Week 472 - Big Rig Bible: Too much good stuff - 08-30-2015

How to Find what "you know is in there"

We bring you more about full time travel as we lolly gag in Paso Robles, California.

Big Rig Bible is a huge website. What started as a single email home in August 2006 has grown into 1121 pages of information. The audience is full time RV travelers and those who want to be. There are dozens of pages of information helpful for the first time traveler to choose a dealer, motorhome, accessories, RV parks and other useful RV websites. There are hundreds of pages of RV parks with photos, weather, hookups and links to the park's website. There are hundreds more pages of Weekly Travelogues. Each travelogue addresses a location or topic with 20 to 30 photos all with captions to let you identify the photo's content.

Wow! But with so much good stuff, how can you find what "you know is in there"? First, learn the format of the Table of Contents. Second, all travelogues are indexed by topic, see "Weekly Travelogues by Topic" in the Table of Contents (TOC).

Still can't find what you want? Now you can use the new Search link that appears on every page. Here are some examples of finding what you want.

Example 1: Ellen told you about an RV park in Oregon with a private deck, spa and BBQ. But you don't remember which RV park or even the city. From the TOC click on RV Parks we have Visited.

Then click on OR (Oregon) on the State Code list.

Found it! It is Turtle Rock RV Resort in Gold Beach, Oregon with Private Spa option

Now suppose you did not remember that it was in Oregon; you couldn't remember which state. This is time to use the Search. From any page, click on the Search link.

Enter private spa into the search phrase

The result of the search is to show you the three pages that contain the phrase private spa.

When you click on any link shown, the page appears below the links. Here is the page week170. Now you have to find where on the page week170 is the private spa. So you starting reading the page and gloss over that phrase several times perhaps never finding "what you know is in there". The solution is the Find function. On a PC press Control+F; on an Apple Command+F. Pressing these keys will give you a chance to search for a phrase on just this page. The page below shows how the Chrome browser gives you a text box for your phrase. It indicates that it found the phrase private spa in two places. The first is your initial entry; not what you want. Click on the v (down symbol) and you will see the second occurrence.

As you read the section with the highlighted private spa, you come to realize you don't want to buy this lot for $565,000.00. Thus this is not the RV park Ellen told you about.

So you scroll back to the top of the page and click on the link Parks-Visited and you come to the RV Parks we have Visited page. Press Control+F again and you will find the highlighted entry for Turtle Rock RV Resort.

Most full timer travelers are mature adults. Most mature adults don't like to take a "class" like this. But this one is worth it, read on. Control+F (or Apple Command+F) will find text on any page of any website, not just Big Rig Bible. Our Search finds the pages on Big Rig Bible that contain your search phrase. Control+F finds the text on that page. If you knew that private spa was on the RV Parks we have Visited page, just go to that page and press Control+F to find the exact matches. If you don't know the page, use the Search link. As on all our websites and pages you can use the Search function on your phone or tablet as well.

Example 2: Pete has CRS and can't remember ... and he wants to show someone an example of the Daily Diary we keep. By the way, the Daily Diary is the MOST USEFUL INFORMATION that we keep. It helps us find people, RV parks, RV services, park ratings, photos, dates, churches visited, everything we did on a specific date.

Again, click on Search on any page. Enter DailyDiary in the search phrase. Oops! Nothing was found.

You must insert a space between words. Re-enter as Daily Diary and get results. "Case" does not matter. Thus Daily Diary and daily diary will both work.

Now you can click on each of these links and find what you want, such as the link Daily-Diary shown below.

The Search came out of the necessity of needing to find pages quickly. We are always interested in our viewer's ideas of how to make Big Rig Bible the most useful and friendly of all RV sites. Please let us hear your comments. Note that the Search page format shown in this travelogue has been greatly updated and is very powerful. Check out Search Me!

And finally, we never want stalkers or hackers to use our site for any less than loving purpose. As such, we rarely use people last names unless it is a business and/or they want their name used. Using our Search command we have hunted for any use of last names and have removed them. Please search for your last name and if found, email us with the page address so that we may remove it. We can never be too careful.

Thank you and be blessed,

Pete, Ellen and Mandy (last name unknown!)