by Jim Phipps | Jul 15, 2018 | Jim Phipps
So those of you who own older RVs or any vehicle that might have over 100K miles on it, think about your fuel pump. I did, but only as an afterthought. Consider this, you’re driving on an expressway. Like so many expressways these days there is construction on...
by Jim Phipps | Jun 26, 2018 | Jim Phipps
Aune Oswald Campground in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan is one really nice place to stay if you want to set up camp, watch freighters steam up and down the St. Mary’s River and just plain hang out in a nice town. From there we saw fifteen freighters just from our...
by Jim Phipps | Mar 18, 2018 | Jim Phipps
“Fountain of Youth”… that makes you think, doesn’t it? Imagine Ponce de Leon thrashing through the Florida Everglades in search of eternal life. Hucksters pushing gels, creams, minerals and botox to promise the look of vitality come to mind....
by Jim Phipps | Mar 3, 2018 | Jim Phipps, People & Places
Traveling in our Roadtrek for four and half years, we thought we had had it all. Great experiences, great locations, great people. But recenty we had our first authentic, Roadtrek-to-the-bone-and-reaching-out-into-the-Universe-Roadtrek Experience. Our Dutch...
by Jim Phipps | Feb 19, 2018 | Jim Phipps
Romance in a Roadtrek…or how to keep it sweet on the road… Hmmmm. how to write this, how to write this… Well, one definition of romance is “a feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love.” Maybe… A...
by Jim Phipps | May 23, 2017 | Jim Phipps, People & Places
Big Bend NP lives up to its name. There are three entrances and as we were coming northwest from Padre Island, we used the north entrance by turning southward at Marathon on Texas Rt.90. The eighty-nine-mile drive to the Village Campground in the park held many...
by Jim Phipps | Mar 24, 2017 | Jim Phipps, People & Places
Nothing in the desert is cuddly or cute. Traveling in the southwest means you’re going to cross terrain vastly different from most of the rest of the continental US. But that’s why we travel, isn’t it? …to see new things …have new...
by Jim Phipps | Feb 25, 2017 | Jim Phipps
The Lore of Old Florida, the stories about Ponce DeLeon and the Fountain of Youth, and pirates’ treasure, and giant alligators captured my imagination in grade school. It was the stuff of dreams and I would have loved to visit any of it. But I didn’t....
