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RV Parks or Club Name |
Description |
Rating (of park, not web page) |
| Western Horizon Resorts site list | We are members of this great Membership plan. Call them to arrange for free stay and mention our name. toll-free (866) 470-8960 James Perdue | **** |
| Adventure Outdoor Resorts | Affliate program with Western Horizon. Lots of sites nationally. | |
| Resorts of Distinction Directory | Affliate program with Western Horizon, includes NACC Resorts. You must be a member of an affliate resort to use this program. | |
| North American Camping Club | Affliate program with ROD. $10 per night member price | |
| Coast-to-Coast Camping Club | Club of nationwide RV resorts. We are members. | |
| Passport America | Half Price Discount for RV Parks Member- Map | |
| Red Rock RV Park | Our favorite place! near Yellowstone in Idaho | ***** |
| San Lorenzo Regional Park | Great park near King City, CA near town with rural feel, next to River, $25 Good Sams part of Monterey County Parks | **** |
| Silent Valley Club | We are a member. Great place near Banning, CA at 3200 feet away from smog and people! My own web page for Silent Valley. | **** |
| Lakeside Camping | Army Corps of Engineers | |
| Reserve America | Place to reserve gov. campsites | |
| Government Campgrounds | Recreation.gov lists all recreation on govt lands Search MAP | |
| RV There Yet | Commercial campground listings. (campgrounds must pay for full listings.) | |
| Woodalls Camp Directory | Here's Woodalls Campground directory on-line. You need to sign up, but it is free. | **** |
| KOA Directory | Here's KOA's directory. Pricey places, but dependable. | |
| Colorado Directory | RV Parks in Colorado | |
| USA State Campground links | Lots of links to State campgrounds | ***** |
| RV Campground Reviews | Great site to submit or read reviews of campgrounds | |
| Winding River Resort | We like to stay to see the Musical Shows in Grand Lake, CO and visit Rocky Mtn National Park |
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| Free Campground Site | Great source on information for boondocking | |
| Family Motor Coach Assoc. | FMCA is a great organization of RVers. |
RVing Resource Links |
Description |
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| Warranty Experts | Good source for RV warranty 3 or 4 years. Good price. Will give premiums back at end of period if no claims. If you call them, use our name (JN Perdue). we get a referral bonus. We have our warranty with them. | |
| The RV PARKS Store | See RV Park memberships (Thousand Trails, NACO, Western Horizons, etc) for sale by users, RV Lots for Sale and Rent, and much more. Great Values here. | ***** |
| RV NetLinx | Good source of information for RV ing | |
| RV Life and Travel | Good articles on the RV Life | |
| RVers Corner | Some good articles on RV repair | |
| RVers On-Line | Good resources for RVing | |
| Fulltiming America | Resources for the Full time RVer | |
| RVing and Camping Links | A bunch of state tourism links, Rving Links | |
| Woodalls RV Forums | Great place to get RVing information | |
| RV Home Town | Good resources for Full time RVers | **** |
| RV TV | On-line RV resources and a great TV show about RVers. | |
| Alfa SeeYa Yahoo Forum | Great resource for owners of Alfa Motorhomes. | |
| Freightliner Motorhome Club | Visit Freightliner on-line | |
| Wal-Mart parking lots for overnight stays | Find the nearest WalMart for your overnight stay. | |
| Wal-Mart locator plus no-park walmarts | Includes rest areas, dump stations and walmarts | |
| Find a Freightliner Dealer for Repairs | List of Feightliner dealers. Stay away from T/A Freightliner for motorhomes. | |
| Find Low Clearances for your RV Trip | Our RV is 12' 6", so we need to know if back roads have clearances high enough. | |
| HitchItch | Find other RVers with web pages. | |
| Hitch Up and Go | RVer Blogs and web pages. | |
| RV Dump Sites | Most comprehensive list of RV dump sites on the web | |
| RVing Yellowstone | Yellowstone travel help for RVers | |
| Find RV Parks | Helpful site to locate RV Parks | |
| Workamper.com | Check out ideas for working while in your RV on the road. |
