I only have one gripe with the article: the anonymous author doesn't know much about RVing. The article paraphrases Mrs. Thomas as follows:
In fact, the Washington power couple spends each summer touring the United States in a mobile home, she said.You can be certain that is not what Mrs. Thomas said. The anonymous author at Fox doesn't know the difference between a mobile home and a motor home. This mistake is made often by people who live in New York City and write for news organizations. They know nothing about either mobile homes or motor homes, and display their ignorance in articles such as this.
The confusion arises out of the fact that mobile homes are much less mobile than motor homes, although their names suggest otherwise. A "mobile home" is a manufactured house that probably moves once or twice in its whole existence. Once set up on the homesite, its wheels and tow bar are removed and used again. In other words, a mobile home is not a recreational vehicle.
A "motor home," which is what I'm sure the Thomases have, is a recreational vehicle (RV) with home-like qualities. It is designed to move frequently. It may resemble a bus (called a "class A") or it may look like the front end of a full size van grafted onto an RV body (called a "class C").
I wish news organizations would get this distinction straight.
