The funny thing about traveling into the “paperless” online Information Age is that many electronic data sources are incomplete. Even if a dashboard GPS display may try to replace the wisdom of a wife pressed into learning navigation, by suggesting, “Turn right in 500 feet into entrance of Green Acres RV Park,” there is nothing on the market yet that would suggest to pet owners (60% of us) that as the “green” lawns happen to be Astroturf, and they do not seem to have a legal K-9 friendly “piddle patch,” exactly how we were to enjoy the cliche´ so often seen in pay-to-be-in Affinity Group RV Park Directories of — “The ultimate RV park experience.”

We have been traveling for six years with a border collie, Motorhome Maggy, who is smart enough to keep out of trouble. See her assess a wild buffalo on the Alaska Highway at www.MotorHomeTraveler.com. At “Green Acres” (not the real name) just about the time she was sniffing, while wiggling out of need, the Astroturf, and then looking over at me to complain that what I was asking was absolutely below her standards, when “danger” as she knows it appeared in a golf cart. The owner’s boy-toy husband came by to gently suggest we would be thrown out of the park if I didn’t take my dog to trespass on a vacant lot across the street!

My point? One cannot access too many information sources when it comes to snuggling into a home away from home for the night. Problem is that it costs to offer information. Any sort of a database — be it a big thick book, or electronic disk— that charge vendors, make a RV park recommendation suspect for not giving you all the choices in an area. I will include our own publication into this discussion. We give you unsponsored niche´ editorial material advice on where to go. We hope to pay for this with exclusive reader’s rewards, or at the least recommending a product we trust in return for a little financial support ourselves to make the whole system a win-win-win.

We hope that any RV park advertising that appears on an RVTravelMagazine.com Resource Directory page is righteous. If not Dear Reader, let us know and we will have them blocked. Know, however, the reputation we value the most, and will protect at all costs, is the recommendations we make through our reader’s reward, and catalog pages as this.

I trust Frommers as this publishing company started out as a enlisted GI in Germany mimeographing recommendations (unpaid for) as to affordable lodging around Europe, to help fellow servicemen fighting the historically understated pressures of the Cold War to escape to “take leave” exploring the wonders of a culture older than ours without constantly running into an outstretched hand suggesting that Americans needed to pay extra for having won WWII.

Anyhow, through information earned by buying Frommers Europe On Five Dollars Per Day I have priceless (read: affordable to do at the time) memories of the Left Bank Hotels of Paris, Monaco, Belgium, and even restaurants just around the corner from my US Air Force base in the outskirts of London.

So, this is how I see the expenditure of $16.49, until I can get our readers a reward rebate. Here is the no-brainer about buying your on information to compare with an advertised database. How many nights would it take saving $5, or $10, or more, to pay for the information found in Frommer’s RV Campground USA guide?

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