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Hollywood Casino and Penn National Race Course, Grantville, PA
A year ago we tried to go to the Hollywood Casino with the Roadtrek. The casino is part of the Penn National Race Course near Hershey, PA - the city the chocolate comes from. Before going on that trip...
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Finally Resolving the Window Cover Problem
The front of every Roadtrek roof has a signature thee windows. On the Chevy Roadtreks and also the new Zion, these are real windows. On Sprinter Roadtreks these are decals. I would so much have...
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Colonial Williamsburg Revisited
I have been going to Colonial Williamsburg for over 50 years and have seen many changes over those years. Meryl and I started going to CW - as called by those who work there and those who have a...
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For Chevy Roadtrek Owners - Replacing a Broken Sun Visor Clip
This article is going to be of interest to just the owners of Chevy Roadtrek owners with the newer Chevy Express 3500 or 2500 van - that would be Roadtrek 170, 190, and 210. This applies to years from...
View ArticleNever a Dull Moment - Part 1
There is a superstition that if one starts out the day saying that it will be delightful and carefree, this almost assuredly guarantees just the opposite. Well, I was looking forward to our October...
View ArticleNever a Dull Moment Part 2
Welcome back! In our last article - Never a Dull Moment Part 1, we never actually got to the article that I sat down to write. We took a meandering path to why we were going to a new campground in an...
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COUNTRY ACRES CAMPGROUND, GORDONVILLE, PA
Country Acres Campground is located in Gordonville, Pennsylvania which is in Lancaster County. There are many campgrounds in this heavily tourist visited area. We have been going to a different...
View ArticleHappy, Happy, Happy, Merry, Merry, Merry
With Christmas in two days and New Years next week, there is no better article now than to just wish everyone of our readers greetings of the season.Merry Christmas!Happy Christmas!Blessed Christmas!...
View ArticleTaking the Roadtrek for a Drive...
We have been having some odd things happen in the Roadtrek going back to our trip this past August. When I wrote about that trip I talked about the coach batteries not starting to drive when we started...
View ArticleIs WInterizing Necessary?
This may seem like a strange topic for an article after I have posted various articles over time about winterizing and how to do it, but recently I have been reading a number of posts from RVers (not...
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Historic Jamestowne - Jamestown, VA 2015
Let's leave the cold winter of 2016 and go back several months to a much warmer time and some nice memories of our Summer 2015 trip. One of the places that we went back to on this trip was Historic...
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Yorktown Battlefield National Park, Yorktown, Virginia 2015
On our trip this past August to the Historic Triangle - Williamsburg/Jamestown/Yorktown - we also revisited Yorktown Battlefield National Park - in Yorktown, Virginia. Yorktown is the site of the last...
View ArticleHymer Buys Out Roadtrek
On February 23, 2016, the German-based RV manufacturer, Erwin Hymer Group bought out all of the shares of Roadtrek Motorhomes, Inc. including its U.S. subsidiary, Roadtrek Motorhomes USA, Inc. (which I...
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Step Up or Sit Down
The title of this article is an attempt to be cute - not so sure it works... Anyway. I have been asked at times by readers and I have also seen in some RV forums about what to do to get down low on the...
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Table for One
There are two tables in my Roadtrek - one dining table for the back which fits in the rear aisle where the bed gets made up and one in the front that slides out of and flips up from a slim cabinet that...
View ArticleWill the RV Season Ever Start?
Spring is here. Since Spring arrived there have been two minor snow storms here in New York, two freeze warnings, and nights still going down into cold temps. I have heard the word "snow" and...
View ArticleThe Standard Hot Water Heater and the Water System
I have received questions from readers and also have encountered similar questions on regular RV forums from new RV owners about how the hot water tank works. While I have written about that in various...
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NEW COPILOT REALLY RV SPECIFIC GPS APP PART 1
Right here at the start of this article I want to make something to my readers very clear and be right up front from the beginning. I have received this app without charge for the purposes of reviewing...
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NEW COPILOT REALLY RV SPECIFIC GPS APP PART 2
PART 2Back to using the app -Okay, we will continue now as if the problems never happened (or as will hope will eventually be corrected as to routing and we are ready to head off on our trip. The app...
View ArticleA New Step in Sanitizing the Hot Water Tank
This year when we sanitized the the fresh tanks with bleach and water after de-winterizing I started to think about the article that I had just written about how the hot water tank works. I realized...
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