Every seven seconds, another baby boomer turns 50! That’s more than 11,000 folks turning 50 - each and every day! These boomer's are creating a tremendous surge in RV purchases, even in a down economy. Both the new and pre-owned markets are ripe with great deals.
Our goals here are two-fold: #1 is to create a place where RV enthusiasts can find useful information about RV's and RVing. Whether you are motoring around the USA in your luxury motorhome or fifth-wheel or just out for a weekend camping in your pop-up camper BoomerRVer wants to be your #1 resource for all things RV.
Goal #2 is to offer RV manufacturers, dealers, distributors and any other businesses associated with the RV industry affordable advertising opportunities. BoomerRVer is where you will find a niche market of affluent baby boomers, still the fastest growing segment of the RV market.
While on the road in my fifth-wheel travel trailer I can get WiFi just about anywhere. And when I am stopped in the RV park for the night, these Beatles videos keep me entertained. If you are as big a Beatles fan as I am you will love this site, just click on any song and watch some great Beatles videos.
Recently I was parked in a RV park near Memphis, not far from Graceland and thoughts strayed to the King Of Rock @ Roll himself, Elvis Presley. I remembered running across an old photo in the family archives and I was able to locate it in a box I kept in my fifth-wheel travel trailer.
Believe it or not this is my cousin Kathy, seen here with a very young and flirty Elvis Presley. Kathy, a "Jet Bunny" was about to experience her 15 minutes of fame with the future King Of Rock and Roll.
Trapped (virtually alone) in the cabin of the Playboy Jet with Elvis, she was about to test all the skills she had learned in Bunny training about protecting her virtue in a hopeless situation. They were on their way to the opening of the London Playboy Club, flying from Los Angeles to Heathrow. Not many people know what happened on that flight, cause she ain't telling and Elvis is locked away in a East Texas nursing home where nobody but JFK knows he is the real Elvis!
Bubba Ho Tep, the Movie
Bruce Campbell does a superb job as an aged Elvis, and Ossie Davis is pure genius as a black JFK in this comedy/horror that no one bothered to see at the movies but I remember reading that the critics absolutely loved it. Let me go out on a limb here and declare this bit of movie madness to be known from this point on as a "classic."
If you have an imagination and are an Elvis fan like I am, you will get a sincere kick out of this movie. After watching these clips of the movie you will want it for your collection. Buy Bubba Ho Tep from our Amazon store and we will be eternally grateful!
Back then I was a 16 year- old junior in high school April 9th, 1966 thinking of the girls who worshiped me as a lifeguard for the summer, looking forward to being a hotshot senior at 18 and eventually joining the service. Barry Sadler almost had me convinced that I had to be a Green Beret. Fortunately I came to my senses and joined the United States Marine Corps after graduating.
Now I find a peaceful spot in the forest and when the time is right I listen to the oldies, close my eyes and remember how it was in 1966, an important year in boomer history.
A link to the article about Rving Least Expensive Way To Travel
Historical Highlights of 1963 …
•Nov 22, 1963, a day baby boomers will never forget; President Kennedy shot and killed in Dallas, Tex. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President same day.•Bill Medley and his baritone brings us the sounds of the Righteous Brothers, performing for the first time. *Best Movie of 1963 is “Lawrence of Arabia” with Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn. Wins Academy Award for Best Picture.•Famous Births … Charles Barkley, Conan O'Brien, Brad Pitt.•Deaths … Robert Frost, Pope John XXIII, Aldous Huxley.•First inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.•Average Income per year was $5,807.00 •A hurricane and resulting Tsunami cause Flooding in East Pakistan Bangladesh kills 22,000•Nuclear Test Ban treaty.•Zip codes implemented in US.* Viet Nam is still Indochina.
High school sock hops, American Bandstand, Beatles coming, what a great time to be a teen. 1963 represented the last year of sanity, a cultural explosion was just around the corner. As Don Henley would later proclaim, this was the end of the innocence.
Enjoy the top 5 hits of 1963
This week the BoomerRVer takes you back to 1961. If memory serves that would put these guys into a zone somewhere between the beatniks of the 50's and the invasion of the hippies. The guys and gals groovin to these sounds were seniors when I was a sophomore but age-wise, right in the middle of Boomerdom, for sure.
Top 5 Countdown For The Week Ending April 2, 1961
Enjoy!
One of my all-time favorite western shows from the 60's. Richard Boone played Paladin - a fast gun for hire - fast, and very smart too. A western Clark Kent, maybe too smart for a gunfighter.
Just How Luxurious Can An RV Get?
Now, this picture shows how over the top this RV thing is getting now that all us affluent boomers are wanting to re-create our home luxury on the road. I don't particularly advocate that kind of lifestyle, that of keeping up with the mobile Joneses, I prefer a more compact way of travel with a vehicle I can still shop with or drive down the street in Old Town USA without taking out the parking meters.
However, I do think that boomers are leading the way toward a more luxurious mobile lifestyle, whether it's for full time RVing or just an occasional romp in style. I believe this trend toward luxury motorcoach purchases will outsell most other RV markets, 5th wheels, travel trailers, pop-ups, etc, for the next five to ten years.
Much to my surprise, according to the Federal American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Scorecard, Social Security’s online benefit application has the highest score among all federal websites! (and that's a lot of websites fellow boomers) ACSI notes “Their score of 88 puts them in the elite company of online private sector satisfaction leaders like Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.
"Social Security provides economic protection to millions of Americans and their families,” Commissioner Astrue said. “And we remain committed to providing the public with the highest quality service possible. Boomers are a generation of trendsetters and they lead the way by doing business the baby boomer way - with Social Security online.”
View the video of the first boomer to apply for Social Security benefits here;
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIV_rJpliqg[/youtube
High school sock hops, American Bandstand, Beatles coming, what a great time to be a teen. 1963 represented the last year of sanity, a cultural explosion was just around the corner. As Don Henley would later proclaim, this was the end of the innocence.
Enjoy the top 5 hits of 1963
This week the BoomerRVer takes you back to 1961. If memory serves that would put these guys into a zone somewhere between the beatniks of the 50's and the invasion of the hippies. The guys and gals groovin to these sounds were seniors when I was a sophomore but age-wise, right in the middle of […]
One of my all-time favorite western shows from the 60's. Richard Boone played Paladin - a fast gun for hire - fast, and very smart too. A western Clark Kent, maybe too smart for a gunfighter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZzY6KZuLUo
Just How Luxurious Can An RV Get?
Now, this picture shows how over the top this RV thing is getting now that all us affluent boomers are wanting to re-create our home luxury on the road. I don't particularly advocate that kind of lifestyle, that of keeping up with the mobile Joneses, I prefer a more compact […]
Much to my surprise, according to the Federal American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Scorecard, Social Security’s online benefit application has the highest score among all federal websites! (and that's a lot of websites fellow boomers) ACSI notes “Their score of 88 puts them in the elite company of online private sector satisfaction leaders like Amazon.com […]
