The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is proposing to raise state park camping rates, starting May 1 of next year. The rate for a typical full hookup RV site at the state’s most popular campgrounds would rise by $4 to $28 per night in the summer, and basic yurts would go from $36 to $40. […]
Archives for August 2013
Hall of Fame Elects Directors
The RV/MH Hall of Fame has elected seven new members: Dick Jennison of the Manufactured Housing Institute, Joe Stegmayer of Cavco Industries, Mark Wasson of Bluelinx Corporation, Mick Ferkey of Greeneway RV, Raymond Padget of Blue Ox, Dana Nelson of RV Pro magazine, and Beverly Gardner of RV Business.
The 19th Hole: Swing Jacket Training Aid Reintroduced
The Swing Jacket golf training aid has been reintroduced on the market. Some might remember the product from a decade ago. Back then, the Swing Jacket was used by more than 50 PGA Tour players looking for an advantage. Peter Jacobsen, Tom Pernice Jr., Scott McCarron, Olin Browne, and Billy Andrade all won PGA Tour […]
RV Travel Tales: Magnolia Plantation
Magnolia Plantation near Charleston, South Carolina, was once known for its extensive earthworks of dams and dikes built in fields along the Ashley River for irrigating crops of rice—South Carolina Gold, as it was often called in the Colonial Period. Open daily to visitors, Magnolia Plantation today is a house museum with a petting zoo […]
Thor Reports Record Sales
Thor Industries, the world’s largest RV manufacturer, reported record RV sales of $3.24 billion for the fiscal year ending July 31, an increase of more than 22 percent over the previous year. The company said its order backlog at the end of the year was $441.5 million, up more than 31 percent from last year. […]
Weekend Warrior Brand Is Back
Claude Donati, co-founder and president of Nexus RV, has been named chief executive officer of the RV Warrior Company, which has been formed to revive the Weekend Warrior brand of toy haulers. RV Warrior has leased office and production space from Nexus RV in Elkhart, Indiana, for production of toy hauler travel trailers ranging from […]
The Healthy Traveler: Camping Safety Tips: Traveling with Children
Camping is a fantastic family activity that allows you to make lifelong memories and expand a child’s education well beyond the classroom. Family road trips and camping excursions provide loads of opportunities to show them natural and manmade attractions across the country and teach them about the natural world. It also requires taking the necessary […]
The Silver Gypsy: A Spooky Night on the Blue Ridge
Last week I mentioned Will still needed three hours of night-time driving to apply toward his license so after leaving Charlottesville, we headed west on truck-clogged Interstate #64 and turned south at the northern end of the Blue Ridge Parkway near Humpback Rocks. As we started our roughly 65-mile adventure, the sun was saying goodbye […]
Adventures in RVing: Sequester Surprise!
My wife and I were recently invited to explore the homeland of the Skokomish Tribe and the campgrounds they operate. Our visit resulted with an article in the August 2013 issue of RV Life magazine which can be viewed here. While camped at Skokomish Park at Lake Cushman and studying the map we had been […]
Great Escapes: The One and Only Goat Museum in the United States
Did you know that goats were first domesticated about 10,000 years ago and were among the first animals brought to North America by Europeans? Did you know that goats were often kept as pets for the royal children at Versailles Palace in France, and that the chariot of the legendary Norse thunder god Thor was […]
The Full-Timing Nomad: Tiny Kitchen Tantrums
Adjusting to a full-time RVing way of life presents all sorts of interesting new challenges that you never expect to encounter. For example, when I lived a conventional life, stocking up on groceries was a perfectly reasonable and smart thing to do. I was proud of how skilled I was at buying in bulk and […]