On my most recent uRV trip I visited the RV Museum in Elkhart Indiana. Being that I have spent the last three years converting my twenty-five year old pickup truck with a six foot cap into a rat-rod micro-RV I wanted to learn a little more about the beginnings of that idea.
John Steinbeck, who as one of my favorite authors when I was growing, up wrote a book entitled “Travels with Charley” about when he custom built a pickup truck into an RV he named Rocinante (Don Quixote’s horse) and traveled around the country with it. I have read that book at least a dozen times now and it was the inspiration for me making my own version of vehicle and doing the same thing, sort of…
Anyway, the RV Museum was an interesting visit. There were many historic vehicles on display. Most seemed to be from California. I don’t really know why northwest Indiana became the RV-manufacturing capital, that is a story I will have to study up on that.
Here are some pictures from that visit.
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RJ's Corner - Having My Say 
Hard to picture Mae West in an RV :).
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That’s what I said to myself when I saw it Jane. But it was pretty fancy for the times… and the story on the placard was an interesting one wasn’t it?
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Good stuff. Elkhart is not far from us, so perhaps we’ll make the a road trip to see the museum.
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It was a good visit but Elkhart as a whole kind of disappointed me. The tourism bureau listed four other things to see but even on a Wednesday they were closed or I just couldn’t find them, even with GPS?? So I ended up spending the last half of the day going to the Indiana Dunes. I had been there years ago but… I will post that adventure here soon.
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