwether Navigator Brittany Highland and Captain Eric Highland of RV Wanderlust

Date: 07-21-2014

Current City: Charleston, SC
Current Location: Joint Air Force Base Charleston FAMCAMP
Site Number: 9
Wi-fi Signal: Verizon - Good / AT&T - Good / Campground Wi-fi - Medium
Mission: Work / Explore

Compliment: 2 Officers, 1 Crew, 0 Guests
Captain: Eric Highland
Navigator: Brittany Highland
1st Mate: Trogdor the Burninator
Guests: None

Weather: Scattered Clouds / 85°
Precipitation: 70%
Humidity: 74%
Wind: 4 mph

Fuel: 45 Gallons of Diesel - just under 1/2 of a tank
Odometer: 103,866
Generator Hours: 4613.6

Estimated Date of Departure: Saturday, August 2nd.
Next Destination: Unknown

Special Orders: Get back into our regular routine.

Captain’s Remarks

12:45 - If you’ve been following along, you know we had a pretty scary breakdown at our stop in Orlando/Kissimmee. No Captain’s Log has been written since June, though several attempts at one had been started. The week in Orlando with the kids and grandma, the breakdown, and clients proved to be too much for us to work on the Captain’s Log as well. Without a doubt it was the most hectic week we’ve ever had yet since full-timing. [Read more…]

So Many Platforms, So Little Time

Special Orders: Continue to enjoy new friendships. Work. Presentations.

Captain’s Remarks

Special Orders: Enjoy new friendships, continue client work

Captain’s Remarks

Special Orders: Prepare to shove off

Captain’s Remarks

Special Orders: None

Captain’s Remarks

Life Lesson #10: There is no shame in not knowing.

Special Orders: Get back into our regular routine.

Captain’s Remarks

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