One Tank Trip for Louisiana Camping

Planning a trip to the Gulf Coast this summer? Don’t let the BP oil spill cancel your vacation. Many areas of the coast are unaffected by the oil and remain open to the public. Contact local campgrounds for current conditions and any special promotions they might be running. If you still have hesitations, there are plenty of other lovely attractions in the area to keep you entertained. This One Tank Trip seen in the Woodall’s 2010 North American Campground Directory We all know that Louisiana is world-famous for its spicy Cajun cuisine, rich Creole culture, antebellum mansions, and of course, the annual Mardi Gras celebration. For most people, that’s more than enough reason to keep coming back. But if you’re looking for something different, we may have some ideas that will pique your interest. If you are wanting to take a quick weekend getaway, you might want to stop along these locations on your one tank trips journey through Louisiana. Shreveport & Bossier Using the twin cities of Shreveport and Bossier City as your kick-off to Louisiana, have a look around before you hit the road. In particular, treat your nose to a walk through the American Rose Center, which is nearly 120 acres of beautiful looking and smelling roses from all across America. A path winds and twists through meticulously landscaped gardens. There are plenty of benches for you to “stop and smell the roses.” This will set the tone for your road trip, putting you in a relaxed frame of mind that... Read more

One Tank Trip for Northern Florida Camping

Planning a trip to the Gulf Coast this summer? Don’t let the BP oil spill cancel your vacation. Many areas of the coast are unaffected by the oil and remain open to the public. Contact local campgrounds for current conditions and any special promotions they might be running. If you still have hesitations, there are plenty of other lovely attractions in the area to keep you entertained. This One Tank Trip seen in the Woodall’s 2010 North American Campground Directory Sponsored By: Camping on the Gulf www.campgulf.com camp@campgulf.com Just across Georgia’s southern border lies the aptly named Sunshine State, where winter-weary tourists come to escape the chilly northern weather. While it’s true that many of the more popular attractions are in the southern part of Florida, the northern end still has plenty to offer the traveler who’s looking for an escape. It’s been said that the only white stuff you’ll see on Florida’s ground is the sand on the miles upon miles of coast, and rightly so. You’ll be hard pressed to find a more unspoiled range of beaches than right here in Northern Florida. If you are looking to take a quick weekend getaway, you might want to stop along these scenic locations & attractions on your one tank trips journey through Northern Florida and enjoy the beautiful outdoors. Take for instance Gulf Breeze, which is such a beautiful place to visit, you might be tempted to make this both your point of origin and your final destination for this... Read more

OUR ALASKA TRIP PART XIV CAUGHT IN THE SPELL

This is the 14th in a continuing series about our trip through Canada to Alaska THE SPELL OF THE YUKON I wanted the gold, and I sought it; I scrabbled and mucked like a slave. Was it famine or scurry – I fought it; I hurled my youth into a grave. I wanted the gold and I got it – Came out with a fortune last fall. – Yet somehow life’s not what I thought it. And somehow the gold isn’t all. – Robert Service (the poet of the Yukon)   I came to the Yukon hoping to be on the brink of deprivation, of hard-scrabble conditions, of history surrounding me. Dawson City is the Yukon I sought, but with some appreciated conveniences. In the Broadway play, “Oklahoma,” the song “Everything’s Up to Date in Kansas City” mentions, “You can walk to the privy in the rain and never wet your feet.” I harkened back to those days while here, with two changes: the privies are in the quaint stores and you can’t cross the wet streets without getting a line of mud up the back of your legs. The Boardwalks Front Street, Dawson City, Hasn't Changed Much from the Early Days There’s lots to experience here; too much to see to get it all done in a day. Our group paused here for two-and-a-half days, and we are leaving with things that we still wanted to see. The history and historic sights in town are truly interesting, from the dredge to the “kissing” buildings. From 1897-99, mining flourished. Since then, as the price of gold fluctuated and mining technology... Read more

RV Cooking Show Auditions for Oprah

Aims to shift RVing into the mainstream travel arena The RV Cooking Show recently auditioned for Oprah Winfrey. The new Oprah Winfrey Network, set to debut in January 2011, is searching for quality programming and has invited video submissions for consideration via Oprah’s “Your OWN Show” competition. The three-minute RV Cooking Show audition showcases the “wonderful, wandering world of RVing” with the goal of promoting this special mode of travel to a national (and possibly worldwide) audience. Read more  Read More →

