Keeping your RV secure

The holiday season brings out a host of suggestions on how to keep the bad guys away from your cache of presents at home. We may not think much about that situation whenRVing, but those same bad guys know that the modern RV often has nice, spendy techno-goodies that can be harvested.

In two recent incidents, RVers have been hit by burglars: One couple, sleeping over in a Cracker Barrel Restaurant parking lot awoke the next morning to find thieves had broken into their tow vehicle and ripped off a few things. In a more dramatic experience, anRVer returned to his rig, parked at a service facility lot, only to encounter a gun-toting thief coming out the door of the RV. Fortunately, theRVer came off physically unharmed, but the crook made an exit with some expensive loot, and damaged the rig to boot. What can be done to prevent these kinds of problems?


Could GPS Satellite Failures Affect RVers?

When Chicken Little trumpeted the alert that the sky was falling, to her, the initial response must have been gratifying. Depending on which version you read (or watch) the end of it all might not be so pleasant. For RVers who depend on the Global Positioning Satellite System as they make their way around the […]


Drive Slower? Drive Faster? Staying Out of Trouble on the Highway

Spotted in Quartzsite, Arizona the other day: A motorhome bearing a legend its rear end that indicated the driver felt that handling the highway at a slower speed was the course of wisdom to avoid traffic accidents.  Is it really so?
A quick search of the Internet reveals this question to be one of the most […]


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