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Rex Vogel
Travel Destinations, Camping Trips, Snowbirding
Living his dream, Rex Vogel is a Snowbird with a passion for RVing, photography, hiking, and birding. An experienced RV traveler, Rex has wintered in Southern California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida. He has served as Alberta Director of the Newmar Kountry Klub and hosted their Calgary Stampede and Canadian Rockies Caravan.Rex writes on anything and everything related to RV Travels and the RV lifestyle including Snowbirding and Snowbird destinations. Rex is a regular contributor to RV Times- a Western Canadian RV magazine, RV Churches USA, and the Canadian Snowbird Association News. Each June he presents sessions at the RV Owners Seminar at Okanagan College in Kelowna, BC. You can view Rex’s photos in Picasa. Rex can be reached by email at vogelontheroad@gmail.com.

Read more from Rex at:
Vogel Talks RVing




Google Diane Berry
Traveling with Pets, RV Campgrounds, State & National Park Camping, Nature & Wildlife, Outdoor Recreation & Hiking
With an educational background in law and social work, Diane was a practicing attorney for several years, when she realized that she really wanted to be a clinical social worker. So, much to her mother’s dismay, she quit her job and went back to graduate school to study social work.She currently is the director and primary therapist for a small mental health clinic in Wisconsin. She has written 3 books on issues related to her practice: Child-Friendly Divorce: A Divorce(d) Therapist’s Guide to Helping Your Children Thrive! (2004), Romancing the Web: A Therapist’s Guide to the Finer Points of Online Dating (2005) and A Peace of My Mind: A Therapist’s Guide to Handling Anger and Other Negative Emotions (2008). Her last book was co-written with her husband, Terry, who co-facilitates two Men’s Family Violence Treatment Groups with her at the clinic.In her spare time, there is nothing Diane enjoys more than taking road trips with her family, three cocker spaniels and camper. Diane and Terry have five children: Shannon, who is 39 and currently teaching in South Korea, Cavan, 37, an attorney in Michigan, Kate, 23, who is attending the Palmer West Chiropractic School in San Jose, California, Ryan, 18 who will graduate from high school in May and Meghan, 17, a high school junior. Currently, it is only Ryan and Meghan who are able to participate in most of the family adventures. Upon returning home from a trip, she writes about their adventures for various print and online publications: Silent Sports, Escapees and Woodall’s Online to name just a few. When not writing or traveling, Diane loves hiking, kayaking, snowshoeing and a wide variety of other outdoor activities.




Donna Carol Donna Carol
Tent Camping, Family Camping and more
Donna Carol is a full-time wife and mother living in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. She and her husband Dennis have been married 18 years and have one precious son, David. The family shares their home with two cats: Abby, a neurotic tabby and Smoky, the life of the party. Donna is learning the ropes of tent camping, and hopes to help others new to tent camping as she learns.




Debbie Block
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Debbie Block
RV Campgrounds, Roads & Routes, Menu Planning & Cooking
Having an RV seems to complete me. OK, having my husband Randy does, too, but the idea of the open road and seeing new things all the time is just like getting ice cream with everything on top. Our first travel in an RV was when we sold our little Colorado cabin, our beloved dog of thirteen years, Elsa died and Randy talked me into full time RVing. That was 1995 and we have had one type of rig or another all this time. We have worked for Woodall’s Campground Directory Publications since 1999 and have had so many great travel experiences and funny things happen with this company it will take years to blog about them all. We have a home again in Colorado, but the full time bug seems to keep popping up its head for us and who knows? Randy and I have two incredibly terrific sons and three grandchildren who are better looking than yours. It just needed to be said.UPDATE MAY 2010: now we are full timers again!




Hoby Follis
Space Saving, RVing with Pets, RVing with Grandkids, Holidays on the Road, Campgrounds, Great RV Routes and more.

I RV full-time (since 2007) with my wife and dog.  We enjoy traveling around the country living in the places where we would like to vacation.  I also teach classes for an online MBA program.  My wife and I both are continuing our education as we travel.  I have one daughter and one grandson, and my son-in-law is active-duty Air Force.  I am a consultant that focuses on Organizational Development, Team Effectiveness, and Leadership Development; my focus area is on working in the virtual world (with all the new technologies, companies need help working when their employees are scattered across the world).  I have worked for Fortune 100 companies, branches of the government, healthcare facilities, and a variety of other organizations.  We decided that we should not wait too long before we did the RV thing, so we started our adventure early.  So far, so good!




Jeanine Kennedy Jeanine Kennedy
Family Camping & Camping with Kids, State and National Parks, Traveling with Pets
Jeanine Kennedy is a freelance writer in Colorado. She lives with her husband and four children and is an avid camper. She’s traveled to 46 states and has been camping since the age of four.




