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It’s Chuck Woodbury’s birthday. Here’s a special note to him

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By Emily Woodbury Happy Birthday, Dad (or Chuck Woodbury, as you know him)! My dad has been "stuck" (I say that lightly because actually he's quite...

When roads were made of wood

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By Chuck Woodbury Early in the twentieth century, when auto travel was becoming the rage, Yuma, Ariz., was at a crossroads but with a big...

Where Harry Potter was born and the man with the 10-minute memory

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The other day, at the bookstore/coffee house where we hold our regular RVtravel.com staff meetings, I overheard a woman asking a clerk if a...

RVtravel.com editor talks about great places to RV in the West

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RVtravel.com editor Chuck Woodbury joined The RV Show USA host Alan Warren on the live taping of the syndicated radio program on March 6,...

Editor’s notes: Feb. 9, 2019

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By Chuck Woodbury Chuck@rvtravel.com There's a lot going on with us to tell you about. There wasn't enough room in my essay in today's newsletter. RVtravel.com rally? First,...

Good Sam Club, going, going. . .

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By Chuck Woodbury EDITOR The Good Sam Club was once a quality organization. It was established as a for-profit business but its founding mission was to...

RV Travel editor interviewed on syndicated radio show

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RVtravel.com editor Chuck Woodbury was interviewed on last Wednesday's (Jan. 2, 2019) taping of the syndicated radio program The RV Show USA. In the ten-minute...

A change in how we camp not always easy for old folks

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By Chuck Woodbury EDITOR Sooner or later you show your age whether you want to or not. I just watched the video below that was produced...

RVtravel.com blows a fuse (sort of) …

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By Chuck Woodbury If you tried to read this newsletter last Saturday morning, December 8, you may have found an error message. Oops! We blew...

Is the Good Sam Man being retired?

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By Chuck Woodbury Recent advertising from Camping World is sporting a new logo with a halo, but it's no longer over the head of the...

Announcements from the editor, Nov. 10, 2018

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A few odds and ends to discuss this week. —Chuck Woodbury, editor NASTY POLITICAL COMMENTS First, many readers posted nasty political comments this past week to...

Ex-Pilot Flying J president heads to the slammer

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By Chuck Woodbury EDITOR Former Pilot Flying J President Mark Hazelwood is set to begin serving a 12 1/2 year sentence for cheating trucking customers out of...

RVing today is a far cry from what it was a decade or two ago

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By Chuck Woodbury RVTRAVEL.COM What does this scene have to do with RVing? At first glance, you may say nothing. But I think it does, or...

KOA: Where are the RVs?

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By Chuck Woodbury I found the news segment below by a San Diego TV station interesting. In two minutes, it says something significant about how...

RV Industry president explains effort to learn RVer buyer habits

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Note from RV Travel editor Chuck Woodbury The following message from RV Industry Association (RVIA) President Frank Hugelmeyer was published in the RV Industry Association newsletter...

It’s a mad, mad, out-of-control RV world

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By Chuck Woodbury I received this news release today from Thor. In this one release is proof positive that recreation vehicles have branched off from...

I live in an RV park, which is really a mobile home park

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By Chuck Woodbury It's 2 p.m. A motorhome just pulled in my RV park and stopped literally inches away from our car. Gail was afraid...

RVer’s new trailer is a continuing nightmare

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By Chuck Woodbury EDITOR Here's an example of why we created the Facebook group RV Horror Stories, and why we'll publicize it as hard as we...

Page two of editor’s remarks for Issue 859

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Hello, Welcome to page two of my opening remarks for Issue 859. First, Gail and I are back in Seattle for awhile after a three-week drive...

Editor: Rural Nevada is among my favorite places

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By Chuck Woodbury EDITOR One of my favorite places to visit in America is rural Nevada. Of those millions and millions of acres, those in the...

Editor’s notes for July 27, 2018

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By Chuck Woodbury Many odds and ends to report this week. Changes in our news section First, as you probably noticed, we changed our news section. Instead...

Notes from the editor, July 20, 2018

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By Chuck Woodbury Editor First of all, I am a little frustrated about this issue, so please excuse me while I hop up on my soapbox...

Shocking: Many RVers “upside down” on RV loans

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By Chuck Woodbury EDITOR I was alarmed by the results of our reader survey last week, when we asked, "If selling your RV today, would you...

Another bribe attempt. We declined

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At RVtravel.com, we get an email like this several times a week. Here's the latest, received Thursday, June 21: Hello,  My name is Jona (last name...

RV squatters ‘camp’, beg at Walmart

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By Chuck Woodbury Editor The following appeared as a comment on one of our articles from a reader named James. I wanted to add my own...

