Product Description

From New England to the Oregon Coast, from Texas to the Tetons, America is full of fascinating and friendly places — and your RV is a great way to get to any one of them. This fun, friendly guide shows you how to get the most out of your RV vacations with fun itineraries and handy tips on:

• Choose the right route and the right season for travel
• Picking the RV that will get you where you want to go on a budget you can afford
• Eating and sleeping comfortably on the road
• Tying up the loose ends before you leave
• Planning ahead to take care of special travel needs
• Tips on fun museums and special getaways for snowbirds

Like every For Dummies travel guide, RV Vacations For Dummies, 3rd Edition includes:

• Down-to-earth trip-planning advice
• What you shouldn’t miss — and what you can skip
• The best restaurants and hotels for every budget
• Lots of detailed maps

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #466622 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

From the Back Cover
Travel smart at www.dummies.com

Explore the U.S.A. the fun and easy RV way

Getting there is more than half the fun! This friendly guide gives you practical RV traveling advice plus 14 "best-drive" trips throughout the country, complete with maps and fun "off the beaten path" suggestions. It recommends the best seasons for the sights and best deals for your budget and gets you on the road to great getaways!

Discover

• Down-to-earth trip-planning advice
• Regional itineraries for every part of the U.S.
• Up-to-date info on attractions and campgrounds
• Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages

About the Author
Shirley Slater and Harry Basch are a husband-and-wife travelwriting team whose books, articles, and photographs have been published internationally over the past 25 years. Former stage, film, and television actors, they have written their syndicated column “Cruise Views” for the Los Angeles Times and other major newspapers for more than 20 years, produced six annual editions of the North American Ski Guide for Prodigy Computer Services, and written Shirley and Harry’s RV Adventures (a monthly newsletter) plus four books on worldwide cruising.
In 1990, at the 60th World Travel Congress in Hamburg, Germany, the authors were only the third writers (and the first freelancers) to receive the prestigious Melva C. Pederson Award from the American Society of Travel Agents for “extraordinary journalistic achievement in the field of travel.”
On assignment for publications as diverse as Bon Appétit and Travel Weekly, they have covered 188 countries by barge, elephant back, hot-air balloon, luxury cruise ship, cross-country skis, paddle-wheel steamer, and supersonic aircraft, but their favorite method of transportation is by RV. In their former 27-foot Winnebago Brave motorhome and their new 36-foot Itasca Sunflyer, they have logged more than 100,000 miles traveling across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Aboard other RVs — from mini-motorhomes to 36-foot widebodies with slideouts — they have traveled an additional 60,000 miles exploring the back roads and campgrounds of America.
These journeys are all based on the authors’ personal experiences. They’re the authors of four editions of Frommer’s Exploring America by RV and appear on informational RV videos featured at www.rvtv direct.com.

Customer Reviews

A really, really good book for dummies like me!
I was initially struck by the early sections, which so clearly laid out all the elements of preparing for an RV vacation, including renting or buying, eating and sleeping on the road, and everything from cell phones to the pros and cons of carrying a gun. The remainder of the book has 14 trips around all parts of the US from New England to Florida, Route 66 to California, and the Northwest.

Very handy are details of attractions and campgrounds, which are laid out simply and enjoyable to read. Each trip has a detailed map showing the locations of campgrounds and things to don't want to miss. Anyone who's thinking about RVing will want to get this book.

Highly Recommended for New RVers!!
A terrific book for anyone thinking about giving RVing a try. "RV Vacations for Dummies" opens with about a hundred pages of information on planning an RV vacation and about actually living in an RV. Some of the information in the first two parts of the book ("Getting Started" and "Ironing Out the Details") is a bit sketchy; however, it is more than adequate to get the traveler on the road. And that, after all, is really the point. Books are helpful in gathering the information needed to get started, but RVing is about "doing" . . . not just reading about "doing".

Our favorite parts of "RV Vacations for Dummies" are the 14 driving tours presented over nearly 200 pages in the latter part of the book. There is nothing like having a trip actually planned to stir up a severe case of "hitch itch" in the most experienced of RVers. The trips set forth in "RV Vacations" are enough to get even RVing "Old Timers" off of the sofa and onto the road.

We highly recommend this book for those new to RVing; however, even those with hundreds of thousands of RVing miles behind them will find value in these pages.

Helpful for Families
Used this book before renting an RV out of our area (eg we flew to AZ, then rented RV), so we had to pack in advance. This book was the most helpful of the few I purchased. Packing Checklist and chapter on packing was invaluable. I would recommend this book to first time RV camping families!