RA Manseau R.A. Manseau
Family Camping & Day Trips, Scenic Byways, Roads & Routes, Outdoor Recreation & Hiking, Historic Places & Landmarks
Ruthann is an avid lover of the outdoors. She enjoys finding adventure off the beaten path and loves to write about the secret places she discovers during her journeys. Ruthann has camped all her life and today enjoys camping with her two teen daughters. She also loves how RVing and camping can be done on any budget and how the natural outdoors clears the mind and relaxes the spirit.




Professor95 Professor95
RV Preparation & Readiness, Tips and Tricks for the Road, First Aid and Safety, RV Parks & Campgrounds
Randy is a frequent technical contributor on several of Woodall’s forums and pens under the name of “Professor95”. He really is a Professor having taught Electrical Engineering in higher education for a number of years.
Randy’s RV experience, technical background, lifelong commitment to education and love for writing ultimately brought him to the Woodall’s Blog as a contributor. Nancy is also a career educator and writer who will occasionally bring the warmer side of RVing to our pages.Together, you can expect this duo of writers to provide a wide range of technical topics and personal stories related to their true life RV experiences.




Denise Crew Denise N. Crew
Family Weekend Camping Trips, Preparation & Readiness, Menu Planning & Cooking, Destination Camping & RV Resorts
Denise’s camping family consists of Hubby, twin 17 year old boys, C & R, Little Man who’s almost 6 and Baby Girl who’s almost 3. We live here in South Eastern PA (land of the potholes). She started camping when she was very young, 6 weeks to be exact. Her parents took all 7 of their kids camping for a week every summer. It may have looked like the circus had rolled into town when they all piled into their bright green with yellow trim tent, but they loved it.After Hubby and Denise had been married a few years and the twins were about 2, they bought an Amerigo truck camper. They later graduated to a Sunline with 3 bunks. Next, it was a 32’ bunkhouse Prowler. Today, Denise and her family try to get out about 30 nights a year, starting Mother’s Day weekend and finishing up with a Halloween weekend. Denise’s favorite trip is the week they take at Knoebels with family and friends. She hopes you enjoy reading about their sometimes crazy, but always fun loving family and their adventures.




Dana Ticknor
RV Home School, State & National Parks, Historic Places, Landmarks, Nature & Wildlife
Dana is blessed to be able to full-time R.V. with her husband and their 11 children, who range in age from 20 to 4 months. Having enjoyed avid weekend camping for years, they sold their home in Montana and hit the road Oct. 1, 2009 with no other agenda than to see the states and learn about our country’s heritage. Roadschooling and living full-time in their 40′ toy hauler presents some unique challenges, but also makes for some exceptional, one-of-a-kind experiences! Dana enjoys keeping a blog of their journey at Ticknortribe.blogspot.com.
Web site: ticknortribe.blogspot.com




Melissa Trainer Melissa A. TrainerMelissa A. Trainer is a food and travel writer in Seattle. A former Assistant Editor at Gourmet Magazine, Melissa has written for many publications including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. She is now a contributor to Amazon’s Al Dente blog.

Melissa and her husband own a 23-foot Aerolite Cub travel trailer. With their three children, they have traveled extensively throughout the Pacific Northwest. Their most treasured camping memories hail from the adventurous year they lived in Alaska and traveled the historic Alaska Canada Highway, camping en route.

Her websites, articles, and blogs can be found at:

www.aldenteblog.com/melissa_trainer.html

www.hooksforcooks.com

http://melissatrainer.com/5.html

 

 


 

 

Patti Faustini Patti FaustiniPatti Faustini figures she may be qualified to run the world, since she’s taken over 80 eighth graders to Spain and North Africa on three different trips and survived to tell the tales. She even brought 100% of the kids back safely (she thought a 99% return rate may not have been considered a success). In her first life she taught middle school English, Montana History, and Spanish. She’s still trying to remember how she was convinced she needed to haul hordes of sweaty, hairy, drama stricken adolescents to Spain. She only remembers how very much she loved them all.

Patti carries an RV genetic code transmitted from her RV obsessed father and mother. She grew up in Ohio, hence the rabid support of Ohio State University, where she earned her BS in Education. RV’ers from Michigan, beware. She has been known to share questionable college fight songs. She earned her M.Ed. from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, at the ripe age of …well…a ripe age.

She now tutors college students from the comfort of her laptop, writes, and carefully organizes her husband’s and teen age son’s lives, both of whom are in great need of the above. The threesome just purchased their first RV, as chronicled in Faustini’s Woodall blog, “Saga of an RV Rookie or: How I Stopped Worrying and Finally Picked an RV.” After a successful RV maiden voyage in their driveway, they’re making plans for an equally exotic outing.

