4 – Wherever I lay my hat....
If you are travelling in a RV then one of the most important aspects of your
vacation is deciding where to park up for the night. This was definitely on our
minds as we headed west towards San Francisco. So here's how it works.
Harvey was our hotel room throughout most of our 13 weeks in the USA, and
he contained everything you would expect to find in a hotel room - except for
the maid (sadly) and the television (fortunately). As I have mentioned, there
was a bed, a toilet, a shower, and a fridge. There was even a bible in the
cupboard. The Gideons did not place this particular bible there, Zak left it.
This bible was also not The Bible but it was referred to religiously during our
travels as Woodall’s. Woodall's USA Campground Directory contains detailed
information for most of the RV parks across America; it is about the size of the
Yellow Pages. Included are directions to the sites, lists of the site facilities
and recreation opportunities and a guideline of charges. Woodall’s also rates
most of the sites, so instead of sites being four stars they would be Four Ws.
Very occasionally we found that the prices were quite out of date, or the
quality of the campgrounds did not reflect the W rating, however mostly the
details in the directory were spot on. We also discovered that not every
campsite had a listing - at least not in the 2003 Directory. But without
Woodall's as a starting point for planning our overnight stops the experience
of 'RV-ing' would have been a lot more stressful.