How to Find the Right Insurance for Your RV
January 26, 2006
MAKE SOME CALLS For many travel-trailer owners, insurance shopping can begin and end with their local insurance agent. “If your camp trailer is something you could dispose of financially, you wouldn’t have to do anything,” says Farmers Insurance Agent Rick Jackson. “You could just hook it up... Read more »
How to buy an RV
January 26, 2006
FIRST STEP Decide on the type of trailer that best fits your family’s needs and interests. Instead of letting price drive your initial search, let function be your guide. Decide just what you want to do with your RV. How many options and accessories do you really need? How many adults and children... Read more »
Travel Trailer Reviews
January 19, 2006
As usual, anything goes in the ever-changing travel trailer market. Units continue to push the envelope in terms of design and construction, with the mantra of late being how low can they go — weight-wise, that is. Better building practices and a quest for modest weights have RV designers rewriting... Read more »
Sport-Utility Trailer Reviews
January 19, 2006
At first, it was a regional success, started by West Coast builders for their more active trailer-camping constituency. The ability to carry motorized cargo — whether it be in the form of a pair of Harleys, sand rails, or dirt bikes — captured the imagination of Westerners and slowly spread to middle... Read more »
RV & Towing Accessories
January 19, 2006
[1] AGRI-COVER Snow be gone with Agri-Cover’s SnowSport Utility Plow. The self-adjustingsnowplow doesn’t require controls in the cab. The momentum of your vehicle pushes the blade forward. The blade glides above the surface when the vehicle is in reverse. The Utility Plow fits most late-model pickups... Read more »
Truck Camper Reviews
January 19, 2006
The typically sleepy truck camper segment has been remarkably busy of late. Innovations such as basement storage, all-aluminum construction, side entry ways, and single — and then double — slide-outs have kept potential buyers on their toes. Expect more of the same in 2006, as the RV builders in... Read more »
Gear Test: Magellan eXplorist 200 GPS, Brunton Glorb, Spyderco SpyderSaw
January 5, 2006
Magellan eXplorist 200 GPS A series of three new entries to the already crowded handheld GPS receiver market has been introduced by Thales Navigation (909/394-5000; magellangps.com), the producers of Magellan products. These new units are the eXplorist 100, 200 and 300. All three of these models are... Read more »
Easy Baja Explorations
January 5, 2006
Baja Expeditions offers seven-day trips to Espiritu Santo Island. Group size is limited to 16. No previous kayaking experience is necessary. Tours are available from mid-October through early January, and mid-March through early May. The weather is unpredictable; be prepared for some wind, cool mornings... Read more »
Janes Island State Park, Maryland
January 4, 2006
Combine the sights and sounds of the first of the season’s migrating Canada geese with a platter of the last of the season’s fresh, golden brown soft-shell crabs and you could only be on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Add a dish of the area’s famed fresh, sweet stewed tomatoes and a slice of the multilayered... Read more »
Toy Hauler Trailer Sampler
January 4, 2006
Those who enjoy grown-up, gasoline-powered toys — ATVs, snowmobiles, motorcycles and personal watercraft — discovered the RV world years ago. But what began a couple of decades ago as a handful of builders making a handful of trailers designed to haul powersports vehicles and provide residential... Read more »
