Archive for November, 2008

>Minneapolis Star Tribune – Minneapolis,MN,USA
Van Der Molen Recreational Properties Inc., the owner of a Jellystone Park camping resort in western Wisconsin, has sought bankruptcy protection two months after losing a Minnesota lender’s lawsuit over missing loan payments.

The company, whose children-oriented campground in Warrens, Wis., includes a water park, has assets of less than $10 million and debt of as much as $50 million, according to Chapter 11 documents filed Wednesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Chicago.
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DVD: Drive Your Motorhome Like a Pro
Learn how… and why…to drive a motorhome the right, safe way. In this 67-minute DVD, RVer/tour bus driver Lorrin Walsh. and host Mark Polk show you everything you need to know to confidently drive a motorhome. This should be essential viewing for novice motorhome drivers, but even experienced RVers will learn things they don’t know.

>The 1994 Safari Trek motor home parked in the green-living southeast Portland neighborhood draws curious looks.

Which is just what Ty Adams wants.

Curiosity breeds questions. Questions give Adams the chance to preach his passion — for alternative fuels and energy independence, for conservation of natural resources and for creative, sustainable design and construction practices.

An outdoors enthusiast who never dreamed he’d become an RVer, Adams learned about motorhomes while working for a Coburg RV manufacturer — then launched into his own campaign to bring environmental practices to the world of motorhoming.

His unlikely pulpit is the 27-foot-long “SolTrekker,” a paragon of sustainability in an eye-catching custom paint job of orange, brown and white, with yellow sun rays reaching from the wheel hubs.

It’s the blood and guts of the motor home that so audaciously flip the RV stereotype.

The SolTrekker runs on biodiesel. Solar panels heat its water and power its electricity. Special gutters channel rain through filters and into holding barrels to use for cooking and cleaning.

The composting toilet doesn’t need to be pumped out.
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The RV Handbook: Essential How-to Guide for the RV Owner
This new edition of The RV Handbook is for all types of RV enthusiasts – from a first-time buyer or renter to the most seasoned RV traveler. Packed with valuable information, checklists, photos, and charts, the guide tells you how to: buy an RV; avoid the single most common mistake novice RVers make; select a towing vehicle; avoid RV repair scams; benefit from technical trends in RV manufacturing; correct the bad towing habit that plagues even experienced RVers; and prevent explosive propane situations. With hundreds of proven RV tips, tricks, and techniques, this expanded handbook tells how to buy, maintain, and optimize RVs, saving both money and time.