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High-tech camper boats: 7 amazing amphibious travel trailers

By Cheri Sicard I never even knew such things existed, but these amphibious travel trailer camper boats are pretty incredible. The video below presents seven unique...

Odd but amazing hearse RV conversion

By Cheri Sicard Is this hearse RV the coolest or the creepiest RV conversion ever? The owner says, “You’ll sleep like the dead in there.” Perhaps....

RV Daily Tips. Thursday, September 1, 2022

Issue 1939 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...

Incredible makeover turns this 1973 GMC RV into an out-of-this-world spaceship

Wow! Check out this 1973 GMC spaceship makeover! Theodore Zen and his wife, Hannah B Free, were tragically burned out of their home in...

INCREDIBLE double-decker bus RV tiny home conversion

By Cheri Sicard This double-decker bus RV conversion is about as luxe as it gets. But in a family way. Six lucky kids and their...

RV Daily Tips. Thursday, August 18, 2022

Issue 1929 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...

A VW Bug and motorhome mash-up: The super-cool Super Bugger RV!

The VW Bug motorhome video below from Barcroft Cars answers the question: What would happen if you married an RV and a Volkswagen Beetle?...

RV Daily Tips. Friday, August 12, 2022

Issue 1925 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...

Show-stopping vintage RV camper boat ‘boaterhome’

This is one impressive and unique custom-built RV! A camper boat, also known as a "boaterhome," made from a 1950s vintage RV. When you try...

Shirley Wallace and her amazing two-story trailer

Although it's been eight years since I met Shirley Wallace, I'll never forgot my visit with her and her one-of-a-kind two-story Spartan trailer. On a...

Join Jay Leno in the Decoliner, an amazing custom double-decker RV

By Cheri Sicard The episode of “Jay Leno’s Garage” below features one of the most unique double-decker RVs ever made—if not THE most unique double-decker...

RV Daily Tips. Friday, July 1, 2022

Issue 1895 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...

RV boo-boos: Day ruiner—Things you don’t want to happen to you

There’s a saying among pilots: “Gravity can ruin your whole day.” Well, you don’t have to have wings on your rig to know there...

RV boo-boos: Did Willys build a motorhome?

Dwight Eisenhower called the military Jeep, "one of three decisive weapons the U.S. had during WWII." Thousands of these "General Purpose" four-wheel drive vehicles...

RV Daily Tips. Thursday, June 9, 2022

Issue 1879 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...

Coast Guard pilots transform helicopter into incredible RV

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a helicamper! Blake Morris and Maggie Morgan, both helicopter pilots in the U.S. Coast Guard, have been...

RV Daily Tips. Monday, March 21, 2022

Issue 1821 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...

RV Review: The electric RV you can buy today (sort of)

Electric RVs are all the rage, at least in some circles. But they tend to be stuff of the future and not available now....

RV includes built-in flame thrower

By Chuck Woodbury PUBLISHER I have been an RVer for nearly half a century. I have seen many things. I have never seen a recreational vehicle...

RV boo-boos—Always good to use a spotter!

By Russ and Tiña De Maris How do you spell "entertainment" at the RV park? One sure-fire hit is to watch folks try to park...

RV boo-boos – “And the Greatest RV Mashup Award goes to … “

By Russ and Tiña De Maris OK. We're not sure if this mashup technically qualifies as an RV boo-boo. Much depends on your definition of...

Take a drive in this hilarious RV (turn your corners slowly!)

You would not want to drive this two-story rig down any highway with even a slight breeze (especially a crosswind), as you will see...

Wacky RVs: These space junkies are ready for blast-off!

Our previous (and our first) travel trailer was 20 years old when we sold it and traded up. RV Parks were starting to refuse...

Wacky RVs: Are these extra toppings included in the price?

Some of these wacky RVs are pushing the limits on height restrictions on U.S. roads, but maybe they were trying to get more space...

Very wacky RVs seen in Walmart parking lots

I dare you to travel at least 500 miles without a stop at a Walmart. If for nothing else, it can be great entertainment,...

Wacky RVs of the Week: Planes, trains and automobiles!

This week’s Wacky RVs include planes, trains and automobiles. I remember traveling through the West and having that rare sighting of the Oscar Meyer...

