A Valentine’s gift from Space 43 years ago
Oh, this is so beautiful, our Earth and Moon as photographed from Space 43 years ago. The photo was taken by Voyager 1 on...
Incredible! Don’t stay at this motel or you will be beaten!
By Chuck Woodbury
Here is yet another reason to avoid motels and hotels in favor of your RV. Not only can you sleep in your...
U.S. Camel Corps remembered in Quartzsite
By Chuck Woodbury
ROADSIDE JOURNAL
One of the most interesting military experiments of the American West involved 77 camels and a Syrian named Hi Jolly. His...
Take a break from the RV. Stay in a $50 million hotel room
If for some odd reason you wish to take a break from your RV, we have an idea for you — stay in a...
A traffic accident report like you’ve never seen. Too funny!
By Chuck Woodbury
ROADSIDE JOURNAL
A reader sent me this. I'm laughing hard right now. It's about a deer accident. It's funny. But first, a related...
The back side of Mount Rushmore most never knew about
By Chuck Woodbury
ROADISIDE JOURNAL
Everybody knows Mount Rushmore, the most famous tourist attraction in South Dakota. The heads of presidents Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and...
This is not the America I have known
By Chuck Woodbury
ROADSIDE JOURNAL
This picture originally ran in The Denver Post. It's a homeless camp right across a park from the Colorado state capitol....
My very own missile silo!
By Chuck Woodbury
ROADSIDE JOURNAL
Two Titan II missile silos are for sale, both in Arizona – one in Oracle and one in Benson. They are...
Editor update for Sunday newsletter
Saturday around noon, January 11, 2020
By Chuck Woodbury
Gail and I are still in Needles, California. We dined last evening at the Wagon Wheel, a...
Football helmets. Hard to believe this one!
By Chuck Woodbury
ROADSIDE JOURNAL
If you watch football in person or on TV, you know there's a lot of concern these days about preventing concussions....
The story I blew: The flyswatter repairman of Needles
By Chuck Woodbury
ROADSIDE JOURNAL
I would like to tell you a story from many years ago that I didn’t write about. It was back in...
News in Fresno reflects, I think, changing times
This was the front page of The Fresno Bee the other day.
I am not sure why I found this story so depressingly odd. It's...