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Issue 1421
Welcome to another edition of RV Travel’s Daily Tips newsletter. Here you’ll find helpful RV-related and living tips from the pros, travel advice, a handy website of the day, tips on our favorite RVing-related products and, of course, a good laugh. Thanks for joining us. We appreciate you. Please tell your friends about us.
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Today’s thought
“Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.” – Alan Dundes
Need an excuse to celebrate? Today is National Macadamia Nut Day!
On this day in history: 1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
Tip of the Day
What RV advice NOT to ask for on a forum
By Ray Burr, loveyourrv.com
While reading many RV forums over the last few years I’ve watched as a few topics always seem to blow up into extensive threads with many replies and comments. Unfortunately, many times these forum threads degrade into outright arguments and bad feelings, or they are just a big long rehash of previously answered questions.
My advice is, if you’re new to an RV forum and want to ask for RV advice, use the search feature first and see if anyone has already answered the question. Read more for examples of what could happen with certain questions.
Do you have a tip? Submit it here.
Fulltime RVing – Don’t you get lonely?
One of the most-asked questions Greg Illes and his wife receive from non-RV friends is, “Isn’t it awful lonely traveling around in a motorhome?” It’s a somewhat ingenuous query that always makes him smile, but he tries to answer seriously. He says, “being on the road is the antithesis of loneliness – it’s a grand gathering of fellows, each with something to share, and it is invariably a rich, rewarding experience for us every time we go ‘out there.’” Read more.
Yesterday’s featured article: “To sleep, perchance to dream…” – but not behind the wheel
You may have missed these recent popular stories…
- Tips for Wi-Fi and cell data on the road
- As RVers are we “getting away from it all” or is the lifestyle “getting away from us”?
- Knowing this hidden key trick could save you a road service call
- RVers and experts weigh in: What are the best days to travel?
Reader poll
If you could make one “room” in your RV bigger, which would it be?
Draft a blueprint, then tell us here.
Run your RV A/C with only normal household power. Yes, it’s possible!
Quick Tip
Don’t be tempted to overload your RV
A surefire way to overload your RV is to carry too much extra junk. Unless you’re disciplined enough to weigh your rig, you may find it wise to skip installing a hitch receiver platform or roof storage pod. It’s easy enough to overload your rig using the factory-provided storage spaces — and add-on spaces are just begging for more stuff and greater chances to go overboard.
Keep those nasty mosquitoes away!
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Website of the day
18 bizarre and funny U.S. city names
This is an article on BuzzFeed, not a website, but some of these town names are so weird you’d think they were fake! Check ’em out for a good laugh.
Clubs and useful organizations
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Trivia
The 7-11 “Double Big Gulp” holds about twice the amount of fluid than the average adult human’s stomach, which can comfortably hold about 32 oz. at any given time. Your stomach can process liquids at about a rate of 7-14 oz. per hour, so the quickest you could (er, should) drink a Double Big Gulp is over the time span of 4.73 hours.
*What does the color twist or tie on a bread bag mean? Do you know? We told you in yesterday’s trivia section.
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Readers’ Pet of the Day
“Dakoda just chilling during the pandemic.” — Rose Swanson
Send us a photo of your pet with a short description. We publish one each weekday in RV Daily Tips and in our Saturday RV Travel newsletter.
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Stoner Place, Montana is in Lewis and Clark County. Not surprising it’s over a mile high.
On I-75, near Detroit, exit 69 is Big Beaver Road. Always gets a chuckle from out of towners
The pop up ad for signing up to read the Daily Tips and Weekend RVTravel is pretty annoying since I am already subscribed to all of them. Is there some way to make it stop?
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In Montana, we have Bloody Dick Creek and the Big Hole Valley
In SC we have Sugar {bleeped} which I think is really unusual, though it’s never in a list. 96 is also in SC.
Would love to be chillin’ with Dakoda! Beautiful dog! Toby is pretty sweet, too!
Where else but Illinois can you read an article entitled “Oblong boy marries Normal girl”?
Don’t forget to stop at Hot Dog Johnnys on Route 46 in Buttzville, NJ.
Silly, but there’s a little “hole-in-the-wall” town I’m sure many have passed through if heading E/W on I-44….Uranus, Missouri. And just to make some laugh, or others vomit, depending on your outlook, they are famous for their “fudge” shop.
I would like more room between my little Aliner and the monster RV parked next to me !
I am flabbergasted by today’s trivia. I do wish you had footnoted a cite to the stomach figures because I would like to pass that info on. Keep up the subversion.
Hi, Firefly. Just Google “Double Big Gulp stomach” and you’ll find lots of posts on this topic. 🙂 —Diane at RVtravel.com
I love your (I love leave here with a laugh)!
I can’t stop laughing 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The city names are great, but they forgot a few in Pennsylvania Dutch country.
Intercourse, Virginville,Intercourse, Blue ball and Bird in Hand.
Whoops, duplicated one
You are right, Pennsylvania I believe has more strange names then any other state –
I get a chuckle every time I travel that area.
Don’t forget that Maryland has Pigs Ear Road…
There is a Boring, Oregon with a Boring High School!
I was going to offer Intercourse, PA, but you got there first. Also, near Winnebago HQ in Iowa, the towns of Fertility and Manly made us chuckle.
I love Dakoda chilling, I have one that would be doing the same. I love the joke. My border collie would be on vacation during this time. I love all rooms of my rv.