Ditch the gas guzzler and try a bicycle camper. These are amazing!

More and more you see bicycles hanging from the back of the RV. A lot of them are used for exercise and riding the...

Vacation in 1970s style: This Camelot Cruiser is for sale and you’ve GOT to see it

If you ever wanted to relive the glory years of the 1970s and have a bunch of money burning a hole in your pocket,...

It’s a VW van! It’s an RV! It’s a limo! It’s… well, wacky!

Well, take a look at that! Owning this thing would be like owning a puppy, you wouldn't get very far without people stopping you...

Airplane lovers, you’ll love this! Half RV, half DC-3 plane = one RVer’s dream

Since Gino Lucci was 12 years old, he dreamed of making a roving airplane camper. In the summer of 2020, the culmination of that...

RV Daily Tips. Thursday, June 3, 2021

Issue 1614 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,...

You just missed the chance to buy this rare Italian RV restoration

By Russ and Tiña De Maris If you were looking for a unique RV restoration project, you just missed it. A French automotive auction house,...

More weird, wacky and wonderful RVs

All right, here we go again with another installment of "The Weird and Wacky World of RVs." Let's face it, most production-model RVs look similar....

The 1973 Ford Explorer pickup – A wacky RV concept!

By Tony Barthel The 1970s were an interesting time for the RV world. RV sales were starting to really take off and even the auto...

OMG! These jaw-dropping vehicles will shock you. How can they drive?

OMG! Our jaw was open the entire time we watched this video! How do some of these vehicles even move? These will shock you!...

World’s lightest homebuilt trailer easily towed by a Prius!

Check this out! This is the world's lightest homemade hard-topped trailer. At only 450 lbs, this cute little trailer can be towed by a...

So did they want a motorhome or a fifth wheel? Don’t try this at home!

You probably know at least one person who has trouble deciding what they want. Do you know anyone who has had trouble deciding what...

Weird and Wacky RVs for September 5th

Okay, it's time for our latest installment of weird, wacky and maybe even wonderful (depending upon your definition of that word) recreational vehicles. We...

This week’s installment of weird, wacky RVs

Here's this week's amazing display of some of the weirdest, wackiest RVs ever created. Is it an RV or boat? Maybe a houseboat. But it...

He turned an old Air Force jet engine into an RV!

This is right up there with the coolest RVs we've ever seen... Steve Jones, a former technician for the Royal Air Force, spent 1,000 hours...

True story: “My RV was a Bloodmobile”

By Nanci Dixon We outgrew our family truck camper the day the kids and their friends didn’t sleep in the tents outside and we did....

Weird, Wacky, Wonderful RVs of the Week

Here's another installment of weird, wacky and wonderful RVs. Please send us any photos you take or come across. Thanks to Gene B. for sending...

Weird, Wacky RVs of the Week. See ’em to believe ’em

Here are four really unique (as in weird, wacky or wonderful) RVs. Who wants to be ordinary? Not the owners of these one-of-a-kind recreational...

This RV wouldn’t budge in a tornado!

Reader and RVtravel.com contributor Nanci Dixon sent us this photo of an incredible converted Jeep military vehicle she saw at a campground. Now that's...

This pickup truck drives upside-down – no joke!

How about towing your RV with this thing? You'd get stopped so much you'd never make it to your destination! Illinois native Rick Sullivan has...

A four-story tall RV…literally

Ever wonder what it would be like to live in a treehouse? What about a treehouse-RV combo? Or what would it be like to...

Another crazy RV paint job. Wow!

Last week we posted this RV, which we thought had the coolest paint job of any RV we'd ever seen. But this one might...

A tow vehicle that seats 18 – You haven’t seen this before!

It's a school bus ... it's a fifth wheel ... it's a bus-wheel! Ever seen anything like this before? We found this on the...

The award for the RV with the coolest paint job EVER goes to…

Wow! Have you ever seen an RV like this? We don't know who painted it, or who it belongs to, but we want to...

The best way to level a fifth wheel? Make it levitate!

"Ah, look at that, Honey. We're level!" Do you think these fifth wheel owners had a hard or easy time backing their rig into...

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