Roving retirees in RVs volunteer at Florida nonprofits
The Orlando Sentinel
Like a lot of retirees, Art and Sylvia Rogers figured they would spend their golden years tooling around the country in a motor home, playing shuffleboard and lounging by some RV village's pool. It took two weeks to discover they hated it. "We were bored for the first time in our lives," 70-year-old Art Rogers said. "We decided playing old-people games was just not for us." Instead, in the spring of 2008, they enlisted with a group called Roving Volunteers in Christ's Service — retired couples who spend three to nine months on the road each year, working for Christian-based nonprofit organizations and living out of their RVs.More

RV snowbirds buying, not renting, sites in RV parks
RV News Service
Nearly 200 of the nation's approximately 8,000 RV parks and resorts are selling their campsites, and renting them out for the site-owners so that they can generate rental income when they're away. Mogens Hermansen is what you'd call a working snowbird. He lives in Memphis, but spends much of the winter enjoying the sunshine in southern Alabama. But unlike most snowbirds, Hermansen and his wife don't have to worry about reserving a site for their 45-foot Beaver motor home. More

National park getaway: George Washington Birthplace National Monument
MotorHome Magazine
The first president of the United States was not born at a spa, but you might think so from the tranquility and rejuvenation you’ll experience on a visit to his birthplace. This plantation situated along the Potomac River on the Northern Neck of Virginia appears as this week’s National Park Getaway as part of a Park Service series that helps people find new places to reconnect with nature, history, family and friends.More

RV parks pop up, expand as oil and gas workers settle in
The Shreveport Times
An RV park east of Mansfield — located in the Shreveport–Bossier City Metropolitan — resembles a small town because of the number of travel trailers, mobile homes and people living there. Area motels are at or near capacity. Rent homes have been gobbled up.More

Trojan introduces new RV deep cycle battery
RV News Service
Trojan Battery Company has announced the introduction of T2 Technology to its most popular flooded, deep cycle batteries, including those for RVs. Trojan's T2 technology integrates a series of refinements that are said to enhance performance characteristics.More

Southwest Florida's RV resorts see influx of snowbirds
The News-Press
Snowbirds have flocked back to Southwest Florida's RV resorts, possibly more so than last winter. And, despite the shaky economy, new parks and expansions are rolling along.More

Utah RV sales bode well for better economy
The Desert News
Robert Jensen figures that sales of recreational vehicles will tell you a lot about the state of the economy: "We lead in and out of recession." And the Sportsmen's Vacation and RV Show at the South Towne Expo Center is whispering to him that families are spending and credit is flowing once more. It's not a flood, mind you. But the credit well's no longer dry, either.More

New York names state parks on "close" or "cut services" list
RV News Service
New York has proposed closing or reducing services at 41 of its state parks. "New York faces an historic fiscal crisis of unprecedented magnitude," said Gov. David A. Patterson. "It has demanded many difficult but necessary decisions to help ensure the fiscal integrity of our State. The unfortunate reality of closing an $8.2 billion deficit is that there is less money available for many worthy services and programs."More