Issue 2133
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Today’s thought
“A laugh is a smile that bursts.” —Mary H. Waldrip
Need an excuse to celebrate? Today is National Smile Day! Say cheeeeese!
On this day in history: 1790 – The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
Tip of the Day
26 practical uses for Mason jars in your RV
By Cheri Sicard
Packing a few Mason jars (also known as canning jars) in your RV makes good, practical sense. This simple utility item can replace a multitude of other kitchen tools, and fulfill a myriad of purposes while taking up little space. This article details 26 uses for Mason jars in an RV, but I am sure there are more. If you have any, be sure to drop them in the comments below.
*Editor’s note: Wow! We’re serious—this is an impressive list. Now we want to buy more Mason jars…
Ask Dave
Dave Solberg is a leading expert in the RV industry and author of the “RV Handbook.”
Another toad takes off! And a follow-up on braking systems
Dear Dave,
My car broke away in Alaska, and I have an auxiliary brake. The only problem is that the breakaway cable was attached to the receiver, which was no longer connected to the RV. It is a scary deal. —Jeff, 2016 Winnebago Sightseer 33C
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In the RV Shop with Dustin
What is causing the chipping on my RV?
The below question was posted in one of my many Facebook groups. One group member, Lizzie, asked this question:
What is causing the chip pops and the touch-ups to repop? It goes on one side from the top to the bottom back right side and above the storage covers. None around windows or doors. 2014 Keystone RV 29RE Diamond Edition.
Click here for Dustin’s answer
Video of the day
New concept trailer: Porsche and Airstream collaboration
By Cheri Sicard
What happens when the world’s most iconic RV designers merge with some of the most innovative automotive designers? Airstream’s newest concept trailer!
Throughout the decades, Airstream has done a number of collaborations, but few have actually changed the shape and structure of the iconic silver bullet trailers. That’s about to change with the Airstream–Studio F. A. Porsche concept trailer.
The most surprising thing about Airstream’s new concept trailer? It can be stored in most ordinary garages!
Relax Sauna: A portable sauna for your RV. Goodbye aches and pains!
By Tony Barthel
There are a lot of gadgets I’ve reviewed here that are essential to RV life. But this one is a bit more extravagant. We’ve been testing the Relax Sauna portable sauna for a few weeks now and my wife has become addicted to it. Now, I can just see you out there holding your iPads and saying, “What? A sauna in an RV?”
Yes. A portable one. The Relax Sauna is truly a portable sauna that can legitimately take about the same space in your cargo bay as a couple of folding chairs. Mmmm. Wouldn’t this feel good after a long day of driving?
Reader poll
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Quick Tip
Do those campground “size limits” measure up?
If you’re concerned about published RV size limits for campgrounds, afraid you won’t fit, don’t despair. Call the contact number for the campground and ask how the limit is figured out—could be it won’t apply to your rig. Always ask if there are any longer sites available. Or, if you’re bringing a “toad car,” it might be possible to park it next to the motorhome, or in an overflow spot.
On this day last year…
- Tip: These two great satellite apps make lining up satellite dishes easy
- RV Review: Northwood Arctic Fox Grande Ronde 28-5C
- Ask Dave: I get a 13.2-volt reading on house batteries. What should it be?
- Featured article: OMG! These jaw-dropping vehicles will shock you. How can they drive?
- Recipe: Ranch Pasta Salad
?? MYSTERY PRODUCT OF THE DAY ??
Oh, we’d pay good money to watch these in action! In fact, this could probably even become an Olympic sport! A very tasty Olympic sport…
Website of the day
See Jurassic Park Come to Life at These Amazing Dinosaur Fossil Parks
Take a look at the photos in this article—it’s hard to believe they’re real, but they are! It would be incredible to see these in person, especially if you’re traveling with kids or grandkids.
