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The American Camper: Profiles and Perspectives, explores the lifestyles and leisure travel preferences/intentions of active campers and RV owners.


RVing becoming emergent tool in Home Schooling
Parents under age 35 account for largest gains in RV purchases since 2002

Recreation vehicle ownership in the United States has reached record levels with 8.8 million American adults owning at least one RV. Though a leading force behind the upswing in RV ownership is the enormous baby boomer generation, a study by the University of Michigan’s Survey Research Center found that high RV ownership now extends across a 40-year span, from ages 35 to 75.
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Jane Blair is a single fulltimer who travels the country by herself. She frequently gets asked how she does it alone, and replies in a handy article in a recent FMC Magazine. I wish I could repost the entire thing here, but it just ain’t right. Consider a FMCA membership if you’re a motorhomer. The main reason I signed up was in order to access Coach-Net, the renowned emergency road service.

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The Hi-Way Haven RV Park in Sutherlin, Ore., is offering guests an unusual amenity – an on-site drive-in movie theater.

Guests of the 100-site park can now live at the movies while watching classic films from the comfort of their own RV. But many guests nostalgically watch the films from their cars.

“We won’t be competing with local theaters our movies will strictly be for the guests of the park, and we will only show movies that are fun to watch at a drive-in,” says Jim Remley, the owner of the park. “For instance we have already shown the classic Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window, and the original War of the Worlds. This month we will be playing Rio Bravo with John Wayne.”

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All Digital Meters are not alike

I have three cheapo meters, and I can’t get a consensus amongst the three. It’s really trying to try to chase down problems when none of your meters agree!

You’ve read that for real troubleshooting, many factory ‘battery level’ indicators are all but useless, and you’ve probably also seen that the old-style analog meters with the swinging needle are equally so.
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Lloyd’s glad RVers don’t have to worry about bad beds:

RV Travel Philosophy

Quoted from an interview with Catherine Watson, the author of “Roads Less Traveled”

“How would you characterize your own travel philosophy?”

Go everywhere you can.

Be passionately curious.

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Oh man. I don’t know that it’s a real good thing that the ‘Mens Portal’ as they call themselves, AskMen.com, has a writeup on RVs being ‘in’. There must be a bigger bias than I’d been aware of, as I have no idea what they mean by RVs being associated with a ’stinging image’?! But that’s all over, they say. RVs are now cool. Well cool.

Once upon a time, saying the letters “RV” made some people shudder. To them, RVs conjured up a stinging image of little old men perched in oversized eyesores, blocking any traffic moving faster than 10 miles an hour.

Once you put aside your initial bias against them, you begin to understand why RVs are in. If you have the time (and owners usually do), they make a compelling argument for the notion of traveling on your terms.

RVs are increasingly easy to pilot and easy on the eyes — inside and out (a few of us quietly concede the luxury coaches are roomier and better appointed than our own apartments).

[RV Round-Up - AskMen]