Travel Forum / Travel Types / RV Travel / October 2007

We've been looking at RVs for a month now, and stopped into Lazy Days
on our
way home from camping at Fort DeSoto, "Just to look around". We found
a few

Franklin Coach, a family-owned travel trailer maker just east of Nappanee, is due south of the
Arby's at the corner of County Road 7 and U.S. 6. It had been destroyed by the tornado.
http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071020/News01/71020
017/1052/News01

It doesn't get much better than this. This is the best report on overall
conditions in Iraq that I've seen. (As always, if someone has something
better I'd love to see it.) There's a lot this report doesn't talk about,
but it seems to be pretty comprehensive on the issues it does ...

Anyone familiar with "The Little Red Campfire, by Camco";
http://www.propane-campfire.com/
If so, what's your opinion regarding it?  Do you own another brand of
portable propane firepit that you take with you in your RV? If so, what

Just visited a Google link off Tioga George's blog.  Ocean Mesa RV Park in
Santa Barbara.  Looks nice.  And it should!  $85.00/night.  And they don't
have "resort" in their name.  Don't think it's the place for me.

Yup...  saw it last night on TV...  Charlie Gibson...   seems the new
dictionaries are going to OK a couple of the 'most used spellings of a word'
 right  or wrong,  if, say, 52% spell 'RVer' like we do... but 48% spell it
'RVr'...  both will now be acceptable...

Besides Joy and I, Don and Mary Murray are here in Tucson for the DSU
rally that starts Sunday. I don't recognize any other RORT names on
the attendance list, but I'm wondering if there are any more? Lurkers?
Don Bradner

Glad I read the NG cause today I got a Thousand Trails Passport
offering me 3 days and 2 nights for free plus dinner for 2 and $50 of
Shell Gas gift certificate.  and all I have to do is listen to their
spiel.  Gosh I feel so lucky (not)!!!!!!  Oh yes just 9 miles from

It seems that Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are related.  Make of
that what you will...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/10/17/all-in-the-family-cheney-and-oba
ma-related/
Bob

We had a tow dolly which was manufactured in Texas, but I can't recall the
name of the manufacturer.  If it helps any, the frame was gray and the rest
was blue, with white wheels.  It had electric brakes.  Rather than having
two "wells" for the car tires to sit in, it had a ...

"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward."
        --Spanish proverb

Well.... never again if we can help it!  We just returned from a two-
week trip from Philly area to Kansas City to Aspen, Colorado.  We (DH,
darling dog Alfie, and I) took the Land Cruiser and went to see our
kids in KC suburbs, stayed with them a few days then on to stay for a

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yN-6PbqAPM
Enjoy this.
LZ

If you want the lowest daily cruise deals and even sweeter deals on
suites visit
http://cruises.ian.com/default.asp?cid=202348
Joyangel123

In another thread, something about a 12-year-old, I had the temerity
to mention that France has the best health care system in the world
and that the cost per person is far less than in the United States.  I
suggested that the United States would benefit by adopting the French