The 4 Corners Region of the U.S. has a plaque where you can put your foot down and stand in four states at once in the Navajo Nation. You may have been there. Our off the Beaten Path reporters Patti & Tom Burkett visited the 4 Corners Region and the special plaque. This is their […]
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We love hearing about our fellow RV Traveler's adventures! Here's an off the beaten path report on things to do and see in Saint Louis, MO. By Tom and Patti Burkett For years we’ve had the City Museum of Saint Louis on our list of travel stops, so the last time we went to visit our […]Read More
It seems there's a museum for everything. Have you heard of the Tupperware Museum? It's a pretty fascinating place. This article on the Tupperware Museum in Florida is from Tom and Patti Burkett, who report on off the beaten path spots they discover as they travel the country in their RV. You can hear them […]Read More
Half the fun of camping is telling monster stories around the campfire. Off-the-beaten-path reporters Patti and Tom Burkett share tome of their favorites collected in their travels across North America. One of the best things about sitting around a campfire, to our way of thinking, is telling stories. And ghost stories and other scary tales […]Read More
Off the Beaten Path, there's a lot of fascinating small town stories in America. Take the case of Fruita, CO, and a headless chicken named Mike. This report comes from Tom and Patti Burkett, the RV Lifestyle's roving off-the-beaten-path reporters Every small town has a story Did you know the most common town name in […]Read More
There's lots to see for the RVer in Colonial Beach, VA, as our off the beaten path reporters Tom & Patti Burkett report on the area known as the “playground of the Potomac.” If you get off US Highway 17 in Port Royal, Virginia, cross the Rappahannock River, and head toward the Potomac, you’ll eventually […]Read More
One of the great joys of road trips off the beaten path is discovering road food, great places to eat. Tom and Patti Burkett share some of the great road food they have discovered as they travel across the country. We love road food. And we've come to the conclusion that maybe food stands were […]Read More
When it comes to Off The Beaten Path adventures, the Wild Center Adirondacks is a must-visit in New York State. By Tom and Patti Burkett The Adirondacks are full of surprises, as you might expect from an area that’s been a recreation and vacation land for more than a century. It began in 1885 and over […]Read More
It was one of those picture-perfect October days, late in the afternoon, when we pulled into the parking lot of Storybook Land in Aberdeen, South Dakota. By Tom & Patti Burkett “Storybook Railroad closed for the season,” the sign read at the entrance as if to ward off the oncoming disappointment from a carload of children. […]Read More
Before it gets to Lake Michigan, the Kalamazoo River widens to form a couple of connected lakes and on either side are the towns of Saugatuck and Douglas — and one of those roadside attractions that is a “barrel of fun.” First, a little background on the area, which is perfect for a Michigan RV […]Read More
If you’ve ever been to visit Assateague, Chincoteague, and other barrier islands in Virginia, you’ve spent some time on U.S. Highway 13. By Tom & Patti Burkett We were here in the early spring to see the waterfowl migration, and it was spectacular. Headed south toward Norfolk, we passed through Wachapreague and Nassawadox, and […]Read More
Don't let this creep you out but this off the beaten path report is about bats — the kind with wings. There are a number of places across the U.S. where you can see mass flyouts of these nocturnal mammals, and we encourage you to make time for one or all of them. Some are in […]Read More
By Tom & Patti Burkett RV Podcast Off the Beaten Path Reporters This spring our rhubarb plant went out of control. It sprouted three huge flowering stalks which bent from their own weight and then grew sideways and then up again reminding us of nothing so much as Audrey 2 from the Little Shop of Horrors. “Feed […]Read More
By Tom & Patti Burkett Dinosaurs are one fun thing you can count on seeing in your RV road trip on the blue highways of North America. They're everywhere! Many of us grew up fascinated by these prehistoric creatures, and had our first look at one on the Sinclair Oil gas station sign. If we […]Read More
It's an amazing sight that happens every May around this time: a mystery of nature known as the synchronous fireflies display. It happens in the Congaree National Park in South Carolina. Each year the fireflies somehow are able to coordinate their blinking to turn on and their lights at precisely the same time. Thousands upon […]Read More
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