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Pity our Eastern readers: Too bad you miss out on these

By Chuck Woodbury PUBLISHER I feel sorry for you if you live in the East and never get a chance to spend time in the West,...

RV Daily Tips. Thursday, April 14, 2022

Issue 1839 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...

How do you save a dog named Maria?

By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL Here's a story from the PR folks at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. It's about a dog named Maria. Most of...

A beloved Texas roadside stop with the “best bathrooms in the nation”

When you're on a road trip and your gas tank is nearing empty, your bladder is nearing full, and your stomach is grumbling, where's...

City of Austin, Texas, reinstates camping ban

By Mike Gast Austin voters decided Saturday, May 1, to reinstate a city ordinance that bans overnight camping near downtown, around the University of Texas,...

Proposed Texas law could limit overnight RV parking in entire state

By Mike Gast A bill that would target homeless “campers” in Texas could have unintended yet far-reaching impacts on RVers looking for a quick overnight...

Reserve a day pass if you plan on visiting a Texas State Park

With Spring Break just around the corner, Texans will be looking to get outside. Texas State Parks are already seeing day passes and campsites...

RV Review: CrossRoads Texan 33DB

By Tony Barthel Let’s say you really want to go RVing but you also really, really love Texas. What can you do?  One option is to...

Find 12,000-year-old pictographs at this Texas campground

By Nanci Dixon Hueco Tanks State Park & Historic Site is a magical destination just east of El Paso, Texas. It's named for the rock...

Ancient weapons endanger drivers on Texas freeway – Watch out!

By Russ and Tiña De Maris Just when you thought folks couldn’t get much worse, a person or persons in Texas are using a modern...

Labor Day in Texas? Best reserve your RV spot now

By Russ and Tiña De Maris It’s not every day you can get important information from a taco. Most folks think they’re full of beans....

Wildflowers bloom across Texas

Texas wildflowers (Texas Highways/Don Allen) By Julianne G. Crane During this time of COVID-19 crisis, if you are a Snowbird needing to travel through several states...

Intimate, little-known museum of sculptor Elisabet Ney in Austin

By Julianne G. Crane I've never forgotten the Elisabet Ney Museum since first stepping into the studio in the early '70s when I was an...

RV Daily Tips Newsletter Issue 1228

Monday, December 9, 2019 Welcome to another edition of RV Travel’s Daily Tips newsletter. Here you’ll find helpful RV-related and living tips from the pros,...

Winter Texan RVers find Holiday events in Lone Star State

By Julianne G. Crane Holiday at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden Dallas Arboretum -12 Days of Christmas gazebo (Dallas Arboretum) Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden 8525 Garland...

Fulton Mansion on Aransas Bay in Texas open during Hurricane Harvey restoration

Fulton Mansion in Rockport, Texas (Julianne G. Crane) This article was first posted in February 2017, prior to Hurricane Harvey that same summer. This...

Headed down Texas way? Some events you may want to attend

Here, courtesy of the 2019 RV Travel & Camping Guide to Texas, is a rundown of some pretty great festivals and events coming this year...

Texas Renaissance Festival is fun RV short stop

For Winter Texans -- those RV Snowbirds migrating to the Gulf Coast -- the Texas Renaissance Festival, northwest of Houston, is a great RV...

Explosion of art exhibits in Snowbird Country

RVing Snowbirds may leave their chilly hometowns in the winter, but they don't leave behind their thirst for culture and art. Lucky for...

Fort Davis National Historic Site and the Davis Mountains State Park Campground

Fort Davis National Historic Site's Officers Row in southwest Texas. (NPS.gov) One of the biggest surprises to this snowbird was the Davis Mountains in Southwest...

USS Lexington, Corpus Christi, Texas

RVer Jimmy Smith walks the beach by USS Lexington  (Julianne G. Crane) The USS Lexington aircraft carrier rests majestically next to the North Beach of...

Celebrate ‘History in Lights’ during holidays in Goliad, Texas

Goliad Mission Espiritu Santo (Julianne G. Crane) Mission Espiritu Santo in Goliad State Park, sits on prime grasslands along the San Antonio River in the South Texas Plains. RVer Jimmy...

Barney Smith’s Toilet Seat Art Museum

Barney Smith is a 92-year-old folk artist with an odd medium: toilet seat covers. Well, maybe that's not so odd for a man with...

Caverns of Sonora in west Texas

Caverns of Sonora, a family-owned attraction in west Texas, is a National Natural Landmark due in part to the phenomenal display of speleothems known...

‘Cowboy Capital of the World’ (Bandera, Tex) a favorite of snowbirds, weekend motorcyclists

Bandera is a rustic small town in the Hill Country of Texas that is proud to call itself the "Cowboy Capital of the World." Nestled...

Fredericksburg’s Admiral Nimitz State Historic Site – National Museum of the Pacific War

Fredericksburg, the unofficial capital of the Texas Hill Country, was founded in 1846 by German immigrants. It sits just 70 miles northwest of San...

Presido La Bahia, Fannin’s Memorial, Angel of Goliad, Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza Birthplace

RVer Jimmy Smith outside of Presido La Bahia (Julianne G. Crane) The Presidio Nuestra Señora de Loreto de La Bahía was established  in 1721 on what is now known...

Update on SXSW Music Festival, vintage (food) trailers in Austin

Each March, Austin, Texas, rocks with its immensely popular South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival. This Hill Country bicycle mecca continues to keep its reputation...

Austin’s Congress Street always worth a look

Gibson Street Artisan Market. Click on photo to enlarge.  (Julianne G. Crane) There is always much to see on Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, there...

LBJ Ranch in Texas Hill Country

Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, in the middle of Texas Hill Country, is a favorite destination of many RV snowbirds making their way...

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