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Camping With Kids
Camping With Kids

There’s no way around it, camping with kids is a lot of work, but the payoff is huge.  It’s a lot more than just spending time together as a family or working together for basic necessities (like food and shelter).  Camping is a time to relax and let go of all of the house rules.  [...]

Airstream-Only Park in Minnesota
Airstream-Only Park in Minnesota

The Minnesota Airstream Park is an Airstream-only RV campground with many resort-like amenities.   The member-only park sits on 80 acres in the middle of Minnesota and has 125 campsites.   Each member of the park is a shareholder of Airstream Travel Trailers & Motorhomes and is entitled to exclusive use of the campsite and [...]

Keeping Your Cool While Biking
Keeping Your Cool While Biking

Biking is a great way to see the outdoors, and summertime is the perfect time to enjoy a bike ride.  However, the hot weather can sometimes make bike riding not only uncomfortable, but also dangerous.  Your water bottle does more than just hydrate you –freeze it overnight to keep it cooler longer during your ride.  [...]

Getting Our Kids to Love the Outdoors
Getting Our Kids to Love the Outdoors

As a child, Jim Casada, writer for the Herald-Journal, has always loved the outdoors.  Refusing to give in to the technological pull that cell phones and the internet have on us, Jim continues to willingly live in “yesteryear.”  As a result, his life is brighter because of his on-going love affiair with the outdoors.  Jim [...]

Books About Hiking in Pittsburgh
Books About Hiking in Pittsburgh

Outdoors editors for the Tribune-Review, Bob Frye, has written a couple of books about hiking spots in southwestern Pennsylvania.  Inspired by casual hikes with his grandfather, Frye has taken his love for the outdoors and created guides to hiking throughout the 104-mile area of western Pennsylvania.  The book, “Best Hikes Near Pittsburgh” includes 35 area [...]

Hall of Fame for Airstream
Hall of Fame for Airstream

Airstream Inc. has made it to the Hall of Fame! Route 66 Rendezvous Cruisin’ Hall of Fame, that is.  The San Bernardino, California Convention & Visitors Bureau has announced the four honorees, according to a recent article in the RV Business.
Other nominees are the Grand National Roadster Show, which has been called the “granddaddy of [...]

Traveling with Pets
Traveling with Pets

Pets are a part of the family and a lot of people like to include them when vacationing.  Kampgrounds of America, in conjunction with PetTravelCenter.Com, has come up with a list of ten tips when planning a trip with a pet.  The tips include safety issues, health regulations, and general reminders to make traveling with [...]

Airstream Skillet in Seattle
Airstream Skillet in Seattle

Photograph by Forbes.com
Skillet is located in somewhere in Seattle, Washington, but you’ll have to check their website to find out exactly where.  The moving restaurant is actually a 1962 Airstream, which has been converted into a fully-operational mobile kitchen, and goes to different street corners every day.  They have quite a following throughout the city [...]

Oceanfront RVing
Oceanfront RVing

Camping at the beach just feels like the perfect vacation.   Camp Hatteras in Rodanthe, North Carolina, has over 50 acres of oceanfront and soundfront camping available for anyone traveling in an RV.  The park has over 400 paved campsites with full hookups, including cable television and WiFi internet at each site.  The soundfront marina offers [...]

Airstream Recovered in Colorado
Airstream Recovered in Colorado

Mark Evans is known as the Airstream rescue guy.  He lives in Marion, Kansas and together with his wife, Deni, and their children, Ashley and Derek, they find and restore neglected Airstreams.  Mark likes to preserve their character, making each Airstream feel like a time capsule when you step inside one.  This particular 1954 Airstream [...]

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