Category: RV Gear & Tech
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After three trips and 12 nights in our 2025 Grand Design Reflection 295RL, the honeymoon period is over and the real review begins. From 100-degree heat and double slides to one toe-kick that seems determined to destroy my feet, here is the good, the bad, and the ugly of living with the 295RL.
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Before we ever unhook the fifth wheel, I test the campground power. Our Hughes Power Watchdog 50-Amp EPO gives us surge protection, automatic power shutoff, Bluetooth monitoring, and a little extra peace of mind every time we camp.
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We needed a bike rack tough enough to carry two Lectric XP Lite 2 e-bikes behind our fifth wheel, and the Hollywood RV Rider HR1700 looked like the answer. At nearly $650, it definitely isn’t cheap—but when you have a couple thousand dollars’ worth of bikes riding behind the camper, cheap probably shouldn’t be the…
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I installed the BulletPoint RubiGrid in our 2025 Chevy Silverado 2500HD to hold my phone and 10-inch towing monitor. Here’s how the installation went, what I like about it, what I don’t, and whether I think the roughly $200 setup was worth it.
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I installed the Bauer NE Bluetooth Keyless Entry lock on our 2025 Grand Design Reflection 295RL. Installation took about 20 minutes, and now we can unlock the camper with the keypad, phone, Apple Watch, or a regular key. Here’s what I like, what I don’t, and whether I think it’s worth the money.
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We bought two Lectric XP Lite 2.0 e-bikes for camping and quickly learned there is a lot more to choosing the right RV e-bike than range and speed. Here’s what we like, what we don’t, and whether we’d buy them again.
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From GPS and TPMS to campground apps and backup cameras, here are the camping technologies I love—and the old-school gear I still refuse to give up.
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A simple plan to organize our fifth-wheel pass-through turned into a full camper-storage project involving totes, camping gear, Odie and a lot of repacking.
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After three years of use, here is my real-world review of the JetBoil Genesis Basecamp stove, including why it remains one of my favorite camping purchases.
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Camping starts with shelter and somehow turns into hauling a small hardware store. Here is my take on camping must-haves, want-haves and all that extra stuff.
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I knew campers had windows. I did not know I needed to know what a valance was. Here is what I learned while making a small interior RV change.
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The final chapter in our RV mattress saga: what we changed, what finally worked and how a simple camper upgrade turned into a multi-part adventure.
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Part two of our camper mattress saga follows the search for a more comfortable RV bed and the complications that came with replacing the original mattress.
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Our RV mattress saga started with a simple observation: the camper bed could be better. That small thought quickly turned into a much bigger project.