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Every year, America's Largest RV Show in Hershey, Pennsylvania, offers an incredible opportunity to see what's new in the RV industry. From lightweight campers and affordable travel trailers to luxurious fifth wheels and innovative camping accessories, the show...
America's national parks are filled with breathtaking scenery, incredible wildlife, and fascinating history. But some of these beautiful destinations also have a darker side. From Civil War battlefields where visitors report seeing ghostly soldiers to abandoned mining...
Ponderosa pines, Rocky Mountain peaks, gorgeous campsites...Colorado's Mueller State Park just might be one of the nation's prettiest campgrounds. It is classic camping at its best. Our longtime correspondent Kerri Cox is with us to share a campground review of...
An epic RV trip through Western Canada doesn’t have to be all mountains, lakes, and national parks. After exploring Calgary, Banff, then Jasper, the Icefields Parkway, and several other spectacular destinations in the Canadian Rockies, Gretchen Holcombe and her family...
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to see almost everything in the RV world in one place, the Hershey RV Show—officially known as America’s Largest RV Show—is your answer. Every September, this five-day event transforms the Giant Center in Hershey,...
There are some state parks that feel almost too grand to be state parks. They have the scenery, recreation, history, and sheer scale that we usually associate with our national parks. Letchworth State Park in Western New York is one of those places. Known as the...
Some RV trips are about the destination. Others are about the drive. And then there are those rare adventures where every single part of the journey feels like the destination. That is exactly what happened during the second leg of Gretchen Holcombe’s epic Western...
Over roughly the last decade, we have used the Truma AquaGo in several travel trailers, the Truma Combi in our Ember, and the Alde hydronic heating system in our nüCamp TAB 320 CSS. More recently, we have also been spending time in a TAB 360 CS equipped with both Alde...
This is a guest post by Gretchen Holcombe from Boxy Colonial on the Road. It is part one of a three-part series of podcasts about her family's epic RV trip to Western Canada and the Canadian Rockies. In this first entry Gretchen take a close look at Calgary and...
For a long time, RV solar felt like something designed primarily for hardcore boondockers heading deep into the desert or spending weeks on public land out West. That has never really described the way we camp. We live in the Northeast. We still love campgrounds with...
