by Jim Hinckley | Mar 29, 2020 | RV Blog, travel trailer, Uncategorized
Almost from its inception the automobile was adapted and modified to the needs of the adventurers who who ventured into the wilderness but wanted to rough it with the comforts of home. Camping Out With An Automobile, Outing, March 1905, “There is a difference...
by Jim Hinckley | Feb 28, 2020 | RV Blog, travel trailer, Uncategorized
The one of a kind Travel Log was built in 1917. Still, it may not be the oldest recreational vehicle built in America. However, there is little doubt that it is probably the most unique RV ever built. And when it comes to obscure history or a fascinating back story,...
by Jim Hinckley | Jan 27, 2020 | RV Blog, travel trailer, Uncategorized
Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, John Burroughs, and Thomas Edison were proponents of roughing it with a few of the comforts of home. Between 1915 and 1924 the group that had become known as the Four Vagabonds enjoyed a series of summer camping trips that gave the men a...
by Jim Hinckley | Dec 28, 2019 | RV Blog, Uncategorized
His name was Royal Rounds and he was a dreamer. For him the recreational vehicle was not merely something to be used for the vacation road trip. It was to be a motorized home, a practical solution to the growing post war construction boom and the housing shortage at...
by Jim Hinckley | Nov 28, 2019 | RV Blog, travel trailer
Wally Byam didn’t invent the recreational vehicle. Still it was his contributions that gave rise to the American obsession with roughing it with the comforts of home, the network of campgrounds under the KOA banner, and even the plethora of repair facilities,...
