The Big Picture: RV Cameras Lend Clarity to Camper Travel

There’s a saying popular among the RV set. “Sorry What I Said While Parking The Camper.” To those who know, this statement should come as no surprise. Found on shirts, stickers, and even flags, it shines a bright, incriminating light on the frustration borne from parking – backing in, specifically – an RV or travel trailer.

It’s a reasonable, auditory knee-jerk response to an exasperating exercise. No matter how many times we back the rig into a campsite, the geometry involved – often with trees trunks and limbs, power posts and spigots, and other assorted obstacles inconveniently placed about – makes us appreciate (if maybe curse) those who seemingly do it with ease.

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When Flights & Hotels Are Out, RV Camping is the COVID Pivot

RV and roadtripping have opened new roads for the traveling public. Count Rachel Sapoznik among them. The Miami-based health benefits administration company executive’s family tradition is to travel each summer. They’ve gone to Europe, taken cruises, explored places new and unknown. When Covid hit, cruises were scuttled. Air travel abroad was grounded. And who wants to travel by plane or sleep in a hotel anyway with the pervasive threat of Covid? So in July, Sapoznik pivoted.

“We love to travel,” she recalled recently. “When we saw that wasn’t going to happen, we decided to do something different.” So instead of shopping travel itineraries, Sapoznik went shopping for an RV.

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Tommy Can You Hear Me? Hearing Protection for Music Festivals

Hearing protection is something most music festival attendees don’t often think about. Maybe some should. Small, easily stashed, and far less costly than hearing loss itself, a couple of small earplugs are always a good option to have when needed. Sometimes, the most advantageous or memorable perch we can find is smack in front of a huge bank of speakers or sub-woofers. They rattle your soul and eardrums alike. You’ve just spent a couple hours at a crushing Umphrey’s set, or maybe you’re in the midst of Day 3 of Electric Carnival – and your eyes and ears are asking for a little relief.

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When Music Festival Tunes Come From the Campsite

Looking to upgrade your camper’s stereo system? Aren’t we all? We met a couple at Lockn’ Music Festival – Kris Hall and Nick Mullins – who mostly gutted the stereo in their travel trailer and installed a serious system. Their story is below. Warning: Audiophiles will dig the depth of detail Nick queued up. Others’ eyes may glaze over. Pro Tip: Even if you don’t have a camper or care about AV, find people like Kris and Nick who do. They’ll have the best sound around.

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Pro Tips to Upgrading Your RV, Camper Stereo

We recently explored the idea of upgrading your camper’s stereo system from the lousy, two-bit stock system to something that really rocks. We let Nick Mullins tell the story of how he and Kris Hall mostly gutted the stereo in their travel trailer to replace it with some serious tunage. Building on their story, Ora Freeman, the national sales manager for JL Audio, which recently struck a deal to outfit Airstream trailers with its products, offered this pecking order for audio upgrades. If you’re a non-audiophile, this may be like Ambien. But in all honesty, these tips work for your RV, trailer, car, even your boat, where JL Audio shines.

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