Our “Unbeetable” Workcamping Experience with The Sugarbeet Harvest 2016
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...
Don’t Drop Your Pen in the Beet Pile–Pens don’t make pretty sugar..
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 exciting....
Roadtreking On Water or How to begin a Sugarbeet Adventure
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) Two decks...
Tobermory Adventure Bucketlist … Check!
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 Boondocking...
What it’s like to be a Campground Host
“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 the “toys” people...
Seven kids, four adults, flocks of birds, hot cocoa and a Roadtrek.
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,...
Quebec in October–Une Leçon Elémentaire (An Elementary Lesson)
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...
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