Two RV shows in the next few weeks will be an interesting study on whether we can truly believe the recent reports that the RV industry is on the rebound.
According to a television report, RV manufacturers in Elkhart County, Indiana, home to 70 percent of the nation’s RV makers, are ramping up production. A spokesman [...]


By the The Never-Bored RVers
In the horror movie “RV,” one of the most memorable scenes was Robin Williams’ battle with the raccoons that had invaded their motorhome oven. He won the battle at the expense of the interior of the coach.
Raccoons have not been a problem for us, although their penchant for finding leftovers in [...]


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 [...]


OK – you are almost ready to hit the road. You have been planning your trip of a lifetime for months (or even years) now. For some you have a planned route with day by day stops pinpointed and booked, for others you just have a general direction of travel planned. You have purchased or [...]


The State of Michigan is betting the future of its state parks on the willingness of its residents to fork out $10 a year. The $10 will buy each resident a Recreation Passport, and the program is Michigan’s solution for funding our favorite recreation destinations. It begins October 1, 2010.
Instead of spending $24 for an [...]


Once again, our recent Cheeseburger in Caseville camping trip did not disappoint!
The festival, now in its 12th year, is basically a 10-day tribute to Jimmy Buffett and the laid-back beachcomber lifestyle for which he’s known. Featuring music, cheeseburgers, beach volleyball, cardboard boat races, sand castles, the Parade of Fools and much more, the festival is [...]


We decided to add a brief concluding chapter to this series, mainly to answer a few questions that have come up several times in the comments section
FIRST: To find the entire series (plus our earlier articles), go to http://blog.rv.net/author/barry-zander.
THE RIGHT RIG: The trip into Alaska via western Canada takes you through vast, gorgeous expanses. We [...]


This is the second part of a two-part article, No. 32 in a continuing series about our trip through Canada to Alaska
CB Radio – Since caravans require having a CB radio to communicate with the staff and other rigs while on the road, on my son’s advice we got a powerful CB radio with a [...]


A while back I posted a press release from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources shifting all of its campground reservations to the Internet. Several people commented on this post, basically taking exception to the state parks contracting with third party vendors and passing the costs onto us.
I promised a follow-up, and here it [...]


This is the first part of a two-part article, No. 32 in a continuing series about our trip through Canada to Alaska
Until you actually get on the road and enter the Canadian Northwest and Alaska, you can’t appreciate the distances involved — or the grandeur. We made this trip knowing there was a lot to [...]

