- Texas Artist Captures Spirit of RV Lifestyle on Canvas
- Movie Star Vin Diesel’s $1.1 million Fifth Wheel RV
- Easy way to get your Fifth Wheel out of tight spot.
- Custom Truck Camper RV Built on Old Cab Over Truck
- VW Doubleback T5 California Class B Camper has Rear Slide-Out
- Motorhome with Hydraulic Lift-up Garage Door and Smart Car
- Older Single Women Living On The Road
- Dicor TPO RV Flooring Experiment
- Dicor Corporation demonstrates a stronger composite wall panel
- Campground Host Lives the Good Life
- Free Wi-Fi at Select Alabama State Parks Campgrounds
- Virgin Media will throttle heavy users’ broadband
- Three New Technologies May Change How You Use Wi-Fi
- WiFi WPS security vulnerability found, major router makers affected
- Belkin Wi-Fi Range Extender Works Well
- HughesNet Will Decommission Horizon 2 Satellite
- Some Impressions of HP’s Wi-Fi Mobile Mouse
- RV Park & Campground Wi-Fi Pushed to the Limits
- Free Wi-Fi in all US Taco Bells by 2015
- Verizon Plans Wi-Fi “Hot Zones” To Ease Burden on Mobile Network
Archive for November, 2005
>YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. Campers will pay a couple extra dollars when they head to Yosemite National Park next year.
Fees at the Upper Pines, Lower Pines, North Pines Hodgdon Meadows, Crane Flat and Wawona campgrounds after January first will have to pay 20 dollars a night — up from 18.
Fees at Bridalveil Creek and White Wolf campgrounds will increase from 12 to 14 dollars a night. And Tamarack Flat, Yosemite Creek and Porcupine Flat will increase from eight to ten dollars a night.
Park officials say it’s been about four years since the last fee increase.
>If the sounds and smells of a crackling campfire stir happy memories for you, then why not relive those memories and try camping again?
You do not need an expensive rig. A simple tent or two, sleeping bags and cots for comfort, a couple of extra tarpaulins for shelter and to keep the area clean, plus a good supply of easily prepared food and plenty of drinks can turn an ordinary weekend into an inexpensive adventure.
In the tri-county area of Pasco, Hernando and Citrus counties there are several places to camp and enjoy nature. Full Story….
>Bob Cornute of Saratoga Springs dotes on his two vintage Airstreams. He calls them ‘the world’s biggest tinker toys.’ And he is a tinkerer. He knows the heavy owners manual chapter and verse, and has conquered his Airstreams’ multiple intricacies.
Luckily for him, his wife Carmen was a Girl Scout in her native Jamaica. There was no arm-twisting incentive to get her on the road.
The Cornutes splurged on a 31-foot International in 1981. A year later, they joined the Hudson-Mohawk unit of the Wally Byam Caravan Club International (WBCCI) and they haven’t looked back. Now retired, the couple goes on as many rallies and caravans with their group as possible. Bob is now assistant vice president of the local group, the couple’s scrapbooks filled with more than 20 years of on the road adventure.
Membership in WBCCI is open only to owners of Airstreams. And ownership is considered a privilege to those who have discovered the open road and the people who populate it. Full Story…