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Recipe of the Day
Caramelized Onion and Pepper Potato Salad
by Sharron Boerum from Beaumont, CA
This creamy potato salad is unique in so many ways. The caramelized onions and peppers add a little something different to the salad. It’s great for those who like onions in a potato salad but not their crunch. Mixing mayonnaise and sour cream is slightly sweet and tangy but at the same time has a mellow flavor. There’s a hint of garlic that complements the caramelized onions and peppers. This salad doesn’t have a ton of ingredients. You really taste the flavor of the potatoes. A delicious side dish for any cookout.
Trivia
New York City is sinking under the collective weight of all of its buildings, a new study has found. This gradual process could spell trouble for a city where the sea level is projected to rise between 8 inches and 30 inches by 2050. The researchers calculated the mass of the 1,084,954 buildings that existed across the five boroughs of New York City at the time, concluding they weighed about 1.68 trillion pounds — equivalent to roughly 1.9 million fully loaded Boeing 747-400s.
*Dollar stores are everywhere! No, really, they’re everywhere! Find out just how many there are in yesterday’s trivia.
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Sure, if the ocean levels are projected to rise up to 30 inches by 2050 One would have to wonder why all the rich Politicians bought Multi million dollar sea side Mansions ?
Makes one wonder
Because they can continue to deny the fact, and what they say is NOT fake news. It won’t happen to them.
People with real money have several homes – as many as they want in fact. If one goes under, no problem. Buy another one. It’s an impulse buy.
D.T. said…. “Politicians”with real money”… how did that happen? Insider trading? China? Ukraine? Finger paintings?
Yes, some were successful business people first, then became politicians. But how do carreer politicians aquire multiple, multi million dollar beach homes?
The projected rise in ocean levels is no more than the present administration’s claim to eliminate fossil fuels and grow into green energy which if the truth were know they’ve probably invested heavily in to. Truth is we have energy reserves that will last well into my great great great grandchildren’s lives.
Bob, you might be right about the reserves, maybe not, but that’s not really the point now is it? Your heirs will live in a world different than you did. The real question is what do you want their existence to look like?
Well Les, if it is water management RE: NY sinking, how about the Dutch plan which is predicted to prevent flooding for the next 4,000 years based on current sea rise models. Any chance we should manage truths using facts instead of the futile efforts of changing A PLANET’S climate. Unless you can regulate the SUN, your not affecting the planet’s climate in significant way. Venice has been sinking for 1,600 years. They also are considering the Dutch plan instead if the temporary and very expensive Mose plan. Climate change activism from politicians is ONLY about power and control or possibly founded in ignorance.
Well Cancelproof, we’ve already changed the planet’s climate and those current sea level rise models are there because of that. It wasn’t a futile effort which brought us to this point, it was a blind head long plunge into the future beginning around 150 years ago. Ignorance was bliss and now “willful” ignorance is bliss.
Maybe you can explain the 300 year long “midevil warm period” to me? Or discuss the “Little Ice Age” of the last century. Or possibly how thermometers worked to be accurate to within 1/10th of a degree 150 years ago in order to support your very emotional statement. You said 150 years, not me. Are you certain the temperature outside on May 30th, 1875 was not 1 degree warmer or cooler than you have asserted for the 150 year baseline for your argument.
I mean, you sound like a scientist….. Dennis?
I have better things to do than argue with a science de
nier
That’s beautiful. Whose arguing? If your unqualified too, or simply unable too debate the facts refuting the scientific claim YOU made, perhaps that makes you the science denier or are just willfully engaged in a make believe world. Alas, we will never know unless you enlighten others with your facts and supporting evidence. Perhaps your just simply in over your head and are just robitically repeating something you heard a 7 year old say instead of actually employing some grown up style critical thinking. All good for me tho. Have a nice day. 😅🤣👍
A statement that’s true for “climate change” and Covid-19: “If you can’t question the “Science”, it’s not science, it’s Propaganda.”
