Extra Power for your Laptop while RVing
We have an older Class B motorhome with a single group 24 deep cycle coach battery. We have learned how to boondock successfully with a mere 75-80 amp hours and…
Category Archives: Roger & Lynn Brucker
Four Season Bedding for your Class B
When we got our Class B motorhome in 2009 we already were experienced bicycle tent campers and had a variety of sleeping bags. We had several weights of mostly backpacking…
Winter Roadtreking: Warm Floors
As the temperature drops, are you envious when reading about heated floors in newer Class Bs? If so, there are plenty of ways to improve your comfort in your not-as-fancy…
Off The Beaten Path: Reelfoot Lake
“A lake the earthquake created,” is Reelfoot Lake in northwestern Tennessee. Prior to 1811 this scantily populated corner of Tennessee was a swampy area of cypress backwoods near the Mississippi…
Off The Beaten Path: McDonald Observatory
In the Fall of 2000 on our coast-to-coast tandem bicycle trip we passed the McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains of west Texas without stopping. In 2015 on our Roadtrek…
Don’t Miss It: Bryce’s Navajo Loop Trail
Everyone knows about Bryce Canyon National Park. It is one of the famous southern Utah Parks and known for impressive rock formations known as hoodoos. It is spectacular and is…
Off the Beaten Path: Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad
For anyone interested in railroading, the West has two outstanding steam train rides. We are not talking about Amtrak, whose western trips can be a different kind of adventure. If…
Don’t Miss It: Utah Highway 12
Now and then somebody publishes a list of “Ten Best Scenic Roads.” Most of these lists contain Going to the Sun Highway in Glacier National Park, Montana and Cabot Trail…
Zion Canyon by Bicycle
Nearly everybody who travels has heard of Zion Canyon National Park in Utah. It’s in the south west corner of the state and displays one of the most spectacular, colorful…
Off the Beaten Path: Tuzigoot & Montezuma Castle
Our Route 66 road trip brought us to Winslow, Arizona. This is where we started to see maps marking various prehistoric sites, too numerous to see them all. So, we…
Off the Beaten Path: Verde Canyon Railroad
Maybe you think steam trains were all the west has to offer, but you would be wrong. The Durango & Silverton RR and the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad are…
Observations: When Things Go Bad on the Road
We return from most trips with a short list of things to do or fix. These are seldom anything to interfere with trip enjoyment, but little things to make life…
Off the Beaten Path: Sandstone & Lava Gems
Our trip to the southwest on historic Route 66 has taken us through some beautiful scenery, but in reading about the area we saw in New Mexico, some of the…
Off the Beaten Path: New Mexico Mining Museum
On our slow Roadtrek trip southwest following Historic Route 66, we found a listing for the New Mexico Mining Museum in Grants, New Mexico – but we never found any…
Off the Beaten Path: Palo Duro Canyon
“Texas’ best kept secret,” said one Texas governor. He referred to “The Grand Canyon of Texas,” Palo Duro Canyon. We found it in a tourist brochure shortly before approaching Amarillo,…
Off the Beaten Path: Amarillo RV Museum
Route 66 crosses the Texas Panhandle, and the best known city is Amarillo. The premier RV museum in the Southwest is here, Jack Sisemore’s RV Museum located at Jack Sisemore…
People & Places: Jerry McClanahan & Route 66
“You must call Jerry McClanahan in Chandler. He wrote the book you just bought,” said Laurel Kane, owner of the Packard car collection at the Afton Station in Afton, Oklahoma….
Off the Beaten Path: An Oklahoma Blue Whale
Craftsman welder and artisan Hugh Davis created a surprise wedding anniversary gift for his wife Zelta between 1970 and 1972. She loved whales. He constructed a life size ferroconcrete smiling…