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Summary: Save Your Money
Review: Outdated and way too many family personal items (funerals) that are not very appealing to someone interested in Rv traveling and not "Father Knows Best" comments.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.
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Summary: Save Your Money
Review: Outdated and way too many family personal items (funerals) that are not very appealing to someone interested in Rv traveling and not "Father Knows Best" comments.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.
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Summary: No Motorhoming Info Here
Review: 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.
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Summary: Book better than reviews.
Review: Some people may not like the author's style, but I found the book interesting and useful. This is not a how-to-work-your-motorhome book. It is autobiographical, and it is about the daily activities of an older couple. It probably is for the more mature reader who can accept and learn from a wider range of human types. I wouldn't want this to be the only RV book I ever read, but I am glad I included it in the dozen or so that I have used in the last two years. Looking at the unprecedented number of single stars among the reviews, I am sure that one or more reviewers hates the book or its author.
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Summary: Synopsis and Reviews
Review: Synopsis of At Your Pace: Traveling Your Way in YourMotorhome:
Only book about motorhoming that shows the"how-to" as well as the living experience of a 5-week trip from Maryland to Arizona. Includes an appendix with 100+ questions to help determine how to travel your way in your motorhome, an index, and 19 photographs. Reviews of At Your Own Pace: Traveling Your Way in Your Motorhome:
"I'm going to use [your book] as a reference when I make my bus tour. I think the book is great!"
--Ernest Borgnine, Oscar-winning Actor, Motorhome Enthusiast "Should be required reading for anyone considering the purchase of a motorhome. This book contains everything the novice needs to know before setting out on their own."
--Helen C. Utz, Executive Director, Carroll County Chamber of Commerce "What to do; what to expect; can we make it--together; how will we get there and back; and will all of our resources last? . . . captures where we all began--the unknown mysteries."
--Dottie Pierce, National President, Family Motor Coach Association ". . . appendix covers all of the questions we are frequently asked."
--Ruth K. Radtke, Editor, Camping and RV Magazine "If you want to see the country and like the comforts of home, At Your Own Pace: Traveling Your Way in Your Motorhome is the travel guide for you. Clearly written with anecdotes and examples, Bernice Beard demonstrates motorhoming from the wheels up. Readers gain insights into buying and driving a motorhome, finding campsites, and keeping in touch with loved ones while on the road. There's information about tow cars, hooking up to utilities, "dumping," and more, all in the context of a trip in a 34-foot motorhome. At Your Own Pace is a must for anyone contemplating life on the open road in their motorhome."
--Jim Cox, The Bookwatch, July 1997 "A new RV guide shares life on the go and helps beginning RVers tackle their own roadtrips. . . At Your Own Pace is more than a travelogue - it becomes a storehouse of valuable information on such topics as buying and driving an RV, locating campground sites, towing additional vehicles, getting laundry done, and keeping in close contact with loved ones. The subjects go on, but the tips that she gives are invaluable and should be on every RVer's list. . . As an added bonus, At Your Own Pace includes an appendix of commonly asked questions and points to remember when choosing an RV or other motorhome. . . There is also a listing of helpful publications and periodicals, RV trade associations, and campground directories that prospective RVers should consult."
--Western RV News, September 1997
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Summary: Soft-Core Motorhoming
Review: 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
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Summary: Book better than reviews.
Review: 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.
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Summary: Exploring life
Review: 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.
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Summary: If you are a ten-year old -
Review: 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.
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Summary: If you are a ten-year old -
Review: 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.
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