When Do You Use Hazard Flashers?
In the hill country out west, it’s not uncommon to find 18-wheelers make the hard climb with ‘warning flashers a’blazin.’ To most of us RV folks, it just makes sense. After all, crawling up a steep grade and traveling far less than “freeway speed,” giving a bit of a warning to the folks coming up [...]
Wherever You re RVing, You re Not Far From Special Events in National Parks
Get ready: National Parks Week is just around the corner. From the 18th through the 26th of April, most national parks and properties will put on the dog and welcome visitors. With so much going on everywhere, we can’t cover it all, so we’ve picked a few selected highlights from around the country for your RV [...]
Traveling By RV: Supplies You Should Stock Up On Posted By :
Are you in the process of planning a trip, namely one in which you will be traveling by RV? If so, have you taken the time to create a checklist for yourself? If not, you will want to consider doing so. A checklist can help to ensure that you have all needed supplies for your next RV trip. When creating an RV trip checklist for yourself, your list will typically depend on your own personal wants and needs. That is why you are urged against relying on checklists that you ca…
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Fulltiming and Medicare Insurance
“When I get older, losing my hair, many years from now,” sang the Beatles. For those of us who laughed and sang those words, ‘many years ago,’ we may not have lost all our hair, but most of us are either Medicare eligible, or looking it in the face. Our fulltiming lifestyle may keep us [...]
Paying Bills From the RV Road
Fulltime RVer or RVing snowbird, there’s a problem that all of us run into: Paying those dratted bills. If you’re on the road, sometimes mail just has a hard time catching up with you in a timely way. How can you keep up with the accounts? Many RVers take advantage of automatic bill payment systems. A [...]
Things that Really Hack RVers Off Colorado State Parks Join the List
We try our best to say positive things about state parks in general. It’s a tough job in times of tight budgeting–the legislature stands ready with the ax, and park administrators are stuck trying to keep “body and soul together.” The sad part is that at times, the RVing camping public is the one that [...]
Could GPS Satellite Failures Affect RVers?
When Chicken Little trumpeted the alert that the sky was falling, to her, the initial response must have been gratifying. Depending on which version you read (or watch) the end of it all might not be so pleasant. For RVers who depend on the Global Positioning Satellite System as they make their way around the [...]
RVing Cross Country? Watch Out For Motor Vehicle Law Quirks
You’ve got a state-issued driver license, right? So you’re “OK” to drive your rig in any state, right? That’s a qualified, “Maybe.” Each of the 50 states have an understanding with one another: Lawfully licensed drivers from other states may drive in everyone else’s state. But there are quirks that can affect RVers–and other motorists–that [...]
Affinity Group Continues Skid, Could Affect RVers
The troubled RV industry giant, Affinity Group (AGI), finds itself in the news again, and it isn’t the “happy talk” column. Affinity Group whose “children” include the Good Sam Club, Camping World, Trailer Life, and Motorhome magazines as well as other RV related corporations is just another of the big list of firms evidently struggling [...]
