The "Summer of the RV"

Above, The Beast at the Beaver (Utah) KOA. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

People with a lick of sense want to travel, but they don't want to travel in confining places such as airplanes, trains and cruise ships, which are essentially petri dishes for diseases.

Instead, people are looking into traveling in recreational vehicles instead. There's a bit of a mini-boom in RV sales, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.

TravelPulse reported:

Some folks, well, some folks just like taking matters into their own hands. 

And putting them on the steering wheel. 

As the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on the industry, the demand for travel is slowly—slowly—creeping back up again. But many remain wary of getting on a plane, a train or a cruise ship and being packed tightly in with strangers, never knowing if everybody is going to be wearing a mask, never knowing if somebody is unknowingly carrying the virus, never knowing if a flight is going to be empty enough for social distancing—or perhaps not. 

Welcome to what could be the year of the Recreational Vehicle, more commonly known as the beloved RV.

With experts predicting that any return to travel will likely start with short, domestic trips, the RV could, literally, become the go-to vehicle for travel this summer. Though the outlook for RV sales entering the year was grim—504,000 RVs were sold in 2017 and that number slipped to 364,000 last year—many dealers across the country are reporting an unexpected uptick in sales.

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