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Screen shot of the forest

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By Chuck Woodbury Screen shots, to most of us, are images we capture of our whatever is on our computer screen. This is a different...

Visit Mars without leaving America

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By Chuck Woodbury If you're like me and wish you could go to Mars, well, you're in for a disappointment. It's not going to happen...

Six safety tips for overnight RV parking at casinos

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By Jane Kenny Question: Why do you suppose so many RVers are attracted to casino parking lots? Answer: It’s the free overnight parking. RVers looking for a...

RV stove on the fritz? Or Fritz on the RV stove?

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Dear RV Shrink: Thank you for the reminder that we should have our alarms tested periodically. After reading your column we tested all of ours...

RV Travel Reader Pets Issue 23

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Reader Pets Do you travel with a pet? We'd love to introduce your pet(s) to fellow readers. Here's what we need: a photo or two...

RV recipes and a free downloadable cookbook, too

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By Bob Difley Cooking, eating, and sharing great meals is one of life's most enjoyable pleasures. The number of cookbooks available in bookstores and on...

Save thousands on RV refrigerator replacement

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By Russ and Tiña De Maris Of all of the things that can break in your RV, one of the most expensive issues you'll face...

How sad, the disappearing front porch

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Passing through tiny Kennard, Ind., yesterday I came across these women on a front porch. I stopped in my lane right in the middle...

Is heading south of the border for medical care wise?

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Dear RV Shrink: I want to cross the border into Mexico to have an eye exam and maybe see a dentist. My wife thinks I...

RV Travel Reader RVs, April 16, 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...

Buying RV insurance: Sort out the terms, part 1

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Owning an RV can be a big financial investment. Keeping it financially secure only makes sense. But when it comes to buying insurance, it...

Buying RV insurance: Sort out the terms, part 2

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Buying RV insurance can be like a trip into unknown country. It's best if you have a map. In part 1, "Buying RV insurance:...

RVing and volunteering: ‘What a life!’

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Many RVers take to the road when retirement takes them out of their daily beat. Some just travel to see the countryside; others may...

Hubby fine until he panics at wheel. Wife gets blame

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Dear RV Shrink: My husband and I get along just fine while traveling, until he panics. When he becomes lost or confused as to...

The most famous RVer of all time

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I'd like to tell you a brief story about the most famous American to travel by RV. Yet most people never knew he did....

The crook who grew up to be a shoe

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RAWLINS, Wyo— Today, at the Carbon County Museum, I checked out the display of Big Nose George Parrot, the only man in American history...

Full-timers: You never know where you’ll find them

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By Chuck Woodbury Editor, RVtravel.com People are not always what they appear to be. I'm referring here to full-time RVers. You think people are residents of...

Don’t you get lonely traveling with an RV?

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By Greg Illes RVtravel.com contributing writer One of the most-asked questions from my non-RV friends is, "Isn't it awful lonely traveling around in a motorhome?" It's...

Highway Hostesses: Cleaning gas station restrooms across America

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By Chuck Woodbury PUBLISHER, RVtravel.com Before we traveled with our RVs, most of us traveled in cars. If you are older than 65, you likely recall...

RVing is more than just a hobby

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By Jim Twamley Most RVers I meet are enthusiastic about RVing. We come from all walks of life and have one thing in common... we...

My shower is one of my top five favorite RV things

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Chuck Woodbury Editor, RVtravel.com I was thinking about my RV shower today as I basked in my home shower, soaking up the warmth. A shower is...

RVers are not hoarders.

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By Chuck Woodbury Editor, RVtravel.com Have you seen the TV program "Hoarders?" It's about people with a compulsion to hoard just about everything. Nothing gets...

Celebrating nearly 30 years of RVing. What’s next?

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By Chuck Woodbury Editor, RVtravel.com Originally published in March, 2010 I'm 62 years old. Some people think I'm 100. The reason is that I was in my...

When people discovered the world through postcards

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  By Chuck Woodbury Editor, RVtravel.com Go back 100 years. Just imagine: there were no RVs and only a few primitive cars with few roads to...

Why outside RV kitchens are a stupid idea

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By Chuck Woodbury Editor, RVtravel.com Originally published in March, 2010 The new big thing in RVs is an outdoor kitchen. That's what the Edmonton Journal reported...

Thoughts about throwing things away

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By Chuck Woodbury Editor, RVtravel.com Originally published in March, 2010 I'm now in my second week at my late-parents' home in Grass Valley, Calif., cleaning the place...