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| Site | Comments | |
| WEATHER: | ||
| National Dopler Radar | Hourly reports and animation of Weather (Doppler) weather stations across the USA. Great for storm tracking when on the road! | |
| NOAA Storm Prediction Center | Track the storms that are in your path or plan your trip intelligently knowing the weather forecasted. | |
| Yahoo Weather | I find this a good site for current weather and forecasts. I use it the most. | |
| The Weather Channel | Forecasts, but lots of ads. | |
| National Resources Conservation Service | Lots of Snow and Rain data Google Earth overlays for snow cover. | |
| Accuweather | Put in a zip code and find out the weather. Has a nice 15 day calendar format for forecasts. | |
| The Weather Underground | Lots of great stuff for weather forecasting where you are. Has links to local personal weather stations. | |
| Intellicast | ||
| The National Weather Service (NOAA) | The source of a lot of the forecasts starts with the USA Weather people here. | |
| Driving Weather Forecast | Forecast and weather for all the Interstates | |
| Global Incidents | Check before you travel. Maps the most important and current global incidents that might be related to terrorist actions. | |
| Roadside America | Offbeat Tourist Attractions,by state | |
| National Traffic and Road Closure Information | Great site for trip planning. You'll need to do a little work to find all the info you need, but it could save you a lot of time. | |
| MAPS: | ||
| Google Maps | Maps, contains satellite images at various resolutions of your RV site! | |
| Google Earth | Get the free downloadable software for the most amazing view of Earth from any angle. | |
| GigaPans | One of my pans there. | Great site that features large, high-resolution panoramas geoplaced into Google Earth. Visit this one. |
| MapQuest | The default map server for the web. | |
| National Map Atlas | Great place to map different places to visit Let's you make a map with different criteria, like, sunshine, tornados, rain per year. Good to use to decide where to visit or settle down for the winter. | |
| Google KMZ file for USA Fire Situation | If you have Google Earth, here's a great product that plots all the fires in the CONUS every hour from satellite sensors. | |
| Map of Current Large Fires in USA | Great to see where that smoke is coming from. | |
| MapTech Map Server | On-line topo maps. See the terrain where you are going. Ads, but hey, its free. | |
| Traffic.com | Great site for real time traffic reports if you HAVE to go through cities. | |
| Terra Map and Photo Server | TerraServer contains 3.3 tera-bytes of high resolution USGS aerial imagery and USGS topographic maps | |
| Global Incidents | Check before you travel. Maps the most important and current global incidents that might be related to terrorist actions. | |
| Health and Disease Travel Map | See what diseases are popular where you travel. | |
| Other: | ||
| Find location of an AREA CODE | Check out what area a phone call is coming from | |
| Check Wireless Available in Your Area | Good to see if you'll have wireless in the area you plan to visit. | |
| See my section above on RVs for camping | A whole list of on-line services for finding campsites. | |
| USGS Earthquake locator | Did you just feel and Earthquake. IT will appear here in seconds....and tell you how strong and where it was. |
Great Places to Visit | Description |
Rating (of place, not web page) |
| Wild and Scenic Photos | Our new web page with links to all our photo products | |
| Valley of Fire State Park | Only 30 min from Vegas in Nevada. Great campground (no hookups), fantastic scenery. | ***** |
| Red Rock Lakes Wildlife Refuge | Great QUIET place surrounded by fantastic mountain ranges in Montana. See my own photo gallery on their website. | ***** |
| Bay Tree Bed and Breakfast | If you have to visit London, England, this is the place to stay. Extremely nice hosts with three very nice rooms, all with baths in their suburban home, a block from the Underground station and quiet. Only 40 minutes by Underground without change to London. We loved our stay with them. | ***** |
