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Help With Sightseeing
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When you are RVing in your beautiful LD, what is your most favorite source for discovering sights to see enroute? State travel guides? AAA guide books? Friends recommendations? Internet? Other?
 They say that the real fun in RVing is the travel, not necessarily the destination. I think that may be so, so your help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Paul
NE 50
Re: Help With Sightseeing
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Yahoo Message Number: 64887
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When you are RVing in your beautiful LD, what is your most favorite source for discovering sights to see enroute? State travel guides? AAA guide books? Friends recommendations? Internet? Other?

They say that the real fun in RVing is the travel, not necessarily the destination. I think that may be so, so your help is appreciated.

Thanks, Paul NE 50

1. Internet
2. Alphabetzied accordian file into which travel articles are filed  by state
3. State/local guidebooks

I prefer to plan trips but always try to allow time to stumble on new places and follow friends/other travelers' recommendations.

Chris Horst
Denver
Formerly: 2002 30' IB
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They say that the real fun in RVing is the travel, not necessarily the destination. I think that may be so, so your help is appreciated.
The beauty of it - you can have it both ways. At times it IS the destination. I.e. our LD becomes a mountain cabin, or a beach cabana, or a desert outpost - while we spend days at a time wandering on foot or bike to explore. Yet on our month-long vacations, we may rarely spend more than a night at a camp, and that just to relax over a bbq'd dinner and campfire discussing and sharing our daily travel experiences.

To answer more specifically, I combine the internet with any other sources at hand, then pretty much toss it mostly out the window once enroute. We let the trip unfold as it may.

Steve
2004 FL
2013 Honda Fit
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When you are RVing in your beautiful LD, what is your most favorite source for discovering sights to see enroute? State travel guides? AAA guide books? Friends recommendations? Internet? Other?

Paul, one of our favorites is "Country Discoveries" magazine -- http://tinyurl.com/hbhzl -- which has articles about all sorts of interesting places to see and visit...unusual stuff that isn't in most of the guide books.  I scan articles I want to keep so that I don't have to carry a lot of magazines with us.

Linda Hylton

2004 Red 23.5' TK http://map.datastormusers.com/user3.cfm?user=1167 http://earl-linda.blogspot.com/
Linda Hylton
Help With Sightseeing
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On Apr 1, 2006, at 10:16 PM, Paul wrote:
 
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When you are RVing in your beautiful LD, what is your most favorite source for discovering sights to see enroute? State travel guides? AAA guide books? Friends recommendations? Internet? Other?
Hi Paul, All of the above!  Since I'm a full timer, I usually just have a general idea of a destination for that day/week/month or season.  I start by spreading out appropriate maps and atlases (yes plural!) and see if I can plan a route following those lines that have little dots next to them -- a really scientific method!  My preferred map is one that colorizes and differentiates between private land and the different kinds of public lands and that has little green triangles indicating campgrounds in the vicinity.

If heading towards a national park/forest/scenic byway, etc., then I'll go to my Bookmarks for public lands and start surfing online for highlights in a particular area and/or public boondocking possibilities or campgrounds, preferably close to a "water feature."

And, like Linda H., I too think "Country Discoveries" is a fun read and includes lots of information about neat, off-the-beaten-track tourist attractions.  Other resources I refer to are scenic byways books, National Geographic books for parks and byways, publications I've picked up at welcome centers, ranger stations, chambers of commerce and recommendations in the data base here and from members of this forum.  Then there's nothing quite so helpful as those enthusiastic word-of-mouth testimonials.  Right now, I am in the middle of a west-to-east adventure that has included stops recommended by Ilene and John VanGossen, Bill Haas, Anne Johnson and Chris W. -- all of them worthwhile.

Lorna, leaving for Fredericksburg, TX and all the must-sees in that area recommended by folks on this board!
2003 RB
 
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"Paul"  wrote:

When you are RVing in your beautiful LD, what is your most favorite source for discovering sights to see enroute?

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...we always looked for the first tourist info location as we crossed into an area.
--- The "visitor center" (if there is one) is always a good stop when one first enters a state or local area.  Also check ranger stations and the local C of C office.  You might also want to plan sightseeing by doing some pre-trip (or on-road) research at each state's tourism website.  This site (from "Entrepreneur" magazine) provides handy links to each state's tourism website:
 http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/0,4621,288653,00.html

NB -- The article that the links come from is dated December 2004, but the state links themselves are current.

Also check the Files section of the message board; click on "FAQs" and then on the blurb on "campgrounds".  There's "sightseeing" resource information there, soo.

Joan
2003 TK has a new home