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I had a fascinating conversation with an employee of a fairly sketchy Florida RV salvage yard, on this topic. They had acres of mostly travel trailers and motorhomes, all in various stages of being picked apart and slowly rotting away. I ask what the end game was for units that had no real...

We left Q a few days ago. It was pretty chilly. A lot of the in town RV parks were half full, or more. Boondocking areas were pretty quiet, with small numbers of RVs scattered pretty far apart. The small area just north of town, east side of 95, had a couple dozen rigs, with lots of small stuff...

A few years back, due to a family emergency (my father was dying at the VA hospital), we spent a month in a San Diego rv park. It was sad to see how many folks were living in really rough, really old motorhomes, and how many were just barely squeaking by. The RV park was located in a...

We have been both, over the years. We currently have an older low end class A motorhome and migrate from PA. To the warm weather for 4-5 months every year.

Yea, fill valves have been common for decades, I had an older Winny that also had another great feature. You could dump the fresh water tank by pulling a cable actuated handle that opened an 1-1/4" gate valve at the bottom of the tank. No waiting fifteen minutes to gravity drain a little 1/2...

It's actually pretty common to have a pressurized tank fill set-up on motorhomes. My old Winnebago has a selector switch next to where the water hose attaches to the pressurized plumbing. You can either select "city water" or "tank fill". You know it's full when you see water starting to flow...

True story.  PA. is planning one on a pretty busy highway in an area with a lot of Old Order (horse and buggy) Mennonites. The traffic engineers stop at a shop owned by a Mennonite guy that I know. They ask him to review their drawings, and see if he had any input regarding buggy traffic in the...

I was surprised to see them sprouting like sunflowers in rural Wisconsin, while hanging around the Dells last summer. Then I saw a local newspaper article that said that the local ones typically replaced four way stops when two rural two lane highways cross, and had reduced serious accidents by...

I met a guy who was patiently camped out north of Denver, while working a deal on an expedition vehicle. The seller was one of the weekend warriors, apparently a very wealthy trust funder. He had a custom built rig ready to circle the globe.  It sat on a Mitsubishi  4WD  cab over, medium duty...

There is no better way to seal a roof leak than with Eternabond. I put a couple of hundred feet of it under my old class A as I rebuilt the leaking, rotted steel storage cabinets, and sealed all kinds of active and potential leaks caused by typical garbage workmanship and design stupidity that...

I've seen a lot on the RV forums regarding this outfit, over many years.  Assuming that at most of what is said by their customers is correct, it appears that they are largely a consignment lot. They sell a ton of RVs, and generally at very competitive prices. They make a lot of data available...

Just one thing to look out for, since it caught me by surprise. I put new flooring in our old Winnebago class A. Obviously they make a lot of effort to use light materials so the thing doesn't weigh tons more than it has to.  We have one slide and it's fully filled with a dinette and a sofa. The...

We recently attend a funeral in Philadelphia. It was a huge affair with at least a hundred vehicles in the cemetery procession. I have to say that the whole idea of having an unscheduled "parade" through a major metro area, mid-day. without any police protection, was really ridiculous! Even with...

We did the trip last summer (4th time) in an older motorhome pulling a car. The credit card situation mentioned can be a PITA. Call all of your cards and tell them where you will be, before you go, and make them email a confirmation. If they shut them off while in Canada, it only takes a free...

I came through Anchorage this past summer and was surprised to see that the Wal-Mart lot looked like it was a clean retail operation and not, as it was before the parking ban, a cross between an RV lot and a seedy junkyard. The big local retailers have little choice but to stop offering their...

Dental is just off the charts in this country. The wife's dental situation has been a barely controlled disaster for years. We finally found a competent dentist, and she needs a ton of work, including an upper denture for the first time, and a replacement for a lower partial that lasted less...

There are inexpensive repair kits available at drug stores, specifically designed for repairing partials and dentures. My wife's literally split in half, on two occasions, and I repaired it on the road for about $6. If it's not repairable, shop hard for a new one. The wife is in the middle of...

My dear wife is on a few meds, several that simply cannot run out, since the side effects would be pretty ugly. We travel extensively, and use CVS. We have our doctors at our "home base" call all the refills in to a local CVS, then they are transferred to any CVS in the country that we are close...

This guy is fascinating. He is well known for living on very little, in a beautiful "Hobbit Hole" in the northwest.  He also spends his winters in Hawaii, and has a pretty brilliant strategy for doing it cheaply. priceonomics.com/living-in-a-real-life-hobbit-house Basically, he becomes a...

I've followed RV forums for close to two decades now, and Gulfstream is kind of famous for this crap. I recall that they build lots of mega-bucks diesel motorhomes that overheated, as they boxed the engine in too tight and didn't allow space for air flow. So essentially, a lot of victims dropped...