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Motorhome Rentals - RV Rentals and Camper Hire - Europe  You are here: About > Travel > Europe for Visitors > Transportation > Motorhome Rental Travel Go Europe Essentials European Vacation Planning Map Europe Travel 101 - Before you Go European Distances The Best of Europe European Photo Gallery Topics Europe Travel Planning What to do In Europe Lodging - Hotels and More European Travel Maps Sex and Nudism Travel Photography Transportation Benelux Countries France Germany Austria Switzerland Greece Italy and Malta Travel Info Scandinavian Travel Spain and Portugal United Kingdom and Ireland Buyer's Guide Before You Buy Top Picks Italy Travel Guidebooks Europe Travel Guidebooks German Travel Guidebooks Product Reviews Forums Help FREE Newsletter Sign Up Now for the Europe for Visitors newsletter! See Online Courses   Search Europe for Visitors > Transportation > Motorhome Rental Motorhome and RV Rental in Europe Want to save money on hotels? How about renting a motorhome or RV? Featured are motorhome or RV rental and leasing companies which cater to foreign tourists traveling through Europe. Articles & Resources Sort By : Guide Picks | Alphabetical | Recent Motorhome Rental - Germany From this company you can rent an RV in Germany or take a motorhome tour through Europe. RVs - Renting vs. Driving Larry West gives you some arguments for renting or buying an RV for travel. Arrantea Motorhome Rental - Amsterdam - Europe You might be surprised at the gas milage you can get on a simple Mercedes camper van motorhome that sleeps 4 and includes GPS navigation. Motorhome and Camper Rental - Europe Rent motorhomes and campers in many locations all over the world. Motorhome Hire - France Pickup and dropoff your motorhome at depots in Paris, Dijon, Blois, Lyon, Toulouse, Digne, Nice, Marseille and Ajaccio. Daily rental rates for campers sleeping up to 7 people. RV Rental - European Motorhome Rentals Explained Nice article on what you'll need to know about renting a motorhome in Europe and why it's not a good idea to take yours along. West Highland Motor Home Rentals - Scotland Rent six berth motorhomes from this company located on the west coast of Scotland.   Topic Index | Email to a Friend Our Story | Be a Guide | Advertising Info | Work at About | Site Map | Icons | Help User Agreement | Ethics Policy | Patent Info. | Privacy Policy | Kids' Privacy Policy ©2006 About, Inc., A part of The New York Times Company . All rights reserved. Around About Tips to Losing Weight Guide to Distance Learning How to Travel for Less PHOTOS: Italy PHOTOS: Hybrid Cars What's Hot Assisi Walks Sex Carvings - Sexual Images in European Romanesque Churches Strasbourg Pictures - Le Petite France Half Timbered Houses Pe#241;afiel Spain and the ... Matera Italy the Sassi and the festa della Madonna Bruna Headlines Brits Pay More to Ride the Rails Planning a vacation to Britain? If you plan to get... Friday Fishwrap: Odd Stuff from Europe Have a whale of a time in London: Ok,... Strasbourg Pictures The entire center of Strasbourg was declared a world heritage... Bargain Airlines - Is a Cheap Flight your Best Bet in Europe? Are short, bargain flights within Europe faster than taking the...

