Stream new movie releases and classic favorites on HBO. HBO app. Check back often for new releases and additions. RV Travel Newsletter Issue 8. Learn about RV camping, RV travel, RV news and much more. This newsletter, now in its 1. Thank you Issue 8. Week of August 51. SHOP AT AMAZONand help support this newsletter If you shop at Amazon. Well get a small commission on your purchases, which helps support this newsletter. Youll pay the exact same price as clicking directly to Amazon. Please consider bookmarking this page for your future Amazon. Thank you An easy way to remember how to shop at Amazon through our link is to simply click to http rvtravel. Best selling RV products and Accessories. UPDATED HOURLY. Search titles only has image posted today bundle duplicates include nearby areas austin, TX aus baton rouge btr. Todays Daily Deals at Amazon. Editors corner With Chuck Woodbury. Chuck at RVtravel. What you are reading here is not a blog. We call it a newsletter, but its also a magazine, the efforts of many writers. A blog reflects the voice of one person or a couple. Many readers of this newsletter have blogs. In them, they tell where theyve been and what theyve done. Most often they do it for themselves and for friends and family. RVtravel. com is the voice of many contributing writers including countless comments each issue from readers. We were already publishing when the first blogs debuted. Twelve of us work on the actual staff, some part time and a few full time. In addition, we have an IT person who keeps our website running smoothly and a bookkeeper who helps us stay solvent. This issue, number 8. Sunday, when our managing editor Diane Mc. Govern posted the shell of what would become, six days later, what you are now reading. The shell has space for my essay, news, ads and our other features. Throughout the week, various writers and editors post their articles. Russ and Tia De Maris gather up most of the news, although we all pitch in. By about midday Friday, the gaps are filled and everything is in place. Diane and I then polish things up, trimming wordiness, and fixing grammar and typos. An email goes out to more than 5. Saturday morning. The first surge of readers begins on the East Coast. Between 6 a. m. and 8 a. A trickle of traffic begins earlier from readers in the UK and across Europe. I wake up early Saturday morning, most often in the West, and say a little prayer that all is well that our server didnt go down overnight or that I didnt make a major goof when I do, a few dozen emails will await, telling me so. HOW WE PAY OUR BILLSWe earn about a third of our income through the sale of advertising. Another third comes from commissions we receive on items you purchase at Amazon. Install Cygwin Packages. With rare exception, those Amazon ads are not paid for in the way an advertiser would pay for space. 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Today, I try my best to abide by the rules and ethics I learned along the way, beginning in my college journalism classes. Its always tempting to cross the line, for example to accept money to write glowing product reviews, which is epidemic on the Web. We receive such requests every day, and we always say no. Its tempting, too, when someone offers us thousands of dollars to email their advertising message though our 5. I told readers when I started this newsletter 1. I would not do that and I have stuck to that promise. As you read through this issue, pay attention to the names of the writers and their credentials. They are all experts. We know from letters that our columnists advice has not only helped our readers enjoy their RV travels more, but do so safely. Our columns on RV electricity by Mike Sokol have saved lives. We know because readers have told us. RVtravel. Its a serious business. We will continue to address difficult issues that other RV media are afraid to touch. This country, for example, needs more campgrounds and RV parks to accommodate the nearly half million new RVs sold each year. And we need better ones There are too many dumpy ones as is. We need better quality control by RV makers, and we need RV lemon laws, which the RV industry association fights whenever theyre proposed the last thing a manufacturer wants is to allow a customer to return an RV thats so badly made that it cant be fixed. And buyers of new RVs need to be better educated before plopping down six figures on an RV only to discover its not right for them or riddled with defects. The RV lifestyle is wonderful. But there are problems in Paradise, and my staff and I will try our best to influence positive change. The more readers we have, the louder our voice. And that is why we periodically ask you to please tell your friends, club members, Facebook friends and any other RVers or wannabees you know to sign up for this weekly publication. P. S. RVers are out and about a lot. We see beautiful scenery, but we also see a lot of people. It occurred to my staff and me recently that perhaps our readers could help in the search for missing children. And so, each week, beginning this issue, we will post photos and information about six kids who disappeared and have not been found. Please take a minute to study their faces. Perhaps with our 5. Wouldnt that be a wonderful thingMy Roadside Journalabout whatever is on my mind, not necessarily RV relatedDid you miss last weeks RV Travel Read it here. Directory of back issues. Is reading this newsletterworth 1. Our staff works hard to bring you a valuable newsletter every Saturday. Readers help make it possible with their voluntary subscriptions. Even a pledge of 5 a year is appreciated thats less than 1. Many readers pledge more 1. Your contributions make it possible for us to write about important matters, not just fluff to make advertisers and RV industry big shots happy. Enter a voluntary subscription. Use a credit card, Pay. Pal or mail a check. Demand for National Park Senior Passes taxing supply. It still costs 1. Senior Pass to American National Parks. But not for long. On August 2. 8, the fee jumps to 8. Publicity over the dramatic price hike has sent eligible citizens flocking to National Parks and other NPS sites to get one.