Solar Maximus! Optimizing the Sun When RV Boondocking

Unlike a campsite in an RV park, when you're wild camping (or if your prefer - boondocking, dry camping or RVing off the cord) in a remote location like Quartzsite, AZ, you can usually park your RV facing any direction you want to.

Here are some tips on how we get the most out of the sun when we're camping off the grid. These tips are especially useful for winter snowbirding, when nights are cool, days can be warm, and the sun never gets very high in the sky.

We hope these ideas help you make the most out of the sun when you're camping in the middle of nowhere.



We don't pretend to be experts on any particular RV topic, and mostly know about maintaining our own rig. But many systems are the same on different RVs. The advice we give works well for us, but be sure to consult a professional technician if you're unsure about working on your own RV.

How To Sanitize an RV Water System

We've been drinking the water from our RV's fresh water tank for over a decade without a problem. It's perfectly safe to do, as long as you sanitize your fresh water system periodically. We do ours about twice a year (keep in mind that we're full-timers... those who store their RV all winter should be fine sanitizing once a year, in the spring).

Clean, safe, sanitary drinking water is a breeze when you take a few basic steps to manage the fresh water system on your motorhome, travel trailer or fifth wheel. Fresh, drinkable, potable H2O doesn't only come from bottled water, but right from your RV's tank, saving money and plastic in the process.

We'll show you how to kill any bacteria that may be present in your camper's water system, and have all the safe drinking water you need.



We don't pretend to be experts on any particular RV topic, and mostly know about maintaining our own rig. But many systems are the same on different RVs. The advice we give works well for us, but be sure to consult a professional technician if you're unsure about working on your own RV.