RV Fultiming "Winter Camping" Questions

I’m not new to “winter camping” or 24/7 year round boondocking. I live in an area that gets 5 to 7 months of snow (more on a “cold” year), and usually spends 2 of those months at temps of -20F to -48F before wind chill factors (and living on the coast, we get a lot of high winds all year long). I lived fulltime in a tent since 2006 (no electricity, no running water, etc), during that time we had 3 blizzards (one which buried my tent under 9 feet of snow), 2 ice storms, and 5 hurricanes. So, extreme winter camping is a lifestyle for me. I love the cold and snow, I avoid the heat and hot climates.

I’m upgrading. I’m moving out of the tent and into a motorhome. I have not bought it yet, but the one I’m planning to buy is a 1988 Class A 31′ Georgie Boy TravelMaster. (Which has already been customized for fulltime boondocking, thus why I’m trying for this one first.) If they sell it before I come up with the cash to pay for it, I’ve got a few “back-up RVs” on my list, all are 1980s Class As. (After spending 2 years going in and out of every new and used RV, MH, TT, 5Th in the state I came to the conclusion I prefer the Class As of the ’80s.)

So, here’s the thing. I’ve never lived in a motorhome before. This is going to be a totally new thing for me (as well as being the LARGEST living space I’ve had in 36 years – I lived in a 16′x9′ beach cabin before the tent.). And me, living in the types of places I like to live I’m going to have to make sure it gets winterized for some heavy duty super cold regions. (Once in the motorhome I plan to spend a lot of time boondocking between Maine, Quebec, Yukon, Alaska, Colorado, etc, exploring the coldest iciest parts of North America – it’ll likely never see a warm day again once I own it!).

So my question is: what the heck do I need to do to my motorhome to winterize it? Does anyone have any advice on “RV Boondocking” in extreme cold regions

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What would life be like if I was never born?

What would life be like if I was never born? 

It would be very different. Have you ever seen the movie “It’s A Wonderful Life”? If not, go out a rent it. It’s about an “insignificant” man living during the Great Depression. As a young boy he has big dreams of seeing the world and becoming rich and famous. Than his dad dies, so he “does the right thing” and stays home to take care of his mom and run the family business, and lets his younger brother go off traveling to see the world instead. His younger brother joins the war effort and become a famous war hero who changed the course of history. He sees his brother doing all the things he dreamed of doing, and gets depressed.
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Than the Great Depression hits and he loses what little money he has, and he watches his friends from school go off and become famous and wealthy, while he can barely support his wife and 5 kids. He gets more depressed.
.
Next he takes out this huge loan to try to set things straight, but his best friend (and town drunk) loses the money, and in order to save his friend from going to prison for stealing the money, he takes the blame himself. Suddenly he looks at everything that happened in his life and he realizes that he’s had a terrible life and it’s just getting worse every day, and now he’s about to go to prison and lose everything, so he decides suicide is the only way out, but just as he’s getting ready to kill himself an old man falls off the bridge into the icy river and he forgets his resolve to kill himself in order to save the old man.
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Next thing he knows, he and the old man are talking and he’s telling the old man every thing that has gone wrong and how he’s had a terrible life and everyone would be better off if he had never been born. He says “I wish I had never been born.” and the old man, says “Okay, you were never born. I’m an angel and I’m granting your wish.”
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He laughs at the old man and goes home to find that the house he lived in has fallen down years ago; his children were never born, his wife is an old maid, his school friend who had become rich and famous were all bums and thugs and in and out of prison, the war ended very differently because his brother never became a war hero, everything was changed.
.
Than the angel told him: when your brother was a kid he feel through the ice and drowned because “you had never been born, so that day on the lake, you didn’t stop him from going out on the ice, he never grew up to be the war hero. Without you we never would have won the war.”
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Next the angel says: “Your friends from school had been inspired by your hopes and dreams, to seek out their own. You had never been born, so now they never achieved their own dreams, because they needed you.”
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The angel goes on like this about each person this man had meet in his life and tells how great an impact every word and every action in his life had on those around him. He ends by showing him his wife and telling how she never found love in her life because no one understood her the way he had, but now because he had never been born, she had never known love and never had the children. Because he had never been born, his children were never born, and their children would never be born, and everything in the entire world had been changed because this one small insignificant man, really did have great importance, even if he never became rich or famous. The angel ends by saying: “See George, you really did have a wonderful life.”
…

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Well, that’s the same thing with you. Everything you have ever said and done in your entire life has had a profound effect on every one around you, so if you had never been born, life everywhere would be very different.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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What would life be like if I was never born?

