RVing with RubyStart here
Real trips. Practical know-how. One happy dog.

Camp smarter.
Travel farther.
Bring the dog.

Honest destinations, practical RV know-how, and dog-friendly details from a family that would rather be at the campground.

Explore with Ruby Meet the crew
Big-rig experience Dog-tested stops No-fluff advice
Ruby's field noteThe best campsite has shade, room to sniff, and treats.

Start with the essentials

Three parts of a trip worth getting right.

Plan the route

Choose trips that fit your rig

Drive times, site length, hookups, access roads, and dog rules belong in the plan before you leave home.

Prepare the RV

Prevent the avoidable problems

Know your systems, inspect the wear points, and carry the parts that can save an entire travel day.

Bring the dog

Make the trip work for everyone

Look beyond a park's pet-friendly label to shade, space, trails, temperature, and the quality of the dog area.

What you'll find here

Two simple ways to plan a better trip.

Start with a place you want to go or a problem you want to solve. We share what worked, what didn't, and what we wish we had known before arrival.

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Destinations

Campground reviews, realistic routes, and the details that determine whether a stay fits your rig and your dog.

  • States we have explored
  • Road trips and weekend stays
  • Individual campgrounds and stops
Explore destinations Useful guides, added one trip at a time
02

RV Know-How

Practical maintenance, setup, and roadside lessons from years of traveling in a 44-foot fifth wheel.

  • Preventive maintenance
  • Roadside preparation and repairs
  • RV systems and gear we use
Useful guides, added one trip at a time
03

Bringing the Dog

The campground details, safety lessons, and practical choices that help the trip work for Ruby too.

  • Dog-friendly campground details
  • Heat and trail safety
  • Ruby-approved travel gear
Useful guides, added one trip at a time

Latest from the road

See the trip. Then get the useful details.

Videos show what a stay, route, or repair is really like. The guides keep the measurements, maps, and notes you may want later.

From the road

Campsite tours, honest reviews, roadside fixes, and life with Ruby.

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Campground review

Lantern Oaks RV Resort: what big-rig and dog owners should know

Fredericksburg, Texas

02
Trip plan

A realistic 12-day fifth-wheel route through southern Utah

Capitol Reef to Zion

03
RV know-how

The spare parts we carry so a breakdown does not end the trip

Roadside preparedness

Meet the crew

We're building the resource we wanted when we started RVing.

We're Kate, Kevin, and Ruby. We travel in a 44-foot fifth wheel, so we know that “RV-friendly” can mean very different things. Kevin studies every system and carries the spare part nobody thinks about. Kate plans the route and notices the details that make a stay worth repeating. Ruby handles campground quality control.

RVing with Ruby is where we're collecting the honest, practical information we have learned from hundreds of campground stays, one trip at a time.

Our rule: Tell people what the campground website forgot to mention.

Where this chapter startedThe day we brought home our current camper.

Looking ahead

Custom RV trip planning.

Over time, we hope to turn what we learn planning our own routes into practical trip-planning help for other RV travelers. For now, we are focused on building useful destination guides and RV know-how.

Part of the long-term plan