Meriwether Navigator Brittany Highland and Captain Eric Highland of RV Wanderlust- Date: 05-20-2014
- 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: Clear / 88°
- Precipitation: 10%
- Humidity: 38%
- 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
19:21 – Part of being “home” in Austin means taking care of the regular humdrum routine things. You know like appointments with the doctor. Today I had to get my eyes checked and they dilated them. My pupils were HUGE and I couldn’t really do much to help Brittany out with our work day for about 3 hours.
Look how huge my pupils were!She was a trooper though and plowed through the workday. I can’t tell you how important it is to have a supportive and loving spouse when you live in close quarters. Brittany is pretty amazing and she’s mine.. all mine! And I’m not sharing.
19:24 – Have you heard of fitbit? Well I decided to get one to help keep me motivated to exercise regularly. You don’t really realize how much less walking you do in a 40′ rig than you do in a 800 sq ft apartment or 2500 sq ft home. The crazy thing is those little steps add up, and when you aren’t doing them your body starts to show it. I’d gained some weight recently and wasn’t too thrilled with it. So I decided to try out this gizmo.
FitBit FlexIt’s called a fitbit, and it syncs to an app on my iPhone. It isn’t perfect at tracking things, but it is definitely motivational. So for what it’s worth I went ahead and strapped it to my wrist.
Interestingly the first thing I noticed about it was how much water I should be drinking. fitbit recommends 64oz of water per day. Let me tell you, that is a LOT of water. I’ve drank around 44oz today and I feel like I’m drowning!
The screen from the FitBit AppBut I’m giving it a go. You can also enter your stats, you know like age, height, weight, etc and then enter the foods you eat and how much weight you’d like to drop. Then it gives you some targets to help you reach your goal.
So no promises, but we’ll see what happens.
19:29 – Tomorrow is our first “on the road” social media presentation for one of our clients. We’ll mainly be talking about Facebook and Pinterest.
19:30 – I need to write a separate article about “the wave.” This is the obligatory hand wave that you do in campgrounds to everyone else you see. It is a strange phenomenon with soft rules, but one that we’ve noticed at every campground we’ve been at. RV’ers are a friendly bunch and that is part of it, but I believe there is much more to it than that. Post coming soon.
Remarks – I love Austin. I haven’t told Brittany this yet, she’ll read it for the first time when she adds her comments tonight, but as much as I love Austin, I’m ready to go exploring again. I really love how vast this country is and how much there is to do and see. I’m itchin’ to get going already. I know that Galveston, New Orleans, and Florida are in our near future and if we didn’t have so much to do here, I’d probably push for an early shove off. ~ E
Navigator’s Addendum
20:09 – I don’t really have anything to say tonight. Big day tomorrow. -B
I’m really interested in the upcoming “The Wave” post. We are currently on our Pacific Midwest trip. Consequently, I’m talking to other RV’ers about “The Wave”, taking notes and was thinking of posting my findings at the end of this summer.
I enjoy reading you adventures in the Texas area. You have giving us some great ideas and are looking forward to returning and checking them out for ourselves. If you are looking for ideas west or east of Texas, please checkout my blog at https://life-in-rv.blogspot.com/.
I hope one day our roads will cross and we can meet other young(er) couple full-timers like us.
Thanks for sharing your blog, @disqus_zt04QxYK7h:disqus! Your recent adventures look like a lot of fun! Jelly Belly Factory?! 🙂
Definitely let us know if you’re ever in our area! Are you connected with Eric on RVillage? That seems to be the best way to track when our paths are near to others’.
Yes, we are friends on RVillage. I will keep my eyes open to where you guy park next and of course your blog. Safe travels.
I’m not an expert, but my fitness coach said we should drink a minimum of half our body weight in water per day. Nope, coffee and alcohol don’t make the grade… A 150 pound person should drink 75 ounces per day. I’ll start my morning off with a 16.9 ounce bottle of water before I leave for work. I’ll bring the bottle to work and refill it during the day from the cooler. I’ll usually add some non-sugared flavor to it around lunch time. You’d be amazed how quickly it goes down just by sipping throughout the day.
Safe Travels!
@renekipp:disqus, we’ve tried some of that non-sugared water flavor before. I’ll have to try and remember which kind – I remember that we liked it! I’m sure it would encourage more water consumption.
Two of our favorite brands are Wyler’s Light and Hawaiian Punch. You can find them in most grocery stores.