Recreation Vehicle Industry Association

Find a Recreation Vehicle/Conversion Vehicle Manufacturer The following are manufacturers of Travel Trailers : Found 46 member(s) Criteria: Type= Travel Trailers Ameri-Camp 72440 State Road 13 P.O. Box 249 Syracuse IN 46567 http://www.ameri-camp.com Fifth Wheel Trailers Travel Trailers Arnold Engineering, Inc.dba Mountaineer 5135 W 3000 S P.O. Box 1917 Roosevelt UT 84066 Fifth Wheel Trailers Travel Trailers Bigfoot Industries Inc. 4114 Crozier Rd. Armstrong BC V0E 1B6 Canada http://www.bigfootrv.com Motorhomes Mini Type C Truck Campers Travel Trailers Cikira RV, LLC 330 E. Windsor Ave. Elkhart IN 46514 Travel Trailers Coachmen Industries, Inc. 2831 Dexter Dr. P.O. Box 3300 Elkhart IN 46515 Phone: (574) 262-0123 http://www.coachmen.com Folding Camping Trailers Fifth Wheel Trailers Motorhomes Type A Motorhomes Mini Type C Travel Trailers List Branches/Subsidiaries DoubleTree RV, LLC 0160 W. 750 N. P.O. Box 235 Howe IN 46746 http://www.dbltree.ligtel.com Fifth Wheel Trailers Travel Trailers Truck Campers List Branches/Subsidiaries Extreme RVs, LLC 412 S Kit Ave. P.O. Box 1420 Caldwell ID 83606 Phone: (208) 453-2500 Fifth Wheel Trailers Travel Trailers Sport-Utility Trailers Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. 3125 Myers St. Riverside CA 92503 Phone: (800) 444-4905 http://www.fleetwoodrv.com Folding Camping Trailers Fifth Wheel Trailers Hybrid Travel Trailers Motorhomes Type A Motorhomes Mini Type C Travel Trailers List Branches/Subsidiaries Forest River Inc. 55470 C.R. 1 P.O. Box 3030 Elkhart IN 46515 http://www.forestriverinc.com Folding Camping Trailers Fifth Wheel Trailers Hybrid Travel Trailers Motorhomes Type A Van Campers Type B Motorhomes Mini Type C Sport-Utility Trailers Travel Trailers List Branches/Subsidiaries Franklin Coach Co., Inc. 160 S. Oakland Ave. P.O. Box 152 Nappanee IN 46550 Fifth Wheel Trailers Travel Trailers Glendale International Corporation 145 Queen St. Strathroy Ontario N7G 3J6 Canada Travel Trailers Motorhomes Mini Type C Fifth Wheel Trailers List Branches/Subsidiaries Gulf Stream Coach, Inc. 507 S. Oakland Ave. P.O. Box 1005 Nappanee IN 46550 Phone: (800) 289-8787 http://www.gulfstreamrv.com Fifth Wheel Trailers Motorhomes Type A Motorhomes Mini Type C Travel Trailers List Branches/Subsidiaries Hi Lo Trailer Co. 500 S. Main St. Bellville OH 44813-0577 http://www.hilotrailer.com Travel Trailers Horton Vans Inc.RV Division 101 Industrial Blvd. P.O. Box 4307 Eatonton GA 31024 Travel Trailers Horse Trailer Conversions Hy-Line Enterprises Inc. 21674 Beck Drive Beck Industrial Park Elkhart IN 46516 http://www.hylinetrailers.com Fifth Wheel Trailers Travel Trailers Jayco Inc. 903 S. Main St. P.O. Box 460 Middlebury IN 46540 Phone: (574) 825-5861 http://www.jayco.com Folding Camping Trailers Fifth Wheel Trailers Hybrid Travel Trailers Motorhomes Mini Type C Sport-Utility Trailers Travel Trailers List Branches/Subsidiaries King of the Road Recreational Vehicles 1313 Road G P.O. Box 99 York NE 68467 http://www.kingoftheroadrv.com Fifth Wheel Trailers Travel Trailers Motorhomes Type A K-Z, Inc.dba Sportsmen 9270 W US 20 Shipshewana IN 46565 http://www.kz-rv.com Fifth Wheel Trailers Truck Campers Travel Trailers Hybrid Travel Trailers List Branches/Subsidiaries Marathon Homes Corp. 4420 Pine Creek Rd. P.O. Box 1302 Elkhart IN 46516 Phone: (574) 294-6441 http://www.marathonhomes.com Fifth Wheel Trailers Travel Trailers Monaco Coach Corporation 91320 Coburg Industrial Way Coburg OR 97408-9492 Phone: (800) 634-0855 http://www.monaco-online.com Motorhomes Type A Fifth Wheel Trailers Travel Trailers Motorhomes Mini Type C List Branches/Subsidiaries North American Industries Limited 0770 East State Rd. 120 P.O. Box 339 Howe IN 46746 Fifth Wheel Trailers Travel Trailers Nu Wa Industries, Inc. 3701 Johnson Rd. Chanute KS 66720 http://www.nuwa.com Fifth Wheel Trailers Travel Trailers List Branches/Subsidiaries Pilgrim International, Inc. 14489 US 20 Middlebury IN 46540 Travel Trailers Fifth Wheel Trailers List Branches/Subsidiaries Play-Mor Trailers, Inc. Hwy 63 S. P.O. Box 128 Westphalia MO 65085-0128 Fifth Wheel Trailers Horse Trailer Conversions Sport-Utility Trailers Travel Trailers Recreation By Design, LLC 21746 Buckingham Rd. Elkhart IN 46516 http://www.recreationbydesign.com Fifth Wheel Trailers Travel Trailers Roadmaster LLC 310 Steury Ave. Goshen IN 46526 http://www.roadmasterllc.com