Category: Tips & Tricks

Your heart is pounding; you can feel the blood coursing through your veins. Your nerves are tingling with anticipation. You are desperately trying to hide your excitement, but you already have your first five camping trips mentally planned and you haven’t even driven your new RV off the lot yet!

Purchasing an RV can be an exhilarating experience, whether it’s your first purchase or you’ve owned half a dozen. Even though there’s an adrenaline rush with the purchase of something new, don’t let the excitement cause you to forget your RV pre-purchase inspection. Here are 3 tips to remember when purchasing an RV.

For new RVers, the anticipation of taking your first trip to the dump station can be like first day of school jitters meets colonoscopy. You may be anxious because you’ve never emptied your tanks before. You may be nervous that everyone else is watching, or worried that you’ll miss a step in the process and create a black-water disaster.

There’s no reason to ruin a perfectly good vacation with a dump station epic fail…or simply the anticipation of a disaster. We’ll cover what you need to know to survive your trips to the RV dump station so you can end every camping trip on a good note and with empty tanks. Then, the only tales of harrowing adventure will be those that happen while hiking, fishing, swimming, and the like during your camping trips.

According to one of the most famous folk songs in the United States, written by Woody Guthrie:

“This land is your land, this land is my land,

From California, to the New York Island,

From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters

This land was made for you and me.”

What better way to enjoy this land of ours than to see it up close? And, what better way to see it up close than to camp on it? The Yellowstone Act of 1872 established by Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant, was the first act to set a tract of land apart for public use. Today, there are over 100 million acres of public land in state and national parks. Camping on public land is a wonderful way to appreciate and enjoy nature from coast to coast.