May 2010

Woodall's & Camping Life – The Navigator, May 2010

Check Out our Family Summer Adventure Ideas

Diamond Club Member News:
Celebrate 100 years of RVing this year with Woodall's at The Rally in Louisville, Kentucky. This milestone celebration will feature all sorts of vintage and historical RV displays and contests sure to bring back memories for some and intrigue others. Mark your calendars for July 22–25 and start planning your route to the largest RV event of the year!

Woodall's 2010 North American
Campground Directory

Updated annually, the North American Campground Directory is the ultimate resource for RV campgrounds, service centers and area attractions. Woodall's provides information on over 15,000 public and private RV campgrounds plus much more.

High Tech Dogs
One of the more difficult things about traveling full-time is to get the proper access to all of the technology you need. In a traditional home or home office, you can get landline phones, broadband Internet, fax machines, and everything else, relatively quickly and cheaply. And, as most of you know, it isn't so easy on the road.

Hi, everyone! This month, we have a bunch of quick and easy fixes for common RV problems. Check them out, and keep those questions coming!
--------------------------------------------
Mark,
I have a 2002 class-A motorhome with large day/night window shades in the living room area. These shades will not stay open, a condition that has developed over the last several months. Can you recommend a fix? Richard.

Hi, Richard, If your shades are the typical ones that use string tensioners, they are easy to adjust. If you look at the wall below the shades, you'll see…

Family Summer Adventure
Do something totally different on your vacation this year
By Stuart Bourdon and Kelli Bartel

When they ask your kids, "What did you do this summer?" everyone will sit up and take notice. You can be responsible for creating that long-remembered and much talked about high adventure.

Adventure travel, long the exclusive domain of twenty-somethings, has grown up and invited the family over. Now, some of the biggest names in the business offer a variety of kid-friendly outdoor camping or lodge-based rafting, canoeing, kayaking, biking, or horseback riding programs complete with prepared meals, equipment, and guides and naturalists.

GREEN YOUR PET
How many people love cats and dogs? There are about 77.5 million owned dogs and about 93.6 million owned cats in the United States, according to the 2009-2010 National Pet Owners Survey by the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association. Like humans, pet cats and dogs consume and produce waste, which affects the environment, so it's just as important to be mindful of the ways your pets live. Here are some easy ways and things you can do to improve your pet's impact on the environment.

Jacked out of shape
We had purchased our first Coleman pop-up in October of 2008. Our first camping trip was July 3rd 2009. Due to our work schedules this was the first chance we had to venture out in our camper. We only had 1 night and…