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An interesting point of view from Chuck Woodbury [message #331177] Sat, 21 April 2018 09:04 Go to next message
Matt Colie is currently offline  Matt Colie   United States
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Chuck Woodbury is the author and editor of an online site called RVTravel.
this is an online that requests (but does not demand) an inexpensive subscription. It is a good read every week and this week is better than most.
Well, he just had some thoughts that seem to be at odds with the president of Recreational Vehicle Industry Association.

http://rvtravel.com/is-rv-industry-president-out-of-touch-with-rvers/

Matt


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Re: An interesting point of view from Chuck Woodbury [message #331182 is a reply to message #331177] Sat, 21 April 2018 10:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Matt Colie wrote on Sat, 21 April 2018 10:04
Chuck Woodbury is the author and editor of an online site called RVTravel.
this is an online that requests (but does not demand) an inexpensive subscription. It is a good read every week and this week is better than most.
Well, he just had some thoughts that seem to be at odds with the president of Recreational Vehicle Industry Association.

http://rvtravel.com/is-rv-industry-president-out-of-touch-with-rvers/

Matt

Interesting article. We are nearing the end of our 28 day, ~6,000 mile trip to the West Coast and back. In the 20 years of traveling with our '76 Palm Beach, I have never seen as many huge 5th wheel trailers (pulled by expensive pickup trucks) and 40' motor homes as this past month. I sort of felt sorry for them as they struggled in the gusty winds of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and Oklahoma this past week. I also had to grin knowing that most of them probably would be in the junk yard before our 43 year old (paid for) GMC goes to its final resting place.

To be honest, I don't consider staying over night in our GMC as camping. We have all the comforts of home, including clean beds, kitchen, bathroom with shower, internet access, telephone and reliable AC power pretty much every where we go. Camping to me is sleeping in a tent that you carried on your back.

So far we've spent 8 days in commercial campgrounds due to their locations, 1 night in a national park and the rest in perfectly acceptable Walmart and Casino parking lots.

Sure we have had problems with our rig, but we did not have to call some RV repairmen to come to us to attempt to fix us or go to a RV repair place to get fixed. We are pretty much self sufficient as opposed to most of those people with those huge "RVs" and underwater loans.


Richard
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SE Michigan
www.PalmBeachGMC.com

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Re: An interesting point of view from Chuck Woodbury [message #331183 is a reply to message #331182] Sat, 21 April 2018 10:18 Go to previous message
Ken Burton is currently offline  Ken Burton   United States
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I love passing those guys, especially going up hill. Now I'm going to go read that article.

Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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