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Please share with your fellow RVers, humorous road and camping stories. These stories should be no more than 500 words and family-friendly. Don’t worry if you can’t write professionally, just give us the basics and we will “touch it up” for publication.
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July 7, 2008
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Karen Minard |
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Oh No, It's Raining!!
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Campground in Texarkana
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July 6, 2008
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While relaxing on my couch reading one afternoon, on my day off from work as a "Travel Nurse", I was so enjoying the beautiful afternoon with my door and windows open. There were clouds but nothing that looked threatening. As I reclined and struggled to read through my eyelids I became aware of the sound and sight of rain out my window. Oh drats!! Oh brother, I realized the "rain" was water overflowing out of the vent pipe from by black tank. I had started a rinse out flush of the black tank and forgot to turn the water off. Thank goodness it was after the tank had been emptied of all its original goodies.
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Angus Wilson |
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Hooked Up
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Arizona
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March 8, 2008
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We were camped in a federal Camp ground in the White Mountains of Arizona. While out walking in the late afternoon we came up on a couple of camping neighbors staring and pointing at a 30 feet long travel trailer in a camping spot. "Would you look at that, " the husband demanded. " I was told there was no hook ups in this park". By this time another two couples sidled up and joined the staring at the trailer with a water hose connected to the faucet, and the usual sewer hose connected to the underground sewer. The electric extension cord was plugged into the electrical stand pipe. One of the crowd was really irritated and stomped off to bring back the host. The host insisted that there was no hookups, but gasped at the obvious sewer, water, and electric plugged into the ground connections. We all marched over to the trailer, who's owner had come out to see what the commotion was all about. The camper walked over to the connections, and turned to look at all of us.'Works every time", he said, as he plucked the dummy sewer, water, and electrical ground connections up in the air with one hand. We gasped and hurried off to our "NO hook-up" camp sites. Pretty slick don't you think!
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The Stewarts |
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U-Boat Commander
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February 26, 2008
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My husband used to sell wave runners so we would often go down to the beach and invite others to come and play with the boats. Most of the time we had our truck to haul the trailer of watercraft and he would drive down onto the beach, back up the trailer so it was in the water and un-hook the wave runners. Then he could just pop off the break and the wave runners would just float off. He could then drive back up to the street and the boats would be launched with very little effort. It was quite clever. My Dad had given him a funny hat/cap, that said "captin" on it with stars and a logo, for him to wear while he was on the beach. It helped others ID who was in charge of things.
One weekend he planned a big event and invited many people to come try out the wave runners over the course of three days. We decided to take an RV to stay in so we could have a place to "do business" without the sand. We get to the beach and he does his thing with launching the wave runners just as he had with the truck. Backed the RV up so just the trailer was in the water, released the crafts and tried to drive back up to the street, only it was not going as well as expected. The RV didn't move as fast when he popped off the breaks. He rolled it back and forth in reverse and drive to getsome momentum and soon found himself in "deep water" literally. The more he tried, the deeper the rear end sunk. The less he tried, the deeper the rear end sunk. Not willing to admit defeat he continued to try different options until finally the back half of the RV was half-way under water.
The beach patrol showed up and asked whos RV it was. Well, by now, a big crowed had gathered and they quickly directed the officers to the guy wearing the captins hat. They walked over to him and with a straight face, asked my husband if he was a certified U-Boat commander or did he need some help?
We had to get the thing towed and it took forever to dry it out. He did do some good business that weekend, given the crowd he had gathered. Though he has never been in the military, he will always be our family's very own U-Boat Commander.
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Schneider |
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Do you have any pets?
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February 17, 2008
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Our family enjoyed traveling in the motor home. We didn't get to do the normal summer traveling because my Dad's business delt with auto air conditioning in AZ (summer is like Christmas in that business.) So... we were always trying to squeeze as much fun into the other school breaks as possible.
One spring break we headed to Oregon, making stops along the way in the beautiful California Parks, My Dad likes to drive in the early morning while the rest of us are still groggy, he is the only Morning person in our family. One morning after spending an evening at a beautiful state park we gathered our things, battened down the hatches, let out the airbags and took off over the mountain. Lots of winding and climbing so it took some time. When we arrived at our next location there was still daylight to enjoy the lake.
Driving up to the park entrance we were stopped at the gate to pay our fee and asked if we were here for the day or overnight. Answering the typical questions; the height and length of the motorhome, how long we planned to stay, and lastly did we have any pets with us... Dad responded "yes, a dog." What size and breed, "small to medium poodle mut" and then he called "Peaches" up to show the man. All of a sudden we all stopped and looked at each other and called her realizing we hadn't really notice her the whole way up the mountain. She did like to hide when the road was crazy. She wasn't in the motorhome, we hadn't remembered her coming back in before we left the last park.
My Dad turned that 34 foot motorhome around on a dime and drove back down that mountain in half the time it took to get up. We helped the cause by crying most of the way!
The park was dark when we arrived but, out we all jumped with flashlights calling "Peaches." Within minutes she ran out of the bushes and straight to us. The other campers who were there now had noticed her early in the day and tried to get her to come to them so they could try and read her collar or give her food. She would not go near them running and darting away when they tried. However, she would not leave the camp site either. We had rescued her a few years earlier on an empty road all matted and filthy. Apparently she was far more loyal than we were. She jumped right in and took her place on the passenger seat NOT to be moved, while we drove back up that mountain through the night. She made a point of jumping in before us as soon as the door opened and would not get out if we didn't get out first.
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Carol McDowall |
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HOW EMBARRASSING
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February 16, 2008
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We were camped in a very nice campground just for one night on our way south. My husband introduced himself to our next door neighbour ...he said his name was John, and he was from Arbutus Ridge in Victoria, B.C. Anyway, we wished him a good trip. Three months later, we were parked in a campground and the neighbour came over and introduced himself and said he was from Arbutus Ridge in Victoria and my husband said that's interesting , the first night we were out camping, we also met a man from Arbutus Ridge in Victoria....the other guy said, Yes, and that guy was me...HOW EMBARRASSING.
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