Books on Full-Time RVing
Like the title says, this is the complete guide to full-time RVing. It covers pretty much everything, minus some modern details like cell phones and wifi. Most people know how to use a cell phone by now though. :) This one is especially helpful if you don't know much about RVs because it's very comprehensive.
Most full-time RVers are older retired couples. This book was written with a younger audience in mind. It covers issues like working on the road and traveling with children.
This is not a how-to book, but more of a memoir/travelogue written by a woman who went full-time after she and her husband lost their home to fire. The book was written at the dawn of the internet age, and travelers today can be thankful that wireless communication has come so far in such a short period of time. This book alternates between beautiful, riveting writing and some segues that leave one scratching one's head. If you're interested in the full-time lifestyle, it's worth a read.
Full-Time RV Organizations
Escapees is an organization devoted to full-timers. They have social groups, RV parks, and, best of all, a mail service.
Families on the Road is a website dedicated to...well...families on the road. The site answers a lot of questions about life on the road with kids. There are forums, too!
Homeschooling
A lot of full-timers with kids seem to follow an "unschooling" approach. I'm all for that if it works for you and your kids, but I need some actual structure. We only have one year of homeschooling under our belts, but these are some of my favorite curricula.
Singapore Math is a very different--yet infinitely more logical--way of doing math.
Spectrum Workbooks feature Mercer Mayer's "Little Critter" creatures. (Just for You was one of my very favorite books as a child.) The Language Arts workbooks (at the 1st-grade level, at least) are separated into reading, spelling, and writing. Best of all, they're really fun!
Mind Benders are a great introduction to logic, and Math Analogies is a great introduction to mathematical and verbal analogies.
Electronics
I love Apple and would love to have an iPhone, if only it ran on Verizon (join the ranks, right?). So I went with the next-best (or possibly better) thing: an iPod Touch with a Verizon MiFi
. The MiFi is a portable hotspot (it's the size of a business card holder) that uses Verizon's 3G network, and you can have five devices paired to it at any time. So that means we can have the iPod, our Macbook, and perhaps a future iPad
all working at the same time, pretty much anywhere.
. The MiFi is a portable hotspot (it's the size of a business card holder) that uses Verizon's 3G network, and you can have five devices paired to it at any time. So that means we can have the iPod, our Macbook, and perhaps a future iPad all working at the same time, pretty much anywhere.After donating or selling (but mostly donating) hundreds and hundreds of books, my gift to myself was a Kindle. I still can't get over how light and thin it is, considering it can hold an entire library's worth of books. Purchases really do download within a minute, and the screen does look like ink on paper--not a bright uncomfortable computer screen. What will they think of next?
Apps
Coming soon!