What would life be like if I was never born? 

It would be very different. Have you ever seen the movie “It’s A Wonderful Life”? If not, go out a rent it. It’s about an “insignificant” man living during the Great Depression. As a young boy he has big dreams of seeing the world and becoming rich and famous. Than his dad dies, so he “does the right thing” and stays home to take care of his mom and run the family business, and lets his younger brother go off traveling to see the world instead. His younger brother joins the war effort and become a famous war hero who changed the course of history. He sees his brother doing all the things he dreamed of doing, and gets depressed.
.
Than the Great Depression hits and he loses what little money he has, and he watches his friends from school go off and become famous and wealthy, while he can barely support his wife and 5 kids. He gets more depressed.
.
Next he takes out this huge loan to try to set things straight, but his best friend (and town drunk) loses the money, and in order to save his friend from going to prison for stealing the money, he takes the blame himself. Suddenly he looks at everything that happened in his life and he realizes that he’s had a terrible life and it’s just getting worse every day, and now he’s about to go to prison and lose everything, so he decides suicide is the only way out, but just as he’s getting ready to kill himself an old man falls off the bridge into the icy river and he forgets his resolve to kill himself in order to save the old man.
.
Next thing he knows, he and the old man are talking and he’s telling the old man every thing that has gone wrong and how he’s had a terrible life and everyone would be better off if he had never been born. He says “I wish I had never been born.” and the old man, says “Okay, you were never born. I’m an angel and I’m granting your wish.”
.
He laughs at the old man and goes home to find that the house he lived in has fallen down years ago; his children were never born, his wife is an old maid, his school friend who had become rich and famous were all bums and thugs and in and out of prison, the war ended very differently because his brother never became a war hero, everything was changed.
.
Than the angel told him: when your brother was a kid he feel through the ice and drowned because “you had never been born, so that day on the lake, you didn’t stop him from going out on the ice, he never grew up to be the war hero. Without you we never would have won the war.”
.
Next the angel says: “Your friends from school had been inspired by your hopes and dreams, to seek out their own. You had never been born, so now they never achieved their own dreams, because they needed you.”
.
The angel goes on like this about each person this man had meet in his life and tells how great an impact every word and every action in his life had on those around him. He ends by showing him his wife and telling how she never found love in her life because no one understood her the way he had, but now because he had never been born, she had never known love and never had the children. Because he had never been born, his children were never born, and their children would never be born, and everything in the entire world had been changed because this one small insignificant man, really did have great importance, even if he never became rich or famous. The angel ends by saying: “See George, you really did have a wonderful life.”
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Well, that’s the same thing with you. Everything you have ever said and done in your entire life has had a profound effect on every one around you, so if you had never been born, life everywhere would be very different.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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What would life be like if I was never born?

What would life be like if I was never born?

It would be very different. Have you ever seen the movie “It’s A Wonderful Life”? If not, go out a rent it. It’s about an “insignificant” man living during the Great Depression. As a young boy he has big dreams of seeing the world and becoming rich and famous. Than his dad dies, so he “does the right thing” and stays home to take care of his mom and run the family business, and lets his younger brother go off traveling to see the world instead. His younger brother joins the war effort and become a famous war hero who changed the course of history. He sees his brother doing all the things he dreamed of doing, and gets depressed.
.
Than the Great Depression hits and he loses what little money he has, and he watches his friends from school go off and become famous and wealthy, while he can barely support his wife and 5 kids. He gets more depressed.
.
Next he takes out this huge loan to try to set things straight, but his best friend (and town drunk) loses the money, and in order to save his friend from going to prison for stealing the money, he takes the blame himself. Suddenly he looks at everything that happened in his life and he realizes that he’s had a terrible life and it’s just getting worse every day, and now he’s about to go to prison and lose everything, so he decides suicide is the only way out, but just as he’s getting ready to kill himself an old man falls off the bridge into the icy river and he forgets his resolve to kill himself in order to save the old man.
.
Next thing he knows, he and the old man are talking and he’s telling the old man every thing that has gone wrong and how he’s had a terrible life and everyone would be better off if he had never been born. He says “I wish I had never been born.” and the old man, says “Okay, you were never born. I’m an angel and I’m granting your wish.”
.
He laughs at the old man and goes home to find that the house he lived in has fallen down years ago; his children were never born, his wife is an old maid, his school friend who had become rich and famous were all bums and thugs and in and out of prison, the war ended very differently because his brother never became a war hero, everything was changed.
.
Than the angel told him: when your brother was a kid he feel through the ice and drowned because “you had never been born, so that day on the lake, you didn’t stop him from going out on the ice, he never grew up to be the war hero. Without you we never would have won the war.”
.
Next the angel says: “Your friends from school had been inspired by your hopes and dreams, to seek out their own. You had never been born, so now they never achieved their own dreams, because they needed you.”
.
The angel goes on like this about each person this man had meet in his life and tells how great an impact every word and every action in his life had on those around him. He ends by showing him his wife and telling how she never found love in her life because no one understood her the way he had, but now because he had never been born, she had never known love and never had the children. Because he had never been born, his children were never born, and their children would never be born, and everything in the entire world had been changed because this one small insignificant man, really did have great importance, even if he never became rich or famous. The angel ends by saying: “See George, you really did have a wonderful life.”
…

