Summer RVing Season Arrives

Today is Memorial Day, the day set aside to honor those who died fighting in our wars. These days, we consider it a day to honor those who fought to defend our freedom but it was originally created to honor the dead of the Civil War.

It also is considered the beginning of the summer recreation season and that certainly includes camping. We all look forward to a season of good camping weather so we can go forth and enjoy the freedoms which have been retained for us.

We're free to travel the entire country in our RVs. And that is great, isn't it!

But we also are "free" to lose our awning to a gust of wind as we travel down the road. That is, most of us are at-risk for this event.

We believe that those with Carefree electrically-operated awnings are probably immune. (Their company information says that is the case, and so far we believe them.) Those with other models and brands are vulnerable.

Please understand that not everyone will lose their awning. You might RV for years and years and never lose your awning. Of course if you know that you will not lose it, there is no need to spend a few bucks to install an RV Awning Travel Lock. In a similar manner, if you know you will never have an accident, there is no need to purchase insurance.

Losing your awning can vary from simply unrolling a few feet to totally ripping the awning and mounts from your coach, resulting in goodness-only-knows how much other damage.

I've sold lots of RV Awning Travel Locks to those in the first class. The are thankful it wasn't any worse and become believers real fast.

I also have customers in the second class. Just like me, they do not want to ever have such an experience again! Once is too many times.

Certainly I don't expect you to take my word for it. (Because "I'm trying to sell you something," right?) Take a look on some of the popular RV forums, like rv.net or the forum for your brand of RV. Search for "awning lock" or "lost awning" and see what you find!

One thing you'll find there: People continue to assert that tying the support arms together so they so they can't come apart will prevent your awning from being lost.

'tain't true, friends.

There's quite a bit of info on the problem and solution on my website. Just go to http://awinglock.com. If you have any questions, please contact me.