When someone says the word camping, what do you picture in your mind? A tent laying on the ground in the middle of the woods, or do you think of being in an RV? While more than half of the camping population is now using an RV for their shelter, there are those who still enjoy the ruggedness of being outdoors camping in a tent.
If you are thinking of upgrading from a tent to an RV, first start looking at Used RVs For Sale. Buying a used RV will help keep your cost down if you decide that an RV was just not for you. If you are just starting out and not sure what the next step up from a tent would be, take a look at used pop up campers. These are small, light weight, cheaper, easy to tow with almost any vehicle, and not as fancy so you will still feel like you are camping outdoors.
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Still Tent Camping – Why Not Choose RVing?
Monday, January 31st, 2011Camping Bloopers -Annoying RV Driving
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
We came across this comical article the other day about the ten most annoying driving habits. Especially if you use your RV a lot to go RVing or camping, it is more than likely that you have seen these bad drivers out on the road. Keep yourself off of camping bloopers by driving mindfully and not making these driving mistakes. Be careful with your new RV by watching out for these annoying driving habits on the road. Here are the first five annoying RV driving habits:
1. Merging – Drivers that go slowly down the on-ramp blocking traffic and heading into traffic that is going really fast, that’s just not a good idea.
2. Stopping to stare at a car crash- Blocking traffic that is starting to pile up behind your RV for miles and miles, just so that you can see all of the details of a fender bender as you pass by – not the best manners.
3. Using high beams improperly – The offenders in this case can be city or rural drivers. City motorhome drivers who never get to use their high beams, so thus forget that they have them and never use them, causing them to creep along at slow night speeds because they cannot see. This high beam user can also be a rural RV driver that doesn’t meet another car or motorhome very often, so thus, they forget that they have their high beams on and constantly blind people.
4. Avoiding jackrabbit starts – Most new and used RV’s are not fuel-efficient RVs, so many RV owners try to avoid fast starts thinking that it will save gas. So, these are the travel trailer drivers that creep away from the stop sign, holding up traffic behind them as they “snail” away. It is actually more efficient to power up to speed relatively quickly, then back off the throttle and cruise at a steady speed.
5. Braking for no reason – We really couldn’t find a more comical way to say this than how this article put it, so we are just going to quote the article here: “Just asking, but what’s up with these inexplicable brake applications in the middle of straightaways? Did you just remember the cat is still in the dryer? See your high school flame pass in the opposite direction? Wake up and realize you were driving? The mystery is baffling. All I know is that it seems people aren’t paying attention and then get startled back into focus, so they apply the brakes. Focus on driving when you’re behind the wheel, not the other things that are happening in your life. You might live longer and worry less.”
Next post, the rest of the top ten annoying driving habits.
Funny Camping Story – Family RVing for Spring Break
Monday, March 1st, 2010
My husband and I were all set to test drive retirement until our 14-year-old daughter slammed on the brakes.
“No way. I’m not spending March Break in an RV,” she shrieked. “What would we do all day?”
“Hunt for food,” deadpanned my husband.
I admit we’re a bit of an anomaly among our fifty-something friends who are starting to gear up for their golden years. While others look to trade in suburbia for chic downtown condos, my husband and I have our sights set on the open road.
Who knew that trailer trash could be trendy?
It’s RV show season and attendance is through the fibreglass. The recession may have taken some of the air out of the tires south of the border but here, in Canada, show sales are hitting record levels and the RV industry is on the cusp of an unprecedented boom thanks to baby boomers like us.
“Boomers are looking for (RVs) that have everything and lots of storage so they can take it all with them,” says Larry Boyd, who has been selling RVs for almost 40 years.
“We even have units that you can drive a golf cart into.”
Even he was surprised to see attendance at Toronto’s recent RV show up 52 per cent over last year and sales skyrocket 91 per cent (12 per cent over the previous record year, 2008.)
It’s that Toronto show – a sprawling concrete campground of RV and Air Stream innovation – that supersized our notions of what could be happy trails or hell on wheels.