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Well, that’s the same thing with you. Everything you have ever said and done in your entire life has had a profound effect on every one around you, so if you had never been born, life everywhere would be very different.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:
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What would life be like if I was never born?

What would life be like if I was never born?

It would be very different. Have you ever seen the movie “It’s A Wonderful Life”? If not, go out a rent it. It’s about an “insignificant” man living during the Great Depression. As a young boy he has big dreams of seeing the world and becoming rich and famous. Than his dad dies, so he “does the right thing” and stays home to take care of his mom and run the family business, and lets his younger brother go off traveling to see the world instead. His younger brother joins the war effort and become a famous war hero who changed the course of history. He sees his brother doing all the things he dreamed of doing, and gets depressed.
.
Than the Great Depression hits and he loses what little money he has, and he watches his friends from school go off and become famous and wealthy, while he can barely support his wife and 5 kids. He gets more depressed.
.
Next he takes out this huge loan to try to set things straight, but his best friend (and town drunk) loses the money, and in order to save his friend from going to prison for stealing the money, he takes the blame himself. Suddenly he looks at everything that happened in his life and he realizes that he’s had a terrible life and it’s just getting worse every day, and now he’s about to go to prison and lose everything, so he decides suicide is the only way out, but just as he’s getting ready to kill himself an old man falls off the bridge into the icy river and he forgets his resolve to kill himself in order to save the old man.
.
Next thing he knows, he and the old man are talking and he’s telling the old man every thing that has gone wrong and how he’s had a terrible life and everyone would be better off if he had never been born. He says “I wish I had never been born.” and the old man, says “Okay, you were never born. I’m an angel and I’m granting your wish.”
.
He laughs at the old man and goes home to find that the house he lived in has fallen down years ago; his children were never born, his wife is an old maid, his school friend who had become rich and famous were all bums and thugs and in and out of prison, the war ended very differently because his brother never became a war hero, everything was changed.
.
Than the angel told him: when your brother was a kid he feel through the ice and drowned because “you had never been born, so that day on the lake, you didn’t stop him from going out on the ice, he never grew up to be the war hero. Without you we never would have won the war.”
.
Next the angel says: “Your friends from school had been inspired by your hopes and dreams, to seek out their own. You had never been born, so now they never achieved their own dreams, because they needed you.”
.
The angel goes on like this about each person this man had meet in his life and tells how great an impact every word and every action in his life had on those around him. He ends by showing him his wife and telling how she never found love in her life because no one understood her the way he had, but now because he had never been born, she had never known love and never had the children. Because he had never been born, his children were never born, and their children would never be born, and everything in the entire world had been changed because this one small insignificant man, really did have great importance, even if he never became rich or famous. The angel ends by saying: “See George, you really did have a wonderful life.”
…

.
Well, that’s the same thing with you. Everything you have ever said and done in your entire life has had a profound effect on every one around you, so if you had never been born, life everywhere would be very different.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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>What would life be like if I was never born?

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What would life be like if I was never born?

