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RV Travel Reader RVs, June 25, 2016

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Send a photo of your RV and a 150- to 200-word description of it, how and where you use it, and what you like...

Live Stream your vacation with your Facebook Friends

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By Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.comHave you tried Facebook’s new Live Streaming feature yet? It is so incredibly easy! Instead of just posting a photo of...

Hubby wants to repaint fading RV decals. Wife worried!

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Dear RV Shrink:I need help quick. My husband thinks he's Rembrandt. Our motorhome decals have started to fade and crack. He got a bid...

Why do men talk about their RVs as if they’re women?

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By Julie Schneider Several years ago when I walked by a group of men gathered in a campground and heard things like, “She’s...

RV Travel Reader Pets Issue 26

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The pets of RVtravel.com readers Do you travel with a pet? We'd love to introduce your pet(s) to fellow readers. Here's what we need:...

How to shop online when on the road

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Dear RV Shrink:We have started traveling part of the year and living in a fifth wheel. So far it is everything we thought it...

Taking photos may enhance a trip experience

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That friend of yours who snaps photos of everything on a trip may be enjoying him or herself more than someone who just observes and doesn't...

Slide-outs “out” okay at Walmart?

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By Russ and Tiña De MarisWalmart "overnighting," has its attractions. Low costs, easy in and out, handy to shopping, the list goes on. Of...

Get your Amazon deliveries on the road

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Amazon.com doesn't miss an opportunity. One of its newest is called Amazon Locker. Basically, the company has added lockers around the USA and even in...

Share your Location with Glympse

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By Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.comIf you fly your own plane, it is important to file a Flight Plan. Some people feel the same way about...

RV Travel Reader RVs, June 11, 2016

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Send a photo of your RV and a 150- to 200-word description of it, how and where you use it, and what you like...

RV “Walsmarting”

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Dear RV Shrink:We are going to take our first major road trip with our new travel trailer. We bought it just for weekend camping...

DryFins shorts prevent beach sand chafe

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By Bob DifleyThe pair of DryFins shorts arrived in my mailbox just in time for my visit the next day to my son's family...

Alien tunnels, cities beneath Wal-Mart?

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By Chuck WoodburyYikes! I don't how I came upon it, but I ended up on a long thread of comments started by someone who...

National Park Getaway: Olympic National Park

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By Barb Maynes, Public Information Officer, Olympic National ParkIn the far northwest corner of Washington, the park protects a varied landscape and three distinctly...

Husband and wife both want fully swiveling chair

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Dear RV Shrink:My husband and I are always fighting over the driver's captain's chair. The driver's chair swivels all the way around when we...

Seat belt laws in 50 states

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Traffic Safety Trends: State Legislative Action 2015 © 2016 National Conference of State LegislaturesBy Anne Teigen, Douglas Shinkle and Amanda EssexSources: Insurance Institute for...

Good and bad news about prescription refills on the road

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By Russ and Tiña De MarisNot long ago, we ran a video tip showing how easy it is to get drug prescription refills while...

RV Travel Reader RVs, May 21, 2016

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Send a photo of your RV and a 150- to 200-word description of it, how and where you use it, and what you like...

Safe to move about a motorhome while it’s moving?

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Dear RV Shrink:We have just sold our trailer and purchased a motorhome. Our main motivation for this move has always been access. We found...

OK Google, What route did I drive to Tallahassee?

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By Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.comIf you turn on Location Services and allow Google Maps to save location history, it records everywhere you go – as...

RV group FMCA headed to wild west town next March

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(May 25, 2016 — Members of Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA), an international organization of motorhome owners, will make its way to the Rawhide Western Town...

Beware trying to save a buck when dumping tanks

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By Russ and Tiña De MarisI've long been an advocate for saving a buck.I use every discount I can find when shopping for stuff....

Roy and Dale sing Happy Trails, and I am happy

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By Chuck WoodburyWhen I was young, I swore to myself that I would never, ever grow up to be a geezer who talked about...

Free camping along the Colorado River near Quartzsite

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By Russ and Tiña De MarisWith summer coming along soon, the snowbirds have flown their winter "coop" in Quartzsite. Yes, the weather is actually...

