Articles about RVing

For many RVers, a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver leads the way during their travels. We delve into this technological mystery.

You may be planning an RV trip that includes visits with family and friends to renew ties of love and friendship. Here are tips to optimize those opportunities.

Many RVers have hobbies they pursue both at home and on the road. Here are a variety of hobbies, resources for finding places to pursue them and useful tips.

When RVers hit the road, many head to the homes of faraway relatives or visit world-famous theme parks and sightseeing attractions. Here are some fun and intriguing destinations that you may not have considered.

Our bodies sometimes challenge us physically or mentally, but you may be surprised to know that standard RVs can meet most of those challenges. In addition, RVs can be modified or customized to handle unique needs.

While it’s adventurous to sally forth on a spontaneous RV trip, if you have a time limit or want to arrive at a destination on a specific date or rent an RV to test that mode of travel, you’ll benefit by advance planning. Whether you rent an RV or use your own, here are some tips to help make your trip a success.

What RVers do when arriving home from a trip, long or short, depends on the time of day or night, their energy level and their priorities. Whatever the circumstances, here are some tips for unloading the RV. A helpful principle is to focus on the twin goals of (1) leaving the RV ready for the next trip of the season and (2) putting away trip items inside the house.

Our forty-second wedding anniversary would be next Friday. I'd never fussed over Walter before--neither of us had been brought up that way--but now that we're both retired, I thought we ought to put more romance into our lives.

A clean RV interior enhances your RV travel experience. While cleaning your RV may not be a leisure activity, these tips will shorten the time you spend doing it as well as make it easier to accomplish, giving you more time and energy for travel fun.

Enjoyment during an RV trip comes in many forms and often at surprising times. Here are some suggestions for increasing your enjoyment that you might not have thought of.

My husband, Paul, and I had driven our RV for six days. From our home in Maryland, we traveled westward to tour Colorado with its renown Rocky Mountains.

"Oh, did you want to see that, dear?" the driver asked as the cruise control hurried the RV past the crucial highway exit. Unless they stop to sightsee along the way, RVers will miss warm moments and potential highlights of the trip. Here are five suggestions about taking time to sightsee.

A major question that RV travelers ask is, What’s the best way to pay when I’m on the road? The following gives useful information on possible choices:

It was my first visit to Lafayette, Louisiana--the heart of Cajun country. As a Marylander, I wanted to understand that intriguing southern mystique–"Cajun." And I had fallen delightfully into the opportunity.

Weather affects both the safety and enjoyment of an RV traveler's experience. High winds can tip over a motorhome or unfurl the awning of a travel trailer. Snowstorms can temporarily stop RVers. Fog and rain can bring visibility challenges to RV drivers. Here are tips to prepare you for whatever weather greets you wherever you travel.

Millions of people cross the U.S.-Canada border every year. Whether they're Canadian residents heading to Florida for the winter or U.S. residents RVing to the Canadian Rockies in summer, crossing the border means passing through customs.

RVers on the nation's interstates and toll highways have come to depend upon rest areas (owned and operated by states), truck stops and travel plazas (commercial operations). They are places to pull off the main highway to refresh oneself and one's RV.

The Alaska Marine Highway System provides ten ships that ferry people and vehicles, including RVs, on sea routes from Bellingham, Washington, up the Inside Passage and across the Gulf of Alaska to the Aleutian Islands. Thousands of RVs and their owners ferry on Alaska's Inside Passage annually. Passengers aged 65 and above receive special discounts on certain sailings. Here are a few tips for RVing at sea.

Word of mouth is how many of more than three million annual visitors learn of the charming town of Frankenmuth and its gigantic Christmas store. Once you've visited, you'll want to spread the word, too.

For those RVers whose vehicles do not sport the electronic navigation systems now in vogue, the old-fashioned paper map is a crucial guide. While it's easy for some people to follow a map, it's panic time for many of us. Here are tips to simplify using a map.

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Navigation Tips for Your Summer RV Vacation
Navigation is an art. RVers sense that some colleagues are better at this art than others. Fine artists of navigation arrive at their destinations in good spirits with a "canvas" showing correct turns. So what makes RVers fine art navigators?

The Sporting RVer: The Games RVers Play and Where to Find Them

When RVers travel, many enjoy sports along the way or go to places just to play their favorite sport.