Editor's Roadside Journal

By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL I likely "got you" with that headline, but rest assured you are not the first to fall for this urban legend....

Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JORNAL Originally posted on an early version of this website on Feb. 2, 2003 A reporter asked me recently why I enjoy RVing so...

By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL It occurred to me recently that people in RV parks act a lot like they do at home: They keep to...

By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL I grew up to my mid-teens in the last half of the 20th century in a suburb of Los Angeles. My...

By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL Here are a few of the many short observations I've written through the years. Back when I traveled alone, when a...

By Chuck Woodbury WRITTEN IN 1987 Note: Before I became politically correct and nature-smart, I fed wild animals. I fed bears as a kid in Yellowstone....

By Chuck Woodbury Here's the water-hookup situation at my campsite at an RV park in Springfield, Illinois. I just found this photo. I took it...

By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL In days of old, a parking lot sign might say that unauthorized cars would be towed, then offer a phone number...

By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL When you think about it, you realize that if life were like how it's portrayed in advertisements and commercials, it would...

By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL You can always tell you are in a town without a local Craigslist website because the local newspapers still have good-sized...

By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL I came across this joke the other day and cannot resist passing it along. If you are a fuddy-duddy and are...

The other day, at the bookstore/coffee house where we hold our regular RVtravel.com staff meetings, I overheard a woman asking a clerk if a...