Out ‘n’ About is fundamentally a blog out taking one’s recreational vehicle into the backcountry. Of course as a loyal GoBlog reader I’m shocked and appalled by the extravagant petroleum thirst required to get any kind of camper into the woods, but lots of nice people I know (parents and landlord among them) are RV people so I tend to take the middle ground where campers are concerned. (Not that sleeping under anything with a hard-shell cover and wheels is actaully “camping” in my book. To admit such heresy would have the Sierra Club’s secret outlook-enforcement team hounding my every footstep).

Out ‘n’ About merits a link because its owner has tons of hiking and backpacking-related links, which shows evidence of backcountry devotion that puts me in cut-the-guy-some-slack mode.

While it’s true that RVs are fume-spewing gas hogs, it’s also true that people aren’t driving them to work every day. Most folks take theirs out for a few weeks a year at most, which makes me wonder if we shouldn’t actually be selling our cars, buying RVs for vacations, and pedaling our bikes for the morning commute. Which do you think would save the most gas?