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How to maximize your RV storage with plastic totes

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By Curtis Carper A place for everything, and everything in its place. Sounds like the mantra for someone with a compulsive disorder, but in reality...

Fill-up time: regular or premium?

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By Russ and Tiña De Maris "If a little is good, a lot more must be better!" It's a common equation to a lot of...

Don’t let your GPS lead you astray

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By Greg Illes My first GPS was the size of a brick and took ten minutes to get a fix — then it gave me...

Dump station showers

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By Dave Helgeson My wife and I love boondocking.  We enjoy the solitude, freedom and unobstructed views— and the price is right, too. However, after days...

Yikes! What a hat!

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I spotted this mannequin in a New York City store window. How about that hat? Where do you suppose someone would wear it? Not when...

Motel offers free rooms. But maybe few takers?

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The Idle-A-While Motel in Twisp, Washington is cute as can be with its white, yellow-framed cottages. It advertises all the usual motel creature comforts...

Weird superstitions about death and dying

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Here are a few superstitions about death and dying that I learned about from a pamphlet at the Missoula Cemetery. PASSING A CEMETERY: Hold...

Wife questions hubby’s use of glue to attach solar panels

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Dear RV Shrink: I need your help. My husband decided we needed solar. He loves projects. He just told me he is gluing the solar...

Wife is ‘monster’ about camping in boondocks

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Dear Dr. R.V. Shrink: I think I created a monster. My wife has become obsessive with finding natural, remote camping sites that are between cheap...

Is too much togetherness in RV causing tension?

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Dear RV Shrink: My wife has been upset with me ever since we bought our 5th wheel and started traveling. I don't know if it's...

One-eyed driver and wife argue over backing up RV

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Dear RV Shrink: My wife and I travel in a small motorhome. It’s not like we are new at it, we have had this rig...

Take your entire library on the road

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By Greg Illes By now, most folks know about e-books (electronic books), those microscopic packets of electrons that blossom magically into entire books in full...

Shake, rattle, roll down the road — but the crystal stays put

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By Jim Twamley It's often been said that by driving or pulling our rigs down the road we expose them to earthquake-like conditions. It's a...

One-of-a-kind motorhome on display in Polson, Montana

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You won’t see another motorhome like this one, which I found at the wonderful Miracle of America Museum in Polson, Montana. The plan is...

Not boondocking? Here’s a way to save some money

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By Jim Twamley Liquid petroleum gas (LPG), or propane, is what we full-time RVers try to conserve. Lots of things can run off of propane...

More ammo than you ever imagined in rural Nevada

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No matter which direction you drive into Hawthorne, Nev., you will be fascinated with the miles of countless bunkers surrounding the small desert town. But if...

Do you take naps? I do

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  I like to take naps. I've taken naps for most of my life. But I have noticed lately that I now take them more...

Are RVers introverts or extroverts?

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Are most RVers introverts? Well, that is surely what an RVtravel.com reader survey suggests. In fact, it shows that RVers are overwhelmingly introverts —...

A visit with Sky King

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If you know what I am referring to when I mention "Sky King," then you are probably at least 60 years old. Sky King was...

Why is a water view so important?

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A "lake view" space just opened up at the RV park where I'm staying. I'm tempted to pull up and move there. But I...

The man who taught a dog to talk

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Alexander Graham Bell is remembered mostly for inventing the telephone. But did you know he once taught a dog to talk? Bell, born in Scotland,...

Internet RV selling tips

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By Steve Savage, Mobility RV Service Selling RVs on the Internet has become the hot item. So hot that dealers are having a hard time...

Organize your RV documents. Go paperless

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By Greg Illes If you are like most of us, your RV has a huge collection of operating manuals, installation manuals, specifications and other literature....

Does a satellite phone belong in your RV travel kit?

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By Greg Illes For years my wife and I were more amused than concerned about cell phone coverage on the road. It was almost a...

Do “gas saving” products really help?

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The answer is "probably not." Be skeptical of the following kinds of advertising claims. "This gas-saving product improves fuel economy by 20 percent." Claims usually tout...

The basics of mobile Internet systems

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By Rene Agredano Getting online while RVing has become a necessity for everything from location research to keeping in touch with friends and family. While...

Rude behavior on the road

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I have been on the road now for 12 days. All together, I have pulled over about 20 times to let the car behind...

RV co-pilot making navigation harder. What to do?

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Dear RV Shrink: When we bought our RV my wife and I decided we had to act as a team. Since our rig is so...

Is this motorhome beautiful or ugly?

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This is the actual interior of a motorhome. I will make 10 or 11 people in America (and maybe a few in Canada) angry...

Mac and cheese and guilt

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I wonder if some nights around dinner time if Bill Gates chooses to cook a package of macaroni and cheese. Does he, with all...

Dolly for truck camper comes in handy

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RVing with a truck camper certainly has its advantages – but at times there are some drawbacks. Storage for some can be an issue....

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Cheated out of raisins

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  After a trip to the grocery store in Elkhart, Indiana, I was reminded of how food companies play tricks on us with their packaging....

Nez Perce Bear Paw Battlefield … “I will fight no more forever” — Chief Joseph

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It was 137 years ago on Oct. 5, that Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce surrendered following the final battle of the four-month Nez Perce War of...

Park your RV on a Washington beach: Pacific Beach (video)

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Finding a special place along the ocean beach is sure a rarity. Up in the Pacific Northwest, there aren't too many places where you...

For sale: Pamela Anderson’s Airstream trailer

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If you are in the market for a unique, one-of-a-kind travel trailer, then head to Laughlin, Nev., and pay $100,000. You will be the...
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