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5 essential tips to improve your cornhole game

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By Cheri Sicard Are you ready to smoke your competition at cornhole? In the video below, GunnerBriz shares five tips that will seriously improve your...

A.I. fiction: Space aliens invade selling vacuum cleaners

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By Johnny Robot EDITOR'S NOTE: The story below was written in about 30 seconds using artificial intelligence. Not a single word was changed. The illustrations...

Publisher insights: Who’s reading RVtravel.com at 6 p.m.

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By Chuck Woodbury PUBLISHER The graphic above shows the most popular areas where people were reading RVtravel.com at 6 p.m. PDT, Monday (yesterday). The bigger the...

An RVer love story about the Wandering Jokester

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Introduction by Chuck Woodbury The story below, written using artificial intelligence (A.I.), was created in less than 30 seconds after I typed in the prompt....

RV made from a watermelon? Carve one yourself!

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By Cheri Sicard In the video below, we learn how to carve a watermelon RV from the team at The RV Keys. This watermelon RV...

‘How hot is it?’ Hot enough for some heat jokes!

Gail Marsh -
Currently in Western Colorado, we’re battling extreme heat. Oh, it gets hot here in the summertime, I’m told. But this? This is unusually hot...

Popular 2023 baby names include both familiar and unfamiliar

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Get ready to hear some new youngster names around the campground. The times are a-changin' (as always) and this year's list of popular baby...

Bald eagle nest live feed blooper reel. Check it out!

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By Cheri Sicard https://youtu.be/u7hzni050zE?si=9EUl4GLljpsRNmbS The video above from the Nature Lover Birdlife Odyssey YouTube channel is a compilation of bird bloopers, if you will. It’s funny...

Would you camp with these alligators for $1,000?

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We came upon the photo below and it got us thinking. By "us" we mean the staff of RVtravel.com. Without wasting too many words,...

The truck driver spreading smiles with unusual cargo

Gail Marsh -
Growing up, I dreamed of being an over-the-road truck driver. Of course, back then there were only three viable career options for girls. I...

Vote for your favorites: It’s the 2024 RV Video Awards!

Cheri Sicard -
VOTING ENDS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24. KEEP VOTING UNTIL THEN! It's that time again, RVers! Time for the RV Video Awards and time to pick our...

Ho! Ho! Ho! 14 of the BEST RV Christmas sweaters for this holiday season

Cheri Sicard -
RV ugly Christmas sweaters?  Why not!  For lots of folks, the "Ugly Christmas Sweater" has become a big part of the holiday tradition. Each...

Fun and interesting Midwest trivia quiz. See how you do…

Gail Marsh -
I’ve been a Midwest gal all my life—well, except for a brief stint in a place where the seasons are all the same: hot....

Take the free Masterclass of Happiness and learn how to be happy!

Nanci Dixon -
The U.N.'s World Happiness Report has rated Finland the happiest country in the world for the sixth straight year. Finland responded by saying that...

Man rows pumpkin ‘boat’ 39 miles down Missouri River

Gail Marsh -
Missourian Steve Kueny recently embarked on a record-breaking pumpkin adventure. Kueny set a new Guinness World Record for the longest journey ever made inside...

Meet our new writer: the one and only Mona Lisa

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By Chuck Woodbury PUBLISHER We are proud to announce that in our search for the best and most creative people in the world to contribute to...

What do you think of this homebuilt RV?

Chuck Woodbury -
We will all agree, right, that this RV did not come off a manufacturer's production line? And we will all agree that it will...

19 dumb complaints from clueless tourists

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Get ready to laugh, or at least shake your head in wonder at these actual complaints tourists made to Thomas Cook Vacations about their...

You won’t believe this ‘mobile toilet’!

RV Travel -
Think of all the attention you would get (not to mention the smiles) in the campground or RV park, or just driving down the...

What is it?

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So what is this object that we showed you in the Sunday, June 11th issue of the RVtravel.com newsletter? It's a Bloodletting Bowl from Massachusetts...

5th wheel? No truck? No problem! Yikes!

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It's another one of those "You don't see this every day" items. Hate to say it, but it does remind us a bit of...

The world’s oldest surfer is…

Nanci Dixon -
Seiichi Sano is truly inspiring. At age 89 he holds the record for the world's oldest surfer verified by Guinness World Records. (He broke...

8 great going-to-the-country road trip songs

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By Cheri Sicard We are getting out of the city and heading to the country in this installment of Road Trip Playlists with eight great...

Lone Star State Road Trip Playlist: 8 great Texas songs!

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In this installation of Road Trip Playlists, I thought it might be fun to get destination specific. What better place to start than the...

Jam out with these 10 road songs for lovers

Cheri Sicard -
Welcome to the latest installment of Road Trip Playlists. This week we are going to musically explore the topic of love on our road...

Reader inspires fun travel game while driving and exploring. Try it!

