Editor’s Note: This post is written by a member of LTV’s sponsored content team, The Leisure Explorers. Do you own a Leisure Travel Van and enjoy writing? Learn more about joining the team. Finally, We Reach the Coast Seven weeks on the road, driving more than 3,300 miles from Michigan to the California Coast, with stops to see caverns, hoodoos, Joshua trees, and metal dinosaurs. Took a spectacular Verde Canyon train ride and overnighted in quirky Quartzsite in Arizona. Ate barbecue in Texas and saw traditional Mexican dances and horseback riding skills at the San Antonia Stock Show and Rodeo ..read more

We met at the Pima County Fairgrounds in Tucson, Arizona, on Sunday, March 17. We were two days ahead of the Convention’s start, so there was no waiting in line to park with the other 1128 RVs attending the Convention. Eleven coaches from seven states across the United States caravanned into our week-long parking spot, and what a parking spot we had! We were exactly in the center of everything! On Sunday, we celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with a hearty Irish stew, colcannon potatoes, salad, and rolls catered by our chuckwagon hosts Fran and Harry. The next day, they amazed us with omelets in a ..read more

The Sauder Historical Village is in the small town of Archbold, in the northwest corner of Ohio. You will find this lovely compound in the expansive acres and rich farmland as the country roads line the patchwork of fields spanning miles and miles. The quaint town of Archbold is the home of the Sauder Furniture factory and the many other Sauder family businesses. This charming location enticed 46 LTV owners to join us for the 2023 fall rally. The Sauder Village Campground is nestled behind the Historical Village and overlooks the “Little Lake Erie,” complete with bird watching and walking tr ..read more

Editor’s Note: This post is written by a member of LTV’s sponsored content team, The Leisure Explorers. Do you own a Leisure Travel Van and enjoy writing? Learn more about joining the team. We left Yellowstone behind and continued our caravan tour, driving east from the Gallatin National Forest in western Montana. Our next stop would be Cody, Wyoming. What is there to do in Cody? Plenty! Everything from river rafting to museum exploration, along with dinner, a concert, and the longest-running rodeo in the world. We parked our Leisure Travel Vans at Ponderosa RV Park in Cody. The RV park is co ..read more

Editor’s Note: This post is written by a member of LTV’s sponsored content team, The Leisure Explorers. Do you own a Leisure Travel Van and enjoy writing? Learn more about joining the team. “To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds…is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.”  – Rachel Carson. Our travel style is to go with the flow, so we named our RV Plankton. As we were heading south from Ontario for this year’s sno ..read more

The Southwest LTV Roadrunners held their annual general meeting and rally at the Oasis Las Vegas RV Resort from January 29 to February 3, 2024. 85 LTVs came and had a great time. January 29 Even though a few people arrived early, Monday was arrival day and registration. Our first meet and greet was an ice cream social hosted by Van City Las Vegas. As always, everyone enjoyed getting acquainted over cold sweet treats. It was a beautiful evening. January 30 This was “Learn all about your Leisure” day with several presentations and seminars covering everything LTV. Henderson’s Lineup started t ..read more

Editor’s Note: This post is written by a member of LTV’s sponsored content team, The Leisure Explorers. Do you own a Leisure Travel Van and enjoy writing? Learn more about joining the team. Immediately after the Southwest Roadrunner’s Leisure Travel Van rally in Reno, Nevada, in 2022, we started our LTV caravan tour of Idaho. Our itinerary for this year’s caravan tour started in Reno with a 4-hour drive to Wells, Nevada. This caravan had 12 Leisure Travel Vans, including ours. The rest stop is just west of Wells, Nevada. From left: Frank, Tai (back to us), and Towney. Our itinerary for the to ..read more

Editor’s Note: This post is written by a member of LTV’s sponsored content team, The Leisure Explorers. Do you own a Leisure Travel Van and enjoy writing? Learn more about joining the team. More Potential Must-Haves For Travel Season We may have missed Christmas, but the items I’m listing in this edition of Gotta Have It stand the test of time and season, including some great, compact, and always useful additions to your LTV. Making Laundry On The Road A Breeze First up is one of the most useful, weight, space, and plastic trash-saving items you may ever encounter. I guess detergents like thi ..read more

Editor’s Note: This post is written by a member of LTV’s sponsored content team, The Leisure Explorers. Do you own a Leisure Travel Van and enjoy writing? Learn more about joining the team. Avila Beach is located on the California Central Coast, on the San Luis Obispo Bay, just north of Pismo Beach. We normally stay in Oceano, just south of Pismo Beach, but our friends Ron and Tony asked us to join them in Avila Beach. I only accepted once I read about a lighthouse there. Avila Beach has shopping, hiking, kayaking, golfing, surfing, fishing, hot springs, and other things, but it was all about ..read more

Editor’s Note: This post is written by a member of LTV’s sponsored content team, The Leisure Explorers. Do you own a Leisure Travel Van and enjoy writing? Learn more about joining the team. A Quirky, then Prickly, Stop Before The California Coast We’ve been taking you on a road trip we took in our 2015.5 Unity Murphy Bed from Michigan to California in the winter of 2022. We’d been traveling a little over six weeks, leaving Phoenix and heading west on Interstate 10 toward Joshua Tree National Park. But first, a quirky stop at an area most of you have heard about or wish to visit. Quartzsite If ..read more