| Elk Lake Resort | If you ever want to just get away from everything, try this resort on Elk Lake near the Red Rock Lakes Wildlife Refuge. The nearest small village is 45 miles away. Rustic cabins, fishing, hiking, bird-watching and wildlife watching nearby. | |
Great On-Line Places to Visit |
Description |
Rating |
| My Nature Blog | A daily blog of nature events around RedRock RV Park near Yellowstone National Park (in Idaho) | |
| factcheck.org | Keep the politicians honest by this non-partisian site. | ***** |
| Berkeley GeoImages Project | Great Virtual pans, images | **** |
| Encyclopedia of Television | If you enjoy TV, this is a must site! | **** |
| Kick Starter | Help inspired and inspiring artists to realize their dreams. Great site!! | |
| HoaxBusters.com (Dept of Energy) | Reveals all the internet hoaxes we encounter | **** |
| ScamBusters.com | Reveals more scams and hoaxes on the internet | **** |
| Urband Legends | As the name says, it tries to stop rumors, and false legends | **** |
| Health Quack Watch | Make sure you aren't getting ripped off in the health field | |
| Rip-off.com | Check for consumer rip-off before buying or report consumer abuse for others to read. | **** |
| Science News | A great way to stay up with Science while on the road | |
| Darwin Awards | Hilarious Stories you've got to read for fun..... | **** |
| Museum of Hoaxes | See how people can be fooled, so you won't! | |
| Playing With Time | Time lapse, and other images of Time. great | **** |
| How Stuff Works | Great place to learn how common things work. | **** |
| Time Magazine.com | Some weekly news reading | |
| Mosquitoes and Mosquito Repellents | A great article by a Medical Journal on Mosquitos | |
| RVTV | A great production company making videos for RVers. Shown on the Outdoor Channel. | **** |
| State Trooper Listings | Great directory of State Highway Patrols | |
| California Coastal Records Project | Photographs of the entire California Coastline in High Resolution! | ***** |
| National Wildlife Refuges | National Wildlife Reserves are great for Photography. | |
| Nederland Weather Station | Weather station I used to run in Nederland,CO | |
| Atmospheric Optics | Great place that explains rainbows, rays, etc in the sky. See some of my photos there too! My sun halo. My Fog Bow My Contrail Shadow Monterey Bay Mirage | |
| Absolute Shakespeare | Great site if you like the bard's work | |
| The Quote Garden | Good site for quotes. This one points to the environment. | |
| Waynes Word | This is a great botanical site in Southern California. Wayne calls it an on-line textbook of Natural History. | ***** |
| Nature Blog Network | Collection of blogs concerning the natural world | **** |
| Science of Color in Autumn Leaves | United States National Arboretum. Good article on fall leaves |
Tools Name |
Description |
Rating |
| The Free Dictionary | Great dictionary (with audible pronouncations) | |
| Yahoo Education Dictionary (and other references) | Dictionary with pronouncations plus other references | |
| Merriam-Webster on-line Dictionary | Great dictionary to find how to spel. | **** |
| Moviefone | Search for a new release movie on the road. | |
| Time Zones | Find what time zone you are in | |
| Dish Pointer | Find Satellite TV point direction with Magnetic offset | |
| Magnetic Declination Calculator NOAA | Find your Satellite pointing direction offset | |
| Date Calculator | Great for figuring number of days between stays at RV parks | |
| USA Federal Holidays | Use this for figuring your moves to RV parks. | |
| Internet Movie Database | Largest database for movies and stars on the Internet. | ***** |
| Internet Movie Script Database | Large collection of free Movie scripts | **** |
| Post Office PRINT LABELS | Great place to print labels and postage. | |
| Post Office Postage Calculator | Figures price of postage | |
| Non-Denomination STAMP values | Tells you what the price of a stamp is when it doesn't have the value printed on it. | |
| Post Office Locator | When we want to send General Delivery this tells us where to get the mail and the zip code. | **** |
| Hospital Locator | Locate a hospital on the road. | |
| Drug Information | Locate information about a drug | |
