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Editor's Roadside Journal

Hilarious small town crime reports

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL When I was a roving reporter, back in the days when an issue of a small town weekly newspaper was 25...

Editor’s journal, May 8, 2020

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By Chuck Woodbury EDITOR It's been another week of hanging out in an RV park in Kingman, Arizona, as time marches on. One day blends into...

What is a skateboard called in Kingman, Arizona?

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL Really? This is what a skateboard is called in Kingman, Arizona? The photo is below. I wonder if it's the same...

This makes me so mad, and I bet you, too!

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL The other day, Gail and I hiked a beautiful trail on BLM lands in the Cerbat Foothills Recreation Area near Kingman,...

Why do dogs want to lick your face?

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By Chuck Woodbury My dog, Archie, likes to lick my face. I try to avoid letting him do that knowing where his face has been,...

Finding “alone time” in 300 square feet

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL Gail and I live in a 32-foot motorhome. With one full-wall slide-out and a smaller one in the bedroom, we have...

Editor’s Roadside Journal: Day 32 of Self-Isolation

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL APRIL 10, 2020. 3 p.m., Pacific time We are still in Kingman, Arizona, probably staying through May. Mohave County only has 28...

Still in Kingman. Reality hits. Hanging in there

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By Chuck Woodbury EDITOR Hello from along Route 66 in Kingman, Arizona. Gail and I are still in Arizona. We're here for two more weeks. We're not...

Do you ever go nuts trying to identify a scene that pops into your head?

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL Do you ever have flashbacks of places you've been and then go nuts trying to figure out where they were? An...

Is this message funny, offensive or the work of a sick mind?

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL Is this funny? I found it on the back of a pickup truck. It's printed right on the vehicle. My thought when...

My ancient dog! No kidding!

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The photo above is of a male puppy buried inside a lump of frozen ground near the Indigirka River, northeast of Yakutsk, Russia. The...

I visited Mars last evening

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL I am still in Quartzsite (Arizona), but last evening I might as well have been on Mars. Well, sorta. . . First,...

Travel News Alert

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Seann Fox passed along this late-breaking travel news bulletin due to snowfall, icy road conditions and other serious weather. It suggests that anyone on the...

The “Charlie Bit Me” boys 10 years later, and how much they earned

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Can you believe that more than 10 years have gone by since the YouTube video "Charlie Bit Me" debuted ... and then went viral?...

A Valentine’s gift from Space 43 years ago

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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!

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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

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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

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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!

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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

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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

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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!

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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

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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!

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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....

News in Fresno reflects, I think, changing times

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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...

My three duck buddies and their demands

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By Chuck Woodbury EDITOR, MOTORHOME DRIVER AND DUCK FAN These are my new friends. They introduced themselves last evening, about five minutes after I had leveled...

The town that drowned

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL Flaming Gorge Reservoir in southwestern Wyoming is known for its beauty and great fishing. But unknown to many visitors is that...

Fake! Fake! Congressman and sex offender buddy up

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To the hotheads in the audience Before you send off a nasty email to me about this, please try your best to understand that this...

Meet the voices of Rocky and Bullwinkle

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This short clip of a television interview with Bill Scott and June Foray will warm your heart and tickle your funny bone. Bill and...

Editor’s Log: Half-crazed, brain-dead at 5 p.m. on Friday

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By Chuck Woodbury EDITOR It's 5 p.m., Friday, and tomorrow's RV Travel Newsletter is pretty much finished. At least my role. Diane McGovern will now take...

Even if I were a billionaire I would still eat this

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL I have written a few essays through the years about my eating habits, but not lately. Specifically, I have discussed my...

The other Mount Rushmore

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL I could be so very bad with this photo, and write a fake article about how the National Park Service, because...

The citizens of Quartzsite will kill me for this

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL Quartzsite, Arizona, is the RV Snowbird Capital of the World. Although only a few thousand folks live there year-round, the population...

A campground horror to avoid regarding water

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL Once upon a time, back when I had a small RV with a small holding tank, I would take my showers...

Marlboro Man dies at 90, never smoked

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One of the original Marlboro Men, Robert “Bob” Norris, a ruggedly handsome cowboy who rose to fame promoting Marlboro cigarettes, has died. He was...

Crazy excuses traffic accident victims use to explain their mishaps

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Confused accident victims often give strange and funny reasons for their mishaps, usually trying to sum them up in as few words as possible. Here...

Have you ever buried a pet in a pet cemetery?

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL I was going through some back issues of my "on the road" newspaper Out West. I published it quarterly for about...

James Dean returns from the dead to co-star in new movie

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL This is simply too bizarre for me to easily comprehend, about the legendary actor James Dean who died in a horrific car...

Be a HE-MAN in just 15 minutes a day

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Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL If you are of a certain advanced age like me, you may recall Charles Atlas, "the World's Number 1 Body Builder." He...

I want this! Have you ever seen an RV so cute?

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I just found this photo on a website called Glamper Life. It's the cutest little motorhome I have ever seen. Actually, it's not an RV...

Lonely Mina, Nevada. Not a ghost town, but close

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Mina, Nevada, along lonely U.S. 95, is a few dozen homes, a few businesses, a tiny post office and one or two gas stations....

Was (or is) this doll a real live person?

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This is not a girl, but a doll. I spotted it in a Snohomish, Wash., antique store. Don't you think a real girl modeled...

Quick: Can you name this restaurant?

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By Chuck Woodbury Quick . . . what's the name of this restaurant? I snapped this photo a long time ago, back in my black-and-white...

Do you get songs stuck in your head?

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL No matter how hard you try, do you sometimes get a catchy tune stuck in your head? I do, and it...

Man puts RV on cruise control, walks back to make coffee

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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....

Why I never liked camping in a tent

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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...

Most RVers keep to themselves

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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...

My childhood hometown morphed into someplace else

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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...

Some thoughts from the road

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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...

Chipmunk Wars: Man battles rodents, rodents win!

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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....
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