Geeks on Tour Authors Featured in Forbes.com Article

Our very own beloved bloggers, Chris and Jim Guld of “Geeks On Tour”, were recently featured in the news on Forbes.com. Written by David F. Carr, here’s a small excerpt from the Forbes.com article titled Running A Subscription Website From The Road: “The Gulds run GeeksOnTour.com entirely out of the back of a 1998 Safari Class C motor home… The nation is full of IT consultants but none like the Gulds. They target not the executive suite but the campground, moving from park to park all over the country offering advice, selling videos and signing up mobile-home-owning tech buffs for $39-a-year subscriptions to the Gulds’ website.” You can read the full article on Forbes.com by clicking here and you can access the Guld’s website to learn more about their video tutorials at www.geeksontour.com.  Read More →

Our Alaska Trip Part XIII The “Fireweed” Highway

This is the 13th in a continuing series about our trip through Canada to Alaska  Good news!  If you’re looking forward to driving across vast expanses where you can still find opportunities for adventure, the Yukon is the place.  And obviously if you plan to drive to Alaska, you will see the Yukon. Fireweed Aside the Yukon River While previous travelers say the road has improved over the past 10 years, it’s nowhere near as easy to drive as even rural state highways in the U.S.  Is that good or bad?  I’m in agreement with those who want the Yukon to be unrefined forever, a territory where the frontier spirit lives on.  Where we were Sunday was remote.  There was a cabin down a dirt road every 20 or 30 miles.  Few settlements, gas stations or restaurants on today’s route and other than the Five Fingers rock formation on the Yukon River, very few photo op stops.    This was our caravan’s longest travel day of the 58-day tour in miles:  339 miles from Whitehorse to Dawson City.  The road we followed is the Klondike Highway, a.k.a. Hwy. 2, but I at this time of year it could also be called “The Fireweed Road.” Fireweed All Along the Klondike Highway Fireweed, the magenta and pink official flower of the Yukon, grows profusely along the miles of two-lane highway, intermixed with white, yellow and blue wildflowers.  Historically, this road was built in the Tintina Trench, a natural geological canyon caused by shifts in fault lines.  When the route was first... Read more

Gr8LakesCamper: Q&A with “Winnebago Man” Director

Is there anyone in the RV circles who hasn’t heard of Jack Rebney? Rebney is an RV salesman whose hilarious, foul-mouthed outbursts circulated underground on VHS tapes in the 90s before turning into a full-blown Internet phenomenon in 2005. Today, “Winnebago Man” has been seen by more than 20 million people worldwide, and is regarded as one of the first and funniest viral videos. Read more  Read More →

Feedburner: Send Readers an Email of every Blog Post

by Chris Guld, www.GeeksOnTour.com In a previous newsletter article I wrote about “What is an RSS Feed and why you want One.”  That article showed how to make your blog accessible to your readers thru their Feed Readers.  But this is only good for those people who use and understand a Feed Reader.  How many people who read your blog fall in that category?  Just as I thought It might be second nature to kids these days, but for us Boomer-and-Beyond generation, many are just getting the hang of email.  With just a little bit of set up work, you can use Feedburner to automatically send an email of your blog post to anyone who asks for it. Read more  Read More →

Water–the boondocker’s weak link

By Bob Difley Water. A natural resource without which we would all die, or at least have to leave our pristine-out-in-the-boonies-perfect-forested-by-a-stream-full-of-trout-while-elk-graze-nearby campsite. It usually turns out that the great campsite you found deep in the woods is also the one you don’t want to pack up and leave to replenish, restore, and the other chores necessary for boondocking. And potable (drinking) water is arguably the weak link in the boondockers chain. Read more  Read More →

Our Alaska Trip Part XII Whitehorse, YT

This is the 12th in a continuing series about our trip through Canada to Alaska   Whitehorse, the capital of the Yukon Territory, is the big city, providing residents and visitors with all the food, hardware and souvenir shopping opportunities available in the more traditional areas of North America. It doesn’t offer the selection of items that we’re used to — and maybe seeing the limp parsley made us realize how spoiled we are, but what is there was enough to satisfy our needs. Friday was for us caravan members a “free day,” meaning we could rest, tend to our RV needs, shop, play tourist or socialize as we wished.   The Yukon Between Whitehorse and Our RV Park Eddies & Undertows in Miles Canyon Have Taken the Lives of Many, According to Tlingit First Nation People We Met Monique and I hiked a bit, chatted with the Yukon locals in museums and stores, learned about the danger of the Yukon River from local Tlinglit [pronounced "Klingit"] First People, and bought food at reasonable prices. Here, as all through Canada, we have met only friendly, helpful people.   I again hesitate to show scenes from the area, since even the best photography can’t get across the splendor of the region. Mainly, I don’t want to make you think you’ve seen the Yukon Territory or any other scenic land just because you saw photos online or in a book. Many of the views range from incredibly beautiful to breathtaking. Since Miles Canyon carved out by the Yukon River is off the... Read more

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