on November 25th, 2009 at 3:02 pm by MJ

Think RVing is something new under the sun? Guess again! This year marks the 100th anniversary of RV manufacturing in the US, so 27 years before this film, folks had been hitting the road in their homes on wheels.

Take a gander at all those vintage canned hams! I wish I had one [...]

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on November 21st, 2009 at 2:00 pm by MJ

You’ve seen the commercial from Apple by now, “There’s an app for that.” Yep, there sure is. There’s an app for just about everything. In fact, there are even apps for RVers. Recently, I downloaded two.
The first is called RV Checklist. It’s just what it says it is, a series [...]

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on November 21st, 2009 at 1:04 pm by MJ

A silent cartoon from 1937 about Farmer Al Falfa and his dog hitting the road with their travel trailer.  Cute stuff.

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on July 10th, 2009 at 5:42 pm by MJ

Listening to The Signal on WYPR right now, and they are interviewing a couple who lost their apartment about a year ago after the bank foreclosed on their landlord.  They bought a 22 foot Winnebago and hit the road.  Sadly, after a year of traveling, the couple had to sell the RV because the husband [...]

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