Many of us have visited George Washington’s famous plantation at Mount Vernon, but we were intrigued to stop in at Pope’s Creek Farm, the spot on the Potomac where our first President was born. More interesting by far than the displays was what we found out from the ranger on duty at the COVID era […]
Patti and Tom Burkett are regular off-the-beaten-path reporters for the RV Lifestyle. This week, they take us to the Natchez Trace and historical French Camp, LA This is a story that starts with Louis LeFleur, who was born in a settlement near Fort Condé on the Gulf of Mexico. As a young man, he operated flatboats […]Read More
Our Off the Beaten Path Reporters Tom & Patti Burkett take us to the unassuming but fascinating Early Television Museum near Columbus, Ohio. On a backstreet in an ordinary small suburban town in Ohio, there’s a steel commercial building like a dozen others nearby. Except it’s not like them at all. Walk through the unassuming […]Read More
In this off-the-beaten-path report, Tom and Patti Burkett take us to a hidden church in the Land Between the Lakes. If you drive a long, narrow, dirt and gravel road, without a name, almost to the edge of the Cumberland River, you can just get to Saint Stephen’s Church. The trim white one-room building is […]Read More
Off the Beaten Path in Ohio, Tom & Patti Burkett visit a church, learn about a Saint, and discover a link to automotive history, all in one stop. Churches make great road trip stops. They’re often beautiful, usually quiet, and frequently home to someone willing to sit down and chat for a while about what’s going […]Read More
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 […]Read More
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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
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