Travel & Campground Guides
Season of the Sand Blossoms: A Desert Wildflower
Journey - a DVD. With another great wildflower season upon us,
this DVD will inspire you to get off the beaten path to search out fields
of beauty. This 42-minute DVD has three parts.
A few years back there was a 100-year bloom. Random
Walk Productions shows desert flowers in all their stunning glory from
that bloom. In the first selection, Season of the Sand Blossoms
is set to music, showing scenes of this fantastic bloom from all over the
Southwest.
Desert Gold, the second selection, is a
doumentary about wildflowers, why some years are bloom, others years
bust and how wildflowers are critical to the ecosystem. Several scientist
and Native American tradition-keepers tell the life story of desert
wildflowers.
The third section on the DVD is and identification guide
to the plants and animals shown on the other selections.
This is another excellent wildflower year. Season of the Sand Blossoms
will put you in the mood to go see wildflowers for youself. The
identification guide will help you identify what you are seeing. And, if
you had to leave the SW before the bloom started (or didn't get here)
get this DVD and see what you missed. It's a stunning display. 42
minutes. $15.00
West Coast RV Camping: The Complete Guide to More
than 1,800 RV Parks and Campgrounds in California, Oregon, and Washington by Tom Stienstra
West Coast Camping includes information on more than 1800 RV parks
in California, Oregon and Washington. The more I look at it the more I
like it. You can find RV parks in several ways:
Stienstra does not include all campgrounds, nor those that are in
extremely remote locations, very difficult to reach or where the access
road is extremely narrow or twisty. Included are many state parks, some
national park and other federal campgrounds. He does mention the longest
RV the campground can accommodate but not how many sites of each. If you
have a rig longer than 35 feet, you may want to verify that there are open
sites of the size you need. Also, prices can go up anytime so verify the
price if that is a concern.
If you are like most RVers we know, one campground guide is not enough.
If you will be spending time in these any of these three states and want
to enjoy their beauty, this is one campground guide you must add to your
collection.
Take Your RV
to Europe: The
Low-Cost Route to Long-Term Camping by Adelle and Ron Milavsky
Great Eastern RV Trips, by Gordon Groene and Janet Groene
Great Eastern RV Trips
is a handy guide for
someone exploring the east by RV. Trips from Florida to the Canadian
Maritimes and Quebec and as far west as the Mississippi are included.
Arranged by season, you can follow the suggested itinerary or use it as a
source book of places to visit and festivals and events to look for.
An example of one summer trip is "Chesapeake Bay: Feast on Seafood
and Seascapes." Included are:
 | mileage |
| tourist bureaus to contact for more detailed information |
| tips and boxes with ideas, events, and more resources |
Autumn trips take you to spectacular fall colors. Winter trips include
several in southern states. Spring trips include many of the mountain
ranges or following the Natchez Trace. And summer trips explore northern
states and Canada Though arranged by season, you need not limit yourself
to that time of year.
The introduction has many good tips for RV travel and how to best use
this book. For those new to long RV trips, or someone new to the east
coast, this is an excellent resource. The authors stress that you must
still do your homework, but this book will save any RVer a lot of research
time by allowing you to pick a section that sounds particularly
interesting and have resources and ideas at your fingertips.
Great Eastern RV Trips may be ordered from Amazon.
Traveler's
Guide to Mexican Camping (second edition), By Mike and Terri Church
If you are heading for Mexico you won't want to cross the border
without a copy of Traveler's Guide to Mexican Camping.
In the first chapter the Church's share what Mexico has to offer RVers.
They then provide three possible itineraries—West Coast, Grand Coastal
and Colonial Mexico—for those who have never been.
In the second chapter, Details, Details, Details, the reader has their questions answered about many things, such as the cost of
traveling in Mexico; what the campgrounds are like; traveling in caravans;
getting money; water and produce; driving in Mexico and the many other
details one wonders about when traveling in another country. This chapter
is so complete it even shows the Spanish road signs and translates them to
English.
Concerned about crossing the border? Chapter Three will quickly put you
at ease. You will learn what documentation you must have; what you can and
can't take; and what the border crossing process is. It then details each
of the border crossings with maps, location of the Migración and Banjercito
offices where you must stop; which crossings have the most space for large
RVs; and what hours the crossings, Migración and Banjercito offices are
open.
The rest of the book is broken out into destination chapters. These
chapters start off with information about the the region covered,
including highlights of the area, road information and general information
of importance to RVers. The Church's are quick to point out their book is
not a tourist guide—other books offer this type of
information. What the Church's offer is specific information of interest
to RVers for traveling in Mexico. This information includes a listing of
over 300 campgrounds with detailed directions (including maps) to the
campgrounds. It also tells what facilities are available at the
campgrounds and how accessible they are for large rigs.
The final chapter offers the same type of information about camping in
Belize.
Traveler's
Guide to Mexican Camping is a very comprehensive and well written
resource for those traveling to Mexico.
Traveler's Guide to Mexican Camping may be ordered from Amazon.
Mike and Terri Church are also the authors of:
Traveler's
Guide to Alaskan Camping
Traveler's
Guide to Camping Mexico's Baja
Traveler's
Guide to European Camping
RV Adventures in the Pacific Northwest
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