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Random goings on with travelers I keep up with…

Flying Cloud had a less-than-enjoyable time at Epcot
George replaces a circuit breaker in Santa Rosalia
Jim & Chris lead the life of leisure in Quartzsite

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If they build it, I will come!

The Corridor of Discovery is merely a good idea, not a trail. It’s a 94-mile, unused rail line between Great Falls and Helena on the east slope of the Continental Divide in central Montana. The rails haven’t had a train on them in about five years, and many Montanans now want to turn it into a tourism dollar magnet, a paved, non-motorized recreation trail, similar to the much-ballyhooed Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes in northern Idaho.

They say wealth follows beauty, which is what happened in Idaho, but the Montana route has plenty of potential wealth, too. From north to south, it meanders along a Mecca of fly casters — the Missouri River — for half its length, then along Little Prickly Pear Creek and through red-stoned Wolf Creek Canyon before dropping into the Helena Valley along Silver Creek to Helena. Lewis and Clark followed much of this route on their way West; hence the name.

[New West Travel & Outdoors]

Arizona RV parks were bracing for the worst following a year that saw gas prices reach record highs.

But, according to a report in The Arizona Republic, managers say bookings are up, surprisingly, and the winter visitors were arriving early.

With RVs getting as little as six miles to the gallon, RV owners are paying a lot to drive south for the winter. And yet, they are driving.

“You can’t give it up. You can budget somewhere else,” said Cathy St. Peter, 46, who trekked from Washington to Mesa’s Good Life RV Resort last month. “It’s like going to winter camp for grownups.”

RV devotees across America aren’t expected to end their travels this winter. They will save money by spending less time on the road but more time at RV parks, according to the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA). A recent RVIA survey showed 95% of respondents said traveling in their RVs was important, despite gas prices, while 70% saw prices as temporary obstacles and 70% planned to take a trip this fall or winter.
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The Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) ruled last month that RV Friendly signs be allowed on the “gas-food-lodging” logo highway exit signs of qualified businesses and will soon be appearing on Texas highways.

Yeah, they’re ugly as all-get-out, designed with ZERO imagination, but still…

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Highway Watch is yet another civilian distributed counterterrorism program. Basically, truckers are trained to look out for suspicious activities on the highways.

Why? Two things: training, and a broader focus than terrorism. From their overview:
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For all the Busnuts out there, no better way to usher in the New Year than swappin’ lies and enjoying more than one hundred coaches, at Jack Conrad’s…

BUSSIN’ 2006!

Wannabe’s Welcome
Thursday, December 29, 2005 through Sunday, January 1, 2006

Early Arrivals OK - beginning on Monday, December 26, 2005

To be held in Arcadia, Florida at Horizon Coach
(approximately 90 miles S/E of Tampa, Florida)

Room for 200 + coaches. DRY CAMPING ONLY