There is no worse feeling for a full-time RVer than being in someplace you are not familiar with and having your pet become ill. Not knowing where there is a vetenarian, or trying find one that is open when you need it can become a daunting task in a strange town. And,as we all know, emergencies always seem to happen at night, or on a holiday! A sudden illness or a run in with wild life can put them at risk. Where do you turn when you are away from home on the road?

Pet E.R. Guide: A Directory of 24-Hour and After-Hour Veterinary Facilities in the United States allows pet owners to plan ahead and care for their pets in the event of an emergency, even one that occurs in the middle of the night. It includes state-by-state listings of round-the-clock and after-hour veterinary clinics, complete with names, addresses, phone/fax numbers, and hours of operation.

Other chapters cover what questions to ask when first contacting the emergency facility; veterinary teaching hospitals for the pet that needs special assistance; advice on emergency and evacuation planning; a records section for documenting a pet’s health and vet information; and to how to maintain a pet-safe home. This important chapter includes the ASPCA’s list of the ten most poisonous plants, lists of toxic and nontoxic plants, and the 24-hour phone number for NAPCC, the National Animal Poison Control Center. With this book, pet lovers can rest a little easier, knowing they’ll be fully prepared if an emergency occurs.

1. RVing & Your Retirement Lifestyle: A Cost Effective Way to Live Your Dreams

As we enter our Third Age (that period of time after family and career), many of us are searching for ways to reinvent and redefine ourselves. After all, we are living longer, healthier lives. A recreational vehicle is the perfect tool to assist you in the pursuit of your retirement interests and the realizations of your dreams. It can make life more accommodating. And, the RV lifestyle is very cost effective.

Hopefully you’ve devised a plan for retirement consisting of goals that will encourage an invigorating lifestyle. This plan will help you rediscover yourself. Most research concludes that boomers want to stay active and engage in meaningful activities and continue to learn and grow.

2. Full-Time RVing : How to Make it Happen

This book is brimming with information you’ll need to start the full-time or extended-time RV lifestyle. This is not a technical book, but that’s what makes it worthwhile to the average person. This author gives you the straight scoop of what it is really like out on the road. She writes in an easy-to-read, humorous fashion that will keep you fascinated to the end of the book.

3. RV Living in the 21st Century: The Essential Reference Guide for ALL RVers

RV Living in the 21st Century; The Essential Reference Guide for ALL RVers will quickly become your best friend as you explore North America. It combines basic timeless RV information new RVers need to know, plus seasoned RVers will value the numerous hints and tips covering everything from packing to stretching dollars to driving their unit.

RV Living in the 21st Century also includes a wide overview of updated changes in technologies that were not even thought of pre-9/11. Peggi McDonald freely relays both the good and not so good happenings she and her husband John experienced during two decades of fulltiming. As a Canadian snowbird that spends half the year in the U.S.A., she also readily shares her comprehensive border crossing knowledge.

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4. RV Traveling Tales: Women’s Journeys on the Open Road

Fifty-two women answer the question: What is it like to be a female nomad on the open road, leaving family, community, and possessions to head into the unknown in an RV?

This anthology features the writings of women of varied backgrounds, many living full-time in their RVs, ranging in age from 13-85. They take a humorous look at situations unique to the RVing lifestyle: living in a small box on wheels, maneuvering a 38-foot RV, or surviving bears and other calamities. On the road and away from the support of family and friends, they also cope with life’s issues—breast cancer, divorce, loss of a child.

5. RVing Alaska and Canada: A “How to” and “Why not” Book

Sharlene “Charlie” Minshall, a single, solo, full-time RVer for twenty years, criss-crossed North America countless times from Mexico to Labrador, Florida to the Northwest Territories. She toured Alaska and Western Canada five times for a total of two years. This fourth revision reveals “How to” chapters on where to stay, when to go, what to take, road conditions and distances, plus information on border crossing, communications, boondocking, safety, pets, and photography. Tips are scattered throughout the book. One chapter reveals the necessities, pitfalls, and approximate costs of flying into Alaska and renting a RV. “Why not” mapped chapters include all major paved and gravel roads as this author of six RV-related books leads you through her humorous misadventures with Katmai grizzlies, remote villages, the Aurora Borealis, Segway riding, dog mushing and canoeing the Yukon River. Whether you are driving a car, RVing, or an Armchair Adventurer, it is an exciting and helpful book.

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