Travel Forum / Travel Types / RV Travel / August 2008

Who is the youngest RORTer here?
no cheating
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From today's Wall Street Journal
Mexico Pays the Price of Prohibition
by Mary O'Grady
August 18, 2008

I know you are on the road, but have you talked with anyone where you
winter?
Lou

Mike showed me the new "navigation" screen in this application earlier this
year and we had a chance to try it out a while ago. Wow! It's great! It's a
lot like the nav screens you get on the GPS units that give you a view of
the road from slightly behind and overhead. It sure ...

Took the MH out for the weekend to Sampson State Park.  Spent some
time with a talkative park ranger.  He was saying NYSP had a record
year last year and are ahead of it this year but not nearly as many
out of state campers.  It seems a lot of folks are camping, just not

I see you replaced your Verizon Phone.  What did you get?
Are you able to use the backdoor to get your email or have
you converted to a data plan?
Verizon offered me the  BlackBerry® Curve™ 8330 smartphone

What do you think of it?  Is the "Plus" worth it?
TIA

We recently returned from a 7-day jaunt through parts of Central and
Eastern Oregon, and except for a few ominous skies along the way, it
was quite an adventure, one I would recommend to anyone wanting to see
the "other" Oregon.

Got out camping this past week and ran into some pretty bad weather for
this area.  Day time temp at 90 and humidity a close second.  No
hook-ups.  Weather made for some difficult sleeping.
No power fan/vent on the MH and have been giving some thought on adding

Here's a link to a newscast about a motorhome that ended up in Mission  Bay
while trying to launch a boat. The driver said something happened to the
brakes, but one person nearby heard the engine rev;  possibly the driver
forgot she was in reverse.

One of the next things is to sort out leveling.   I understand the
2x10 stepped ramp idea but I wonder about dual wheels.  Do I ignore
the second wheel when camped or use a double wide leveling stack?

Recomendations?

Summer is here and it looks like gas prices aren't going to
permanently go down any time soon. As predicted, it looks like we're
in for a summer of high gas prices.
Many consumers are searching for ways to save on their overall fuel

Randy Scheunemann, McCain's chief foreign policy has so far
collected $800,000 from Georgia. I suppose you could call
that bribery, campaign contributions, lobbying fees, or just
a generous gift from President Mikheil SaakashviliI to

My father is retired and has been full-timing in a Sprinter camper for
the past year.  He's unhappy in this rig, he's finding it just too
cramped for comfortable full-timing.  He also is unable to drive into
remote forest areas like he had envisioned.  His latest idea is to get a ...