Word: rvs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sends its geyser spumes as much as 180 ft. into the sky, just as it always has. Bison and elk graze side by side on Swan Lake Flats, and the evening chorus of coyotes calling one another to the hunt echoes hauntingly again across canyons. And soon the RVs, the Conestoga wagons of the late 20th century, will be circling up in campgrounds during summer evenings...
...Quartzsite is subject to the same forces that control the vast flocks of migratory birds that traverse the continent twice a year. In winter the town swells to absorb 200,000 people. They are refugees from the frozen North, most of them retirees making their seasonal escape in RVs. Then, usually in April, when the temperature begins to rise and the lure of the North is greater, the huge encampment with its bustling activity rolls away, evaporating like runoff from a desert cloudburst...
TRAVEL: Retirees with RVs find a place...
...Graceland visitors are not crackpots who claim that Elvis is really alive and hiding out in Grand Rapids, Mich. They are simply vacationers, many of them on their way to Florida, whom Graceland communications manager Todd Morgan characterizes as "Mom and Dad and the kids stopping off in their RVs...
Though they still cannot be considered economy vehicles, new motor homes are more fuel efficient than earlier models. Riverside, Calif.-based Fleetwood, the industry leader with 20% of the market, cut excess weight and restyled exteriors to make its RVs more aerodynamic and squeeze more miles out of a gallon of fuel. The company's 27-footers now get 15 m.p.g. on the highway at 50 m.p.h., twice the mileage of a decade ago. Winnebago (1983 sales: $239 million) developed a front-wheel-drive model powered by a Renault diesel engine. One version, called the LeSharo, gets...