Sport-Utility Trailers Fifth Wheel Trailers Travel Trailers R-Vision, Inc. 1628 W. Beardsley P.O. Box 4538 Elkhart IN 46514 Phone: (574) 268-2111 http://www.trail-lite.com Fifth Wheel Trailers Motorhomes Type A Motorhomes Mini Type C Travel Trailers Hybrid Travel Trailers List Branches/Subsidiaries Skyline Corporation 2520 By-Pass Road P.O. Box 743 Elkhart IN 46514 http://www.skylinecorp.com Fifth Wheel Trailers Travel Trailers List Branches/Subsidiaries Space Craft Mfg., Inc. 28115 Old Hwy. 40 P.O. Box 946 Concordia MO 64020 http://www.spacecraftmfg.com RVs For Disabled Horse Trailer Conversions Travel Trailers Fifth Wheel Trailers Sun Valley, Inc. 1135 Kent Street Elkhart IN 46514 Phone: (800) 327-7684 http://www.sunvalleyinc.com Truck Campers Travel Trailers Fifth Wheel Trailers Sunline Coach Company 245 S. Muddy Creek Rd. Denver PA 17517-9773 Phone: (717) 336-2858 http://www.sunlinerv.com Travel Trailers Sport-Utility Trailers RVs For Disabled SunnyBrook Manufacturing, Inc. 201 14th St. Middlebury IN 46540 Fifth Wheel Trailers Travel Trailers List Branches/Subsidiaries SunRay RV, LLC 161 Giles Industrial Dr. Tazewell TN 37879 Travel Trailers Teschner Motorhome Mfg., LLC 27991 County Road 10 Ste. 108 Elkhart IN 46514-7803 http://www.eurolinerusa.com Motorhomes Type A Travel Trailers Fifth Wheel Trailers Thor Industries, Inc. 419 W. Pike Street Jackson Center OH 45334 http://www.thorindustries.com Fifth Wheel Trailers Hybrid Travel Trailers Motorhomes Type A Motorhomes Mini Type C Truck Campers Travel Trailers Van Campers Type B List Branches/Subsidiaries Timberland RV Companydba Adventure Manufacturing 1482 N. Eel River Cemetery Rd. P.O. Box 1210 Peru IN 46970 Fifth Wheel Trailers Travel Trailers TL Industries 25876 Miner Rd. Elkhart IN 46514 http://www.clearvuerv.com Travel Trailers Fifth Wheel Trailers TrailManor, Inc. 135 Hulsey Ln. P.O. Box 130 Lake City TN 37769 http://www.trailmanor.com Travel Trailers Travel Supreme, Inc. 66149 S.R. 19 P.O. Box 610 Wakarusa IN 46573 Phone: (574) 768-7273 http://www.travelsupreme.com Fifth Wheel Trailers Travel Trailers Motorhomes Type A Triple E Recreational Vehicles 720 Centennial St. P.O. Box 1230 Winkler MB R6W 4C4 Canada Phone: (204) 325-4361 http://www.tripleerv.com Fifth Wheel Trailers Motorhomes Type A Motorhomes Mini Type C Travel Trailers Vanguard LLC 1047 East M-86 Colon MI 49040 Folding Camping Trailers Truck Campers Travel Trailers List Branches/Subsidiaries Vanguard, Inc. 100 Canola Ave. P.O. Box 1388 N. Battleford SK S9A 3M1 Canada Fifth Wheel Trailers Motorhomes Mini Type C Travel Trailers Waldoch Crafts Inc. 13821 Lake Drive Forest Lake MN 55025 http://www.waldoch.com Conv. Vehicles for Disabled Van Campers Type B Pickup Truck Conversions Sport-Utility Conversions Travel Trailers Multi-Use Van Conversions Weekend Warrior Trailers, Inc. 1320 Oleander Ave. Perris CA 92571 Fifth Wheel Trailers Travel Trailers Sport-Utility Trailers List Branches/Subsidiaries West Coast Leisure Homes Ltd. 316 Dawson Ave. Penticton, BC V2A 3N6 Canada http://www.okanaganrv.com Fifth Wheel Trailers Truck Campers Travel Trailers Western Recreational Vehicles, Inc. P.O. Box 9547 Yakima WA 98909-0547 Phone: (509) 457-4133 http://www.wrv.com Fifth Wheel Trailers Motorhomes Type A Truck Campers Travel Trailers NOTICE: This directory of RVIA member company addresses and telephone numbersis the sole property of RVIA. Visitors to this website are permitted to usethe information provided. However, the copying or downloading of all orsubstantial portions of this directory is prohibited without the express,written permission of RVIA. 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Winnebago Mental Health Institute

Winnebago Mental Health Institute Department of Health & Family Services Topics A-Z | Programs & Services | Partners & Providers | Reference Center | Search Winnebago Mental Health Institute Winnebago Mental Health Institute (WMHI) serves as a specialized component in a community-based mental health delivery system. In 1973 the State made county boards responsible for the general care and treatment of the mentally ill. WMHI is responsible for meeting the needs for specialized services that cannot be met by community agencies. Winnebago's programs are designed to serve mentally ill children and adults, severely disturbed and difficult patients, and forensic patients, all requiring specialized services. WMHI's patient