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Captain’s Log: RV Wanderlust 05-18-2014

May 19, 2014 by Eric Highland 2 Comments

Eric and Brittany Highland

Meriwether Navigator Brittany Highland and Captain Eric Highland of RV Wanderlust

  • Date: 05-18-2014
  • Current City: Austin, TX
  • Current Location: Austin Lone Star Carefree RV Park
  • Site Number: 64
  • Wi-fi Signal: Verizon - Very Strong / AT&T - Strong / Campground Wi-fi - Average
  • Mission: Work, Meet with Bloggers, Appointments
  • Compliment: 2 Officers, 1 Crew, 0 Guests
  • Captain: Eric Highland
  • Navigator: Brittany Highland
  • 1st Mate: Trogdor the Burninator
  • Weather: Partly Cloudy / 78°
  • Precipitation: 0%
  • Humidity: 57%
  • Wind: 20 mph
  • Fuel: 12.5 Gallons of Diesel - 1/8 of a tank
  • Odometer: 101,142
  • Generator Hours: 4611.8
  • Estimated Date of Departure: Tuesday, May 27th
  • Next Destination: McKinney Falls State Park in Austin, Texas

Special Orders: None

Captain’s Remarks

14:05 - Not normal for us to go more than a day between Captain’s Log entries, but hey! We’re in Austin!!

This week has been full! Saved some guy thousands of dollars by running outside and waving at him like a madman, got hitched, found a surprise at our RV front door and so much more… [Read more…]

Filed Under: Captain's Log Tagged With: austin, bikes, texas

Captain’s Log: RV Wanderlust 05-12-2014

May 13, 2014 by Eric Highland 4 Comments

Eric and Brittany Highland

Meriwether Navigator Brittany Highland and Captain Eric Highland of RV Wanderlust

  • Date: 05-12-2014
  • Current City: Austin, TX
  • Current Location: Austin Lone Star Carefree RV Park
  • Site Number: 64
  • Wi-fi Signal: Verizon - Very Strong / AT&T - Strong / Campground Wi-fi - Average
  • Mission: Work, Meet with Bloggers, Appointments
  • Compliment: 2 Officers, 1 Crew, 0 Guests
  • Captain: Eric Highland
  • Navigator: Brittany Highland
  • 1st Mate: Trogdor the Burninator
  • Weather: Light Rain / 78°
  • Precipitation: 30%
  • Humidity: 82%
  • Wind: 0 mph
  • Fuel: 12.5 Gallons of Diesel - 1/8 of a tank
  • Odometer: 101,142
  • Generator Hours: 4611.8
  • Estimated Date of Departure: Tuesday, May 27th
  • Next Destination: McKinney Falls State Park in Austin, Texas

Special Orders: None

Captain’s Remarks

11:13 - Normally we update the Captain’s Log daily, but these past few days have been very busy for us! We even had a reality TV show star stop by our rig! [Read more…]

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Captain’s Log: RV Wanderlust 05-08-2014

May 9, 2014 by Eric Highland 4 Comments

Eric and Brittany Highland

Meriwether Navigator Brittany Highland and Captain Eric Highland of RV Wanderlust

  • Date: 05-08-2014
  • Current City: Early, TX
  • Current Location: G Country RV Park
  • Site Number: 6
  • Wi-fi Signal: Verizon - None / AT&T - Weak / Campground Wi-fi - Very Strong!
  • Mission: Work week, Tim’s Graduation, Family Get together!
  • Compliment: 2 Officers, 1 Crew, 0 Guests
  • Captain: Eric Highland
  • Navigator: Brittany Highland
  • 1st Mate: Trogdor the Burninator
  • Weather: Clear / 84°
  • Precipitation: 70%
  • Humidity: 35%
  • Wind: 4 mph
  • Fuel: 45 Gallons of Diesel - Just under half tank
  • Odometer: 100,902
  • Generator Hours: 4611.8
  • Estimated Date of Departure: Sunday, May 11th
  • Next Destination: Austin, Texas

Special Orders: Brittany’s Birthday!!!

Captain’s Remarks

14:01 - Today is Navigator, and more importantly my best friend and wife’s, birthday! Happy birthday sweet love!

Want to hear something completely crazy and unbelievable? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Captain's Log Tagged With: birthday, brownwood, texas

Captain’s Log: RV Wanderlust 05-07-2014

May 7, 2014 by Eric Highland 17 Comments

Eric and Brittany Highland

Meriwether Navigator Brittany Highland and Captain Eric Highland of RV Wanderlust

  • Date: 05-07-2014
  • Current City: Early, TX
  • Current Location: G Country RV Park
  • Site Number: 6
  • Wi-fi Signal: Verizon - None / AT&T - Weak / Campground Wi-fi - Very Strong!
  • Mission: Work week, Tim’s Graduation, Family Get together!
  • Compliment: 2 Officers, 1 Crew, 0 Guests
  • Captain: Eric Highland
  • Navigator: Brittany Highland
  • 1st Mate: Trogdor the Burninator
  • Weather: Clear / 77°
  • Precipitation: 10%
  • Humidity: 61%
  • Wind: 14 mph
  • Fuel: 45 Gallons of Diesel - Just under half tank
  • Odometer: 100,902
  • Generator Hours: 4611.8
  • Estimated Date of Departure: Sunday, May 11th
  • Next Destination: Austin, Texas

Special Orders: None.

