The first RV I bought cost about $2,500 and was propped up on cinder blocks alongside a ribbon of uneven blacktop south of Cumberland, Wis. This was a pickup-camper that to someone without my keen eye ...

Already, our tour is proving to be an adventure.Over the next four days we will be paddling through the Yasawas, an 85-kilometre chain of volcanic islands and atolls in the north-western part of Fiji.