There are many RV magazines out there on the market; Motorhome, Trailer Life, Highways, Today's RV, Family Motor Coaching, to name a few.
What one's do you find the most helpful, enjoyable and why?
I get all of the above and a few others because of my incurable RV addiciton and find tech articles and travel stories to be among my favorites. Gaylord Maxwell and Bill Graves are my favorite columnists. The 10 minute tech articles are always interesting, too.
When I'm done with the magazines, I drop them off at my local RV dealer for the customer lounge. Who knows, maybe one of the sales reps might read an article and actually learn a little something aobut the RV's he sells!
Best Regards!
-- Edited by Old Snipe at 20:29, 2006-10-08
mikeway said
06:18 PM Oct 8, 2006
I only keep two magazines now, although I have subscribed to or purchased as many as 6 a month. The 2 we get regularly are FMCA and Highways. The Highways articles often mirror the other magazines.
The magazine I enjoy the most is published by our membership campground group.
Mike
bjoyce said
06:52 PM Oct 8, 2006
1. Escapees magazine - written mostly by people like us
2. Gypsy Journal (http://www.gypsyjournal.net/ ) - a lot of fun to read, but don't get it if you are easy to offend.
Darrell and Judy said
05:53 AM Oct 9, 2006
It I had to narrow it down to one, it would be the Escapees, but we do enjoy Highways magazine. We still get Trailer Life and will keep getting it for awhile, but the other two are more relavent to our lifestyle.
Old Snipe said
03:22 PM Oct 9, 2006
Oh yeah, I forgot. I get the Gypsey Journal, too. I had the honor of meetin Nick and Miss Terry last January at Quartzsite. He has a great sense of humor and I enjoy it in his paper, he calls 'em like he sees 'em.
Best Regards!
Tony and Judy said
12:57 PM Oct 11, 2006
I get Motorhome, Highways & Camperway Northeast edition. It seems most of the interesting tips are repeated in all three. But at least after reading it 3 times it sinks in & I'm more likely not to forget!
emeacham said
02:34 PM Oct 11, 2006
We get Motor Home, Highways, and Escapees. I like all three, but am starting to like Escapees most. We're in the process of ridding ourselves of stuff in preparation for going full time next year, and the Escapees magazine seems most relevant to us now.
I like the tech tips, action lines, and general "living in your RV" hints.
Happy traveling,
Ellie
RVDude said
07:16 PM Oct 12, 2006
There is a brand new magazine coming out in Jan07 called "RV-Xtreme Magazine" (www.rvxtreme.com). Seems to be a quite a bit of a different flavor than the rest so I am not sure what to expect. I have subscribed and will advise on the first issue.
Joan On The Road said
09:56 PM Oct 12, 2006
We still subscribe to Motorhome, FMCA, Highways, and Escapees. We pick up RV Journal when we're in the west. My favorite is Escapees. I scan all of them and go online to save specific articles when possible. But I read 90% of the Escapees magazine. Most of the articles are geared to fulltimers and seem "real life" to me. My least fave would be FMCA but it comes with membership. There's too much space devoted to national and chapter affairs which are not our cup of tea.
Joan
bjoyce said
07:16 AM Oct 13, 2006
Joan: Escapees magazine is available as a free PDF download off the Escapees website, you just need a MYSKP id. No need to scan those articles as long as you have the ability to download a 15MB pdf file.
Of course as a computer guy I interpret "scan" as "use a scanner to save an image to my computer". If you meant "scan" like "I scan through the article titles and read the ones that sound interesting", then that is something completely different.
-- Edited by bjoyce at 09:19, 2006-10-13
Joan On The Road said
07:59 AM Oct 23, 2006
bjoyce wrote:
Of course as a computer guy I interpret "scan" as "use a scanner to save an image to my computer". If you meant "scan" like "I scan through the article titles and read the ones that sound interesting", then that is something completely different.
-- Edited by bjoyce at 09:19, 2006-10-13
Funny...:) By scan I meant to "eyeball". I did download Escapees once and then forgot I could do that so thanks for the reminder...seriously. Guess I had a brain fade on that one.
Motorhome Mag has nice PDF files for most articles so I save the travel ones on the computer in a "state by state" folder. Then when we reach that state I pull out info. I have a file box filled with years of Motorhome articles that I collected while we were "dreamin" and if I got my act together I could scan (computerese) all those into my computer folder...and gain space!!
There are many RV magazines out there on the market; Motorhome, Trailer Life, Highways, Today's RV, Family Motor Coaching, to name a few.
What one's do you find the most helpful, enjoyable and why?
I get all of the above and a few others because of my incurable RV addiciton and find tech articles and travel stories to be among my favorites. Gaylord Maxwell and Bill Graves are my favorite columnists. The 10 minute tech articles are always interesting, too.
When I'm done with the magazines, I drop them off at my local RV dealer for the customer lounge. Who knows, maybe one of the sales reps might read an article and actually learn a little something aobut the RV's he sells!
Best Regards!
-- Edited by Old Snipe at 20:29, 2006-10-08
The magazine I enjoy the most is published by our membership campground group.
Mike
1. Escapees magazine - written mostly by people like us
2. Gypsy Journal (http://www.gypsyjournal.net/ ) - a lot of fun to read, but don't get it if you are easy to offend.
Oh yeah, I forgot. I get the Gypsey Journal, too. I had the honor of meetin Nick and Miss Terry last January at Quartzsite. He has a great sense of humor and I enjoy it in his paper, he calls 'em like he sees 'em.
Best Regards!
We get Motor Home, Highways, and Escapees. I like all three, but am starting to like Escapees most. We're in the process of ridding ourselves of stuff in preparation for going full time next year, and the Escapees magazine seems most relevant to us now.
I like the tech tips, action lines, and general "living in your RV" hints.
Happy traveling,
Ellie
We still subscribe to Motorhome, FMCA, Highways, and Escapees. We pick up RV Journal when we're in the west. My favorite is Escapees. I scan all of them and go online to save specific articles when possible. But I read 90% of the Escapees magazine. Most of the articles are geared to fulltimers and seem "real life" to me. My least fave would be FMCA but it comes with membership. There's too much space devoted to national and chapter affairs which are not our cup of tea.
Joan
Joan: Escapees magazine is available as a free PDF download off the Escapees website, you just need a MYSKP id. No need to scan those articles as long as you have the ability to download a 15MB pdf file.
Of course as a computer guy I interpret "scan" as "use a scanner to save an image to my computer". If you meant "scan" like "I scan through the article titles and read the ones that sound interesting", then that is something completely different.
-- Edited by bjoyce at 09:19, 2006-10-13