This week on the RV Podcast: 









* Campground theft: How to Protect Your Gear while camping







* Somebody is trying to keep folks out of an Oregon national forest by burying planks booby-trapped with nails on forest roads.







* How RVers can get a nice break on diesel prices.







* All this plus the RV News of the Week and your questions coming up in Episode #521 of the RV Podcast









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RV CONVERSATION OF THE WEEK - Campground Theft















Recently on our Facebook group, MaryJean posted a picture of a campfire at night and wrote:







"Beautiful campfire but without our chairs that someone stole from our campsite today.”







MaryJean was staying at the Turkey Run State Park Campground in Indiana. She and her husband left their site for a few hours, came back and their chairs were gone. They looked around at the sites, didn’t see them.







They asked their neighbors, no one saw anything. They asked the campground staff, nothing. So they filled out a theft report. ….. And spent the night gathered around their campfire with no chairs, and a real sense of violation.







MaryJean’s post triggered nearly 600 comments. Most expressed shock and sympathy, but what struck us was how many others had similar stories, many saying it seemed to them thefts were on the rise.







Here are a few samples:







Joe: We were camping in Arizona recently, went out for the day, came back and someone had stolen my wife's bathing suit that she had hanging on a drying rack!







Lori: “Someone stole our portable trash can. Left the trash that was inside on the ground. We were at Colorado River RV Campground in Texas.”







Beth: At a state park in Ohio, things were disappearing from campsites during the summer months a couple years ago. Turns out it was indigent people living in the surroun...