Comfort At Camp

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I have a tendency to take action without thinking things all the way through. I’ve survived some really hard things—including cancer—so I have a lot of faith in my ability to figure things out. This is how I ended up driving more than 3,000 miles in a 25-year-old motorhome with my 10-year-old daughter—despite never having driven a large vehicle in my life. It’s summer and we’ve been homebound due to COVID-19 for five months. The mental health of everyone in our blended family is beginning to deteriorate, and I […]

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Indulge your wanderlust and create a portable comfort zone with new accessories for your RV or camper. Stow to go Where there’s a wall there’s a way. A foldaway desk provides a convenient surface for working or dining, as well as shelves and storage for papers, linens, utensils and more. Office Depot, officedepot.com . Southern Enterprises foldout convertible wall-mount desk/table, $179.99. Streamlined life + style If life on the open road sounds pretty good right about now, hop aboard the Airstream dream of Seattle couple Natasha Lawyer and Brett […]

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The fortunate among us don’t use Twitter at all , which undoubtedly bodes well for their peace of mind. But it also means they’re missing out on a major front in the modern culture war. And if you aren’t one of those compelled to dive repeatedly into the service’s vortex of misinformation and perpetual outrage, you missed out on the rise and fall of a particular villain who came to dominate social media discourse over the weekend. Twitter dubbed him Bean Dad (in reality, he’s musician and podcaster John […]

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What if you went on a road trip and never came back? Two couples called the road their home for years, logging hundreds of thousands of adventurous miles. Their refuges? For one couple, a Mitsubishi Delica four-wheel-drive van, small when compared with an RV or even other vans, let alone a faddish tiny house. For another, a Ford Festiva, small compared with just about anything on four wheels. The coronavirus pandemic has idled both couples and their vehicles, for now, as they all wait for their next chapters. That […]

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What if you went on a road trip, and never came back? Two couples called the road their home for years, logging hundreds of thousands of adventurous miles. Their refuges? For one couple, a Mitsubishi Delica four-wheel-drive van, small when compared with an R.V. or even other vans, let alone a faddish tiny house. For another, a Ford Festiva, small compared with just about anything on four wheels. The coronavirus pandemic has idled both couples and their vehicles, for now, as they all wait for their next chapters. That […]

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World’s largest RV rental company reveals performance stats from its best year on record, predictions for 2021 travel AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Outdoorsy , the most-trusted and only global online RV rental and outdoor travel marketplace, today released its 2020 Travel Trend report, recapping stats from its record year. Despite experiencing a 90 percent cancellation rate early in the year due to the pandemic, Outdoorsy’s RV bookings surged in 2020, leading to the company’s best year on record, with a more than 4,500% increase in bookings […]

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The Sueiro family on their boat. Courtesy of William and Jessica Sueiro Jessica and Will Sueiro moved to Costa Rica in 2013 with their two children, kickstaring their nomadic life. The family eventually moved into an RV, traveled to every country in Europe, and then moved to Asia right before the coronavirus pandemic hit. They have since moved on to a sailboat in France — it’s the first time in years that they have an oven, a washing machine, and their own bedrooms. They have to wait for the […]

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MADISON Those who manufactured what are called vintage campers mostly decorated with colors from a different crayon box. They strayed from the elemental to define their mobile living spaces, stressing aqua, turquoise, pink, pale yellow and mint green over dark blue, deep orange, hard green, bright red, though red does seem to sometimes cross boundaries. An example of what an old style vintage camper may look like. By Lew Freedman | The Tribune lfreedman@tribtown.com James and Shannon Rodwald of Crawfordsville pose next to their 1964 Franklin camper. By […]