


The catch: The RVers must be “self-contained” (read: have cooking and restroom facilities inside their vehicles, nothing external) and should purchase something in the $20 range – a bottle of wine, a pizza, souvenirs – from their hosts to make it “a reciprocal transaction.” Members pay a $79 annual fee for access to unlimited hosts.
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The nationwide organization pairs RVers with hosts in picturesque settings – wineries, breweries, farms and special attractions like museums and caves – for free one-night stays. You just load it all into your RV and go. You don’t have to pack, don’t have to unpack. They’re contained,” says Lisa Manning, customer success manager at Harvest Hosts. Travel Association survey showed that 68 percent of people felt safe traveling in a personal vehicle, compared to those who felt safe flying: 18 percent domestically, 11 percent internationally. At press time, it looked likely to spread into fall – a recent U.S. “This is going to be the summer of the RV,” David Basler, vice president of the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds, told USA Today. This summer, as international travel was prohibited and even domestic travel seemed dicey due to increasing cases of COVID-19, a dark horse emerged in the world of wanderlust. Harvest Hosts, a nationwide network of caravan hosts, has dozens of Arizona spots to enrich your road trips. Yet another odd silver lining of the pandemic: a boom in RV travel.
