Month: January 2012

(Jan. 18, 2012) -- AGI Productions obtained a temporary restraining order against Apple Rock Advertising and Promotion Jan. 13 blocking the RV show promoter from using the name "North Carolina" in advertising an RV show that starts Friday, RV Daily Report has learned.

(Jan. 18, 2012) -- UK's best-selling motorhome magazine, Motorcaravan Motorhome Monthly (MMM), and Which Motorhome, the UK's only motorhome test and buying magazine, have come together to select The Motorhome of the Year award recipients, reports Out & About Live.

(Jan. 18, 2012) -- Late Monday night, someone tried to blow up a motorhome and the two men inside while it was sitting in a parking lot off Highway 99 south of Whistler, reports The Province. The two men had been using it to camp during a week of snowmobiling.

(Jan. 18, 2012) -- In an effort to raise money for the agency, the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation is launching a new program that allows vehicle owners to voluntarily pay a $10 fee when they register their cars, which gives them access to 30 state parks, reports the Washington Examiner.

(Jan. 18, 2012) -- Thirty artists will be performing at the second annual Runaway Country music festival, May 4-6 at Wickham Park in Melbourne, reports The Boot. Alan Jackson, Kellie Pickler, Big & Rich, Jake Owen, Randy Travis and Steve Holy are among the artists scheduled to perform.

(Jan. 18, 2012) -- “We are seeing three to four years of pent up demand for RVs finally opening up,” said FRVTA Executive Director Lance Wilson. “Americans will only wait so long for things that they really want, and it appears they want RVs right now.”

(Jan. 18, 2012) -- A decades-long effort to build a highway across the Wekiva River came to an end Tuesday when MetroPlan Orlando -- which sets policy in Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties -- voted 17-2 in favor of the road, reports the Orlando Sentinel.

(Jan. 18, 2012) -- “While we did have some challenges due to the flooding, the beautiful summer weather and extended fall kept people coming to the parks to enjoy all that Mother Nature has to offer. We’re looking to the 2012 season with great anticipation."

(Jan. 18, 2012) -- Attorneys for the federal government and two California men are fighting in court to determine who can keep almost $500,000 state troopers seized from an RV during an Interstate 40 traffic stop in November, reports Amarillo.com.

(Jan. 18, 2012) -- The Cibola County Beacon reports that a 2007 RV was destroyed during a fire at the Sky City RV Park in Acoma last week. An area of the park was evacuated because there were 1,200 rounds of ammunition, gunpowder, several gallons of alcohol cleaning fluid, and five small propane tanks in the RV.