Save money at RV surplus and salvage yards

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By Chris Dougherty, Certified RV TechnicianSad to say, RVs are a lot like cars: As they bounce down the road of life, they wear...

Bass should have kept its big mouth shut

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By Chuck WoodburyI snapped this photo at Glimmerglass State Park on Lake Otsego near Cooperstown, NY. The bass had washed up on shore, dead...

The incredible shrinking bird brain

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By Chuck WoodburyNature is amazing. The other morning on our local NPR radio station, on a program called Bird Notes, I learned about a...

Wearable drug-free ReliefBand relieves motion sickness

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by Bob DifleyFor on-the-road RVers, that dreaded feeling of nausea is now a thing of the past with the introduction of ReliefBand, a wearable,...

RV Travel Reader Pets Issue 25

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The pets of RVtravel.com readers Do you travel with a pet? We'd love to introduce your pet(s) to fellow readers. Here's what we need:...

What to do about slow-moving leveling jacks?

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Dear RV Shrink: I know you are not a mechanic, but we have a mechanical and mental problem combined. Our motorhome is only two years...

Protect your campsite from mosquitoes, other insects

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By Bob Difley Completely portable, this lightweight propane-powered fogger is the most economical way to kill mosquitoes, biting flies, and flying insects. The secret is...

RV Travel Reader RVs, May 14, 2016

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Send a photo of your RV and a 150 to 200 word description of it, how and where you use it, and what you...

Could it happen? ‘Viagra’ Old Faithful?

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An $11 billion maintenance backlog has National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis proposing “an unprecedented level of corporate donations” to the national parks, according...

Travel Drive for phones and tablets

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By Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.com You probably know about Travel Drives for storing computer data files, photos, videos, music, etc. We call them by various names,...

What can we do about vandalized public property?

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Dear RV Shrink: One of the comments someone made under last week's column caught my attention. We have not spent much time in campgrounds during the...

Coffee, tea, and advertising in Small Town USA

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By Chuck Woodbury A guy, a stranger, walks into Kelcy's Cafe in Tehachapi, Calif., and asks, "How would you like 100 free ceramic coffee mugs?" ...

Duped at the dump station?

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Dear R.V. Shrink: We enjoyed your column on investing in gas. We don’t go that far, but we do like the instant gratification of not...

How to watch YouTube videos using little bandwidth

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By Chuck Woodbury, editor, RVtravel.com For many RVers who travel a lot or even full-time, Internet access is hit and miss. For RVers who want to...

Top RVer names in the future

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Social Security has released the most popular baby names for 2015. You can probably figure that in 50 years a lot of RVers named...

RV Travel Reader Pets Issue 24

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The pets of RVtravel.com readers Do you travel with a pet? We'd love to introduce your pet(s) to fellow readers. Here's what we need: a...

Birdwatchers want earlier access to campgrounds

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Dear RV Shrink: We are avid birdwatchers and full-timers. This makes us full-time birdwatchers. Our travel lifestyle puts us into a lot of boondocking/dry camping...

“Is there life after the dump station?”

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Sent to us by RVtravel.com readers Dick and Sandy, near Buffalo, N.Y., for you to enjoy (and maybe relate to!). It was found on...

My best business ever ended when I was 10

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By Chuck Woodbury I live and work in a complicated world. It wasn't always so. I once operated a Kool-Aid stand. At times it was...

What upset me at an RV show last weekend

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By Chuck Woodbury I'm upset about something I observed at an RV show I attended last weekend. After walking around, checking out all the RVs, I...

RV Travel Reader RVs, April 30, 2016

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Send a photo of your RV and a 150 to 200 word description of it, how and where you use it, and what you...

Every traveler needs a good weather app, or two

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By Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour When traveling by RV, you need to know the weather to decide: • When to stop driving for the day...

Concerns of soon-to-be new RVers

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Dear RV Shrink: We are close to making a buying decision on a new motorhome. We have studied them to death. It's a very expensive...

Video: Working at Amazon during the holidays

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By RV Travel Staff Every holiday season, Amazon.com hires thousands of employees at its warehouses to help with the huge increase in its business. In...

The good ol’ days? How about the good ol’ stinky days!

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By Chuck Woodbury It's easier, as one gets older, to reminisce fondly about "the good old days." The problem is, the good old days weren't...
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