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At Your Own Pace: Traveling Your Way in Your Motorhome

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I bought this book hoping to find information and tips about RVing. Unfortunately what I got was Bernice and her foibles and very little practical information. Her naivety grates throughout( going to Laredo to see cowboys only to find that all cowboys are in San Antonio for the Rodeo) but prehaps travel will be broading. In this case, one certainly hopes so.

I began RV-ing in a used 30' 1994 Airstream Trailer just 3 1/2 years ago and recently read "At Your Own Pace". The unexperienced or experienced RV'er will find it a most helpful and insightful book. Mrs. Beard takes you on a trip and you feel your are sitting along side her. The helpful hints are an asset to folks thinking about getting an RV or just beginning. The check off list before your leave home and the (his list) and (her list) is so well written. My wife and I use the check list each time before we leave home or our campsite. You will find lots of useful information about traveling At Your Own Pace. Read it, enjoy it and use the information for better safety and making your traveling experience less stressful and more enjoyable. See you down the road. W. T. Bucher WBCCI 1467

I got this book with the expectation of learning something about traveling in a motor home. I learned practically nothing other than it was the worst book I had ever read on any subject. Talk about dullsville! If there were a zero-star rating available, I would have chosen that one. Please don't waste your money on this book unless you like something so poorly done that it verges on camp.

This may serve as light, harmless reading for a born again retired couple but it hardly makes for interesting reading to a motorhome owner who isn't quoting bible verses in their daily logs. I had hoped for a more generous offering from an author who had much more experience and much more in common with my own experience. If the most exciting thing in your motorhome life has been discovering you had to install a queen bed because the twin beds were hard to make, then go for it. Or maybe the test of your adventure limits was learning that you needed actual mirrors in additon to the rear mounted parking camera to see what you needed to as you made your way to the next rest stop. Where was the salesperson when these folks decided a rear mount camera could be used as mirrors?!! If you're into hard core motorhoming, this book will cure your worst case of insomnia. Sorry I ordered it

Snore. Billed as "the answers to your most important motorhoming questions" instead we get the journal of a perfectionist, retired woman who decided which motorhome to buy because its exterior stripes matched her profile in "Color me Beautiful". There is no information here about owning, maintaining or driving an RV. Instead we learn what a dufus her husband is because he does not make a bed "right" and cuts his sandwiches diagonally. Agonizingly bad.

I purchased this book with the hope of gaining more insight into the innerworkings of functional living on the open road. Mrs. Beard really does attempt to do this in her own eyes - but it simply does not work. I have a feeling that she never really "planned" a focal point (informative, humorus, pro or con, etc.) but instead took a "stream of consciousness" of what happened during her encounters outside her suburbia life. When a book quips with such a remark as "should I give money to the homeless or buy an RV?" you have to think "does the author really have a handle on who would be buying this book?" Ok, Ok - I thought I was having trouble with the author as maybe this book was really written as a "woman's perspective." I read bits and pieces to my wife and she was ready to toss me out of the room (I thank my lucky stars for her as she has clear patterns of thought I can understand - but of course I'll never tell her). In short I feel a just a bit bad for Mrs. Beard. Being in the arts, I know the letdowns of good intentions. She had her heart in the right place as in her mind she really is trying to tell people what RV'ing is all about. The book just never seems to decide as to what it wants to be. I hope she tries again and succeeds with a winner.

Outdated and way too many family personal items (funerals) that are not very appealing to someone interested in Rv traveling and not "Father Knows Best" comments. There are many books on this subject but this one was VERY disappointing. Buy one that is more related to traveling in RV's and not ones personal life.

you MIGHT enjoy reading this book! If you are serious about getting information about whether using or buying an RV is for you in retirement or otherwise, this is NOT the book for you. Bernice Beard's writing style is reminiscent of Dick and Jane: "see the trees", "feel the wind blowing my hair", "uh-oh", "I giggled", "Paul was quiet". I could not finish this book because I could not tolerate one more word about Ms.Beard's weekly need for a shampoo and set at a hairdresser's and her taking a short view of the ocean because the wind was messing up her just fixed hairdo, despite the "scarf" she had around her head! This is not a book for grownups and her descriptions of the countryside, driving through big cities, learning how to back up the RV, problems with towing "Patches", etc., are so basic and detailed they are boring at best. If you want to know how to make it changing your lifestyle in retirement and taking an RV trip, you will feel abused by this book - it tells you nothing and makes you feel like a child. Don't buy it or read it unless you are studying how to write for children and I doubt today's children could even tolerate her writing style.

I'll not be windy. Save your money or buy some other USEFUL product. This book is a longggggggggggggg way from being useful for a possible RV owner. Her daily "Feelings" and her husbands health problems really are of no concern to the reader. I'm sure she is a pleasant person and a great wife. However, my money says I want MORE bang for the buck.

Traveling Your Way reminded me of a delightful summer that I spent with Bernice and Paul Beard and their son Jeff. I was a college student completing an internship-like assignment and the Beards welcomed me into their family. In the same way this book welcomes the reader into all kinds of experiences along the road of life. No, it's not a technical manual--how boring that would be. Instead, this book allows the reader to imagine himself or herself exploring life in a motorcoach. I found myself asking what my wife and I would learn traveling this way. I loved it.