| Vet Locator | Locate a vet while on the road. | |
| Relationship Matrix | How are we related. Is she your first cousin-once removed, or your second cousin? | |
| UPS Drop-off Locator | We use UPS for lots of things. Where to drop off is solved easily here. | |
| FEDEX Dropoff Locator | FEDEX is our primary transport service. | |
| Fax over the internet with Faxaway | I use this service to fax from my RV | |
| Dictionary of Network Lingo | Internet words revealed! | |
| Bookshare.org | Free public domain books or for the blind | |
| Google Books Ngram Viewer | Create your own graphs from words in 2.5 million books. Wow! | |
| How Stuff Works | Great reference site on how things work. | |
| Zip and Area Code Finders | Nice service by Jay Computer Services | |
| Find a Propane Fill Retailer | Great page to find places to fill your tank | |
| Find a Density of Material or Conversion | Great page to find if water is heaver than | |
| Propane Information | Industry page about propane | |
| Fuel/Gasoline/Diesel Prices for RVing | My own link of places to visit and find out current fuel prices in the USA | |
| GoEnglish.COM | A nice list and definition of English Idioms | |
| National Fire Information Center | A valuable place to track fires as you move. | |
| www.StuffBak.com | Great way to label your valuables and have them returned if lost. A must for RVers! | |
| www.qwestdex.com | Telephone Directory | |
| http://decoder.americom.com/cgi-bin/decoder.cgi | Area code decoder | |
| http://books.google.com/ | Great search engine for books. Some complete texts you can read. | |
| Internet Archive | Media resources and historical books. Free | |
| Free Books-online | Gobs of free on-line books. worth a look | |
| http://www.fedstats.gov/ | Federal Statistics of all Kinds! | |
| http://www.onlineconversion.com/ | Conversion of any unit. | |
| Reverse Phone Directory | Look for whos calling you | |
| Rip Off Reports | Find bad companies; Report your bad buying experiences. | |
| Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man | Great for Human Genome Link | |
| Verizon Coverage Locator | Find out if you'll have Verizon service. Zip code. | |
| Check Wireless Available in Your Area | Check whether you'll have cell service where you travel. | |
| National Park Service locator | Find your favorite National Park | |
| National Wildlife Refuge Locator | Find a nearby Wildlife Refuge | |
| World Time Zones | Find your UTC or GMT offset | |
| Identify Butterflies and Moths | Great site with thousands of thumbnails and information for each insect. | |
| Weizmannn Institute of Science | Human Genome Research |
Other Web Sites I Visit and Groups |
Description |
Rating (of web pages, not friends) |
| Eduscapes.com | Fellow MotoSat users we met. | **** |
| DataStorm Web Site | Sharing information about mobile Internet | **** |
| Alfa Leisure SeeYa Yahoo Groups | Great place for Alfa See Ya Motorhome owners. | ***** |
| AAPP, SimpleCare.. Medicine for Cash only | New organization for cash only (Discount) physician care. Down with Insurance! | |
| Alternative Resources | Our mail forwarding service in Sioux Falls, SD. Great service. | |
Photography and Wildlife Sites |
Description |
Rating |
| National Wildlife Refuges--Clickable Maps | Find the location of National Wildlife Refuges listed by state. | |
| Photo.net | Great place to view and share beautiful photos (R rated, art nudes too!) | |
| Natural Visions by Kevin Doxstater | Great bird and other wildlife photographer | |
| WilderNet | Good site for finding hiking and photography sites | |
| The Jane Goodall Institute | Wonderful cause to protect and study the Chimps. I've read all her books and they are fascinating. | |
| Red List of Endangered and Threatened Species | Read the list of all the wonderful plants and animals that human activities are contributing to extinction! | |
| National Wild and Scenic Rivers System | A place that describes the few remaining natural river habitats in the USA. | |
| Panoramio Photos on Google Earth | My photos on Google Earth. | |
| Montana Plant Life | Good site for wildflowers in Montana and West | |
| Cal Photo | Over 170,600 photos of scientific, botanical and other subjects available of use and viewing | |
