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Not sure if most people are aware of the fact that HitchUpandGo includes within the RV Website Directory page a complete listing of all the State Parks in the country. This includes links to parks in all 50 States. This is a very convenient way to gather information and make reservations at all the State Parks across our nation. State Parks offer some of the finest and most scenic locations to camp.

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Roadtreking - RV Life in an Roadtrek Class B Motorhome

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Roadtreking is the work of Mike and Jennifer Wendland, a Michigan couple that bought a Roadtrek RS-Adverturous Class B motor home in early 2012 after years of dreaming.

This blog will not be so much about the Roadtrek but about seeing the country, experiencing travel, fixing, running and enjoying our compact little motor home. Our goal is to share our Roadtreking life. I have to say right at the start, I have no idea what I’m doing. I’m not very mechanical. It took me an orientation session with my RV dealer to find out where the gas, ah, make that, diesel fueling point was on the vehicle.  

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Sleeping with Truckers

Tim R. Enright

After the sun sets following a long full day of driving on the open road, there may come a time when the only choice you have is to find a spot to pull over and sleep with a trucker. Nothing personal about truckers but they wouldn’t be my first choice to sleep with. They don’t stick around very long and tend to be quite noisy when they leave. But then again it is free to sleep with them and you don’t need to make any reservations.

By far the most difficult part of spending the night between two truckers is the noise. Not just the coming and going at all hours of the night but the noise they make just sitting there. Some places post signs telling them to shut off their engines but I have found very few of them that are willing to do so. The worst of the bunch are the refrigerator guys. Those guys keep their motors revving up and down, up and down, up and down. And they do it all night long.

These days you can’t just sleep anywhere you want to. There are rules and local laws to govern this type of activity. Some of the safest places are the ones that the truckers know of. They have been doing this for a long time and generally know how to do it right.

Rest Areas are the most common places that come to mind. These are by no means the only place where you could end up sleeping with them. Other places include: Service Plazas, Mall Parking Lots, Department Stores and Municipal Parking Lots.

Some rest areas have segregated overnight parking for Truckers and RVers. These places are actually not bad places to stop at. The RV parking spots may even come with electricity hookups. We have found some places that provide you with restrooms and showers as well.

Other rest areas offer nothing more than a place to put your rig in park. Some even go as far as to discourage overnight parking of any kind. I have seen these warnings ignored and have often wondered if I would get my rig towed while I was in the back of my fifth wheel sleeping. That would be a real eye opener.

When you’re on a long road trip sometimes you just don’t know how far you can travel in a day. That makes it somewhat difficult to schedule places to park your rig for the night. It only makes sense that you need to pull into a place to get some rest for a while. Weather it is at a Wal-Mart, Mall or a Rest Area sometimes you have no other choice than to sleep with a trucker.

Article Courtesy of : BugSmacker : Copyright 2010

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I was quite impressed when I got this light out of the package. This little LED light bar is remarkably bright. Better yet it is also portable.

 Our light above the bathroom sink in the RV was just not bright enough. I was looking for something to brighten up the mirror a bit when I stumbled upon this light. It has worked perfectly for this spot. I will now be shopping for a few more of these to put in other areas of the RV as well.

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RVers could be at risk for "left side" cancer

While road hazards like tire "gators," and "tail gaters" may be enough to raise your RV driving safety awareness, here’s another one: Left side cancer. A Saint Louis University skin doc warns facial skin cancers are far more predominant on the left side.

 "We tend to see more skin cancer on the left side of the face - drivers need to be aware of the amount of sun exposure they receive behind the wheel," said Scott Fosko, M.D., chair of dermatology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, and co-author of the study. "The cumulative effect of being exposed to the sun builds up over many years."

 The results of the study also indicate that men are more likely to be affected by left-side cancers, causing the authors to particularly caution professional drivers of the danger. RVers may spend more time behind the wheel than their commute-to-the-job counterparts, and thus they too, need to be alert to the dangers of skin cancer.

 According to the American Cancer Society, most of the more than 1 million cases of non-melanoma skin cancer diagnosed yearly in the United States are considered to be sun-related. Melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer, accounted for a majority of the nearly 12,000 deaths due to skin cancer last year. What about 2012? Expect nearly 132,000 new cases of melanoma to be diagnosed this year alone.

 So what's the protection? Sunscreen. Look for a sunscreen that protects not only against UVA rays, but UVB as well. Sunscreen help reduce incidences of skin cancer, but can also help protect against premature wrinkling and skin aging–for those of us who haven’t already been victimized. Sunscreen in the form of tinted glass and UV window filters can also help cut down the amount of skin-damaging UV rays that get into your rig.