Jayco Dealer Homecoming Underway in Orlando

Exactly a month after Middlebury, Ind.-based Jayco Inc. was acquired by Thor Industries Inc., the show displays opened today (Aug 1) for the annual Jayco Dealer Homecoming with some 450 dealer personnel representing about 170 dealerships in attendance at the Gaylord Palms in Orlando, Fla. But when Jayco President Derald Bontrager steps up to the […]

The living is easy on Senecaville Lake in Ohio

(Aug. 1, 2016) -- Paula and Dan Neavin of Martins Ferry have been going to the lake since 1999, when they first spent a weekend tent camping lakeside. That experience morphed into the purchase of a camper and, later, still another larger camper that is now a permanent fixture at the marina campgrounds at Senecaville Lake located about 48 miles away in Senecaville, Ohio.

Council to review freedom camping bylaw

(Aug. 1, 2016) -- While council security contractors can ask campers who are not in self-contained vehicles to move on from popular summer spots in the district, they have no ability to issue fines and little grounds to prosecute campers if they choose to stay put, a report on the council's current bylaw says.

Feeling a little cramped in the new camper

(Aug. 1, 2016) -- "That's right, earlier this summer we made a big purchase — a tiny camper. I call it a camper because 'camper' to me sounds like something you think would be fun to go sleep in but when you realize it's actually a cramped, crowded torture device, you can get out, walk up the driveway and go back in the house to sleep in comfort."