One of our favorite things to do during our cross country travels is to go camping away from the typical campgrounds and spend some time in nature. We like the serenity of being away from lots of people, there is just something special about the calm. Being hidden away from the world has sparked our romance up to a new high, being out where nobody can find us.

Camping with RV Solar Panels

Unfortunately, it was quite difficult for us to be away for too long. That’s one of the downsides of old age I suppose, but it’s really difficult for us to be away from the little things that make lives easy. For example, having specific heart-healthy diet requirements prevents us from straying too far a refrigerator and a stove. It’s even harder for us to travel with the grandkids, young children just have a hard time dealing with cold meals.

We spent a fair bit of time checking out different ways to outfit our RV with a power supply that would do well for a week or more away from a charging station. There’s surprisingly few options, either we could buy a generator and take lots of fuel with us out into nature, or we could buy a huge battery bank and charge it before we leave. Both of these have the same two downsides in our mind. First, they’re very expensive; we live on a retiree’s budget, which wasn’t helped at all by the economy. The other is that we don’t like the idea of bringing lots of fuel or pollution out into the environment.

We’ve been considering solar panels as an alternative, they’re a bit expensive. Once they’re built though, we can spend as much time we want out in the wild. There would be no further maintenance, or gas to keep filling up. We’ll let you know if we come to any solutions.

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