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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.

Whether you are thinking about purchasing your first RV or you’re a seasoned veteran with thousands of miles under your RV belt, RV YouTube channels can be informative and entertaining. Here are 5 must-watch channels that will benefit all RVers – new and old alike.

With information on destinations, driving tips, RV maintenance and how-to’s, these RV YouTube channels are as helpful and informative as they are entertaining and inspiring.

Packing up to leave your campsite is never the highlight of anyone’s camping trip. Be honest, how many memorable photos do you have of folding up the camp chairs or retracting the awning? When’s the last time you reminisced about a favorite vacation and fondly recalled coiling up the extension cord as one of the major highlights?

Tearing down the campsite and packing it all away for departure isn’t the part of the trip that holds the dearest memories. But if not done thoroughly and efficiently, there may be a story or two to tell about a fiasco that happened. You want your vacations to have plenty of memorable moments, not infamous stories like, “Remember the time your brother forgot to check under the RV and we ran over all the fishing gear when we pulled out?”

When you have an RV tear-down checklist, it streamlines the process of packing up your campsite so you can end your trip on a positive note, not a stressful or chaotic one.