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RV park owners say: ‘Wal-Mart campers are cheapskates’

By Chuck Woodbury editor, RVtravel.com Originally published in July, 2011  My original essay back in 2011 sparked more than 100 comments from readers. The idea was this: Why...

Campground doesn’t furnish toilet paper: ‘The rest of the story. . .”

By Chuck Woodbury editor, RVtravel.com Originally published in July, 2011 I received a message last week from a woman named Louise Schlosser who was horrified that a...

RVs parked too close together: Carbon monoxide fumes kill five

By Chuck Woodbury editor, RVtravel.com Originally published in October, 2011 It's so sad what happened two weeks ago: five people died in a rented RV at a...

Want a good night’s sleep? Then don’t camp here!

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...

Easily turn your photos and slides into digital images

By Chuck Woodbury Editor, RVtravel.com Before the digital age of photography, we used film. Oh, how things have changed! If you're like me, you have countless...

Space heater does the job . . . using only 200 watts!

By Chuck Woodbury Editor, RVtravel.com Can you imagine a space heater that uses a mere 200 watts? It seems like a crazy thought. But the fact...

I want to go to Mars

By Chuck Woodbury editor, RVtravel.com I dream of going to Mars. When I see a photo (or illustration as below) about life on Mars I get...

Needed: a new kind of campground

By Chuck Woodbury, editor RVtravel.com I wrote this a couple of years ago after returning from a cross country trip in my motorhome. For whatever...

Free RV camping at Wal-Mart. How to do it.

RVtravel.com editor Chuck Woodbury explains the "unofficial rules" for spending the night in an RV in a Wal-Mart parking lot. The price is...

A power inverter can save you on hookups

By Chuck Woodbury A small power inverter like the one pictured can provide some household power needs without the use of a generator or a...

The ABCs of “camping” at Wal-Mart

By Chuck Woodbury, editor RVtravel.com   For some reason, I have become a national authority on "camping at Wal-Mart." If you look around you'll find me...

Motel offers free rooms. But maybe few takers?

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

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

RVing? Camping? What’s the difference?

By Chuck Woodbury I believe I am finally able to define the lifestyle called RVing, which some people criticize because it's not really "camping." What...

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

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...

More ammo than you ever imagined in rural Nevada

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

  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?

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

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?

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

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,...

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