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Recreational-vehicle sales are booming, and the appeal of RVs is much broader than in their previous heyday, the free-wheelin' early '70s, when they earned a reputation as gas-gulping retirement homes. Today RVs are being bought--and rented--by a younger and more affluent crowd. At the same time, more and more baby boomers are reaching the age at which Americans traditionally buy RVs. Some owners see their RVs as escape vehicles in case of terrorism. Other, stressed-out families just want to vacation without the hassles and worries of air travel--and bring a little...
...FREE WHEELIN' Hitting the road is the best way to learn about northern Vietnam, but the Minsk Club of Hanoi can probably teach a thing or two about obsession. Its website (dissidentx.com/minsk/network.html) catalogs sightings of the club's favorite bike around the world: Cuba; Turkey; Norway; even Afghanistan, where Taliban leader Mullah Omar is rumored to have escaped a U.S. bombing raid on the back of a Minsk, known locally as the "Kabul tank." When a Minsk Moto-Velo Zavod company director visited Hanoi in 1999, club members welcomed the bemused businessman with banners, cheers, chilled vodka...
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