Captain’s Remarks

10:40 - I’ve been reflecting on the past four months and have been astonished by how much we’ve done! More on that in a moment.

10:41 - But first, some really encouraging news… We looked at our Google Analytics for the RV Wanderlust blog (that’s geek talk for checking to see our stats) and saw that we already have [Read more…]

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Captain’s Log: RV Wanderlust 05-06-2014

May 6, 2014 by Eric Highland 4 Comments

Eric and Brittany Highland

Meriwether Navigator Brittany Highland and Captain Eric Highland of RV Wanderlust

  • Date: 05-06-2014
  • Current City: Early, TX
  • Current Location: G Country RV Park
  • Site Number: 6
  • Wi-fi Signal: Verizon - None / AT&T - Weak / Campground Wi-fi - Very Strong!
  • Mission: Work week, Tim’s Graduation, Family Get together!
  • Compliment: 2 Officers, 1 Crew, 0 Guests
  • Captain: Eric Highland
  • Navigator: Brittany Highland
  • 1st Mate: Trogdor the Burninator
  • Weather: Clear / 91°
  • Precipitation: 10%
  • Humidity: 31%
  • Wind: 15 mph
  • Fuel: 45 Gallons of Diesel - Just under half tank
  • Odometer: 100,902
  • Generator Hours: 4611.8
  • Estimated Date of Departure: Sunday, May 11th
  • Next Destination: Austin, Texas

Special Orders: None.

Captain’s Remarks

14:24 - Just wrapped up a consulting session with one of our clients. Brittany and I always enjoy speaking with this client who is part of a very large luxury travel company.

People often ask us what we do. The short answer is that we are [Read more…]

Filed Under: Captain's Log Tagged With: brownwood, texas

Captain’s Log: RV Wanderlust 05-05-2014

May 5, 2014 by Eric Highland 1 Comment

Eric and Brittany Highland

Meriwether Navigator Brittany Highland and Captain Eric Highland of RV Wanderlust

  • Date: 05-05-2014
  • Current City: Early, TX
  • Current Location: G Country RV Park
  • Site Number: 6
  • Wi-fi Signal: Verizon - None / AT&T - Weak / Campground Wi-fi - Very Strong!
  • Mission: Work week, Tim’s Graduation, Family Get together!
  • Compliment: 2 Officers, 1 Crew, 2 Guests
  • Captain: Eric Highland
  • Navigator: Brittany Highland
  • 1st Mate: Trogdor the Burninator
  • Weather: Clear / 77°
  • Precipitation: 0%
  • Humidity: 50%
  • Wind: 12 mph
  • Fuel: 45 Gallons of Diesel - Just under half tank
  • Odometer: 100,902
  • Generator Hours: 4611.8
  • Estimated Date of Departure: Sunday, May 11th
  • Next Destination: Austin, Texas

Special Orders: Sleepover!

Captain’s Remarks

11:01 - Had a sleepover last night! As per our log report, we have two guests. Timothy (my brother-in-law) and his girlfriend Hannah came over and spent the night last night. We watched Independence Day and just hung out together. It was pretty nice.

Today is the start of our work week. Brittany and I are working in our [Read more…]

Filed Under: Captain's Log Tagged With: brownwood, texas

Captain’s Log: RV Wanderlust 05-03-2014

May 4, 2014 by Eric Highland Leave a Comment

Eric and Brittany Highland

Meriwether Navigator Brittany Highland and Captain Eric Highland of RV Wanderlust

  • Date: 05-03-2014
  • Current City: Early, TX
  • Current Location: G-Country RV Park
  • Site Number: 6
  • Wi-fi Signal: Verizon - None / AT&T - Weak / Campground Wi-fi - Very Strong!
  • Mission: Work week, Tim’s Graduation, Family Get together!
  • Compliment: 2 Officers, 1 Crew, 0 Guests
  • Captain: Eric Highland
  • Navigator: Brittany Highland
  • 1st Mate: Trogdor the Burninator
  • Weather: Clear / 91°
  • Precipitation: 0%
  • Humidity: 8%
  • Wind: 9 mph
  • Fuel: 45 Gallons of Diesel - Just under half tank
  • Odometer: 100,902
  • Generator Hours: 4611.8
  • Estimated Date of Departure: Sunday, May 11th
  • Next Destination: Austin, Texas

