Take a look at this article from the Courier Post Online to see why RV owners love taking their RV on vacation!
"It might seem like filling up the 75-gallon gas tank on a 33-foot motor home would make John Shepherd grumble and curse -- and maybe rethink his vacation plans.
Not so -- not even with a gallon of gas costing $1 more than it did a year ago.
Shepherd, of Lenhertsville, Pa., is about to leave for a months-long trek from Pennsylvania to Alaska, and plans another lengthy jaunt early next year. Like a surprisingly large number of recreational-vehicle owners, he's unfazed by the $200-and-up cost of filling up his Fleetwood.
"If we were going in a car every night, you can expect to spend $120 for a motel room and meals," he said. "It's just a lifestyle. It's more convenient."
It's a piece of the summer economy that is just not that sensitive to gas-pump shock, it seems, though the deep recession did cut deeply into sales of RVs for two years before rebounding last year.
Nationally, more than half of RV owners surveyed this spring by the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association said they'll be going camping more often than last year, with many taking more frequent, shorter vacations. Just 9 percent said they'll go camping less this summer.
And the trade group expects overall RV sales to rise to 263,100 this year, up 8.6 percent. That's still a far cry from the 390,500 units sold before the crash in 2006 but is a nice rebound from the 165,700 units sold in 2009.
"When gas prices rise, they don't stop RVing," said RVIA President Richard Coon. "We will face some headwinds such as gas prices and uncertain economic factors, but overall, we have momentum now that will help us continue the recovery that began last year." (Read More)
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