population average is 272, with 950 admissions per year, and is staffed by approximately 700 employees. Directions to WMHI Admissions History of WMHI Job Opportunities Library / Media Center Map of WMHI Grounds Mission of WMHI Museum, Julaine Farrow Services Therapeutic Services Tobacco Free Program Training, Mental Health Professionals Treatment Activities Volunteer Opportunities Contacting the Joint Commission Winnebago Mental Health Institute is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). Joint Commission standards deal with organizational quality, safety-of-care issues, and the safety of the environment in which care is provided. Anyone believing that he or she has pertinent and valid information about such matters may contact JCAHO at the following: Division of Accreditation Operations Office of Quality Monitoring Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations One Renaissance Boulevard Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181 or Faxed to 630-792-5636 or E-mailed to complaint@jcaho.org Last Revised: August 23, 2005 "Notice of Privacy Practices" Winnebago Mental Health Institute, 1300 South Drive PO Box 9, Winnebago WI 54985-0009 Phone: 920-235-4910 Fax: 920-237-2043 TDD/TTY: 920-236-2918 Back to top | About | Contact | Disclaimer | Privacy Notice | Feedback Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services

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Urban Legends Reference Page: Lost Legends (Goin' Mobile) Goin' Mobile Claim: Mobile homes are so named because they can be moved from place to place. Status: False. Origins: Ourlanguage is full of terms that misleadingly suggest geographic origins for common products. Panama hats weren't made in Panama, French fries didn't originate in France, India ink didn't come from India, and German chocolate cake was named after a person, not the country. Far rarer is the reverse case, when a product's name does indeed reflect a geographic origin but over time has mistakenly become associated with a completely different meaning. The subject of today's article is one of the more prominent examples of this phenomenon: the mobile home. [Before we begin, let's define our terms to avoid confusion. In this discussion, the term "mobile home" refers to a prefabricated house that is hauled to a plot of land and (more or less) permanently situated there for use as a residence. We do not use the term "mobile home" to refer to a type of living quarters on wheels which is driven from place to place by vacationers, either as a self-contained unit (e.g., a Winnebago brand motor home) or as a trailer towed behind another vehicle.] The origins of the mobile home are tied to the end of World War II. The rapid downsizing of the U.S. armed forces after the surrenders of Germany and Japan in 1945 brought back millions of servicemen (and servicewomen) to the United States from overseas in the mid-1940s, many of whom were coming of age and anxious to establish their independence, attend college, get married, and raise children. This demographic bulge, coupled with America's burgeoning post-war recovery from the Great Depression and a wartime economy, created an unprecedented demand for housing — both for standard residential units and for quarters to accommodate the many servicepeople who were taking advantage of G.I. Bill benefits to complete their educations at colleges, universities, and other types of schools. The widespread use of military-style prefabricated housing eased the severe housing shortgage temporarily, and the eventual creation of suburbs such as Levittown took care of much of the long term need, but neither of these solutions addressed a potentially lucrative marketing niche — people who were dissatisfied with living in barracks-like housing but didn't want to (or couldn't) wait years for the construction of affordable suburban housing. It was James and Laura Sweet, a couple from Prichard, Alabama, (a town just outside of Mobile) who came up with the concept that fulfilled that market niche. James Sweet, a machine shop supervisor by trade, was reportedly finishing off his workday lunch one afternoon in January 1946 when a newspaper article about the post-war housing shortage caught his eye. What if, he thought, someone could manufacture a type of housing that could be put together cheaply and quickly at a central location, but was small and light enough to be