No such thing as settled science.
plus all the fossil fuels and toxic chemicals that china uses to produce all of our “green” energy producers. Easily overwhelms any fossil fuels we may stop using over the next several 100 years. Then the toxic waste when all those “green” energy producers fail within 10 years
Do you mean that you think politicians have any sense?
By the time New Yorkers have to worry about going down to the sea, Florida will have completely disappeared, along with LA. Start stockpiling toilet paper and bottled water now – 🙂
I read the New York sinking article about 3 weeks ago and my thoughts have not changed. An 8 inch to 30 inch spread on the guesstimate is aprox. 300% difference in the low end guess to the high end guess and here I thought we talking settled science. A sports book has better scientific prognostications. If you ran your life with a plus or minus 300% spread, what would that look like? Accidentally put 3 eggs in the cookie dough instead of 1? Have 9 slices of bacon with breakfast instead of 3? Use a pressure regulator with 90 psi limit instead of 35?
Keep your settled science all you climate Karens. On the weekend RVTRAVEL had an NOAA seasonal hurricane prediction. 40% chance of normal and a 50-50 chance the other 60% would be more or less than normal. THATS A 100% chance of 50/50 but thats what settled science looks like in climate change. A 100% coin toss forecast from NOAA. If we give dumb people 3 possible outcomes on our coin toss ….. I digress. LOL 🤣😅🤣😅
The Global Warming “Science” will need to erect a large black umbrella near the sun to stop it’s continuous moving trajectory, to s l o w any effect on the earth. It is a cyclical 10,000 to 15,000 year transition from cooling to warming cycles, taught in actual science studies, nothing a few countries can do to alter that fact. We have faith then, that New York will be able to weather the long term changes caused by the sun.
👍100% correct.
Are you absolutely certain though, that infantile, entitled children throwing tomato soup on a Picasso won’t change your mind? Are you locked in that the 20-30 year sample size that the climate cultists are using for a 1,000,000 year equation is inadequate and inaccurate? Does the fact that Venus has warmed at exactly the same rate as earth support or hurt your argument about the burning ball of gas in the sky being the climate lynch pin? Can Hollywood make no climate doomsday movie that will change your mind? Does the FACT that hurricanes over the past 60 years are weaker and less frequent than they were during previous 60 years have anything to do with cow farts? If so, should we then thank the cows by eating more rabbits, for there part in making hurricanes less impactfull on our lives?
you forgot the last 3 years of strong La Nina (cooling of the Pacific ocean), when they keep saying the oceans are warming.
All of the comments below are about the circular argument about climate change? Where did that come from? – the trivia that had nothing to do with climate change? I thot that the question would be: How do you park 1.9 million Boeing 747s at LaGuardia? Don’t park them there and New York won’t sink.
It came from the ridiculousness of the trivia stating the subsidence combined with unknown of climate change caused sea rise of between 8″ and 30″ by 2050 would blah, blah, blah, blah. My original comment dealt only with the highly scientific nature of a scientific claim with a scientific conclusion with a 300% spread. Pretty scientific with that margin of error.
3 or 4 days ago, RVTRAVEL edition had the NOAA hurricane prediction at 50/50 versus more/less huricanes and also added in a 40% chance of being normal. 3 possible outcomes on a coin toss prediction?????
I do agree with your humor on how do you park that many 747s at LaGuardia, even with JFK added in. 😳 🤣
Yep, climate has been changing forever. Why? I don’t care. It is too big for me to push back up hill. As to the hurricane forecast- When I saw that down here on TV some days back, I did a double take. Oh, ya, that helps a lot to help me prepare or have any confidence The dumb “prediction” even made the weather man chuckle. When the Native Americans sold New York, they evidently will get the last laugh.
Regarding “Leave Here With a Laugh”, can I just say, as someone with “issues”, that there should be a law against making certain types of garments in my (or that) size!
Everyone is talking about the oceans rising. Maybe all the water missing from the Colorado river and western reservoirs is causing the ocean levels to be higher.