You know you've truly embraced road schooling when your son spits in the headwaters of the Mississippi River and calculates how long it will take to reach the Gulf of Mexico and you give him Geology credit.
I see things in the news or online now and I think, "we drove past that," or "we had lunch there," or "I walked by that Senator's office."
There is always a bigger rig.
Grocery stores have strange names that mostly do not make you think of food: Safeway, Piggly Wiggly, Harris Teeter, King Soopers.
Skittles taste horrible in S'mores.
Trailer walls are thin. You can go inside, but you cannot truly escape if your neighbors are having a tone-deaf Johnny Cash sing-along party.
Florida wins the award for worst drivers in the nation. Californians are largely very good, except for how they pass on two lane roads. They wait until the absolute last second to slide back into their lane, coming so close to you that you can clearly see the whites of their eyes and their very bored expressions.
Only in a campground can you see the following all happen inside of ten minutes: neighbor sitting outside in a lawn chair watching a TV exercise program, ZZ Top walking an Italian greyhound in a sweater and another neighbor repairing his toilet on the picnic table (note -- site 14, Turkey Lake Park)
It's okay to run out of things, just not toilet paper.
We always had at least two ladybugs in the Bob, and they were partial to the shower. I don't know why. On both counts. Why inside? And why my shower?
Mt. Rushmore looks sort of weird in person.
The first time you hear a band of coyotes yipping and howling 25 yards from your RV you will sit upright in a cold sweat, thinking of Orks.
There are as many ways to walk a cat on a leash as there are people doing it. Which is to say, not that many.
- Keep calm and chive on
- Where do iguanas live?
- Ernest Hemingway
- Robert is Here Florida Fruit stand
- bacon fudge
- Mt. Renfroe Alabama
- tornadoes in Illinois
- who is in the house of representatives
- who is on the 100 dollar bill?
- is Morgan Freeman dead?
- what happened at the White House today?
- roadside America Ohio
- roadside America Michigan
- government shutdown
- Jesus t-shirt RV
- Plato's Closet locations
- why are Minnesota flags at half mast?
- Ivanpah solar plant
- corn palace South Dakota
- Montana fires
- Vermillion cliffs
- sand sleds for sale
- Tucson fast facts
- root beer ingredients
- Young Life camp British Columbia
Over the course of the entire year we only saw one truckload of live chickens. I was rather disappointed.
-Jenni