RV Bookstore

[sandykayak]

http://rvbookstore.com/shop/cv.aspx?c=72&m=2

check out the RVs and Campers 1900-2000, An Illustrated History for only fifteen bucks!

I just ordered it plus some of the videos...I have the RV Tales for women..I thought it was solo travel, but most of them are married.

there are lots of books and guides here but not that many RV narratives...anyone care to post some here?

I have Barbara Thacker's three books: the first one is called "How Can I be Lost when I don't know where I'm going"....I knew it was going to be my kind of book!!

[vjm1639]

NOW you're talking my language!   I Love to read and I love to read RV Travel books...I've read and loved all three of Barb Thacker's books, I also have the "RV Tale for Women" book and wasn't particularly thrilled with that one either.  Others in my collection (that I can think of while I'm at work..) are:

1)  "Steeles on Wheels" by Mark and Donia Steele
2)  "First We Quit our Jobs" by Marilyn Abraham
3)  "Movin' On" by Ron and Barb Hoftmeister
4)  "RV Having Fun Yet" by Ray Parker
5)  "Roads from the Ashes" by Megan Edwards
6)  There are several books by Sharlene Minshall (I think that's how her last name is spelled...she's called the Sliver Gypsy)
7)  And there are also several by Joei Carlton Hossack..("Alaska Bound and Gagged"  "Kiss This Florida, I'm Outta Here, By a Full-Time RVer"...and others)
 
That's all I can think of at the moment..I'm always trying to add to my collection!

[sandykayak]

thanks for posting those titles vjm... i'll look and see what i have... a lot are kayaking narratives and plain ol' hittin' the road narratives such as Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon.

Of course the grandaddy of 'em all was John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley.  Such a treat to see his Dulcinea truck camper at the Steinbeck museum in CA.

[sandykayak]

vjm, can I "blame" you for yet another amazon.com expenditure.

I've ordered four Joei Carlton Hossack books but the Kiss Florida... is out of stock... and unavailable at the first few used ones  section but I'll try again.

which is the first one where she travels to Europe with her husband..and returns alone!?

I printed your list, but please add any others you come across.

[vjm1639]

LOL..Oh Sandy, BELIEVE me...I can understand the Amazon trips! I've done my share of keeping them and many other book stores in business.   Anytime anyone wants suggestions on what to get me for birthday, Christmas, etc... I just usually say an Amazon gift certificate!  DH has a permanent link to my wish list on Amazon.  I told him long ago, I'm not a jewelry person, the way to my heart is through books!  
 
 I "think" the first one of Joei's books was Everyone's Dream, Everyone's Nightmare.   I got interested in her books after talking to a woman, probably in her late 50s, at a local campground one evening. She was backing a medium size Travel Trailer (quite well, I must say) into a site during a nasty thunderstorm. I walked over after the rain stopped and said hello to her, commented on the weather,  and we talked for a while. She told me she and her husband had planned all their lives to travel and finally he retired and they bought the TT. Shortly after they purchased it, he died. She said she just couldn't sell it and finally convinced  herself that she didn't die too..she had to continue with the dream they had.  She had been traveling for several months when I met her....had already come east across the middle of the United States and was headed back west. She said it was the best thing she had ever done and wasn't sure when she would stop traveling.    
 
I've had a problem with several of these types of books being out of stock and I will watch ebay for them too. I've had luck a few times that way.  
 
I also have Blue Highways and other similar ones (Peter Jenkins,  Walk Across America and others he's written)...and several of people building cabins in the woods and getting back to nature....many of folks hiking the Appalachian Trail or the Pacific Coast Triail...   sounds like we have similar interest in books!  :>

[sandykayak]

"I'm in heaven..."  (think: the song)

I'm celebrating my june birthday in March this year!  Last night I got the kamp Kot by Paha Que  //www.tentcot.com

It's really nifty but kinda bulky...a six-footer would look OK schlepping it but moi (at 5'0") ..it feels as if it's practically as high as I am!  (it's only 28" wide but with the straps over my shoulders....

then I got my new sevylor 9' SOT inflatable kayak

and then I got Steeles on Wheels (had ordered it on 3/18 and almost ordered it again yesterday!)

and then I got 3 RV Adventure videos from rvbookstore - watched the first one (Alaska by RV) last night and it's really super...no popups, of course that be bear country... tho I met a couple in CA who were heading to AK trailering one of those really tiny PUs that motorcyles can pull.

still to watch:  The Eastern Canada by RV and then Western Canada by RV

I think I've almost spend my bonus check!!!

vjm, how about us getting together on the back channel and compiling a list of this type of books and videos?  email me at sandykayak@yahoo.com

[vjm1639]

"vjm, how about us getting together on the back channel and compiling a list of this type of books and videos? email me at sandykayak@yahoo.com ("sandykayak@yahoo.com")

VIDEOS????Yikes..I don't have the videos!!!  Oh boy....something else to buy!!! hehehe..I'm gonna have to go home and start making my list to email ya!