Worries about tornadoes, and a video of RVs getting blown over

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By Chuck Woodbury I have never before spent this time of the year in the Midwest. I never thought anything about monster lightning storms, golf-ball-sized...

RV industry publications ignore major news item

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By Chuck Woodbury We ran an article last week about Ryan Andersen, the owner of Andersen Hitches of Idaho Falls, Idaho. He was...

Let there be obnoxious lights in the RV park

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By Chuck Woodbury After reading this, please answer the poll below. That's a neighbor's RV above. He turns on the lights every evening and...

Soapbox: RV industry continues to disappoint

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By Chuck Woodbury EDITOR It's Friday. Gail and I drove yesterday (my usual writing day) from Wichita Falls, Texas, to Ponca City, Oklahoma, for...

Is RV industry president out of touch with RVers?

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By Chuck Woodbury We posted an article earlier this week from a periodical called SGB Executive. It quotes the president of the Recreation Vehicle...

RV industry president delights in RVing growth

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Excerpted from an article in SGB Executive With the RV (recreational vehicle) industry seeing record sales over the last three years at a double-digit...

For a good sleep – don’t camp here!

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By Chuck Woodbury editor, RVtravel.com You want a peaceful night's rest? Then don't camp by railroad tracks. If you've been RVing for long, you know that's no...

Why I don’t boondock

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By Chuck Woodbury To me, boondocking means staying in a beautiful place, away from a designated campground. There are no utility hookups and the...

Join RVtravel.com in Indiana May 17-21

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By Chuck Woodbury EDITOR My staff and I are very excited to be a big part of RVillage.com's first-ever rally, coming May 17-21 in Elkhart,...

A visit to Annie Oakley’s grave

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Old West sharpshooter Annie Oakley was born just north of Greenville, Ohio, and lived her final days there. She's buried alongside her husband Frank...

Really? RV industry survey doesn’t even suggest improving quality

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By Chuck Woodbury Did you see all the recalls we posted in this weekend's RVtravel.com newsletter? We reported eight for the week but that's...

RV park trend: Luring customers without RVs

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By Chuck Woodbury You see the cover of the magazine? That's Woodall's Campground Management, the largest publication covering the RV park industry. Notice the headline...

Remembering my father, ten years after his passing

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By Chuck Woodbury My father died ten years ago today. He was a healthy man. It should not have been his time. I will...

Stupid RVer Trick: Mud bogging

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Oh, what silly, stupid, idiotic things some people do! Here's yet another example of Stupid RVer Tricks. Seriously low IQ's are at work here,...

Rants not welcome on this website

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By Chuck Woodbury Editor Last Saturday, our big day at RVtravel.com when we open our cyber doors to about 40,000 visitors (readers), some readers' comments...

Has Good Sam Man been hijacked by Gander Man?

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By Chuck Woodbury Good Sam Club CEO Marcus Lemonis, also head of Camping World, with ownership in about 100 other businesses, recently purchased the...

From our readers: Preparing for a medical emergency

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By Chuck Woodbury I wrote last week about Gail taking a nasty fall in our campground, slamming her head on concrete. Read that post...

A trip to the emergency room and what it taught me

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By Chuck Woodbury A man knocked on my door yesterday at 4 p.m. "Gail asked me to come get you," he said. "She tripped...

RV industry toots its own horn

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Here's a five-minute video from the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association where it highlights its efforts in 2017 on behalf of its members to promote...

Texas’ Stonehenge is good RV short stop

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By Chuck Woodbury It's called Stonehenge 2, but it's not. Maybe Stonehenge 3 or 4, maybe 5. There are a lot of Stonehenge's, that's...

BLM sand dunes RV safety video is dumb

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By Chuck Woodbury OPINION Do you have a few minutes to watch a video produced by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that purports to...

Rent a tiny house (like an RV) near a Florida beach

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If you're hankering to visit Sarasota, Florida, and plan to leave your RV somewhere else, here's a way to stay in an RV park...

RV street dwellers: “It’s a crisis.”

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By Chuck Woodbury EDITOR We're written a lot lately about crowded RV parks due mostly to record setting sales of RVs (a half a million...

Camping World home RV delivery plan is bad idea

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By Chuck Woodbury Earlier this week, Camping World announced a new “Home RV Delivery Service” that lets RV buyers shop online for a new...

Beautiful Texas deer are pests

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By Chuck Woodbury I took this photo behind my campground near Kerrville, Texas. They're Axis deer, also known as the chital. Beautiful, aren't they?...
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