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Editor's Roadside Journal

Share a hotel bed with a stranger? Don’t laugh!

Chuck Woodbury -
  Lucky you and me. We carry a bedroom with us in our RVs. If we share it, it's with our special someone. But back...

Toy cocktail lounge for preschoolers?

Chuck Woodbury -
  Does this really exist? According to the package, the toy Happy Hour Playset includes a pretend bar, bar stools and beer bottles. It's obviously a gag....

Astor, the aspiring street dog celebrity

Chuck Woodbury -
  My daughter, Emily, lives in Brooklyn, New York. She's 25 and finding her way in the business world. A year ago she told me...

Why RVing is not as much fun today

Chuck Woodbury -
  By Chuck Woodbury editor, RVtravel.com For people like me, who have traveled by RV for decades, RVing today is not as much fun. I was reminded...

Golf club man and a “cow” motorhome

Chuck Woodbury -
  At the popular tourist attraction Hole in the Rock near Moab, Utah, keep your eyes open for this golfer — made almost entirely...

Not buying these girlie calendars

Chuck Woodbury -
  I found these calendars on a magazine rack in rural Oregon, in the mountains near Bend. You find a lot of hunting and fishing magazines (and...

When I was a bronze god, or thought I was

Chuck Woodbury -
  By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL Gail and I were just talking and she said something that jarred a memory. It was from high school. For...

Death by hot sauce

Chuck Woodbury -
  Here are a few brands of hot sauce I found at the Casa de Fruita near Hollister, California. As the old Brylcreem jingle used...

Popeye is still helping sell spinach

Chuck Woodbury -
  By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL Popeye is still helping sell spinach. I found this bag in a supermarket in Sacramento. It's called Popeye Superfood...

How older men attract beautiful young women

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  By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL This ad showed up on my computer today. I wish I had seen it a few years ago, before I...

Video: How Main Street fought early mail order catalogs

Chuck Woodbury -
  By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL Here's a bit of historical trivia about how Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogs challenged Main Street and what Main...

The tree stump that refuses to die

Chuck Woodbury -
  The stump that wouldn't die Normally when you cut down a tree and leave a stump, it dies. Eventually it rots and other plants...

Roadside Journal, Nov. 8, 2016

Chuck Woodbury -
  Walking Dead Halloween zombies in Central Point, Oregon field. Building on a building In the photo above, the double doors are real. The...

Video: Fly invasion in the RV park

Chuck Woodbury -
  By Chuck Woodbury Little did I know when I moved for two weeks into my current RV park that there would soon be an...

Pilot entombed in tiny plane’s cockpit

Chuck Woodbury -
  By Chuck Woodbury In the back room of The Glass Forge in downtown Grants Pass, Ore., on a table toward the back, sits a...

No way! Downton Abbey tea? You bet!

Chuck Woodbury -
  If you miss your favorite PBS mini-series, you can now at least capture a little of its charm with your very own Downton Abbey...

Roadside Journal, Nov. 3, 2016

Chuck Woodbury -
  Drop my pants? Gail and I were walking down the main street in Central Point, Ore., population 17,000, when we encountered this sign. Gail looked me...

So much history, so many tears

Chuck Woodbury -
  By Chuck Woodbury How many tears were shed in the Jacksonville Historic Cemetery? When I walk through a historic cemetery like this one, I can't help imagining the scenes...

Deep blue Crater Lake a sight to behold

Chuck Woodbury -
  By Chuck Woodbury If you have never been to Crater Lake, you have not seen the bluest blue on Earth —  its water! It's amazing. It's...

Cafe floor made of 120,000 pennies

Chuck Woodbury -
  By Chuck Woodbury The Mustard Seed Cafe in Jacksonville, Ore., has about the most unusual floor you will ever see. It's covered with 120,000 pennies....

Gorgeous day, and I smell cows

Chuck Woodbury -
  By Chuck Woodbury I smell cows. It's a gorgeous day in Medford, Oregon. I'm typing at my picnic table. The sun is warming me all over....

Very cool RV napkins and drink coasters

Chuck Woodbury -
  I was very excited to find these drink coaster and cocktail napkins at a kitchen store named the PotRack in pretty Jacksonville,...

Roadside Journal October 30, 2016

Chuck Woodbury -
  Buried in leaves This is the roof of my motorhome the day we were leaving Eugene. We were parked under a tree...

City’s seal is made of sewer trash

Chuck Woodbury -
  By Chuck Woodbury It's hard to believe, but true, that the city seal displayed in City Hall in Springfield, Oregon, is...

Still alive after visit with meat-eating plants

Chuck Woodbury -
  By Chuck Woodbury I survived my visit to the meat-eating plants along the Oregon coast just north of Florence. It turns out, these...