Patti’s adult children are married, trying to graduate from college, moving to different states, or some combination that changes weekly. All she knows for sure, is that she loves her family, her life, and her new little travel trailer. You may want to scope out “Saga of an RV Rookie” and follow along with Patti as she adjusts to joyriding with her two guys in a 20′ travel trailer. It may be tight.

 

 


 

 

Isabelle Lussier
RV Home School, Product Reviews, Family Camping

Isabelle is a French Canadian from Quebec married to a Franco-Ontarian since 1998. Together they raise and homeschool four kids – one girl and three boys.  She loves photography, reviewing books and products, discovering new places while traveling in their RV, making cards and exploring her recent passion; drawing.   She hopes to homeschool her kids as long as she is called to do so.

< ![endif]–>Isabelle currently lives in the National Capital of Canada with her husband and four kids. You can also find her at Canadianladybug reviews! and Life at Oak Grove.


_ George Schaefer
RV Stories and Camping Topics

My name is George Schaefer, aka The Traveler. My wife, Maureen, and I have been married for 45 years. I retired in 1995 after 30 years with AT&T’s International business group as a district manager in their global strategic planning organization. My work took me around the world; especially to Canada, Mexico, all of Europe, and the Asia-Pacific Region. My final duty was as chairman of an 11-nation business services consortium of Asia-Pacific telecommunications companies in cooperation with an oversight committee of Fortune 500 companies. This work took me to most of the countries in the Asia-Pacific Region.

My education and training is in engineering, business management, international business, and strategic planning. After retiring from AT&T, I worked briefly as a management consultant – specializing in Diversity Management and Doing Business in the Asia-Pacific Region – and began my own computer consulting business. I retired from both of them in 1998 after an automobile accident left me disabled.

My current passions are reading (I’m a book nut, aka as a bibliophile), traveling, RV’ng, spoiling my grandchildren (5 at present from our 4 grown children), and writing (blogging, several autobiographical short stories and a hard-scifi novel; the latter all unpublished, as yet). My latest pursuit is as a blog writer for Woodall’s Publications, where I hope to document and share many of the adventures my family and I have had camping and RV’ng during the past 45 years.

 


 

 

Camping Life Magazine Woodall’s Camping Life Magazine
Tent Campgrounds, Family Camping, Preparation & Readiness
Camping Life is dedicated to providing readers with informative articles about interesting destinations, products and activities to enhance their outdoor lifestyles. In the pages of Camping Life readers will find stories on topics ranging from day-hiking, fishing and bicycling to photography, canoeing and kayaking. The magazine empowers readers with accurate and up-to-date information that can be used to make decisions about where to go camping, what types of facilities will be found there, what equipment is most appropriate for their use, and what activities are available once they’ve arrived at their campsites.Camping Life magazine is focused on serving the needs of the family-style camper and others who explore the nation’s parks, rivers and forests. Camping Life is a magazine that delivers valuable and useful information about a style of camping that’s adventurous and active, yet still relaxing. It’s a handy resource for campers, whether they use a camping trailer, truck camper or tent as a base of operations.
Web site: www.CampingLife.com

 

 



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You? Woodall’s Guest Bloggers
Various Subjects and Experiences
We love to hear from our readers and we invite any of them to submit their experiences, advice and photos to the Woodall’s blog. After review, submissions by guest bloggers will be posted on the blog for all the world to enjoy.
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Ann Emerson Ann Emerson
Publisher and Vice President of Woodall Publication Corporation and Affinity Guide Services
Ann Emerson has been a loyal servant of the outdoor recreation and camping industry for 24 years. As Publisher and Vice President of Woodall’s, Ann leads the charge in promoting positive camping and RV experiences across North America. Ann is the Director of the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC) Foundation Board, the arm of ARVC responsible for industry education & fund raising. She is also the ARVC Business Forum Chairwoman, and sits on the ARVC Board of Directors.



 

Rex Vogel
Travel Destinations, Camping Trips, Snowbirding
Living his dream, Rex Vogel is a Snowbird with a passion for RVing, photography, hiking, and birding. An experienced RV traveler, Rex has wintered in Southern California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida. He has served as Alberta Director of the Newmar Kountry Klub and hosted their Calgary Stampede and Canadian Rockies Caravan.Rex writes on anything and everything related to RV Travels and the RV lifestyle including Snowbirding and Snowbird destinations. Rex is a regular contributor to RV Times- a Western Canadian RV magazine, RV Churches USA, and the Canadian Snowbird Association News. Each June he presents sessions at the RV Owners Seminar at Okanagan College in Kelowna, BC. You can view Rex’s photos in Picasa. Rex can be reached by email at vogelontheroad@gmail.com.Read more from Rex at:
Vogel Talks RVing

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