For the Summer Travel Planner

Whether you're destined for a U.S. national park or overseas horizons, this collection offers ideas and advice for making your summer vacation the best it can be. Find camping and RV tips, useful foreign-language phrases, and even how to take better vacation photos.

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RV Vacations For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Cheat Sheet / Updated 06-02-2023

If you're planning to buy or rent an RV, congratulations! You're about to embark upon a wonderful way of vacationing. Before you start looking for your RV, here are ten important considerations to ponder.Also, this Cheat Sheet includes information about t...

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How to Camp with Children

Article / Updated 05-19-2023

Camping with children is an outstanding way to share a love for the outdoors without breaking the budget. While family backpacking or camping does take a great deal of planning and loads of patience, it is a rewarding activity for both you and your childr...

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Top U.S. RV Vacation Locations

Article / Updated 05-19-2023

If you're new to RV vacations, you might have difficulty in choosing the right campground or RV park, selecting a cool museum to check out, or knowing which national park to include in your route. Here are a few ideas to get you started.Some of the best c...

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RV Vacationing with Kids, Pets, and Disabilities

Article / Updated 05-18-2023

RV camping is for everybody. No other form of travel adjusts so readily to any sort of special need. RV vacations are family-friendly in the extreme. RVing is a cheap and convenient way to take the whole family on vacation, including your pets or elderly ...

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10 Tips for Taking Better Photos

Article / Updated 05-17-2023

Have you ever looked through the photos you shot during a vacation or important family get-together and wished you had better pictures to frame, share online, or use in a photo book? For example, that really cool picture you took of your husband in front ...

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Camping For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Cheat Sheet / Updated 08-30-2021

Like any endeavor, camping is more enjoyable with a little preparation, so assembling and packing the equipment you need is your first order of business. If you’re tent camping, it pays to heed certain rules — you don’t want to share your snacks wit...

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iPhone Photography Tips for Your Next Trip

Article / Updated 06-23-2020

In this article, you discover a series of quick tips used by the top professional travel photographers. As you go through each tip and sample iPhone photo, keep a note of which techniques resonate with you and how you can plan to implement them on your ne...

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Adding It Up: Your RV Vacation Budget

Article / Updated 02-12-2020

Budgeting for a trip in an RV has a few different wrinkles from a vacation on which you’re not driving your accommodations around. You won’t be able to figure out to the last cent how much you’ll be spending, but the RV Vacations For Dummies Cheat S...

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Testing the Waters: RV Rentals

Article / Updated 02-12-2020

Renting presents a great opportunity to try the RV experience before you buy into it fully. Trying different styles of RVs by renting them first has the potential to help you make the best purchase decision if you’re on a path to buy one. Renting an RV ...

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Setting the Right F-Stop for Your Digital Photo

Step by Step / Updated 03-27-2016

Your digital camera’s aperture settings (f-stops) can make a world of difference, so choosing the right f-stop can be an important part of creating a perfect finished picture. You need different f-stops for different photographic situations:

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