Visit the home of the Simpsons

Chuck Woodbury -
  By Chuck Woodbury Springfield, Ore., next door neighbor to Eugene, is the home of the TV cartoon series "The Simpsons." That's according...

Editor’s Roadside Journal, Oct. 26, 2016

Chuck Woodbury -
  Life on the road is working out I've been on the road now for two weeks, living in my "mobile" home of 350 square feet....

Editor’s Roadside Journal, Oct. 25, 2016

Chuck Woodbury -
  Germs-Are-Us It's 9:45 a.m. in the Deerwood RV Park near Eugene, Oregon. Gail and I are eating oatmeal. Next door, a man and woman...

In Eugene, it’s all about Donald Duck

Chuck Woodbury -
  By Chuck Woodbury Perhaps you've heard of the Oregon Ducks, the mascot of the University of Oregon. Its football team has been one of the...

Editor’s Roadside Journal: Oct. 22, 2016

Chuck Woodbury -
  By Chuck Woodbury Gail and I drove today from Eugene to Sisters, Ore., and then back, mostly on State Route 126 with a detour...

Are you tugging your leash?

Chuck Woodbury -
  By Chuck Woodbury I am an optimist. When problems happen, I immediately figure out how to deal with them. If a boulder blocks my path, I...

Frown and say ‘Cheese’

Chuck Woodbury -
  By Chuck Woodbury The next time someone asks you to smile for a photo, go ahead and frown. No big deal! I was in a...

Lots of clear-cut forests near Eugene

Chuck Woodbury -
By Chuck Woodbury I was poking around on Google Earth today, checking out the road between Eugene and Florence, Oregon. At first, I...

Craziness at the drive-up window

Chuck Woodbury -
By Chuck Woodbury I had a dentist appointment today at 8 a.m. That meant getting into Seattle rush hour traffic. I have...

Joe Stinks changes his name

Chuck Woodbury -
 I came across this story years ago. It's about a man named Joe Stinks.The story is thought to have originated in the book "The...

Cats and Kittens radio. Sort of. . .

Chuck Woodbury -
  Some radio and TV stations' call letters are easy to remember. In Oakhurst, Calif., just think about cats and kittens. Two radio stations there are...

The gift of time

Chuck Woodbury -
 I received this in an email from RV Travel reader Robert Adams. I don't know if it's true, but the message is inspiring:The last...

Two story trailer is old news, not futuristic

Chuck Woodbury -
 By Chuck Woodbury, editorA week ago I wrote about how it wouldn't be long until a two-story RV debuted. I mean, it had to...

Buy your own RV park. Only $8.2 million!

Chuck Woodbury -
 If you act fast you can own your own RV park. It’s in Tennessee, just outside scenic Pigeon Forge — 10 miles east of...

VIDEO: When speed limit signs don’t make sense

Chuck Woodbury -
 Speed limits sometimes do not make sense. Today, for example, I was driving an interstate with a speed limit of 65 miles per hour....

Update on getting ready for full-timing

Chuck Woodbury -
By Chuck Woodburyeditor, RVtravel.comA quick note as we go to press with issue 753 of the RV Travel Newsletter.I thought I had my condo sold...

Alien tunnels, cities beneath Wal-Mart?

Chuck Woodbury -
By Chuck WoodburyYikes! I don't how I came upon it, but I ended up on a long thread of comments started by someone who...

Roy and Dale sing Happy Trails, and I am happy

Chuck Woodbury -
By Chuck WoodburyWhen I was young, I swore to myself that I would never, ever grow up to be a geezer who talked about...

Bass should have kept its big mouth shut

RV Staff -
By Chuck WoodburyI snapped this photo at Glimmerglass State Park on Lake Otsego near Cooperstown, NY. The bass had washed up on shore, dead...

The incredible shrinking bird brain

RV Staff -
By Chuck WoodburyNature is amazing. The other morning on our local NPR radio station, on a program called Bird Notes, I learned about a...

Could it happen? ‘Viagra’ Old Faithful?

Chuck Woodbury -
An $11 billion maintenance backlog has National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis proposing “an unprecedented level of corporate donations” to the national parks, according...

Coffee, tea, and advertising in Small Town USA

Chuck Woodbury -
By Chuck Woodbury A guy, a stranger, walks into Kelcy's Cafe in Tehachapi, Calif., and asks, "How would you like 100 free ceramic coffee mugs?" ...

Top RVer names in the future

RV Staff -
Social Security has released the most popular baby names for 2015. You can probably figure that in 50 years a lot of RVers named...

My best business ever ended when I was 10

Chuck Woodbury -
By Chuck Woodbury I live and work in a complicated world. It wasn't always so. I once operated a Kool-Aid stand. At times it was...

What upset me at an RV show last weekend

RV Staff -
By Chuck Woodbury I'm upset about something I observed at an RV show I attended last weekend. After walking around, checking out all the RVs, I...
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