Candlestick RV Park draws the faithful
On a recent morning, Wes Bradford woke up in his red and gold 45-foot motor home, donned a San Francisco 49ers shirt and started working on dinner for 50.

Bradford, a Bakersfield resident, was nearly 300 miles from home, but he couldn't have been more comfortable: Candlestick RV Park, where his motor home was parked, has been a vacation destination for Bradford and many of his friends for two decades.
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There’s snow time like the present for some Sierra RV parks
Most Sierra campgrounds and RV parks shut down in winter, but a few stay open to accommodate cross-country skiers, snowshoers, skiers and snowmobile enthusiasts.

“We put our water lines down deep enough so they don’t freeze,” says Wally Walker, manager of the 44-site Eagle Ridge RV Park in Graeagle, Calif.
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Camping out along the Rose Parade route: RVs and sleeping bags There are two kinds of camping along the route of the Tournament of Roses Parade on New Year’s day: snuggling in sleeping bags around a charcoal fire, or playing cards in cozy RV.

Not only are RV dwellers more comfortable (and warmer), they have an important role to play in pre-Rose Parade security. Since the terrorists attacks of 2001, the Pasadena Police Department has recruited RV campers to report suspicious activity along the parade route. Police department volunteers go door-to-door among the RVs to give people information on what to look for and how to report it.
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Thor loans $10M to RV dealer network
Thor Industries Inc. is loaning $10 million to the owners of one of its RV dealer networks.

Shelby County-based Thor (NYSE:THO) made the loan to be used for working capital by FreedomRoads LLC, whose 47 dealerships across the country accounted for 15 percent of Thor’s RV sales in fiscal year 2009, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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NOT WITHOUT A HITCH: RVs grow green and grand in I-X Center Supershow
The answer to that perennial question parks this week at the I-X Center beginning Wednesday.

Located near Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, the I-X Center celebrates a different mode of transportation, taking off with the 34th annual Great Lakes Recreation Vehicle Association’s Ohio RV Supershow.
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Modern explorer Brian Brawdy shares his passion at Ohio RV Supershow
Brian Brawdy insists that he's not an extremist, and maybe he's right.

"I don't bungee jump," said the former New York City police officer. And according to his press materials, his home features "a complete kitchen, a queen-sized bed, a full bath, an entertainment center and button-controlled sliding walls." Click to Read More

Poster Child for Recession Shows Signs of Recovery
When Ed Neufeldt introduced Barack Obama at a speech in Elkhart County in February, the new president promised the laid off RV worker would find a job.

Since then, Neufeldt has found two, setting up bread displays in grocery stores and working with a company that hopes to hire hundreds of people to make electric motors.

"If I was on unemployment, I'd be bringing home more money than I bring home from both jobs," said Neufeldt, 63, of Wakarusa. "But that's OK, I want to work and I feel like I'm helping the economy a little not being on the unemployment ranks."
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