by Jim Phipps | Dec 30, 2016 | Jim Phipps
We’ve finished with our fall season of workcamping. And we survived! We started our own“workcamper tour” in late September, 2016. The American Crystal Sugarbeet Harvest in Drayton, North Dakota was first. It was scheduled to last until October...
by Jim Phipps | Oct 25, 2016 | Jim Phipps
Eleven million tons of sugarbeets stacked in one hundred seven beet piles all along the Red River Valley between Minnesota and North Dakota is quite a legacy. Well, not that we personally attended to all the piles and stacked those twenty-nine trillion-gazillion...
by Jim Phipps | Oct 6, 2016 | Jim Phipps
Editor’s Note: Roadtreking Reporters Jim and Rhonda Phipps are Workkampers. Here’s their account of one temporary job they took…working with the sugar beet crop in North Dakota. Arrival at the Drayton, North Dakota site of American Crystal Sugar is...
by Jim Phipps | Sep 30, 2016 | Jim Phipps
On the way to a workkamping temporary job in North Dakota…. Sitting on the deck of the SS Badger crossing Lake Michigan, I am worrying about two things. 1)Will Cricket, our pooch who is riding in the Roadtrek on the ferry’s auto deck below get sick? 2)...
by Jim Phipps | Sep 20, 2016 | Jim Phipps, People & Places
Tobermory, Ontario was completely unknown to us before this trip. Thanks to organizers Mike Wendland and Yan Seiner and the support of Roadtrek Motorhomes, we were going to spend five days and four nights discovering it on the “Roadtrek Tobermory...
by Jim Phipps | Jul 8, 2016 | Jim Phipps, People & Places
“You want to what?” My reaction to Rhonda’s suggestion that we try Campground Hosting last January just slipped out. My solitary, nature loving self cringed while visions of some smoke filled field packed with large and small campers, surrounded by...
by Jim Phipps | Jan 26, 2016 | Jim Phipps, People & Places, Trips
Iconic Roadtreks, the ones with three little roof windows, and all manner of conveniences built-in, are most often seen motoring happily along interstates and country byways, or exploring parks and traversing up little used camping roads. But they have other,...
by Jim Phipps | Oct 22, 2015 | Jim Phipps
Like most folks, I have learned and relearned many things French through the years. As a kid watching television dramas and movies about WWII, I learned it was the Americans who always were the bravest and saved the world in thousands of battles. I saw American G.I.s...
