Month: August 2017

(Aug. 31, 2017) -- September events at Washoe Lake State Park include a sunset hike, a slide show presentation about Washoe Lake and a star party with telescopes.

Flood waters closed oil refineries Wednesday (Aug. 30) along the Texas Gulf Coast, including the nation’s largest, as Hurricane Harvey showed its power to ravage the energy infrastructure and drive up gasoline prices. USA Today reported that some 15 refineries were going off line from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Port Arthur, Texas, the Energy Department […]

(Aug. 31, 2017) -- Here's one we saw recently while visiting an RV dealer in Michigan. It's called the Tiger Moth and its made by a company called taxaoutdoors.com

(Aug. 31, 2017) -- All of the parks are beautiful in their own way and I hope to someday make it to all of them, but when it came time to start checking off that list I began with Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, America’s first park.

CARAVAN SALON Düsseldorf is reporting record crowds while manufacturers are enjoying brisk sales as the world’s largest RV gathering moves past the midway point. The trade fair, which opened on Aug. 26, is set to run through Sept. 3. This year’s show features 35 exhibitors occupying 355,200 square feet of exhibit space in 10 indoor halls and the […]

(Aug. 31, 2017) -- Tobyhanna State Park has about 140 camp sites and most of the spots have been claimed for the holiday weekend.

(Aug. 31, 2017) -- This week at Caravan Salon in Dusseldorf, Germany, premium recreational vehicle supplier Lippert Components, and Knaus, a manufacturer of leisure vehicles in Europe, are both featuring the world premiere of dimmable windows using Research Frontiers' SPD-SmartGlass technology.

(Aug. 31, 2017) -- Visitors to Maryland spent $17.3 billion on travel expenses in 2016, up 2.7 percent from the previous year, according to a report released by the Maryland Office of Tourism Development, an agency of the Maryland Department of Commerce.

(Aug. 31, 2017) -- According to a recent survey sponsored by AAA Oklahoma, 66 percent of Oklahomans responding said they were traveling 50 miles or more from home over the upcoming long Labor Day weekend.

(Aug. 31, 2017) -- “We left Quebec City about a week ago and started our relationship with Highway 132, the two lane road that follows the St. Lawrence River as it flows to the Atlantic. The Gaspe starts when you can no longer see the other shore,” writes Kevin Justis of Rio Rico, Ariz.