Jonathan Jarvis confirmed as National Park Service Director
RV News Magazine
Jonathan B. Jarvis has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the 18th director of the National Park Service. Jarvis, a 30-year veteran of NPS, has served since 2002 as regional director of the agency’s Pacific West Region, where he was responsible for 54 national parks throughout the western United States.More

Investing in silver...the silver of an Airstream trailer
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
When your home has wheels, you can go anywhere. And when your home is an Airstream, you’re part of a special club, your smooth silver box of a home attracting attention and affection wherever you go. Just off the interstate in Hillsboro, Texas -- about an hour south of Fort Worth on I-35 -- there's a whole neighborhood full of Airstream trailers.More

Traveling across the country with the comforts of home
Valencia County News-Bulletin
Talk to Jackie and Kim Bloom and you'll be itching to hit the broad highway to untold adventures in a cozy roving motor home. The Blooms started RVing three years ago, drawn to explore land and sea.More

Pedata RV Center unveils the Top Ten Spas for RVers
The Earth Times
Pedata RV Center publishes the Top Ten Spas for RVers to relax and rejuvenate. For RVers who spend hours in an upright sitting position, sore muscles can put a cramp in any vacation. The benefits of massage include stretching weak, tight, or atrophied muscles, alleviating low-back pain and improving range of motion, relaxing and softening injured, tired, and overused muscles, according to massagetherapy.com.More

Fall: Great time for an RV vacation
WFXS-TV
There is something to recommending a family vacation in the fall as a quick pick-me-up before winter rears its ugly head. In many areas, the summer crowds are long gone in the fall, the weather remains good, and bargains are waiting to be had. For consumers looking to save money while communing with nature, there is a lot to like about an RV vacation. RV travelers save up to 61 percent of vacation costs over other forms of travel, according to the Go RVing Web site.More

Fewer whooping cranes expected to winter in Texas
Corpus Christi Caller-Times via the Houston Chronicle
As the first of the area's beloved, endangered whooping cranes make their annual descent into the Arkansas National Wildlife Refuge, it's likely there will be fewer of the tourist draws to whoop and holler over. The flock is the only naturally occurring whooping crane population in the world. Every fall it migrates south to the refuge north of Rockport with youngsters in tow. They stay through early spring before heading back to Wood Buffalo National Park in northern Canada where they nest and raise babies.More

Repairing a leaking diesel motor home fuel tank
UTV Weekly
I purchased a 2008 Monaco Diplomat SE back in the spring of 2007, said Jon Crowley with DuneGuide.com. Since that time, the motor home has taken us on trips to Moab, St. Anthony Sand Dunes, the Oregon Dunes, Dumont Dunes, Sand Mountain and more trips to the Imperial Sand Dunes than I can remember. Most of these trips aren’t too close to home so I have racked up a few miles on the coach. After a recent trip to Glamis for Halloween, I returned home to find that I had developed a leak in my diesel fuel tank.More

Tiffin launches '10 Models at Lazydays' block party
MotorHome Magazine
Strings of lights adorned with hanging lanterns connected an array of new 2010 Tiffin motor homes – and when combined with the November starlit sky – formed a luminous canopy over 260 RV lovers gathered for a three-day block party held by Lazydays RV Center Inc. in Seffner, Fla., to launch the newest Tiffin Motor Homes Inc. models that recently arrived at the dealership, according to a news release.More

Big RVs draw small crowd in Atlantic City, N.J.
Press of Atlantic City
The thing you have to realize about RVing is that it's all about the togetherness. "Our kids are grown now, and we're looking more for ourselves," said Bill Thompson, of Clayton, Gloucester County in New Jersey. "The hell with them!" He's just kidding, probably. Thompson and his wife, Paula, did not have to be wooed at the recent Atlantic City Fall RV Show — they were already hooked. But they have already reached their RV peak, and it was time to start coming down.More