| Idaho Mountain Wildflowers | Good book with pictures on Idaho Mountain wildflowers | |
| Natural Resources Conservation Service | Plants database |
Places I go to buy on-line or products I like to use. |
Description | Link |
| Amazon.com | All my books, videos | www.amazon.com |
| XM Radio | Great Satellite Radio for our traveling. Listen to same station coast to coast. Best Buy or Circuit City. | www.xmradio.com |
| Pharmacy Checker | Place to compare drugs prices Canada/USA | www.pharmacychecker.com |
| The Canadian Drugstore | Half price drugs legally from Canada -- POOR RESPONSE | www.thecanadiandrugstore.com |
| Costco Wholesale Locator | Good prices and reasonable shipping for things we need. (Use the link at left for the store locator.) | www.costco.com |
| Sams Club Store Locator | Good prices for stocking up on the road. | www.samsclub.com |
| Wells Fargo | With coverage in 23 states, Wells Fargo makes the most sense for our bank. Here's a branch finder. | www.wellsfargo.com (branch finder) |
| Google Catalog | The most amazing group of full catalogs on-line. Looking for something, you'll find it. | catalogs.google.com |
| Price comparisons | For consumer information, price comparisons, solving problems with purchases, etc. | Google Consumer Links |
| Pelebeads | Hand made jewelry! | www.pelebeads.com |
| Harolds Photo | Digital Prints Made | Harolds Photo, SD |
| Ez Prints, Inc. | Digital Prints Made on-line | www.ezprints.com |
| SmugMug Photo Galleries | View and Buy My Prints | perdue.smugmug.com |
| Pictureline Salt Lake City, UT | Trustworthy place to buy cameras, lenses, Macs | www.pictureline.com |
| U2-Web | Our ISP, so far a great responsive organization | www.U2-web.com |
| Perdue Panorama Store | View and Buy my hi-res panoramas as gorgeous prints or Windows Panorama Screensaver program | www.rvinteractive.com/pans/ |
| Subject | Link | Comments |
| What to do if your dog is skunked at a campground. | Deskunking Dogs, Cats & other Pets | Read this now so you can buy the stuff you need to deal with it when it happens. |
| Good behavior with your Dog | Rving with Dogs | Pet etiquette while in an RV with your Pet. |
| Dog Travel Tips | ||
| Emergency Dog Tips/Lost Found | Pets 911 | List a lost dog, find a vet, etc. |
| RV Park just for those with dogs | Four Paws Kingdom | A place built with dogs in mind. Off-leash areas, pool, etc. |
| Dog Owners Guide on-line magazine | Dog Owners Guide | Hundreds of articles on the care of dogs. Great site. |
| Bark Sentry Software | BarkSentry.com | Teach your dog not to bark and know when he is barking while you are gone from your RV |
| Pet walkers and sitters | Care.com | Find pet-sitters by zip-code. Only problem is you must be a member for full services, but there is a limited no-cost plan. |
| Movie | Link | Comments |
| The Long Long Trailer, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnez | Home Is Where We Park Our House | Great Movie for RVers, can see it over and again. |
| The African Queen | Internet Movie Database | Humprey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn |
| The Philadelphia Story | Internet Movie Database | Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant and Kate Hepburn |
| It's a Wonderful Life | Links to site about the movie | Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed Here's the whole script. |
| Umbrellas of Cherbourg or Les Parapluies de Cherbourg | Internet Movie Database | Catherene Deneuve. Beautiful music. Entire movie is sung. New DVD is restored and excellent. |
| You Can't Take It With You | Internet Movie Database | Frank Capra "feel good" movie with Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur with Lionel Barrymore.. so funny, and picks you right off your feet. |
| Music | Link | Comments |
| The Real Group | http://www.therealgroup.net/ | Fantastic acapella group from Sweden |
| Manhattan Transfer | http://www.tmtfanclub.com/ | Again, an American Classic in Jazz |
| Live Theatre I've Seen. | http://www.rvinteractive.com/rvguys/theatre.htm | List of the musicals and theatre performances we've seen and some photos and links. |
| Michael Feinstein | http://www.michaelfeinstein.com/ | Great singer and interpreter of American Music. |
