Archive for 2008

>The owner of a motorhome videos his Class C motorhome go up in flames. The driver of a car behind him got his attention that his rig was on fire. The RVer used his fire extinguisher, but it wasn’t adequate. The buzzing sound and erupting flames below the RV is the propane tank pressure releif valve releasing propane.

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>The Long Long Trailer as one of my favorite movies. In my opinion, it is far better and more entertaining than RV with Robin Williams.

In the Long Long Trailer, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez play newlyweds Tacy and Nicky Collini. Nicky’s job keeps him moving around the county. Tacy thinks having their own traveling home… before they were called RVs… is a much better idea than staying in motels and rented rooms.

Nicky is against the idea at first, but when he realizes Tacy is serious, agrees to buy a trailer.

During the film, Nicky learns how to drive ‘forty feet of train’ through congested city streets and the importance of ‘trailer brakes first!’ Then he backs the ‘rig’ over Aunt Anastasia’s prize roses.

Tacy tries to cook dinner in the New Moon trailer while Nicky drives them to their destination which proves to be a really bad idea.

Along the way she collects rocks as souvenirs of the places she has been along with lots of canned fruits and vegetables, eventually causing the trailer to be greatly overloaded.

All the things RVers still do!

Get The Long, Long Trailer from Amazon.com for under $10

Also, RV Basics.com book store for our list of recommended RV books and Check out the DVDs at RV Education 101 for educational and fun RV videos.

Visit trailerite.com for more information about the movie and the book it was basied on as well as Clinton Twiss who wrote The Long, Long Trailer, which chronicals his first year of full time RVing back in the late 1940s.

Watch the theatrical trailer.

>Great video by Michelin on how to handle a blowout in your motorhome or other RV.

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DVD: Drive Your Motorhome Like a Pro
Learn how… and why…to drive a motorhome the right, safe way. In this 67-minute DVD, RVer/tour bus driver Lorrin Walsh. and host Mark Polk show you everything you need to know to confidently drive a motorhome. This should be essential viewing for novice motorhome drivers, but even experienced RVers will learn things they don’t know.