transported to wherever the purchaser wished to locate it? Something like the prefabricated structures of the era, but much nicer and more home-like — a prefab housing unit divided into discrete rooms (rather than one large open space) with all the electrical and plumbing fixtures already in place. They could be built as one- or two-piece units, then loaded onto flatbed trucks and delivered wherever the purchaser desired. Sweet's wife, Laura, was a commercial artist who did illustrations for magazines, and she drew up a few simple floor plans according to her husband's directions. James Sweet built a couple of prototype units in his off-work hours to prove his concept viable, and then, satisfied with the results, used the couple's savings, mortgaged their home, and borrowed against his life insurance to establish Sweet Homes, a company dedicated to the manufacture and sale of prefabricated homes. Sweet Homes was initially neither a smashing success nor a disappointing failure. Sales were modest to good, enough to keep the company in business and provide the Sweets with a nice living, but their marketing area was primarily limited to the Alabama/Mississippi region due to the difficulties involved in hauling their product across longer distances on the system of roads that existed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Not until the passage of the Interstate Highway Act in 1956 and the resulting construction of thousands of miles of highways across the U.S. were the Sweets able to expand the reach of their business. Unfortunately for them, by the late 1950s they had plenty of competition, primarily from firms which had set up shop in the nearby Mobile area, where they could take advantage of a readily available, large, cheap (and primarily African-American) labor pool. National advertising was still something of a rarity in the 1950s, but as the new national highway system enabled the sale of prefabricated homes to spread outwards (mostly to the north and west) from the Alabama/Mississippi area, more and more consumers were exposed to the houses, liked them, and began clamoring for their own "Mobile homes." Business boomed, more manufacturers entered the fray, and factories were established all over the U.S. to better serve local customers. Eventually whole communities of these types of homes (colloquially known as "trailer parks") were created all across the country, populated by homeowners who preferred them to more expensive and more closely-quartered suburbs full of site-built housing. (So ubiquitous did these homes become that by the 1970s Congress had enacted federal standards regulating their quality and safety.) Over the years, however, as the generation who fought World War II aged and prefabricated homes became commonplace throughout the U.S., newer consumers were unaware that the appellation "Mobile home" was a geographic reference, a term coined in acknowledgement of the area in which the industry got its start. The name was more and more frequently rendered as a common compound noun ("mobile home"), leading many to mistakenly conclude that it referred to houses that were "mobile" — that is, movable from place to place. While "mobile homes" can indeed be transported, they are of course far from mobile — in the vast majority of cases they are never moved off the sites to which they are originally trucked. (Most "mobile homes," once situated, are moved again only if their owners replace them with newer models, or if they have to be removed because the land on which they sit has been converted to other uses.) So, while we ponder the mysteries of how Panama hats, French fries, India ink, and German chocolate cake came by their misleading names, let us not forget that their poor cousin, the Mobile home, has been unfairly stripped of his home ties. Trivia: The 1974 Lynyrd Skynyrd hit "Sweet Home Alabama" was a reworking of a 1951 radio jingle advertising "Sweet Homes, Alabama." Additional information:     More information about this page Last updated: 26 May 2004 The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/lost/mobile.asp Urban Legends Reference Pages © 1995-2004 by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson This material may not be reproduced without permission Sources: Hart, John Fraser, et al. The Unknown World of the Mobile Home . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-801-86899-8. Wallis, Allan D. Wheel Estate: The Rise and Decline of Mobile Homes . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-801-85641-8. Lost Legends Next legend Search Send comments

