“Winnebago is conducting an RV Fuel Consumption Run from the Gold Coast (Australia) to Winton Raceway in Victoria to prove that motorhome travel can be almost as economical as driving an average family car,” according to an article published in the Coffs Coast Independent in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales.
Four motorhomes of various sizes are stopping at […]

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RVs are often used in many different ways. This time as a mobile office for veterans’ advocates in Wyoming who are reaching out to vets returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Leon Chamberlain bought a small motorhome because he wanted “a quiet, private place where soldiers would feel comfortable” talking with him.
“A motorhome also comes in handy […]

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Trying to live off the grid … or just into long-term boondocking in your RV, you might look into SunDanzer, a company that manufactures solar-powered fridges and freezers.
Their Website states: “Founded in 1999, SunDanzer’s goal continues to be to build solar refrigerators which are optimized for the off-grid or net-zero energy customer, minimizing the customer’s total […]

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Chuck Woodbury, editor of RVTravel.com, writes in this week’s RVTravel Newsletter about his childhood encounters with bears in Yellowstone National Park and how attitudes have changed over the years. Back then, in the late-50s, it was common for tourists to feed wildlife. Today it is strictly forbidden–to protect the wildlife as much as humans.
A […]

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Rodd Cayton writing in (Riverside, Calif.) The Business Press reports that Kevin Broom, spokesperson for the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association says ….
“Motor home manufacturers increasingly work with the Class C Dodge Sprinter chassis, rather than the larger, thirstier Class A choices, Broom said. Makers of travel trailers have been using different materials that reduce their […]

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Francesca Jarosz writes in the Indianapolis Star that “RVs at Brickyard get carbon monoxide fliers”
“The warnings follow the May death of a 43-year-old Illinois man during the Indianapolis 500. Police said Michael Thies’ RV likely sucked in carbon monoxide emissions from nearby generators or engines. Coroners have not yet confirmed his cause of death, but […]

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Maxie McNabb,’ author Sue Henry’s savvy RV-driving 60-something, and her canine companion, Stretch, solve mysteries once again in “The Refuge” (2008).
Part-travel log, part-autobiographical journal, this is Henry’s fourth parlor mystery featuring ‘Maxie,’ this time in Hawaii.
Henry introduced Maxie in “Dead North,” (2001), a novel featuring musher Jessie Arnold. Because of Maxie’s popularity in “Dead North,” […]

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About 1 in 5 Americans regularly go camping and of those about 30-percent do so in a recreational vehicle according to “Who is the typical camper” posting on “Pathfinder’s” blog on Uncooped.com
The survey was conducted by Responsive Management, a survey resource firm specializing in natural resource and outdoor recreation issues.

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Click HERE and watch what a bank surveillance camera caught when a Texas man (towing his brand new fifth-wheel trailer) suffered a momentary lapse in judgment.
“He was not trying to drive under the awning, he was attempting to go around the awning but caught the awning,” said Center (Texas) Police Department Officer Gratehouse, according […]

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“For hundreds of thousands of Canadians, rumbling across the continent by motorhome is not just a vacation, but a lifestyle,” writes Patrick White in yesterday’s (Toronto, Ontario) Globe and Mail.  ”They are children of a continent-wide cruising culture that germinated during the highway-building frenzy of the fifties and sixties. Many use their mobile palaces as […]

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