# Possibly the first RV. {LINK} **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 14, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibly-the-first-rv-link/1002889 "2024-06-14T20:26:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibly-the-first-rv-link/1002889/1 "2024-06-14T20:26:58Z")
If we define a RV/ Recreational Vehicle as a motorized vehicle that is designed to provide lodging or camping quarters, they first appeared in the US, in 1904. [LINK WITH PHOTO.](https://www.vintag.es/2024/06/conklins-motor-bus.html) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibly-the-first-rv-link/1002889/2 "2024-06-14T21:18:03Z")
Here’s another early RV, [a custom built job for the president of Yellow Coach from 1929.](https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2013/03/05/enter-the-carcajou) [![](https://assets.rebelmouse.io/media-library/image.jpg?id=31003174&width=1200&height=800&quality=90&coordinates=0%2C28%2C0%2C29) ](https://assets.rebelmouse.io/media-library/image.jpg?id=31003174&width=1200&height=800&quality=90&coordinates=0%2C28%2C0%2C29) [![](https://assets.rebelmouse.io/media-library/carcajou-place-setting.jpg?id=31003179&width=700&quality=90) ](https://assets.rebelmouse.io/media-library/carcajou-place-setting.jpg?id=31003179&width=700&quality=90) [![](https://assets.rebelmouse.io/media-library/carcajou-sitting-room.jpg?id=31003192&width=700&quality=90) ](https://assets.rebelmouse.io/media-library/carcajou-sitting-room.jpg?id=31003192&width=700&quality=90) [![](https://assets.rebelmouse.io/media-library/carcajou-rear-sleeping-area.jpg?id=31003177&width=700&quality=90) ](https://assets.rebelmouse.io/media-library/carcajou-rear-sleeping-area.jpg?id=31003177&width=700&quality=90) [![](https://assets.rebelmouse.io/media-library/carcajou-rear.jpg?id=31003178&width=700&quality=90) ](https://assets.rebelmouse.io/media-library/carcajou-rear.jpg?id=31003178&width=700&quality=90) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibly-the-first-rv-link/1002889/3 "2024-06-14T21:42:19Z")
Not sure if I should laugh or cry. > **[Travel Across the USA and Stay in a Modern Conestoga® Wagon in 25 States](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/travel-across-the-usa-and-stay-in-a-modern-conestoga-wagon-in-25-states-301254923.html)** > > /PRNewswire/ -- With the network of Resorts offering stays in the comfort of a modern Conestoga® Wagon, built by Conestoga Wagon Company®, it is possible for... ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibly-the-first-rv-link/1002889/4 "2024-06-14T21:44:10Z")
[The Travel Log](https://www.savetheredwoods.org/explore/the-first-rv-was-a-redwood/) is right up there when it comes to vintage RVs (1917) > _Charles Kellogg’s **Travel Log,** handmade in 1917 from a fallen chunk of a redwood log and mounted on a 1917 Nash Quad truck, the toughest, most rugged vehicle of its kind at the time. From 1917-1921, Kellogg took his Travel Log on the road. He drove it across the country four times, coast-to-coast, bringing word of the redwoods to people who had never heard, let alone imagined, there could be such trees._