Used RV

The Most Complete RV Resource Recreational Vehicle Recreational Vehicle (or RV) is a term used in North America to describe a large enclosed piece of equipment with wheels designed to be moved from place to place for people to temporarily live in and be protected from the elements while away from their permanent home. While RVs are intended for brief leisure activities such as vacations and camping, some people, especially retirees, live in their units and are known as fulltimers. RVs can be rented in major U.S. and Canadian cities. There are different classes of vehicles generally labelled as RVs: A truck camperTruck Camper - unit is affixed to the bed or chassis of a pickup truck. Folding Camping Trailer - also known as a pop-up trailer; a light-weight unit with sides that collapse for towing and storage Travel Trailer - heavier unit with rigid sides designed to be towed by most vehicles by means of a bumper or frame hitch Fifth Wheel Travel Trailer - designed to be towed by a pickup truck equipped with a special hitch in the truck bed Park Model - designed for occasional relocation and will require a special tow vehicle and a highway movement permit Motorhome ("Winnebago", a product of the Winnebago Company that dominated the market for many years, was long a synonym for a motorhome, but this usage has faded in recent years.) Class A Motorcoach - constructed on a specially designed motor vehicle chassis, typically resembling a bus Class B Campervan - built using a conventional van, to which a raised roof has been added Class C Mini-motorhome - built on an automotive manufactured chassis with an attached van cab section Toterhome, a motor home built around a semi truck chassis such as a freightliner. This type of motor home allows you to pull large and heavy trailers while having all the conveniences of a large motor home A minimal RV typically contains beds, a table, food preparation and storage areas. Larger models add full bathrooms, refrigerators, living areas, master bedrooms, etc. Some RVs are very elaborate, with satellite TV and internet access, slide-out wall panels, and awnings; many RVs can cost in excess of $100,000 and some can cost over $1 million. These high end RVs typically need to be financed by banks or specialized lenders. Many RVers stay at RV parks, most of which feature electrical, water and sewer service (full hookups), as well as cable television and wireless Internet. Amenties often include swimming pools, gamerooms and even destination-resort activities such as horseback riding. Advantages of RVs include not having to move one's things in and out of motel rooms, not having to rent multiple motel rooms, and the fact that preparing food saves money compared to eating in restaurants. At the same time, an RV provides more organized living space and better protection from the weather than a tent. Children also tend to like RVs. Disadvantages of RVs include low fuel economy for the motorized RV or tow vehicle, lack of maid service as experienced in motels (maid service is available at a few high-end resorts), and larger RV models can be hard for the novice to drive or tow. Some people also live in RVs because they lack funds for more conventional housing. Similarly, RVs ? specifically, trailers which strongly resemble travel trailers, but usually with fewer amenities ? have been used to temporarily house victims of natural disasters. A notable example is Hurricane Katrina; the federal disaster relief agency FEMA has ordered large numbers of such trailers to house victims of the storm in Louisiana and Mississippi. Some people craft their own RVs out of cars, vans (vandwellers), or used passenger and school buses. Elkhart, Indiana, is known as the "RV Capital of the World" because it is home to many RV manufacturers, including, Forest River, Heartland RV, the Damon Corporation, Four Winds, Hy-Line, Keystone, Monaco, Sun Valley, and Travel Supreme. Many other manufacturers, including Dutchman, Gulf Stream, and Jayco, can be found in the nearby towns of Goshen, Middlebury, Nappanee, and Wakarusa. In 2005, these locales experienced a boom because of the large number of trailers ordered to house Hurricane Katrina victims. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.