The minute we stepped into the Sabre 31 CKTS, we knew we’d found our home away from home. Even the glossy brochure made our aging hearts beat faster: “Uncage the beast.”
I pictured the two of us – shatterproof wine glasses in hand – perched on stools around its kitchen island, swapping stories with our temporary new neighbours.
March Break seemed like the perfect time to belly up to the moving bar, if only briefly. We would take a cheap flight to New Mexico, rent a motorhome and set the GPS for Sante Fe.
We tried to sell the trip as an all-inclusive, telling our daughter Claire that she could bring a friend along. But the look on her face said it all: The shame. The humiliation. The tiny bathroom where she would have barely enough elbow room to properly disguise herself with makeup.
What about a night or two in a Wal-Mart parking lot, I thought? You can’t get two teenagers any closer to 24-hour shopping than that.
None of my tactics got traction.
“Don’t be such a snob,” I pleaded. “You’ve slept in a barge. (Okay, so it was in the south of France.) What could be so awful about an RV?”
Well … dated upholstery, I had to admit. Fussy wood trim. Stuffed animals crowding the dashboard. Was a faux fireplace really the style sense I wanted to take on the road?
I assured Claire we wouldn’t sit around the campfire drinking beer and watching The Biggest Loser on a flat-screen, even though some RVs now come with them tucked in exterior walls. We might whip up eggs and bacon if we get one with an outdoor kitchen, I warned her, but never near a construction site. We didn’t want to be mistaken for a catering truck.
Just think about the fun, I insisted. The adventures! The stunning scenery!
But our youngest child was thinking about her friends: “They said we’d be fighting for water.”
A day or two later, Claire seemed strangely contrite. She and her friend Emily had been surfing the Net. They’d forgotten that New Mexico has a bit of history: It was the backdrop for High School Musical.
“Emily says she’ll come along,” Claire announced at dinner. There was just one camping caveat.
“I don’t suppose you’d consider renting the Ferrari or the Fairmont version?”
This story is by Susan Pigg and originally appeared in thestar.com. To see the original version of the story, click here. If you would like a RV of your own to take on Family RV Vacations, see this RV Sales site.
Funny signs that you see while traveling- Camping Bloopers
Monday, February 15th, 2010We came across a funny blog website the other day called, “Why We Need English Teachers“. The site has many signs that you would see when you take your motorhome out traveling and camping, making that memorable camping blooper that you will always recall from your trip. All of the signs listed on this website contain funny misspellings and underscore why we need English teachers so badly. Have a good laugh.
Leave your Shoes On – Go RVing
Monday, February 1st, 2010
This is a different kind of camping bloopers post. Sometimes we question why so many people still fly and don’t opt for the convenience and comfort that you get when you go RVing. Just maybe, more people are seeing the advantages of RVing.
The reports show that in terms of demand, 2009 went into the history books as the worst year the airline industry has ever seen, according IATA Chief Executive. The following funny video also reinforces why it has become more and more miserable to fly:
So next time you are thinking of going on vacation, pick a RV vacation instead. Buy a RV (or rent one) and take a memorable, comfortable trip with your shoes on and your family in tow.
RV Bloopers and Google Maps
Monday, January 18th, 2010This camping blooper video combines two things that RVers face often: Google Maps and RV Trip companions. The following “College Humor” video shows fictional characters and what it would have been like to take all of the “street views” that are now featured in the highly valuable RV travel tool, Google Maps. The camping blooper video is also so funny because all of us know of someone that it would be hard to be in the car or RV with for a long trip.
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Welcome to Camping Bloopers
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009If you have been camping or RVing very long, you have probably had something that did not go quite the way that you had planned. Maybe you ran out of gas before you got home. Maybe you accidentally left your spouse at the convenience store where you stopped for gas. This site is dedicated to all of those camping bloopers that happen and definitely make your trip unforgettable. Share your camping bloopers here and read of camping bloopers that others have had. As they say, the things that go wrong make the memories.
