By Cheri Sicard
Almost any RV restoration project involves a significant amount of time, effort, and elbow grease. But when the RV you are restoring...
Issue 1975
Welcome to RV Travel’s Daily Tips Newsletter, where you’ll find helpful RV-related tips from the pros, travel advice, product reviews and more. Thanks...
By Cheri Sicard
This is an incredible historic video of an amazing two-month-long RV trip undertaken by members of Wally Byam’s Caravaners club in the...
Issue 1532
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,...
By Nanci Dixon
In last weekend's RVtravel.com newsletter, there was a video of John Lennon gifting a Caravan to his 4-year-old son, Julian. This sparked...
Veteran RVer and RVtravel.com contributor Greg Illes ran across this piece recently and sent it along with the following intro:
Most of us know that...
RV History with Al Hesselbart
Coachmen evolves
In 1964, three brothers with varied backgrounds decided to start a trailer company. Tom, Keith and Claude Corson...
RV History with Al Hesselbart
Thor Industries, the world's largest RV manufacturer, was created by Wade F.B. Thompson, a wealthy immigrant from New Zealand, and Peter...
RV History with Al Hesselbart
Since 1972, the RV/MH (Manufactured Housing) Hall of Fame in Elkhart, Indiana, has recognized many of the giants who have...
By Al Hesselbart
In 1925, a young engineer graduated from Cornell University, joined his father’s company, and began a long career inventing and producing a wide...
By Al Hesselbart
The men who created the concept of the RV industry and the lifestyle that accompanied it were amazing visionaries. Many of the pioneers...
By Al Hesselbart
Throughout the history of the recreational vehicle, the most popular style of camper, by volume of models sold, has always been the folding...
By Al Hesselbart
In the late 1950s, slide-in pickup truck campers (identified initially as portable camp coaches) grew in popularity as an alternative to trailers or motorhomes...
By Al Hesselbart
When world champion motorcycle racer and aviation pioneer competitor of the Wright brothers, Glenn Curtiss, conceived an early camping trailer in 1917, he...
By Al Hesselbart
In the earliest days of recreational travel, there were very few campgrounds with amenities for travelers with “campers.” At first, tenters were the...
By Al Hesselbart
From the earliest days of “motor camping,” (that is camping with motorized vehicles either to drive or to pull a trailer) driven RVs...
By Chuck Woodbury
A half century ago, before Interstates, businesses along the two-lane highways typically relied on a visual gimmick to attract customers. A sign...
By Chuck Woodbury
editor, RVtravel.com
A reader sent me this photo. Being disorganized, I immediately lost his email so I cannot thank him properly.
I know...