Special Orders: None

Captain’s Remarks

Had a nice final night in Arlington, TX. Got to eat at one of my favorite restaurants in the area, Mariano’s Mexican near Six Flags Over Texas. Not only that, but we got to do it with new RV friends Rich and Carolyn Sasek. Had a nice time with them but had to call it an early night as we had a long day ahead of us. [Read more…]

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Captain’s Log: RV Wanderlust 05-02-2014

May 3, 2014 by Eric Highland Leave a Comment

Eric and Brittany Highland

Meriwether Navigator Brittany Highland and Captain Eric Highland of RV Wanderlust

  • Date: 05-02-2014
  • Current City: Arlington, TX
  • Current Location: Treetops Carefree RV Resort
  • Site Number: 163B
  • Wi-fi Signal: Verizon - Very Strong / AT&T - Very Strong
  • Mission: Wrap up the work week.
  • Compliment: 2 Officers, 1 Crew, 0 Guests
  • Captain: Eric Highland
  • Navigator: Brittany Highland
  • 1st Mate: Trogdor the Burninator
  • Weather: Partly Cloudy / 82°
  • Precipitation: 0%
  • Humidity: 14%
  • Wind: 3 mph
  • Fuel: 33 Gallons of Diesel - 1/3 capacity
  • Odometer: 100,620
  • Generator Hours: 4611.8
  • Estimated Date of Departure: Saturday, May 3rd
  • Next Destination: Brownwood, Texas

Special Orders: Leaving Arlington Tomorrow, Liberal Water Use Authorized

Captain’s Remarks

15:23 - Weeks fly by. We’re heading to Brownwood, TX tomorrow for my brother-in-law Tim’s graduation from University. We haven’t picked out where we are going to park yet. The plan is to [Read more…]

Filed Under: Captain's Log Tagged With: arlington, texas

Captain’s Log: RV Wanderlust 05-01-2014

May 2, 2014 by Eric Highland Leave a Comment

Eric and Brittany Highland

Meriwether Navigator Brittany Highland and Captain Eric Highland of RV Wanderlust

  • Date: 05-01-2014
  • Current City: Arlington, TX
  • Current Location: Treetops Carefree RV Resort
  • Site Number: 163B
  • Wi-fi Signal: Verizon - Very Strong / AT&T - Very Strong
  • Mission: Weekend!
  • Compliment: 2 Officers, 1 Crew, 0 Guests
  • Captain: Eric Highland
  • Navigator: Brittany Highland
  • 1st Mate: Trogdor the Burninator
  • Weather: Partly Cloudy / 73°
  • Precipitation: 10%
  • Humidity: 20%
  • Wind: 6 mph
  • Fuel: 33 Gallons of Diesel - 1/3 capacity
  • Odometer: 100,620
  • Generator Hours: 4611.8
  • Estimated Date of Departure: Saturday, May 3rd
  • Next Destination: Brownwood, Texas

Special Orders: Share the new logo with the world!

Captain’s Remarks

14:19 - We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to try and finalize our logo for RV Wanderlust. As you know, we love bison and of course we love the USA. So we wanted to make sure both were represented in our log.

Our friend and designer Gina Blackmore was very patient with us as we went back and forth through multiple rounds of concepts and changes.

Eventually we came up with this [Read more…]

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Captain’s Log: RV Wanderlust 04-30-2014

May 1, 2014 by Eric Highland Leave a Comment

Eric and Brittany Highland

Meriwether Navigator Brittany Highland and Captain Eric Highland of RV Wanderlust

  • Date: 04-30-2014
  • Current City: Arlington, TX
  • Current Location: Treetops Carefree RV Resort
  • Site Number: 163B
  • Wi-fi Signal: Verizon - Very Strong / AT&T - Very Strong
  • Mission: Weekend!
  • Compliment: 2 Officers, 1 Crew, 0 Guests
  • Captain: Eric Highland
  • Navigator: Brittany Highland
  • 1st Mate: Trogdor the Burninator
  • Weather: Clear / 69°
  • Precipitation: 10%
  • Humidity: 28%
  • Wind: 5 mph
  • Fuel: 33 Gallons of Diesel - 1/3 capacity
  • Odometer: 100,620
  • Generator Hours: 4611.8
  • Estimated Date of Departure: Saturday, May 3rd
  • Next Destination: Brownwood, Texas

Special Orders: Kill the Internet. Grill Steaks!

Captain’s Remarks

16:48 - Had a great workday and I’m thankful it is the end of the month. For those that live in stick and brick homes, data is usually not an issue. But for those of us nomadic types who work online, data is critical to our survival.

DATA CAP CRITICAL!! Today as we hit the last day of the month, we capped out at

[Read more…]

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