[My Low-Cost RV Solar Install]

The $600 that you invested in your solar rig would have run your generator for about 600 hours at current gasoline prices. Dry camping in Andover, MA this past June Friday through Monday, I had to run my generator for only about an hour total to keep my coach batteries charged in my 35-foot Itasca Sunova 33C. Do you believe that you'll ever recoup your investment in solar or is the silence of solar to keep your batteries charged worth it in peace-of-mind?

[Seven Great Smartphone Apps for RVers]

Italo, those are some useful apps...especially GasBuddy. We also like "RV Parky," which shows us all of the nearby places where we can legally park our motorhome to spend the night. "Field Trip" is an app that will show us nearby and often unusual points of interest.

[Taxes and Fees for RVs Can Be Very Confusing]

Prior to buying our used 2011 Itasca Sunova 33C motorhome from a New Jersey RV dealer, we explored the possibility of establishing a Montana LLC. The dealer told us that the NJ state sales tax division audited such evasion tactics and prosecuted them. We, therefore, paid the full 7% NJ sales tax on the vehicle which was thousands of dollars despite the fact that New York sales tax had already been paid when the vehicle was sold new in Syracuse. New Jersey allows a vehicle trade-in to be deducted from the sales tax charged, but every time the same vehicle is sold without a trade-in, New Jersey wants another 7% tax on the total sale price. If a new vehicle is resold and registered in New Jersey three times before it is scrapped the final value of the vehicle will have been taxed 28% (4 X 7%), which I feel is grossly unfair. At some point, states should stop charging sales tax on vehicles that have already been taxed. Fortunately New Jersey's vehicle registration and license plate fees are not thousands of dollars as "lesmorrow" encountered in AZ.