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A change in how we camp not always easy for old folks

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By Chuck Woodbury EDITOR Sooner or later you show your age whether you want to or not. I just watched the video below that was produced...

How do you eat artichokes and bananas?

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL Some friends and I were sitting around a campfire gabbing about random stuff when the subject of food came up. For...

What have you found along the road?

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL Here is a question for you: What is the best thing you have ever found along a road — something that...

How much of your holiday shopping are you doing online?

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL After two years of full-timing, Gail and I recently bought a home just north of Seattle, in the "burbs." My home...

Flying buses: The future is (not) here!

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This is the top half of a full page magazine ad for Sinclair Oil. I don't know the date it appeared. What do you...

ROADSIDE JOURNAL: My parents pay a visit. . . sort of

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL After I drifted off to sleep last night, my parents paid me a visit. They died 10 years ago, so they...

Another reason to travel with an RV

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By Chuck Woodbury I just returned to Seattle from the big Hershey RV Show in Pennsylvania. This  year, I flew; I didn't drive the motorhome....

KOA ad: Really? Ya gotta be kiddin’ me!

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By Chuck Woodbury Early in my career, when I was an aspiring capitalist, I subscribed to the weekly bible of the advertising industry, Advertising Age.  I...

Thank your lucky stars you live where you do!

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL I imagine most readers of RVtravel.com live in uncrowded neighborhoods. Some may commute to work on gridlocked freeways or even subways....

It’s easy to take your stuff with you with a big RV and trailer

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL This is my neighbor in the RV park. There's at least one motorcycle in the trailer, probably two. I don't know...

This was a weird week. Here’s why

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL I have been working too hard. No, I'm not looking for sympathy. I have been living/existing in my right brain, which...

World class F-bomb slingers in a town called Welcome

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By Chuck Woodbury There's a little town in Minnesota called Welcome. Gail and I spent four days there last week in Korte's Checkers Welcome...

Why is there a hole in the Farmers’ Almanac?

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Have you ever noticed that there's a hole in every copy of the Farmers' Almanac? You can see it here in the top left...

Meet Internet celeb Lil Miquela, who’s not even a real person

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL If you have a few minutes, watch this video about a human created entirely with computer graphics, who is an internet...

Today’s music stinks. This song from my past is a true musical masterpiece

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Today's music stinks. It's boring. It's just plain terrible! Now, you go back to the music of my day, when I grew up – the...

People who are crippled by obstacles

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By Chuck Woodbury Do you know someone who considers every little misstep in life an obstacle? Something unplanned happens, and they don't know what...

Dogs powered this device. What is it?

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Do you know what this is? We found the device at the museum at Virginia's Luray Caverns. No, it's not a treadmill to keep your...

The time I spent in Congress

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL Many RVers in the West head to Arizona for the winter. One lesser-known destination is the tiny town of Congress. It's...

My obsession with Ham Stuart and how I found him

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By Chuck Woodbury The man in the photo is named Ham Stuart. Actually, his name WAS Ham Stuart. Ham is no longer with us. I bought...

Remembering my father, ten years after his passing

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By Chuck Woodbury My father died ten years ago today. He was a healthy man. It should not have been his time. I will...

Why I love dirt and why it makes me happy

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL I would like to write about my fondness for dirt. You may think that dirt is a bad thing and...

Funniest laughing baby video ever!

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If you don't laugh hysterically at this video, then you have absolutely no sense of humor. In it, eight-month-old Micah laughs hysterically as his father...

Coffee, tea and ads at a small town cafe

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By Chuck Woodbury I first posted this story in early 2013, after visiting this small town restaurant on a road trip to the Southwest....

My meeting, in awe, with a 97-year-old World War II hero

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By Chuck Woodbury Harvey E. Gann, age 97, was sitting at a table at the Fredricksburg, Texas Trade Days, a monthly event that's basically...

A Millennial applies for a job. Too funny!

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How much truth is in this? My guess is it's right on target. No, not for all Millennials but surely for some. I showed...

