RV Cooking Show – White Bean Pesto Dip and Central Massachusetts

Labor Day weekend…summer’s last hurrah. Are you going camping this weekend? We’ve been dedicated tenters, pop-up lovers, travel trailer testers, and 5th wheel dwellers…and made lots of terrific friends along the way. One set of friends recently hit a milestone in their business – Pine Acres Family Camping Resort in Oakham, MA celebrated their 50th [...]



Tips to Increase Engine Life

Today we’re going to talk about some easy ways to increase the life of your tow vehicle or motorhome’s engine. Actually there are many ways to to increase engine life in a vehicle, but I want to narrow the list to what I consider the most important. When all you hear every day is how poorly the [...]


Utah and other states clarify rules for overnight sleeping in rest areas

By Bob Difley
Officials from the Utah Department of Transportation and the Highway Patrol, in response to my questions and blog (Aug. 6th) about the rules for sleeping overnight in Utah rest areas, provided the following clarifications:
David Moreno, Utah Highway Patrol:
“There is no difference from overnight parking or overnight camping. Rest areas are designed for travelers [...]


Optimum Trailer Braking

If there is one phrase I advocate it would be “you get what you pay for”. This phrase always holds true, regardless of what you are purchasing. If you are going to buy a product intended to perform a specific job it only makes sense to pay a little extra and get one that does [...]


Daily Preventive Maintenance Travel Checks

 
We just returned from a five week long RV trip, traversing the country from east to west and back again. Something I noticed that surprised me is the majority of RVers I saw at the campground did not take a minute or two to check the fluid levels in their RV or tow vehicle after arriving [...]


RV Cooking Show – Free RV Fun & Stuffed Bananas on the Grill

Greetings from the road,
Summer is officially here as evidenced not only by the calendar but the temps outside!! Chances are RVing/camping is in the cards…even if you are on a budget. Well, you won’t be surprised with this show…you already know we RVers are the most frugal bunch around. In this episode of the RV [...]


Rest Assured with a Tire Minder TPMS

For everyone who contacted me asking why I haven’t posted to the blog for the last month or so thank you for your concern. We just returned from a 7,200 mile coast to coast RV trip. My youngest son said I always work when we travel in the RV so I promised him I wouldn’t [...]


What do you do if you encounter a bear?

Not only does the early summer snow melting from forest service campgrounds lure RVers to their favorite forest camp, it also brings bears out of hibernation from the long winter sleep–and they are hungry! Mama bears with cubs have two or three mouths to feed, and early in the season some areas have yet to [...]


How to Create a Fun Family Camping Vacation

Family camping is a fun, economical way to spend time with your kids and grand children. Whether you’re an RV camper or a tent camper, family camping comes in all shapes and sizes.  Camping vacations do require pre-planning, however. Here’s what you need to know, from the Woodall’s Campground, Destination & [...]


Visiting popular national parks without a campground reservation

By Bob Difley
The slowly fading recession seems to have energized campers this season as campground usage is up and reservations become harder to nail down. This becomes a particular problem with those of us who procrastinate, make last-minute travel decisions, or find ourselves wherever our RVs lead us–and most of the time without campground reservations. [...]