Fun Trips and Vacations
on a budget

by
Bob Masters
Traveler & Author

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How it All Started  
In the Beginning
   Our family started RVing in a customized 1958 Flxible coach in the 1960s. While in government service, we traveled extensively throughout the 48 states. At the beginning I would log our travels, both for the required trip reports and to record the interesting attractions, campgrounds, highway routes and other things that I thought should be remembered. This evolved into writing 'travel logs' describing many of our journeys.
   We traveled extensively with children, first our own and, later, our grandchildren. We have become very familiar with the best places to stop and enjoy what a local community has to offer.

Writing for WMI Websites
   After I retired, the Flexible coach was replaced with a much larger MCI coach purchased from a wannabe Country singing duo who no longer wished to be a duo. About that time the World Wide Web achieved prominence on the Internet and I started writing a series of descriptive travel pieces for www.CarolinaNow.com. This evolved into travel pieces for many of the other Wheatley Memorial Institute sponsored websites, —  especially most of the www.HiwayGuide.com websites.

The RV-Guide.org Project
   Recently, I started the RV Guide project at Wheatley Memorial Institute to make available to RVers a graphic directory of the locations of RV parks and campgrounds near the Interstate highways (see: RV-Park-Guide.org) including locations of RV sales and service centers.

 The Collection Effort
   Having been constantly bombarded with 'suggestions' to collect these writing so they would be available from one place, I started to create an inventory of what I had written for whom and where published. One problem I encountered is that I do not own the copyrights for many of these writings. The folks who paid me also got the copyrights. Okay, that's only fair. My work for Wheatley Memorial Institute, however, was pro bono and I do own the copyrights for those pieces. The problem with most of these pieces is that they do not stand alone which means they have to be rewritten. This takes a lot of time and, quite frankly, it is much more fun to write new pieces than to rewrite old stuff.

Current Travels
   We travel now with great grand-children but not as frequently due the significantly increased expenses (and that includes many things besides diesel fuel). We sold the MCI coach and now have a 'fifth wheel' trailer which is much more economical. So I will continue to write pieces about our travels including information others can use to enjoy what we have enjoyed.

And the other writings...
   I have also written advisory pieces on RVing, selecting routes to minimize trip costs and RVing with children. These, too, will eventually be republished on this website.
   I welcome comments, suggestions, even criticisms. Type the following address into your e-mail program (and don't forget the hyphens):

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