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Article: COTTAGES ON WHEELS Recreational vehicles offer comforts of home RV and Camper Show features the fine art of bringing house on road
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 18, 1996
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You can't take it with you? Not a very convincing cliche, judging
from the turnout at Saturday's RV and Camper Show at the Waukesha
Expo Center.
Those who attend the show learned fairly quickly that the science
of cramming creature comforts into a street-legal space is rather
advanced.
And that means that you can take all the comforts of home along
when you hit the road.
How about a double bed, dinette and sofa along with a gas range
and refrigerator/freezer all on a 33-foot-long Ford chassis?
A vehicle like that gets 9 or 10 miles to the gallon. "Eleven,
if you drive really nice," quipped Warren Haut of Advance Camping
Sales in Milwaukee.
"People are starting to look now," said Haut, ...