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DVD: Working On The RV Road
Learn how to earn income while RVing. Author and work camping expert Jaimie Hall reveals what you need to know to gain employment or run your own business while traveling with a recreational vehicle.
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Reader
Dick Kuykendall wrote this in response to RV Travel editor Chuck Woodbury's
question in issue 183 about how fast readers could get on the road with
their RVs in an emergency.
Our travel trailer is ready 24/7 for fun or emergencies… once we get to it
with our SUV. The SUV also serves as our trailer's tow vehicle. However, our
travel trailer is stored in a facility at least five minutes from our home,
which is unfortunate in an emergency. So, my wife and I took an important extra
precautionary step in developing our evacuation plan.
We packed a hard-shell
suitcase with the most critical essentials and keep it next to the garage-house
door ready to grab as we begin escaping the area in our SUV. Our escape-suitcase
is easy to find even in darkness. It’s visibly marked with luminescent and
retro-reflective tape and signs just like the US Navy uses on ships to help
sailors escape. My wife and I are comforted knowing our bag is properly packed,
easy to find and ready for use in our SUV if we're unable to quickly make
it to our RV for any reason, such as traffic congestion.
I'd like to see a
"free" list of stuff RVers typically include in their personalize escape plan.
It would be great if we RVers could build this list on a dedicated web site
sponsored by the RV Bookstore, for example. Also, it would be interesting to see
the items sorted by the frequency they are recommended by the
contributors.
Every RVer needs to have their emergency-bags packed and
have a sound, personalized escape plan, including the most likely, least
congested, optional routes to get out of town fast and safe. Local agency
transportation engineers and planners can help us with this information. But, we
all need some guidance from those we respect and trust; folks like ourselves,
the RV owners with experience in such things. There must be hundreds of experts
whom also are RV owners like us. They could be the core group of RVers to lead
the charge. This would be a fantastic public serve unfulfilled by the
self-serving RV industry. And with all the hurricanes this year we have been
reminded we can't wait for local/state and federal governments to do it for us.
Industry and government agencies at all levels can provide helpful
information we can use to build our customized plans. But, as individual RV
owners I feel it's our responsibility to take the initiative to develop our own
plans and to execute them. If we RV owners wait for someone else to do it for
us, well, we just might be the last to leave town, if at all. I say, let’s "get
it together, together" as a group of RV owners.
We just need a little
support from people we trust like the good folks at RV Travel to provide us with
a rallying point. As RV owners, our collective brain-power could be a powerful
tool to do good things if we just had a better way to do it together. Are you,
as a fellow RV owner, interested in helping with this good cause? I hope you'll
say, "Yes." If you feel uncomfortable in contributing to the site, would you be
interested in reading it?
Now, I think I'll go dry-run my plan and time it in
"normal" rush hour traffic conditions. If I am surprised by the time it takes to
fully get out of harms way with my RV or I'm unable to reach it in time, at a
minimum I will feel better knowing I have the most-essential survival items in
my tow vehicle. And I'll feel especially good once I reach my safe, final
destination knowing I did it on my own without waiting for help from big
business and big government. I hope we'll be able to join each other around a
safe campsite to talk about our experiences; preferably before an
emergency.
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Fulltiming Documentary
If you're thinking of going full-time in an RV, this 90-minute DVD will answer all your questions about how to do it. Host Larry Wood interviews dozens of full-time RVers and full-timing experts, who share their secrets.
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RVers Guide to Dump Stations
This 2006 directory offers a comprehensive listing by state and by highway of most known public dump stations in America. RVers should pack this along on their trips!
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Rest Areas and Welcome Centers Along the Interstates
Quickly and easily locate rest areas, welcome centers, roadside turnouts, scenic vistas, and exits for RV friendly businesses including Wal-Mart and other businesses.
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