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It’s Happy Trails – again - for baby boomer motorhome owners. America’s top camp grounds report record RV reservation levels for the summer holidays.  Baby boomers have become the largest growing sect of the motorhome buyers.  In fact there are more RVs owned by baby boomers than any other age group. There are more than 11,000 new 50-year-olds every day.  

California Fun Facts. California History.

Let’s take a virtual whilsle stop tour of  California – the Golden State. California has the largest economy of all the United States. Indeed, if it was listed as a country in its own right, it would rank seventh in the world, placing it above Russia, Italy and Canada. This is perhaps less surprising when you consider California’s hefty population. At 36.5 million, it has more inhabitants than any other state and outstrips the combined population of Greece, Portugal and Sweden. In fact, one out of every eight Americans lives in California.

Here are some little known, very interesting facts about Texas .

1. Beaumont to El Paso: 742 miles

2. Beaumont to Chicago: 770 miles

3. El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas

4. World's first rodeo was in Pecos, July 4, 1883.

5. The Flagship Hotel in Galveston is the only hotel in North America built over water.

 Fun facts about Texas that I'll bet you didn't know.

The second most populated state in the union is Texas: the Lone Star State. At over 200 times the size of Rhode Island and stretching 800 miles each way, Texas is also the second largest state in terms of land area. In this regard it loses out on first place to Alaska rather than California.