It would be very different. Have you ever seen the movie “It’s A Wonderful Life”? If not, go out a rent it. It’s about an “insignificant” man living during the Great Depression. As a young boy he has big dreams of seeing the world and becoming rich and famous. Than his dad dies, so he “does the right thing” and stays home to take care of his mom and run the family business, and lets his younger brother go off traveling to see the world instead. His younger brother joins the war effort and become a famous war hero who changed the course of history. He sees his brother doing all the things he dreamed of doing, and gets depressed.
.
Than the Great Depression hits and he loses what little money he has, and he watches his friends from school go off and become famous and wealthy, while he can barely support his wife and 5 kids. He gets more depressed.
.
Next he takes out this huge loan to try to set things straight, but his best friend (and town drunk) loses the money, and in order to save his friend from going to prison for stealing the money, he takes the blame himself. Suddenly he looks at everything that happened in his life and he realizes that he’s had a terrible life and it’s just getting worse every day, and now he’s about to go to prison and lose everything, so he decides suicide is the only way out, but just as he’s getting ready to kill himself an old man falls off the bridge into the icy river and he forgets his resolve to kill himself in order to save the old man.
.
Next thing he knows, he and the old man are talking and he’s telling the old man every thing that has gone wrong and how he’s had a terrible life and everyone would be better off if he had never been born. He says “I wish I had never been born.” and the old man, says “Okay, you were never born. I’m an angel and I’m granting your wish.”
.
He laughs at the old man and goes home to find that the house he lived in has fallen down years ago; his children were never born, his wife is an old maid, his school friend who had become rich and famous were all bums and thugs and in and out of prison, the war ended very differently because his brother never became a war hero, everything was changed.
.
Than the angel told him: when your brother was a kid he feel through the ice and drowned because “you had never been born, so that day on the lake, you didn’t stop him from going out on the ice, he never grew up to be the war hero. Without you we never would have won the war.”
.
Next the angel says: “Your friends from school had been inspired by your hopes and dreams, to seek out their own. You had never been born, so now they never achieved their own dreams, because they needed you.”
.
The angel goes on like this about each person this man had meet in his life and tells how great an impact every word and every action in his life had on those around him. He ends by showing him his wife and telling how she never found love in her life because no one understood her the way he had, but now because he had never been born, she had never known love and never had the children. Because he had never been born, his children were never born, and their children would never be born, and everything in the entire world had been changed because this one small insignificant man, really did have great importance, even if he never became rich or famous. The angel ends by saying: “See George, you really did have a wonderful life.”
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Well, that’s the same thing with you. Everything you have ever said and done in your entire life has had a profound effect on every one around you, so if you had never been born, life everywhere would be very different.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:
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What would life be like if I was never born?

What would life be like if I was never born?

It would be very different. Have you ever seen the movie “It’s A Wonderful Life”? If not, go out a rent it. It’s about an “insignificant” man living during the Great Depression. As a young boy he has big dreams of seeing the world and becoming rich and famous. Than his dad dies, so he “does the right thing” and stays home to take care of his mom and run the family business, and lets his younger brother go off traveling to see the world instead. His younger brother joins the war effort and become a famous war hero who changed the course of history. He sees his brother doing all the things he dreamed of doing, and gets depressed.
.
Than the Great Depression hits and he loses what little money he has, and he watches his friends from school go off and become famous and wealthy, while he can barely support his wife and 5 kids. He gets more depressed.
.
Next he takes out this huge loan to try to set things straight, but his best friend (and town drunk) loses the money, and in order to save his friend from going to prison for stealing the money, he takes the blame himself. Suddenly he looks at everything that happened in his life and he realizes that he’s had a terrible life and it’s just getting worse every day, and now he’s about to go to prison and lose everything, so he decides suicide is the only way out, but just as he’s getting ready to kill himself an old man falls off the bridge into the icy river and he forgets his resolve to kill himself in order to save the old man.
.
Next thing he knows, he and the old man are talking and he’s telling the old man every thing that has gone wrong and how he’s had a terrible life and everyone would be better off if he had never been born. He says “I wish I had never been born.” and the old man, says “Okay, you were never born. I’m an angel and I’m granting your wish.”
.
He laughs at the old man and goes home to find that the house he lived in has fallen down years ago; his children were never born, his wife is an old maid, his school friend who had become rich and famous were all bums and thugs and in and out of prison, the war ended very differently because his brother never became a war hero, everything was changed.
.
Than the angel told him: when your brother was a kid he feel through the ice and drowned because “you had never been born, so that day on the lake, you didn’t stop him from going out on the ice, he never grew up to be the war hero. Without you we never would have won the war.”
.
Next the angel says: “Your friends from school had been inspired by your hopes and dreams, to seek out their own. You had never been born, so now they never achieved their own dreams, because they needed you.”
.
The angel goes on like this about each person this man had meet in his life and tells how great an impact every word and every action in his life had on those around him. He ends by showing him his wife and telling how she never found love in her life because no one understood her the way he had, but now because he had never been born, she had never known love and never had the children. Because he had never been born, his children were never born, and their children would never be born, and everything in the entire world had been changed because this one small insignificant man, really did have great importance, even if he never became rich or famous. The angel ends by saying: “See George, you really did have a wonderful life.”
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Well, that’s the same thing with you. Everything you have ever said and done in your entire life has had a profound effect on every one around you, so if you had never been born, life everywhere would be very different.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:
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