by Mike Wendland | Feb 23, 2013 | People & Places, Trips, Videos
The hardest thing about finding a spot to camp in the wintertime in the north is finding an open campground. As we toured Michigan’s beautiful snow covered Upper Peninsula in mid-February looking for a place to spend the night, all we found were Wal-Mart and Indian...
by Mike Wendland | Feb 18, 2013 | People & Places, Trips, Videos
We're just back from a 1,100 mile RV trip that took us across Michigan's Upper Peninsula – in the wintertime. We headquartered our trip in Marquette, where we got a chance to take in all the excitement around the annual UP200 dog sled race, one of the nation's...
by Mike Wendland | Feb 16, 2013 | People & Places, Trips, Videos
MARQUETTE, MI – Winter in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is not for warm weather sissies. In the town of Marquette, hard on the shore of Lake Superior, nearly 149 inches of snow falls each winter. That works out to nearly 12 and-a-half feet of snow. Up here, from...
by Mike Wendland | Feb 14, 2013 | People & Places, Trips, Videos
It’s a long way to Michigan’s UP… 450 miles from my house north of Detroit to Marquette, our destination for the big UP200 dog sled race this weekend. For me, besides the fun of this big event – a qualifier race for Alaska's famed Idiatrod – it was also a...
by Mike Wendland | Feb 13, 2013 | People & Places
More than two and a half years after the disastrous Deepwater oil spill by BP, tarry, gunky deposits of what appears to be dried oil are still all too evident on stretches of Northwest Florida gulfshore beaches. “This is atrocious,” reports RT Campskunk, a...
by Mike Wendland | Feb 10, 2013 | People & Places, Videos
We’re in the midst of prime time for RV shows. Starting in January and running until early March, dozens of RV shows are staged in cities across the country. Jennifer and I have attended a slew of them this year as we – along with tens of thousands of other RVers –...
by Mike Wendland | Feb 7, 2013 | DIY & Gadgets
I love kayaking. But with a Class B campervan-style RV, there just isn't enough storage room to take one along. At least that's what I thought until I discovered the Sea Eagle inflatable Kayak. Facebook friends on our Roadtreking page alerted me to it and I'm planning...
by Mike Wendland | Feb 4, 2013 | Models
This could be the first Type B motorhome ever – Henry Ford's 1937 House Car. They supposedly only build a handful of these each year. This one is on a 1937 Ford Pickup frame and was found in a private garage in Minnesota in the summer of 2001 with only 19,000...