See the world's largest potato chip at the Idaho Potato Museum and learn how the popular veggies played an important role in the life of President Kennedy. And, even better, with a paid admission you can fill up on a "FREE TATERS FOR OUT-OF-STATERS," as billboards proclaim on roads into the town of Blackfoot, Idaho. The free spud is a large, oven-fresh Russet potato with butter and sour cream. Yum! The Potato Museum provides information on potato history, the growing and harvesting process, nutrition, trivia and educational potato facts. Watch a short video presentation on how the potato industry has developed. The museum is located in downtown Blackfoot at 130 NW Main Street in the old Oregon Short Line Railroad Depot. There's plenty of easy RV parking. Don't miss the gift shop with all kinds of unique potato trinkets. And if you didn't already know, Blackfoot is the "Potato Capital of the World." How about that?

America's smallest post office is in a tiny 56-square-foot building in Ochopee, Florida, population 11. Its lone mail carrier drives 132 miles a day to serve 950 residents along the route. There's enough parking at the tiny post office for your RV, should you stop by. It's located along U.S. 41 at mile marker 71.9 along Alligator Alley, which connects Naples with Miami and passes through the Everglades. The building is not official post office design: it once served as a pipe shed for a tomato farm. But when the local general store burned down in 1953 it was converted to the town's post office. Stop by during business hours to buy a stamp, mail a letter or visit with the postmaster. Buy a "Smallest Post Office" postcard, too.

For RVers, traveling pets are more than just companions, they become part of the family. When that sad day arrives when they're no longer with us, what's to do with their last remains? Out in the hills west of Yuma, just inside California, a unique pet cemetary has built up over the years.

Located on Quechan tribal land, the cemetery lies in a secluded hollow in a little traveled area. Many RVers spend winters "in the neighborhood," some of them volunteering to care for the graveyard, as the entire place is non-commercial.
Walking through the cemetery is moving; the tributes that loving families have put up for their pets shows just how much these ones are close to our hearts.
To visit the pet cemetery, take Interstate 8 west from Yuma to California Highway 186 (Algadones Road). Go south on 186 until you cross the All American Canal. Take an immediate right and go west along the gravel road that borders the south side of the canal. The road will bend and head south. Follow it, and before the road begins to rise you'll see the cemetery on the right.

A condemned, gutted, 1929 Sante Fe railroad caboose will soon find a new life at the Oregon Dunes KOA Kampground in the Pacific Coast community of North Bend, Oregon. After refurbishing, it will become a cafe, complete with interior kitchen and outdoor deck. The caboose was used on freight trains that traveled between Chicago and California. Crews and conductors would live in it while they were traveling. Now campers can enjoy a meal or a snack while visiting the RV park.