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OK, so it’s not a bus, but I don’t think anyone can deny that this example of workmanship isn’t worthy of appreciating. Rich and Eleanor are enjoying wonderful weather and seeing lots of examples of craftsmanship while attending an Airstream Rally in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Isn’t it interesting that three people can visit the same place and have such different perspectives?!

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“So what if the public’s experience is affected?” these beltway divas are telling each other. “They won’t be voting for us again.”

The excellent New West Travel and Outdoors has a followup column about cuts in the National Park Service operating budgets.

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Some parks to cut services for visitors as summer approaches.

The Bush administration has ordered America’s national parks to show they can function at 80% or less of their operating budgets. According to a Knight Ridder Newspapers report, park officials in the field said the initiative was forcing “gut-wrenching” decisions that visitors would notice. The Park Service has more than 270 million visitors annually.

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Fewer campers are leaving the East Coast for short-term camping vacations in other regions of the country.

With increased demand, campground owners are allotting an increased number of sites for seasonal campers, cutting the number of sites available to traveling campers who may discover a shortage of sites this summer.

Impacting the Northeast’s campground availability is generally decreasing numbers of available sites in recent years, as several large campgrounds were purchased and converted to condos and other non-camping-related uses, such as housing.

Lucrative offers from real estate investment trusts are changing the shape of campground ownership in the Northeast, with acquisitions of sizable parks in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts within the past year.

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Tonya Poole has a short list of a handful of out-of-the-way places you might want to consider in “Hit the Road for Mystery, History, Trails and Bails this Spring” - sure makes me want to get out there!

Thermometers are creeping up all over the Rockies, and with the rising mercury will soon come droves of road warriors crawling out of their garages – on bikes, in cars, SUVs, pickup trucks, station wagons and RVs. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have the road to myself. So we don’t wait for summer around here: as soon the scarves are packed away for another year, we throw the backpacks in the truck and make tracks for the road.

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