One look at the picture above and you should know why. Views like this will not be seen from a hotel room. There is nothing like the freedom of the open road.

There are many great places to rent an RV or motorhome. For about the cost of a hotel stay, you can have your privacy, access places that would never be accessible any other way and have all the amenities of home right in anyplace you call your backyard.

If you have been considering a purchase of an RV or motorhome, renting allows you to try out various configurations before making your big decision.

Even with the price of gas going up, renting and RV is still one of the most affordable vacations there are. PKF Consulting, an internationally recognized consulting firm with expertise in travel and tourism, recently found that "typical RV family vacations are on average 26 to 74 percent less expensive than other types of vacations studied."

Renting, or fractional ownership, allows you to enjoy the benefits of an RV without all the cost of ownership. Renting allows you flexibility in that you can fly to a destination and once there, rent an RV for further exploration.