NBC News: More Americans Are Living In RVs

Three years ago, I was in Los Angeles for our 50th high school reunion with two friends. While in L.A., we drove around and visited some old haunts in the South Bay area of L.A. County.

At one point, we found ourselves driving in the Ballona Creek wetlands north of Westchester and LAX. We saw streets lined with parked RVs. They were all bumper to bumper. These weren't vacationers, they people were living in their RVs.

RV Travel has posted an article on a NBC News report that more Americans are living in RVs. After seeing how things were at the Ballona Creek wetlands, I am not at all surprised.

The article (which includes a video) begins with:

This short report from NBC News brings to light something that most of us who travel by RV already know: Many more people are living in RVs these days, not because they want to experience the great American road trip or spend some time with nature. No, they are living in RVs because it’s the only way they can afford to put a roof over their head.

As rents and home prices continue to climb, a growing number of Americans are turning to RVs as full-time homes. For many, it’s less about adventure and more about affordability.

To read more and view the video, go here. 

 

New Campers Flooding RV Lifestyle, Some Already Unhappy

Above, The Beast at the Elk City, Oklahoma KOA. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

"You can't please everyone."

This had been true when this saying was first coined (whenever that was) and it is still true today.

The saying is especially true when it comes to new campers who have flooded the RV lifestyle during the past two years of the pandemic and even before. 

RV Travel has posted an article on who comprises "new campers" based on a study by Kampgrounds of America (KOA). 

They begin with:

By now, you’ve likely read a lot of stories regarding the sudden influx of “new campers” into the RVing lifestyle. You also know the usual list of reasons newbies give … pandemic-driven RV purchases, the need to reconnect with family and friends, more available savings … but just who is this “new camper?”

Last week, we reviewed the top-line results from Kampgrounds of America’s annual North American Camping Report. The annual research paper gives one of the best views of what’s going on in camping and RVing, and it’s worth a deeper dive.

Here’s what the report had to say specifically about the new influx of more than 9.1 million families into camping and RVing in 2021:

To read further, go here. 

Government UFO Report Fails To Impress Roswell Attendees

Above, the Roswell Internationa UFO Museum and Research Center. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

There are true believers. There are non-believers. And there are some in-between when it comes to Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO).

The annual UFO Festival in Roswell, New Mexico is happening this weekend and the recent government report on UFOs (or UAPs) failed to impress attendees.

The Washington Times reported:

ROSWELL, New Mexico — The federal government’s recent landmark UFO study failed to offer the clear answers many hoped for.

In fact, Joyce Rowell was left with the same question she’s always had.

“Why don’t they tell us the truth?” Ms. Rowell, 75, said Friday as she and her daughter, Debra Tucker, searched for the next clue on an alien-themed scavenger hunt inside a cozy coffeehouse in downtown Roswell. 

Ms. Rowell and Ms. Tucker, 52, traveled here from Tecumseh, Oklahoma, for the city’s annual UFO Festival, which has drawn a record crowd this year amid skyrocketing public interest in the subject and the release last week of the government’s widely anticipated unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) report.

Inside Roswell’s Stellar Coffee Co. — which boasts the “Spock Special,” “Martian Sunrise” and “Alien Soda” among its menu offerings — Ms. Tucker said she remains open-minded to all possibilities, including that at least some UFO sightings could be connected to extraterrestrial life.

“I definitely think it could be true,” she said. “I haven’t ever seen one but I think it’s definitely possible. There’s so much out there we don’t know about.”

To read more, go here. 

UFO Report Does Not Confirm, Nor Rule Out, Alien Spacecraft

Above, alien display at the Roswell International UFO Museum. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

A government report on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) is set to be released to congress later this month.

Essentially, it says there's no evidence that they're alien spacecraft. But, it doesn't rule it out either.

According to MarketWatch:

A highly anticipated government intelligence report on unidentified flying objects finds no evidence of alien spacecraft — but it also doesn’t say it’s not aliens, according to a new report.

Scores of odd aerial sighting in recent years that have baffled scientists and the military remain a mystery, according to a New York Times report Thursday night.

Citing senior government officials who have been briefed on the largely inconclusive finding of the report, which will be presented to Congress later this month, the Times also reported top-secret U.S. technologies have been all but ruled out in most of the incidents, leaving a major question hanging: So if they weren’t ours, what were they?

The report investigated more than 120 incidents over the past two decades, many from U.S. military pilots, with unusual sightings captured on video and sensors. A number of sightings described craft that flew with no discernible propulsion system, flying at speeds and making maneuvers that seem to defy physics.

Above, a replica of Gort from The Day The Earth Stood Still at the
 Roswell International UFO Museum. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Since alien spacecraft haven't been ruled out, all we can do is...Keep Watching The Skies!

To read more, go here.