From RVtravel.com: The common sense resource for RVers since 2001 • Issue 2747
Today’s thought
“I believe that we’re as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.” —Lucille Ball
Need an excuse to celebrate? Today is National Propane Day. Wow! Thrilling! It’s also National Taco Day. Here are some delicious taco recipes to help you celebrate. Yum!
On this day in history: 1913 – Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving vehicle assembly line.
Tips of the day
Dollar store RV organizing tips and hacks for your RV
By Cheri Sicard
Here, the team from No Ordinary Path shares some of their favorite dollar store RV organizing tips and hacks. If you use your imagination, I know there are even more dollar store RV organizing items to be had, but this group will get you started thinking of dollar stores in new ways. Click here to watch their video or read the breakdown.
The 5 worst dual axle 2026 travel trailers with metal siding
Here’s one RV expert’s opinion, based on his 15 years’ experience inside dealerships, about the worst 2026 dual axle, aluminum-sided travel trailers, not fiberglass. These rigs sell fast due to price and weight, yet small cuts in build quality can create big headaches later. Watch the short video to learn more, or read a brief recap of it.
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Campsite security: Protect yourself and your gear even when boondocking
By Cheri Sicard
This video from Roger at GGG4Runner discusses an important topic: campsite security. Our host made the video to highlight things that RVers and campers can do to help stay safer after he encountered some unsavory types while boondocking. This is good info to know and practice!
Featured article
The ultimate guide to liquid propane (LP) systems
This is Part 7 of Dave Solberg’s “Everything you need to know about RVing” series. Today, Dave looks at RV liquid propane (LP) and explains what you need to know about it, including how to be safe using it. This is useful information whether you’re heading out on your first or 101st RV trip. Read all about LP here.
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Quick tip
Furnace won’t start? Here’s what to check
If your factory furnace won’t start, go outside and take the cover off the intake/exhaust port. Now clean any crud out of the two tubes you’ll see. Try a restart. Still no go? Fire up your motorhome engine (or your tow vehicle while hooked up to your trailer) and try it again. If it starts now, there’s a low-voltage issue in your coach—check the “house batteries” first. If the furnace still won’t start with the engine running, you likely have a furnace problem requiring a technician’s attention.
On this day last year…
- Tip: 8 quick tips for easier RVing
- RV review: Prototype Riverside RV Retro is a cabover bunk throwback
- Ask Dave: My RV’s auto-level system doesn’t work. How do I recalibrate it?
- Featured article: Research mobile techs carefully. We didn’t, and we paid the price
Website of the day
10 Coolest Museums in the U.S.
Some of these museums look like they’d be a ton of fun to explore. Check ’em out and plan a trip if you’re nearby.
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When you’re on a hiking trail you’ve probably noticed small markers telling you you’re on the right path. Usually they’re found bolted to a tree. Those are called “blazes.” Trailblazing used to be a real occupation, where trailblazers would go out and hike routes across unexplored terrain setting “blazes” to mark their path.
Readers’ pet of the day
“The KOA in Palmer, Alaska, has two small dog parks. This is the more grassy of the two. I threw the ball and Weagle (Australian Shepherd, age 2) retrieved until he was tired. Here he is resting atop the mostly grass-covered pile of dirt in the middle of the park.” —Neal Davis
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Dave’s article on LPG is good reminders on safety. One hint I would add is to turn the “T” installed on the tank, down at an angle so you can run the hose to your grill underneath and able to shut compartment door without pinching the hose. (Tried to leave comment on his article, but no comment section to add info. Probably since it was an old posting).
Exactly what I do!
No need for a third propane tank to run the BBQ.
Another way to check the tank level is to use hot water. Pour the water over the tank and move your hand down the tank.
The hot water will warm the empty part of the tank and stay cooler where the liquid propane level is.
Dave’s article on propane reminded me of something my propane supplier once told me. The reason propane tanks have to be recertified is they’ll scale and rust on the inside.
Not a huge concern for stationary tanks but portables that endure movement, shock and vibration? A bit more concerning.
That said, big tanks still rust and I’ll let you guess where that rust goes when it scales off the tank at the filling station (which draws liquid propane from the bottom). If the exterior of the tank you’re filling from looks like it’s been there fifty years, the inside is worse.
The next time you replace your regulator for a ruptured diaphragm, see if it suffered from rust poisoning…. 😉
Hi Vince: This is interesting. I have a 500 gal. tank at home for my backup heating system as well as an ASME in my motorhome. The 500 gal. tank was new in 1967 when I built the house. I asked the supplier about rust and he sort of smiled and said there is a dryer added to the propane. When the gas side of the furnace is running – the plastic exhaust pipe out the side of the house drips with moisture! I’ve had up to an 8-1/2′ (foot) icicle down to the ground in extended -0f temps. It still has the original regulator! Seems the “dryer” isn’t removing the moisture. I also insulated the exhaust as it shut the furnace down once year. Also makes me wonder about the MH tank – 1994!
One of the products of the combustion is water vapor. That may condense and drip from the exhaust.
Hi croscwa… yes I understand that aspect also, living in cold country (ND) when you start an engine the water pours out of your exhaust pipe! Same with the LP burning – just seems excessive at times. Thanks for the reminder!
Hey DW! We had a similarly large tank at our house which gave me plenty of time during filling to ask my supplier all my questions.
Because LPG tanks pull gas out of the top, picking up rust is pretty much impossible for stationary tanks. If they scale or get contaminants added at filling, it just sediments at the bottom. Portable tanks slosh so any contamination can (and evidently will) get got tossed into the valve head which gets shot into the regulator.
Fill tanks dispenser liquid LPG from the bottom so any sand, rubber, rust or debris sedimenting in their tank could get put into yours.
The moisture you’re seeing is from combustion converting, not water entrainment. Neat stuff!
Weagle is one tired, beautiful and happy dog! Thanks for sharing.
I agree. Weagle is such a cute name for a dog.
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RE: Trailblazing- Land surveyors do similar for showing folks where property lines are on wooded land. You ‘blaze’ a bit of bark off the tree with an axe, then apply a bright color tree paint on the spot. The paint both protects the spot from insects, and the property owner knows the boundary – in this case it is called “painting the lines”.
Another, and easier thing to check if your furnace won’t start is the thermostat. I could hear the digital thermostat clicking, so my thought was that the furnace wasn’t working.
The mobile RV tech thought the same thing but checked the thermostat before trying to get to the furnace in my truck camper. Turns out that it was the digital thermostat. He offered me two choices: he would order one and come back to install it once it came in, or he could install the “old fashioned” one he had on hand. I chose the old fashioned one and haven’t had any problems with the furnace since.