Jeff Kart writes in the Bay City Times, that at participating Michigan Department of Natural Resources campgrounds, “folks who pay to camp on Friday and Saturday nights can leave their trailers on site from Sunday through Thursday for free, then come back to the campground the next weekend. Camping costs $19-21 a night with electric […]

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When first we met Chris Wilson, Tom Wilson and Josh Autrey, (pictured here) they we ‘resting up’ in Glacier National Park, before biking up the Going-to-the-Sun Road. (Click here to read that post.)
That was in late June. Now, two months after their successful crossing of the United States (Oregon to Florida), Tom Wilson writes […]

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Jerry Garrett writes in the New York Times reports on the latests RV sales.
“Statistical Surveys, which tracks market data for the (RV) industry, reported that through July, sales of new motorized R.V.’s were down about 35 percent from the equivalent period a year earlier,” writes Garrett. “Tom Walworth, president of the firm, attributed the drop […]

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Dan Neil of the Los Angeles Times writes:
“I’ve never been much interested in the recreational vehicle lifestyle. You call this camping? Please. But I’ve always wanted an Airstream. Billed as the world’s oldest recreational-vehicle company – born in Los Angeles in 1932 but now in Jackson Center, Ohio – Airstream has had the rare good […]

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I’ve always been a fan of the retro-feel TAB travel trailers. Read more about this light rig by clicking on “Going where the road ends and the fun begins”
Photo: TAB-RV.com

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GoRVing was out spreading the word about the joys of RVing at the recent AARP Life@50 convention in Washington, D.C.
Karen Redfern, director of marketing communications of GoRVing and Recreational Vehicle Industry Association, was on hand to answer questions about RVing and the two small-sized motorhomes on view.
The Itasca Navion by Winnebago “is built on a diesel Sprinter […]

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Renton Technical College and RVtravel.com invite you to the annual RV Lifestyle School, on Oct. 25, 2008, at the Technical College in Renton, Wash.
The day-long affair features seminars on dozens of topics of interest to RVers. Enrollment is the incredibly low price of $18, which includes the classes of your choice, lunch, and overnight RV […]

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I just received an e-mail message from Gaylord Maxwell’s family:
“Today at 2 pm (PT) our beloved husband, father, grandfather and friend passed. Gaylord Maxwell will always be remembered for his lifetime commitment to family, friends and of course RVing.
His final advice to us all from his last written column (in Motorhome magazine): ‘A reality […]

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This weekend’s RV Travel Newletter features an article by publisher Chuck Woodbury on the 31-day, 8,000-mile, cross-country journey of 15 people in four RVs.
Two motorhomes are each pulling a trailer. Each person pays $1,400 for the month-long trip, averaging $45 a day.
Read more by clicking here.
Photo: Ralph Mauger (left) and Tim Barrett of Reading, Penn., with their four […]

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Eric Tsetsi writes for the GateHouse News Service about Justin Fisher, 28, a Spanish teacher in Winchester, Mass., who “has transformed an old school bus he calls the ‘Wanderbus’ into a bio-diesel recreational vehicle.”
“Grease cars,” writes Tsetsi “which typically run on either vegetable oil, more refined bio-diesel, or sometimes regular diesel, are becoming increasingly popular […]

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