Top 10 RV trips

Favorite RV drives, from the Recreation Vehicle Industry Assn. (www.GoRVing.com):

The Natchez Trace, Mississippi-Tennessee.

Skyline Drive/Blue Ridge Parkway, Va.

California Highway 1 (Santa Barbara-Santa Cruz)

The Alaska Highway

The Oregon Coast

The Florida Keys

Old Route 66

Great River Road

California Gold Rush Route 49

Colorado’s Million Dollar Highway (U.S. 550 Ridgeway-Durango)

Valley Forge Park updates its history

Valley Forge, Pa. Hoping to turn joggers, bikers and inline skaters at Valley Forge National Historical Park into students of the Revolutionary War, park officials are planning $100 million in upgrades over the next four years.

Changes will begin with a $1 million renovation of the park’s visitors’ center. The project also will include exhibits on the Valley Forge encampment, maps and a timeline of the war, as well as food and gift shops.

The new welcome center complex, slated for completion in September, will also feature a refurbished auditorium and education center. By 2006, park officials hope to have a multitude of other changes in place, including a museum building, a working farm and a full library of historical artifacts not presently on display now.

World Cup soccer to kick off next month

The biggest competition in all of sports will take place May 31 through June 30 in Japan and Korea the World Cup soccer competition. Travelers headed that way for the World Cup or for any other reason can find tourist information at the official World Cup Web site, http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/en. It has a section called “Destination Asia” with information on the venues and what there is to see and do at each. It has links to 10 host cities in Korea and 10 in Japan. A link at www.fifa-hotels.com can direct you to lodging.

Each of the two countries also has an official World Cup Web site. The Korean site is at www.2002worldcupkorea.org; the Japanese site is at www.jawoc.or.jp.