| Michael Kibbe | http://www.michaelkibbe.com/ | A great classical composer (& high school friend!) |
| John Jorgenson |
His MY SPACE web too. |
A great guitarist. Jazz, rock, etc. Sax & Clarinet too! Picture of me with John. My brothers good friend. |
| Mac's Inn Dinner Theatre | http://www.macksintheater.com | Nice place near Island Park, ID where they have 2 shows per summer. |
| Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre | http://www.rockymountainrep.com/ | We like to visit this theatre in the summer when staying in Colorado. Usually see 3 shows in a week. |
| Playmill Theatre | http://www.playmill.com/ | We try to see all three plays at this great venue in West Yellowstone. Very entertaining each year! |
| Theatre History | http://www.theatrehistory.com/ | Great place for summary of theatre plots |
| Bernadette Peters | http://www.bernadettepeters.com/ | Love this gal..perky, talented and beautiful. |
| Washington Saxophone Quartet | http://www.wsaxq.com/ | Great group for classical saxophone music. Smooth, delicate and blends so well you'd think you were listening to a string quartet. These are pros. |
Our web cam is featured on 123cam.com
| Name | Location | Comments |
| Stardot Customer Cams | All over | A grouping of Netcam (Stardot) owner cams |
| Weather WebCam | All Over | Thousands of webcams around the world. great! |
| Washington DC | Washington DC | |
| SunCam.tv | Florida | Only real-time mobile web cam I know..cool |
| Grand Canyon Overlook | Yavapai Point, AZ | Includes Visual Range |
| Old Faithful | Yellowstone National Park, WY | Has predicted eruption times |
| Mount Rainer | Mount Rainer, WA | Great quality. Has archives for each day. |
| Sierra del Carmen in Mexico | Big Bend National Park, TX | |
| Web Cams at Big Bend | Big Bend National Park, TX | Every 30 minutes |
| Web Cams At Glacier | Glacier National Park | Several webcams to chose from. |
| Lake McDonald | Glacier National Park | |
| Grand Teton | Grand Teton National Park, WY | |
| Yosemite Park | Yosemite National Park, CA | Two separate cameras |
| Johnston Ridge Observatory | Mt. St. Helens, WA | Looking into the eruption center. |
| US Forest Service Mt Hood | Mt. Hood, OR | Expansive view of Mt Hood |
| Statue of Liberty | New York, NY | |
| Lake Crescent | Olympic National Park, WA | Lake view |
| Acadia National Park | Acadia National Park, ME | |
| Green River Valley | Mammoth Caves, KY | |
| Theodore Roosevelt Natl Park | Theodore Roosevelt Natl Park | |
| Sequoia Natl Park | Sequoia Natl Park CA | |
| Joshua Tree National Park | Joshua Tree Natl Park CA | |
| Look Rock, Great Smokey Mtns | Great Smokey Mountains Natl Park | |
| Purchase Knob, Great Smokey Mts | Great Smokey Mountains Natl Park | |
| RV Cam (Our web cam) | On top of our RV as we travel | |
| Point Reyes National Seashore Beach | Point Reyes National Seashore | |
| View From Eielson Visitor Center | Denali National Park, AK | In Service only May - Sept |
| North Cascades NP Visitor Center | North Cascades NP, WA | Nice view of peaks |
| Nederland Colorado | Nederland, CO | Weather station I used to run. |
| Nederland Colorado | Nederland, CO | Where I used to live. Netcam. Nice View |
| Boulder Panorama Web | Boulder, CO | 3 cameras to form a pan of Boulder, CO |
| Times Square Webcams | New York City, NY | |
| TheRainierValley.com Webcams | Seattle, WA | Nice list of web cams around the country. |
| Coles Pond WeatherCam | Coles Pond is located in northern Caledonia county in Vermont. | Nice clear pic of bird feeders and countryside. Uses StarDot's Netcam XL camera. |
| Name | Comments | |
| Jokes Galore | Huge joke site | |
| Name | Why | |
| Jane Goodall | Scientist who studied Chimpanzies | |
| Martin Luther King | Brave to stand up to what was wrong. | |
| Albert Schweitzer | German Doctor and Theologian who went to Africa to provide medical care to the poor. He gave his life to help others when giving wasn't the norm. It was his firm conviction that the respect for life is the highest principle. | |
| Name | Comments | |
| Butterfly Gardens | Butterfly gardens are great for photography. | |
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