Pack old-fashion road games for next RV trip with young children
Getting ready for that first RV camping trip with your grandchildren that involves a long road trip? There are hundreds of old fashion games RVers can have in their toy kit. The following are just three fun games that can be found easily online or at your local books
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RVers Debbie & Dale Younger are camp hosts at Antlers Campground in Shasta/Trinity forests
If you are traveling through northern California this camping season and you stop off at the USFS Antlers Campground, it's likely you'll run into camp hosts Debbie and Dale Younger. (Yes, Dale's side of the family are distant relatives of The Youngers--Cole, Jim, John a
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Spring in foothills of Sierra Nevada Mountains
After a cold and fairly damp winter at SKP Park of the Sierras, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, there has been a splendid series of warmer spring-like days. During this time of the year, snow is beginning to melt at the higher levels of nearby Yose
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Back at Casa Grande with longtime & new RV friends, wild winds, beautiful desert sunsets
After just one night at Patagonia Lake State Park we headed north and east back to the Escapees' RoVers Roost RV Park near Casa Grande, Arizona. We spent the first night in boondocking; and were blessed with a site with hookups on Monday. Blessed because night temp
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Casino guides to low cost, free RV-friendly camping
The "2013 American Casino Guide,"  provides detailed information about every casino/resort, riverboat, and Indian casino in the United States. Money-saving coupons are included plus recreation vehicle parking rules. The 2013 edition has 496 pages of information and se
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SKP RoVers Roost RV park near Casa Grande
We camped here at the SKP RoVers Roost RV Park, an Escapees RV Club member park, near Casa Grande, Ariz., a year ago, staying about a week because of high winds across the desert west of here. This season we are heading in the opposite direction and we're stopping ov
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First night: Tehachapi ... and RVer Jimmy Smith's thoughts
We had a late morning departure on Monday from SKP Park Sierra south of Yosemite National Park. We stopped for supplies and fuel in Fresno before heading south along Hwy 99 to Bakersfield and east on Hwy. 58, climbing out of the flog/smog of the San Joaquin Valley to
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RV Travel editor traveling, collecting memories
"... an RV is more than a 'thing.' It's a magic carpet that takes us on grand, memorable adventures," writes RV Travel.com editor Chuck Woodbury in this weekend's free online newsletter. "And unlike most of the miscellany in our lives, the passion an owner feels for an
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Beginning with MLK Day, 13 free days at 2,000+ National Parks, public lands sites in 2013
Beginning with Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 21, there will be "13 *free entrance days" in 2013 to more than 2,000 National Parks, national forests, national wildlife refuges, and other federal lands will offer free admittance to everyone. “Our national park
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Another RV holiday gift suggestion: 'Big Rig Best Bets Campground Directory'
“Big Rig Best Bets Campground Directory” by Ken and Ellie Hamill (K & E Big Rigs Publishing, 12th edition, 2012, 482 pages, spiral-bound, $24.95). The ‘Big Rig’ directory includes more than 1,200 parks in 49 USA states and seven Canadian provinces. There
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