Smallest post office makes for fun RV quick stop

America's smallest post office is in a tiny 56-square-foot building in Ochopee, Florida, population 11. Its lone mail carrier drives 132 miles a day to serve 950 residents along the route. There's enough parking at the tiny post office for your RV, should you stop by. It's located along U.S. 41 at mile marker 71.9 along Alligator Alley, which connects Naples with Miami and passes through the Everglades. The building is not official post office design: it once served as a pipe shed for a tomato farm. But when the local general store burned down in 1953 it was converted to the town's post office. Stop by during business hours to buy a stamp, mail a letter or visit with the postmaster. Buy a "Smallest Post Office" postcard, too.

Unique pet cemetery memorializes old friends

For RVers, traveling pets are more than just companions, they become part of the family. When that sad day arrives when they're no longer with us, what's to do with their last remains? Out in the hills west of Yuma, just inside California, a unique pet cemetery has built up over the years.

Located on Quechan tribal land, the cemetery lies in a secluded hollow in a little traveled area. Many RVers spend winters "in the neighborhood," some of them volunteering to care for the graveyard, as the entire place is non-commercial.

Walking through the cemetery is moving; the tributes that loving families have put up for their pets shows just how much these ones are close to our hearts.

To visit the pet cemetery, take Interstate 8 west from Yuma to California Highway 186 (Algadones Road). Go south on 186 until you cross the All American Canal. Take an immediate right and go west along the gravel road that borders the south side of the canal. The road will bend and head south. Follow it, and before the road begins to rise you'll see the cemetery on the right.

Oregon KOA RV park rails in caboose cafe

A condemned, gutted, 1929 Sante Fe railroad caboose will soon find a new life at the Oregon Dunes KOA Kampground in the Pacific Coast community of North Bend, Oregon. After refurbishing, it will become a cafe, complete with interior kitchen and outdoor deck. The caboose was used on freight trains that traveled between Chicago and California. Crews and conductors would live in it while they were traveling. Now campers can enjoy a meal or a snack while visiting the RV park.

Visit Stonehenge with your RV without leaving the USA

In Washington state, on a barren bluff overlooking the Columbia River and Oregon is a full-size replica Stonehenge, a near carbon copy of the more famous Stonehenge in England. It was built by a man named Sam Hill as a memorial to soldiers who died in World War I. Hill passed away soon after his masterpiece was completed in 1930 and is buried nearby.

Unlike the English Stonehenge which is mobbed daily with buses and wide eyed tourists, the Sam Hill replica is a lonely, quiet place. A short paved road off state route 14 leads to the monument and its huge parking lot, easily accessible by any length RV.

Sam Hill’s Mansion, part of the Maryhill Museum of Art, is just up the highway. The museum includes a collection of royal memorabilia from Queen Marie of Romania (1875-1938), a friend of Sam Hill’s who presided at the museum’s dedication ceremony in 1926. Included are the queen’s coronation gown, crown, silverware, gilt furniture, jewelry and other memorabilia. The museum is only from March 15 to November 15 with a $7 adult admission. Stonehenge is always open and admission is free.