Old lady transforms into sexy young woman

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I know the joke that this video is based upon and always thought it funny. But I have never seen it acted out. Take...

No kidding: Cactus grows out of tree branch!

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By Chuck Woodbury Have you ever seen anything like this -- a cactus growing right out of a tree branch? In this case, the cactus...

Words not meant to be read or understood

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How are you supposed to read this movie poster? A lot of movie posters use this super-condensed typeface. I guess they need to get...

‘Robots’ now taking orders at McDonald’s

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By Chuck Woodbury Look what I found in a McDonald's in central California. It's an automated cashier – just insert your credit card, punch...

This public library is a spaceship!

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This tiny library is right along the main street (U.S. 11) of New Market, Virginia, in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley. It's a...

Beautiful mannequin woman: Does she exist?

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By Chuck Woodbury I came upon this mannequin at the First Monday Trade Days in Canton, Texas. I have taken photos of mannequins for...

Marriage coming up? How about a $10 wedding dress?

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For one of the greatest bargains in the wedding industry head over to Canton, Texas' First Monday Trade Days, where you can choose from...

Death Valley castle built on a foundation of lies

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By Chuck Woodbury DEATH VALLEY, Calif. -- In the middle of this vast desert is a castle built on a foundation of lies. Scotty's...

The only criminal in America to be turned into a shoe

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By Chuck Woodbury RAWLINS, Wyo. — I would like to tell you the story of Big Nose George Parrot, the only man in American...

When I walked on the Moon

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Like many of my peers, I figured I'd make it to the Moon in my life. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin visited in 1969,...

Streamliner car was made from B-29 bomber skin

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This 1945 Erickson Streamliner was made in Anton F. Erickson's garage in Dayton, Ohio. An area resident, Anthony Staub, recalled many years later that...

I’m bribed again to deceive you. I won’t do it!

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By Chuck Woodbury The bribes keep coming — pitches from slimy PR people asking me to post their stories on RVtravel.com for a price....

Where do you live? Why there?

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Where do you live? Why do you live there? How long have you lived there? What brought you there? Do you think you will ever...

R.I.P., my friend Fats Domino

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By Chuck Woodbury Fats Domino died this week. He was 89. When I think of Fats Domino I hear him singing . . ."I...

The product pitches I get

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I love the emails I get from businesses asking me to write about their product, or in this case a YouTube video. About half...

Good, better, best. . . huh?

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By Chuck Woodbury It always amuses me when I come across a business that offers a product with several levels of service, labeled as...

My dad the pilot and woman hustler

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By Chuck Woodbury It's October 13, time to head to Arizona from where I am now near Roanoke, Virginia. It's about 2,000 miles. I...

Sonder: You and everybody else have a rich life story

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By Chuck Woodbury I can't recall ever hearing the word "sonder" before this morning when I read my daily inspirational message from marketing guru...

Tree woman: Is this real?

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL I found this on Pinterest. Is it real? I don't think so. It's supposed to be in Spain. Do you know...

The moped I lusted for but never got

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By Chuck Woodbury ROADSIDE JOURNAL Never in my semi-long life have I ever wanted anything as badly as I wanted this moped. Never. It showed...

Is this a real train or not? Find out

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This is not a real train. It's a model at the AACA auto museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The train exhibit is pretty much a...

Amish buggies at Costco an unusual sight

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By Chuck Woodbury Gail and drove from Hershey to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, yesterday to shop at Costco. Many Amish live in the area. We're...

Nature: The sophisticated way squirrels bury nuts

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Have you ever watched squirrels scurry around to bury a nut? If you’ve stayed in more than a few campgrounds, you’ve likely seen them...

Where’s Chuck?

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Where am I in this picture? Yes, that's me standing between the cafe and the appliance store. Actually, this is a mural painted on the...

It’s amazing how far women’s rights have come!

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Last Saturday was Women's Equality Day. American women's rights have come a long way in the 20th and early 21st centuries, even though there...
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