Welcome to Two Penny Travels (portal to prudentRVer.com and the79scenario.com and the79survivor.com)

Updated July 2006

Alice, my wife of forty-nine years, our dog Wolf, who has been with us for eight plus years, and I travel around the country in an RV (Recreational Vehicle) -- in our case an Automate 25-foot fifth-wheeler pulled by a Dodge truck. For the past eight years we have been members of America's class of citizens called the "semi-affluent homeless." My name is Sam.

Some say we have failed retirement, for we keep becoming involved in new and exciting experiences. This website is the portal to four such ventures.

The first is this website, Two Penny Travels, where I write about the kind of life Alice and I lead -- I call it Life in a Small Cave (the working title of a book I plan to write). Started in 1998, it contains one of the first blogs on the Internet and records the history of our early travels around our country.

Alice and I are students of the future and have worked at learning from our experiences how to live in what will come, especially in the RV world. We have collected this knowledge in an associated website called the Prudent RVer. Here you will find suggestions of how to live prudently in today's world, and a store where you can purchase products we find to be useful for our prudent lifestyle, especially LED replacements for incandescent bulbs in an RV.

I enjoy writing, and am in the midst of a multi-book project I call The 7.9 Scenario. I finished my first novel, Memphis 7.9 in 2003 and published a revised version in 2005. My second novel in the series is called Broken River. Both are now available on-line and in selected bookstores. I have suspended work on a third novel, entitled Phoenix of Memphis, to be published when the Katrina story plays out.

My fourth venture is to tell people how to survive a disaster, especially one in which a massive earthquake strikes the central part of the country. I call it The 7.9 Survivor. I have made little progress in this area, mostly because of the immensity of the problem. Maybe, in time, I will put things into perspective, but this is a life-time effort.

Here you will find a partial table of contents:

	Prudent RV LifeStyle: I recently entered the commercial part of the RV lifestyle, peddling products that Alice and I have found to make a real different in RV living. It all started because of my search for good LED products. You can see these in our on-line store: Prudent RVer.
	Book Matters: Since I decided to self-publish a portion of my writings in 2003, Alice and I have been faced with doing much of the marketing and at least some of the sales for my books. Visit The 7.9 Scenario to purchase books and view information about what is available and links to the booksellers who carry my wares.
	After being mostly stuck in southern California for three years, we returned the road in March, 2004. In Sam's and Alice's Magical Book Tour you can read of our 2004 adventures on our book-tour travelogue throughout the eastern United States to sell the elements of The 7.9 Scenario. We were 4,860 miles along on that tour wjhen I stopped blogging and had spent over 2,200 days on the road.
	In March, 2004, I started a new project called The 7.9 Survivor to provide a forum where people can be proactive in surviving a truly catastrophic disaster in the United States, such as the kind described in my book Memphis 7.9. It provides suggestions for surviving any large disaster in the United States.
	The RV Travels of Sam and Alice is the history of where we have been since retirement, both for your information and so we can remember. I have maintained this section since April, 1998 when we chose to live full-time in our RV. It tells what it is like Traveling in a Small Cave. We towed our fifth-wheel trailer 56,100 miles in the first six years of our retirement.
	A Small Cave, You Say? Alice and I have learned many useful lessons in our RV life-style that are useful to living an economical life. These lessons not only apply to people who travel and see the country but also to those who stay in one place. I share our observations about Life In A Small Cave with you here.
	Small Caves And Other Places We Have Seen, Our RV Travels Photo Album, is an annotated collection of various photos included in this website. If you just want to just look at pictures, go enjoy. I admit I need to go update this portion of the website.
	Reports on Small Cave Living. Our own small cave can move from place to place. Moving your residence about has its own special problems. Our RV Travel Reports singles out those specific problems and issues we have found on the road. Some are funny, some are out of date, hopefully all are helpful.
	Finding Others Who Do Small Caves on the Internet. Here I list my favorite Internet Links to places where we have found interesting and/or useful information. This part really needs updating. I used this data to write a bimonthly column for RV Companion Magazine about Internet links of interest to RVers. A summary of the RV Netlinks articles is available if you wish to review them.
	21st Century Technology for a Small Cave. For me a most vital issue in today's world is communications. This issue requires special attention if you move about the country or live in out-of-the-way places. See my comments on Ether Experiences Inside a Small Cave.
	Places Where Small Caves Congregate. Five and a half years ago we established a base camp at Jojoba Hills SKP Resort and I settled down to do some serious writing. This Directory locates similar places that we personally recommend or others have recommended to us.
	Sam's Writing Log. I sometimes maintain a Writing Log, a chronicle of my thoughts and efforts at writing, whether it be for this webpage, magazine articles, or fiction. It contains old pieces I sometimes go back to and critique. If you like to write yourself, you might find it interesting. If you want to purchase a book please go to The 7.9 Scenario.
	Miscellaneous Schla-Gala, All The Other Stuff That Didn't Fit Somewhere Else. Here you will find things like our awards, credits, copyrights, and email. I'm not sure what else will end up here.