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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…]

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

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, Our Full-time RV Life 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…]

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

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, Our Full-time RV Life 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, Our Full-time RV Life 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…]

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

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