Product Description

Cover: Four color photo cover. One photo of New England in the fall on front, and multiple interesting travel photos on back, printed on 20 lb stock, uv coated. Contents: Table of Contents, Chapters loaded with information, tips and stories which will help potential RVers ease into the lifestyle of traveling and living in a Recreational Vehicle. Includes chapters on what it takes to become an RVer, choosing a recreational vehicle, how to equip the RV, what to pack into the RV (from towels to cookware), how to turn the RV into "Home Sweet Home", dealing with finances, communication systems and internet service while on the road. Questionaire for use when joining RV Memberships, Questionaire for Insurance Agents when shopping for insurance, Checklist for both the inside and outside of RV. Lots of photos to visually assist the reader.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #683210 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 100 pages

Review
Carol Ray has written an excellent guide for beginning RVers covering such topics as whether to go RVing, what to do with the house and possessions. -- ESCAPEES MAGAZINE, by Book Reviewer Marcella Gauthier

Carol Ray has written the perfect book for the beginning RVer. It is easy to read and full of insightful tips from somebody who has been there and done that. -- THE RV CLUB, HOWARD OWENS, PRESIDENT

Everything you would need to know to make your decision about life in an RV is here. -- CRUISING AMERICA

From the Publisher
This book is written in a very "chatty", easy to read format and contains what one reader called "a goldmine of information, tips and stories" to ease the inexperienced into the lifestyle of the part time or full time RVer. The author's manner of writing has been called "charming", "funny", and "delightful to read", while imparting a great deal of information to the reader. This book will assist them in their decision making process, as well as the physical aspects of traveling and living in a recreational vehicle. The book includes a wealth of information.

About the Author
Born in 1943 in Los Angeles, California, Carol Ray married her husband Bill Ray in 1963. They lived in California and Texas and together they raised three children. Carol was a full time wife and mother until 1983 when she returned to her career as Escrow Officer. After several years she became Manager of an Escrow Company and continued with her career until she retired early to spend more time with her two granddaughters. When Bill retired from his job as an Operations Manager for a large trucking company, they made the decision to travel and purchased their first recreational vehicle. For one month they lived in it and prepared it for travel. Without any experience they took six months to make their way cross country, making their share of mistakes and learning as they went. Since then they have traveled over most of the United States and are planning an extensive trip to Alaska in the summer of 1999. On several occasions Carol complained to Bill that someone should write a book intended strictly for beginners to the RV lifestyle and he challenged her to write one, which she did in a little over eight months. Her book is entitled "Your Home On Wheels", a Beginners Guide to Becoming a Part Time or Full Time RVer.

Customer Reviews

The one RV book you must have
My wife and I found this gem on Amazon shortly after we bought our first 5th wheel.

While the author emphasises on fifth wheel travel and use, her book applies to other RV rigs about as well.

We've read other books that purport to be helpful to those new to RV's or just new to fifth wheel's, but none even remotely as knowlegably or effectively written.

Having enjoyed 21 years in our 24' motorhome, and 3 years in a 35' trailer forty years ago, we aren't new to the pleasures or potential problems of RV's. Yet this is one book we've both read several times already and it has a permanat place in our new rig's library.

If you don't have it already, buy it!

(No, we've never met the lady and don't work for her publisher, either. But we hope to run into her one day so we can say "thank you!" properly).

Le & Pat Bergstrom

Poorly written and not useful - save your money
As a new RV owner, I was very eager to purchase this book and two others so I could become familiar with the terminology and learn about how to use and take care of my RV. After reading The RVer's Bible (by Kim & Sunny Baker) and RVing Basics (by Bill & Jan Moeller) first, I was thoroughly disappointed with this booklet. The other two books are very detailed, well written and I give them high marks. However, this booklet is very basic, skims over most topics and is sprinkled with so many grammatical errors I had to toss it in the waste paper basket. Fortunately, a co-worker told me about the awesome Amazon.com return policy, so all was not lost. Save your money and buy the other two books!!

BEST SELLER, SUPERB RESOURSE
Your Home On Wheels, a Beginners Guide to Part Time or Full Time RVing, by Carol Ray. For the beginning or aspiring RVer, this self-published book by avid RVer Carol Ray is a superb resource. The book is so good and so helpful that it's one of Amazon.com's top 2,000 best sellers, a major accomplishment for a self-published book. It's chock-full of good information, based on Ray's extensive RVing experiences. Even veteran RVers will learn a lot. We highly recommend this book.