Travel Forum / Travel Types / RV Travel / July 2008

Does anybody have a recommendation for a "big rig" friendly RV park in
Houston? The closer to downtown the better.
Thanks,
- Bill (El Alumbrado)

FYI
A fellow Sams Club member while coming home from a club
campout last month or so shucked the tread on the right rear tire on
his three-quarter ton Chevy pickup.  The tread damaged the pickup and

John, check your e-mail junk folder ... prolly got a couple from me in
there.
Cliff in TN - now using my G-Mail account for sending mail ... the website
is going away.

Hi Gang,
Well, I got a new Bedslide today for the truck.
It's wonderful... so much nicer than the old one....
It should be called Bedglide....

Here we are approaching mid July and we still have some snow in the deep
shade and up on the passes. Yellowstone Lake is at or near record high water
for this time of year, and the rivers are full and several still muddy.
There are places on the lake that are normally lakeside ...

I use an 04 Chevy 2500 hd duramax diesel to pull my fifth wheel. This fall I
will be driving by the Banks plant in California on the left coast. For
$3200 they will chip my motor, install a new intake and exhaust with a much
larger air flow. For an additional $2k they will add an ...

Looking for advice on CG on SR 23 between Cheboygan and Bay City.
What I need are actual hands on comments from those who have stayed in
the various CG.
Bear in mind that there will be 3 teenaged girl g'kids on board.

Here are the top 25 Fortune 500 profit margin companies.  in order of
% profits-
Rank    Company            Revenues    Profits      % Profit
48    Microsoft (MSFT)    39,788.00    12,254.00 30.79823062

Seems these crooked sales critters [sales critters in general] can't
even go out of business on the up and up..
In the Dan Gamel going out of business TV ad they say 70%,60%, 50%, on
the dollar..

Looking for advice/experiences of towing boats and horse trailers with
a large truck camper (11 feet long). We had a couple of 10 foot Lances
and the hitch receiver bar is about 2 feet long. If we go to a longer
camper, we're wondering if it'll be more difficult to tow. Will the

We just took a ride to Cedars of Lenanon State Park and campgouns to check
it out since it's in comfortable driving distance from our home. This has
got to be one of the most beautiful state parks I've ever seen. Clean, quiet
and most camping spots are in the shade. There are ...

I ran across this, and it seems like an interesting idea, to make
your laptop into a travel TV, especially in smaller campers.
http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Hauppauge-WinTV-HVR-850-USB-HDTV-Adapter-1200/sem
/rpsm/oid/209619/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do
Has anyone tried something like ...

I ran into the limits of my tolerance yesterday, on a trip to
Corsicana, Texas.
It was in a little roadside rest area on the south side of
Highway 31, between Mount Calm and Hubbard.  I pulled over there

The check engine light has gone off several times the last few months.
The light would come on until we filled up the tank again. We were too
far from home to go to the dealer. OnStar said it was the fuel control.
We took it back to the dealer and they found the codes but no ...

The term "Boondocking" means different things to different RV campers.
Dry camping, dispersed camping, and any time RV hookups are not
available have been refered to as "Boondocking."
The term boondocking usually refers to free (or almost free) overnight