July 1, 2017
By Mike Wendland
We love river drives, especially on the big rivers of the Midwest. They’re dotted with cities and small towns, and…
June 29, 2017
By Mike Wendland
We're asked all the time what National Park is our favorite and we have to say, when all is said…
June 23, 2017
By Mike Wendland
Remember Phillips 66 gas stations? Well, Frank Phillips made his money in the oil business and he thought about building…
June 17, 2017
By Mike Wendland
Charleston, South Carolina is full of bloody history, low country folklore, and pirate tales, so us finding such a thing…
May 19, 2017
By Mike Wendland
One of nature’s most unusual spectacles – synchronous fireflies — takes place in June, and it’s a good idea to…
April 9, 2017
By Mike Wendland
I've written before about Destin FL and its awesome beaches, it's upscale dining and shopping and how it's one of…
February 16, 2017
By Mike Wendland
We're on the road heading south in search of spring. And as folks have asked, we're virtually bringing you along,…
February 13, 2017
By Mike Wendland
I confess to being a bit of a snob about the east. My journalist days often took me up and…
December 5, 2016
By Mike Wendland
Craters of the Moon is a U.S. National Monument and National Preserve in the Snake River Plain in central Idaho…
August 19, 2016
By Mike Wendland
We've traveled through Georgia dozens of times over the years but it wasn't until we got off the interstate that…
August 11, 2016
By Mike Wendland
One of our favorite RV journeys was a trip that followed parts of two historic routes: The Lewis and Clark Expedition…
June 25, 2016
By Mike Wendland
What a great week it was, bringing 30 RVs to the Roadtreking Great Smoky Mountains for a week of hiking…
June 14, 2016
By Mike Wendland
They call the part of Northeastern Maine up towards the Canadian border “Down East.” And it's a term applied in several different ways. In…
June 11, 2016
By Mike Wendland
You may never have visited this area of amazing shifting sea of red sand dunes and red rock canyons in Southwestern…
June 5, 2016
By Mike Wendland
Our Roadtrek has its sea legs. Sometimes, to really appreciate something, you have to immerse yourself in it. So it…
May 9, 2016
By Mike Wendland
Yellowstone National Park is America’s first national park, a national treasure and a must visit for every RVer. A place…
April 19, 2016
By Mike Wendland
Of all the with all the travel we’ve done the past four years, what has impressed us the most are parts…
March 28, 2016
By Mike Wendland
In central Kentucky, the Mammoth Cave National Park is not only a geological wonder that is unequaled in scope, it…
February 19, 2016
By Mike Wendland
Get ready for he Roadtreking Fall Foliage Boondocking Adventure in the Porcupine Mountains Oct 10-13, 2016! At the height of the…
February 6, 2016
By Mike Wendland
It’s taken us a few years to develop our traveling style but, with more than 100,000 miles now under our…
January 12, 2016
By Mike Wendland
The Oregon Trail, and the ancillary trails that led from it, constituted the single greatest migration in America – consisting…
September 1, 2015
By Mike Wendland
If you are a regular reader, you know Jennifer and I love to RV across Michigan's pristine Upper Peninsula – the…
August 14, 2015
By Mike Wendland
As we’ve traveled across North America, visiting wilderness areas and National Parks, one park consistently came up at the top…
June 4, 2015
By Mike Wendland
Zion National Park is so spectacular and beautiful that the early pioneers called it Zion, like the Holy Place in…
May 23, 2015
By Mike Wendland
It was John Steinbeck who named Route 66 “the Mother Road” and for countless tens of thousands from roughly 1926…
April 30, 2015
By Mike Wendland
We are at Site 17 on the Ocean Loop at Assateague National Seashore in Maryland for a week. Assateague is…
January 26, 2015
By Mike Wendland
When Yan Seiner and I first tossed out the idea of a winter RV campout in the Upper Peninsula of…
September 28, 2014
By Mike Wendland
Everyone knows we Michganders love to represent our state by showing our hand. Here, try it. Take your left hand…
August 29, 2014
By Mike Wendland
A big draw here on the Roadtreking blog are posts about RV travels -places to visit and things to see. …
August 28, 2014
By Mike Wendland
So, what's your worse nightmare about an RV trip? Having a mechanical breakdown in the middle of, say, Montana, at…
August 18, 2014
By Mike Wendland
“Don’t miss Meat Cove!” It was a beautiful fall day on Prince Edward Island. We were talking to a couple…
July 19, 2014
By Mike Wendland
Of all the eight states that touch the Great Lakes , Michigan – with 2,147 miles – has the most…
July 17, 2014
By Mike Wendland
The one thing we have learned on this Verizon Great Lakes Shoreline Roadtreking Tour is that very often, a surprise…
July 14, 2014
By Mike Wendland
Michigan's UP is hemmed in by three of the Great Lakes. Everyone knows about Superior and Huron but the lake…
July 10, 2014
By Mike Wendland
Of all the traveling we’ve done on this 4,000-mile Verizon Great Lakes Roadtreking Shoreline Tour, Lake Superior’s North Shore in…
July 8, 2014
By Mike Wendland
There’s a reason it’s called Superior. There is no other lake like it in the world. It is truly immense,…