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Quite a few people sent me notes yesterday telling me that Tom Swift absolutely did not invent the RV. There were a fair number of one-off custom jobs wobbling down the roads since the very early Twenties. In fact, a commercial RV was being sold to the public as early as 1928, which was a ( Read more... )

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Our little Episcopal parish has a camping club (mostly RVs, plus a couple of trailers and an occasional tent for the kids) and they do a club rally twice a year. We missed this spring's rally because we were in Chicago, but we were there last October (see October 1, 2005 plus the following few ( Read more... )

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Months and months ago, our church's camping club reserved the group campground at Mueller State park near Divide, Colorado. It's only 35 miles from our front door, so no one would have to drive very far to get there. Last year's trip was in October and it was hot. This year...well. When we ( Read more... )

It gets cold here at night! We saw on the Weather Channel that it got down to 39 degrees last night. I wasn't expecting that, and had to sleep with my socks on. Yes, we have cable TV here, along with city water and 30 amp electrical service. We would have used the propane furnace, perhaps, but ( Read more... )

Boy, this is...different. My most brilliant spouse just called the Pleasureway Excel RV "an invitation to mindfulness." She nailed it: If you don't pay attention to everything you do (and try to live as you do at home) you will end up black and blue.

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Our recent Chicago trip wasn't the best (and trips to Chicago rarely qualify as "vacation") so Carol and I rented another RV, dropped QBit off at Camp Bow-Wow, and drove up past Denver and over the Loveland Pass to Breckenridge, Colorado. It's ski country and thus quieter in the ( Read more... )