Seven things to know about trends in the RV world
Victoria Advocate Share
Bob and Donna Purdy meandered through the Victoria Community Center, past RVs that boasted everything from outdoor kitchens to bunk beds and flat-screen TVs. With the South Texas RV Show in full swing last weekend, giving current and potential owners a look at what's new in the RV world, the Victoria Advocateprovided readers with seven current trends in RVing. MORE

Analyst says RV deliveries rising
The Associated Press Share
A Baird analyst said dealers are ordering more RVs after a big decline in inventories, likely helping sales at RV makers. But, demand from customers -- key to a sustainable rebound -- is still uncertain. Analyst Craig Kennison said in a note last week that Baird surveyed nearly 100 RV dealers. Inventory bottomed in 2009, and Kennison said dealers plan to more than double orders of motorhomes, and to order 51 percent more towables, in the next six months. MORE


Get hitched affordably
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Terry Tomalin, outdoors editor for the St. Petersburg Times, always assumed RVs were for retirees who have put their child-rearing years behind them. But Dave Kelly, marketing director for the Florida RV Trade Association, was determined to prove him wrong. MORE

RV sales projects to rise this year
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University of Michigan economist Richard Curtin forecasts that shipments of recreational vehicles to dealers will increase by 27 percent in 2010, reaching a total of 203,500 units shipped. Each passing month brings new evidence of a continued economic recovery in the motorhome sales industry, as well as the rest of the country. MORE

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration celebrated Earth Day on Wednesday by announcing $750 million worth of stimulus-funded projects to improve national parks and monuments.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said, "These projects — at places like Ellis Island in New York and Dinosaur National Monument in Utah — are ready to go and will create jobs in communities across the country."

One of the projects most ballyhooed by the administration is spending $13.1 million to finally demolish condemned portions of the Quarry Visitor Center at Dinosaur and replace them. That center covers a cliff where fossils were carefully quarried and exposed in place for visitors to see.