High Gas Prices could mean more tourists along the Alabama Gulf Coast

RV owners won't let pump prices keep them off the road
Sunday, March 09, 2008

How many times have you been driving down the interstate recently and passed a motor home and thanked the Lord that you weren't driving one of those things into a gas station?

The thought of filling up a motor home or even a six-wheeled pickup towing a fifth-wheel RV can be a little unnerving these days.

Surely the owners of such vehicles will stay home this spring to save money.

Yeah, right.

During a slow economy, recreation tends to take a weak hit. Folks may not have enough discretionary money to put a new sprinkler system in their yard, but they are going to go play somewhere.

You're still going to see plenty of RVs on the road this year. What you won't be able to see is their destination. Shorter trips closer to home will be the norm.

"A family that might have gone on a trip to Maine this summer will go to Gulf Shores instead," Jim Cooley, the owner of the Dandy RV Superstore in Oxford, told me this past week.

Click here to read the full article from the Birmingham News.