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By Cheri Sicard When I was compiling the articles on our readers’ favorite hobbies, I discovered that one of our readers has a highly unusual hobby...

Spend the night camping in a can of beans. No kidney… er… kidding!

Dave Solberg -
Spend the night in a can of beans? Well, sort of. It's a can-shaped trailer painted to look like a giant can of Bush's...

10 great road-tripping roadside America songs

Cheri Sicard -
Welcome to the latest installment of Road Trip Playlists. The United States has long had a love affair with cars and road-tripping, so this week...

9 great born-to-roam road songs

Cheri Sicard -
Welcome back to Road Trip Playlists. In this installment, we are going to look at born-to-roam songs. In other words, songs that celebrate the...

Readers share their odd RV hobbies

Cheri Sicard -
We recently asked about what hobbies you bring along in your RV. We got SO MANY responses that I broke the follow-up into two...

Helium-filled frame reduces RV weight – Are they kidding?

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Can a helium-filled RV frame significantly reduce the RV's weight? Read on to find out. I have been part of the RV industry all my...

Road Trip Play Lists: 8 awesome life on the road songs

Cheri Sicard -
Welcome to our second installment of Road Trip Playlists (check out the first installment, "Joyous Songs to Start Your Journey," here). This week I wanted...

7 joyful road trip songs to start your journey

Cheri Sicard -
Welcome to Road Trip Playlists, my new semi-regular column here at RVtravel.com! I came up with the idea after having a lifetime of friends come...

Weekly RV Recipe Challenge: Culinary improv for small-space cooks

Cheri Sicard -
Cheri Sicard is a longtime food writer with several cookbooks and hundreds of published recipes to her credit. She is also an RVer and,...

This fake RVer needs help to keep her enchiladas from spoiling

Chuck Woodbury -
By Chuck Woodbury Forgive me for being silly, but I just had to share this with you. On last Wednesday's live Talkin' RV Tech webinar...

RVtravel.com readers have seen real-life UFOs, even an RV UFO!

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By Cheri Sicard We asked if you have ever seen a UFO or some other type of inexplicable phenomenon in the sky. Not surprisingly, this...

Have you ever seen a UFO while RVing?

Cheri Sicard -
As RVers, we are often treated to some unparalleled star-watching opportunities that the general public just doesn’t get. But have you ever seen a...

Tell us about a crazy small-world experience you had while RVing

Cheri Sicard -
What’s your best small-world experience while RVing? “It’s a Small World After All,” or so the song says. One of our readers had a terrific...

Wacky reasons auto accident victims give for their mishaps

Chuck Woodbury -
Confused, auto accident victims sometimes give strange and often funny reasons for their mishaps, usually trying to sum them up in a few words....

How much does a flyswatter repairman charge?

Chuck Woodbury -
By Chuck Woodbury AND A ROBOT I asked ChatGPT, which writes using artificial intelligence (AI), the question in the headline and then the second question below....

A fun part of traveling: Finding silly business names

Gail Marsh -
As we’ve traveled the country in our RV, we’ve seen many, many cleverly named businesses. You probably have, too. I love seeing how resourceful...

What are your RV New Year’s resolutions?

Cheri Sicard -
Happy RV New Year, everyone! This week we want to know about your RV plans for the upcoming year, your “RV New Year’s resolutions,” if...

RVtravel.com Photo Contest, December 24, 2022

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Select your favorite photo These photos and their captions were submitted by RVtravel.com readers. The link where to view photos and vote is in today's...

RVtravel.com Photo Contest, December 17, 2022

Emily Woodbury -
Select your favorite photo These photos and their captions were submitted by RVtravel.com readers. Every Saturday we post a photo from five different readers. The...

RVtravel.com Photo Contest, December 10, 2023

RV Travel -
Select your favorite photo These photos and their captions were submitted by RVtravel.com readers. Every Saturday we post a photo from five different readers. The...

RVtravel.com Photo Contest, December 3, 2022

RV Travel -
Select your favorite photo These photos and their captions were submitted by RVtravel.com readers. Every Saturday we post a photo from five different readers. The...

RVtravel.com Photo Contest, November 26, 2022

RV Travel -
Select your favorite photo These photos and their captions were submitted by RVtravel.com readers. Every Saturday we post a photo from five different readers. The...

RVtravel.com Photo Contest, November 19, 2022

RV Travel -
Select your favorite photo These photos and their captions were submitted by RVtravel.com readers. Every Saturday we post a photo from five different readers. The...

A quirky, cheerful perspective on clouds

Gail Marsh -
The COVID pandemic brought panic, illness, and death to our world. The catastrophic disease also ushered in a few good things: more family time,...

RVtravel.com Photo Contest, November 12, 2022

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Select your favorite photo These photos and their captions were submitted by RVtravel.com readers. Every Saturday we post a photo from five different readers. The...
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