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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, Our Full-time RV Life 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…]

Filed Under: Captain's Log, Our Full-time RV Life Tagged With: arlington, texas

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…]

Filed Under: Captain's Log, Our Full-time RV Life Tagged With: arlington, grilling, texas

Captain’s Log: RV Wanderlust 04-29-2014

April 30, 2014 by Eric Highland Leave a Comment

Eric and Brittany Highland

Meriwether Navigator Brittany Highland and Captain Eric Highland of RV Wanderlust

  • Date: 04-29-2014
  • 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 / 67°
  • Precipitation: 10%
  • Humidity: 33%
  • Wind: 12 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: None

Captain’s Remarks

19:46 - Sometimes I feel like many folks assume that because of our new lifestyle, we’re on this perpetual adventure and that we just play all the time.

While it is true that our life is a perpetual adventure, it is not true that we play all the time.

Sure, we get to experience things that many may never see, but like millions of other Americans [Read more…]

Filed Under: Captain's Log, Our Full-time RV Life Tagged With: arlington, texas

Thai House Is My Arlington, TX Thai Food Pick

April 30, 2014 by BrittanyHighland Leave a Comment

Thai House Restaurant Arlington, TX

Thai House Restaurant in Arlington, TX

Ah, Arlington, TX…the antithesis of Austin…Here, I ask a resident, “What is your favorite non-chain, local restaurant?” And - after a loong pause - he responds, “…Non-chain?”

I found three blog articles about the best Arlington restaurants, and they all mentioned pretty much the same places. Nothing looked too enticing, until I read about Thai House Restaurant.

We love our Thai food, and we have some favorites in Austin that are pretty fantastic. But the review made Thai House sound pretty good, and Yelp confirmed.

So we made it our celebration spot for our 33rd monthiversary, which is today! We weren’t disappointed. Did I mentioned it’s located all of four minutes from [Read more…]

Filed Under: Exploring America, Food We Found Tagged With: arlington, texas, thai

Captain’s Log: RV Wanderlust 04-28-2014

April 29, 2014 by Eric Highland Leave a Comment

Eric and Brittany Highland

Meriwether Navigator Brittany Highland and Captain Eric Highland of RV Wanderlust

  • Date: 04-28-2014
  • 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: Sunny and Clear / 80°
  • Precipitation: 10%
  • Humidity: 28%
  • Wind: 4 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: Get Up On The Roof

Captain’s Remarks

14:39 - Starting to wrap up our workday. We’ve been asked to teach social media and social networking by one of our clients around the country in line with our RV travel schedule. Teaching on these topics is not new for us, but we’ve never been a traveling road show. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Captain's Log, Our Full-time RV Life Tagged With: arlington, texas

Captain’s Log: RV Wanderlust 04-27-2014

April 28, 2014 by Eric Highland 2 Comments

Eric and Brittany Highland

Meriwether Navigator Brittany Highland and Captain Eric Highland of RV Wanderlust

  • Date: 04-27-2014
  • 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: Overcast / 87°
  • Precipitation: 10%
  • Humidity: 33%
  • 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: Install Wheel Covers

Captain’s Remarks

13:00 - It’s been a nice Sunday. Slept in until 8AM (that’s pretty good for us), then made the decision to go out and get new [Read more…]

Filed Under: Captain's Log, Our Full-time RV Life Tagged With: arlington, maintenance, technology, texas

Captain’s Log: RV Wanderlust 04-26-2014

April 27, 2014 by Eric Highland Leave a Comment

Eric and Brittany Highland

Meriwether Navigator Brittany Highland and Captain Eric Highland of RV Wanderlust

  • Date: 04-26-2014
  • 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: Overcast / 77°
  • Precipitation: 10%
  • Humidity: 74%
  • 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: Secure Analog Antenna in anticipation of high winds.

Captain’s Remarks

20:56 - We made it safely to Arlington, TX. The Navigator and I switched out at the helm of Meriwether throughout the drive. We made the 382 mile journey in [Read more…]

Filed Under: Captain's Log, Our Full-time RV Life Tagged With: arlington, phones, texas

RV Park Review: Treetops Carefree RV Resort in Arlington, TX

March 26, 2014 by Eric Highland 2 Comments

Globe Life Park in Arlington, TX

Globe Life Park in Arlington, TX - home of the Texas Rangers (Photo credit: TexasEagle via Flickr CC)

Why would anyone go to Arlington, TX?

Hmm…let’s see. Texas Rangers baseball, Six Flags Over Texas Amusement Park, the International Bowling Hall of Fame, Headquarters of American Mensa…should I go on?

Ok, all you Mensa people already knew this, but Arlington is a perfect “base camp” if you want to visit anything in Forth Worth or Dallas. It sits pretty close to the midway point between the two cities.

And Treetops Carefree RV Resort in Arlington sits just off I-20, which is perfect for RVers wanting to go to all of the above and have an easy escape route from the Metroplex. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Exploring America, Park and Campground Reviews Tagged With: arlington, dallas, texas

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