How to help children enjoy RVing

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By Jim Twamley Do kids really enjoy RVing? While having a haircut last week the topic of RVing came up. My barber was a young...

How fast can you get your RV ‘ready to go?’

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By Chuck Woodbury Editor, RVtravel.com Every few years, it seems, America experiences a catastrophic natural disaster. The "Big Four" over the past couple of decades have...

Variety stores: Going, going. . . (almost) gone

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By Chuck Woodbury Editor, RVtravel.com Maybe your grandmother shopped here. Maybe you did if you grew up in rural America. You don't find many variety stores...

I like to stop at cemeteries

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When I'm on the road with time to spare, I love to stop at rural cemeteries. It's not morbid at all. There is so...

When is a person ‘elderly?’

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So when is a person elderly? Last week I asked you to tell me when you believe a person should be considered "elderly." See the...

Empty nest. It came fast

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By Chuck Woodbury Editor, RVtravel.com Originally published in June, 2010 My daughter and only child Emily graduated from high school last week. Just yesterday, I believe, she...

Confused as I head out on the road

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By Chuck Woodbury Editor, RVtravel.com No doubt you have seen these telescopes at scenic overlooks. Although I have no proof, I believe these are aliens from...

Devils Tower and the Jolly Green Giant

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By Chuck Woodbury Editor, RVtravel.com Originally published in August, 2010 One of the reasons I wanted to drive my daughter Emily to college in New York was...

Coffee. Shower. Okay, my day may now start

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I am writing to you now from the Berkshires in western Massachusetts. I arrived Wednesday, a bright and sunny day. Oh, my goodness: the...

Happy in my tiny house on wheels

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  I've been on the road now for more than two months with about two weeks and 1,700 miles to go. This is the longest...

The yin and yang of RVing

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By Chuck Woodbury Editor, RVtravel.com Looking out the front window of my RV I see barren, brown hills of Wyoming. A month ago, out of that...

When an RVer is like a raw egg

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By Chuck Woodbury Editor, RVtravel.com Do you know how to tell the difference between a hard boiled egg and a raw egg without cracking it? It's...

The scenic, glorious Northwest

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By Chuck Woodbury Editor, RVtravel.com I'm home. It's Wednesday morning at about 10 a.m., I glanced out my living room window an hour ago and this...

Dead cars along the highway

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What do you do when you buy a new car? For one thing, you trade in your old one. But have you ever wondered...

On the road in an 18-foot (leaky) motorhome

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By Chuck Woodbury Editor, RVtravel.com That's me in the picture. I've been going through my Out West photos again, from the years I explored the West...

Taking pictures of odd things

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By Chuck Woodbury editor, RVtravel.com When I travel, I always have a camera with me. These days it's often my iPhone, which takes remarkably good photos....

A cute chipmunk, Cheez-Its, and stupid me

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By Chuck Woodbury editor, RVtravel.com Before I became politically correct and nature-smart, I fed wild animals. I fed bears as a kid in Yellowstone. I...

Photo of old motorhome makes me happy

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By Chuck Woodbury editor, RVtravel.com A reader sent me this photo. Being disorganized, I immediately lost his email so I cannot thank him properly. I know...

Hibernating in your RV. Others ask ‘Is anyone in there?’

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By Chuck Woodbury editor, RVtravel.com My long time buddy Dave Williams wrote something in his blog this week that got me thinking. Dave wrote: "People in...

How times change. What’s next?

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By Chuck Woodbury editor, RVtravel.com  Originally published in April, 2011 I watched an old Hollywood musical the other night, "Meet Me In St. Louis" starring Judy Garland....

My first motorhome in a spectacular state park

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By Chuck Woodbury editor, RVtravel.com  As some of you know, my first motorhome was a tiny one -- a mere 18 feet long. I had...

Pioneer museums and barbed wire, ‘the Devil’s rope’

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By Chuck Woodbury editor, RVtravel.com  One of my favorite things to do when traveling with my RV is to visit rural pioneer museums. Most are not...

U.S. 395. Stunning beauty on the western lip of America’s Outback

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By Chuck Woodbury editor, RVtravel.com I am planning a two-week road trip for later this summer, most likely from my home in Washington to Southern California...

‘Live Rattlesnakes,’ read the sign by the lonely road. A vanishing America

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Chuck Woodbury editor, RVtravel.com I love this photo. I snapped it a long time ago somewhere in New Mexico. It was along a rural highway. Just...
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