Category: Campervan
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Roadside Attractions & Curiosities — May 25, 2025 — Casey, Illinois
We were planning on driving from the St. Louis area to the Erie, Pennsylvania area today. We had RV reservations for the night at Presque Isle Passage RV Park. It was going to be a long day of driving, and we wanted to break it up a little bit, so…
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Roadside Attractions & Curiosities — May 24, 2025 — Topeka, Kansas — The Fire Hydrant House
I’ve long been interested in photographing fire hydrants. I can blame my friend Greg for that. We were walking around New York City over 15 years ago and I noticed he was checking out fire hydrants. I asked him what the hell he was doing, and he told me that…
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Roadside Attractions & Curiosities — Abilene, KS — May 24, 2025
Ro, Sanni, and I left Superior, Nebraska around 10AM on Saturday, May 24. Our destination tonight was Granite City, Illinois. On the way we wanted to stop in Abilene, KS to see a couple of Roadside Attractions. Namely, the World’s Largest Spur and the World’s Largest Belt Buckle. Abilene, Kansas…
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Roadside Attractions & Curiosities — Norton, Kansas — May 2025
I found myself traveling east through Kansas again in early May. As with most trips through eastern Colorado and continuing through northern Kansas, it was quite windy. I’ve stopped expecting it to be anything but windy on this route. I was returning to Superior, Nebraska for family business, but I…
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Leg 4: Southwest US Trip–Carlsbad Caverns
Carlsbad Caverns are jaw-droppingly spectacular. We’d seen pictures of course and knew that it was a big hole in the ground but I was still shocked by the scope of the Big Room and the otherworldly rock formations. I couldn’t stop shaking my head in amazement. It was…
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Leg 3: Southwest US Trip: Roswell, NM
11-25-2023 It was not a fun day of driving. We left Dodge City in the dark and snow at 6AM. It was not snowing at 4:45AM, but there was an inch or so on the ground by 6AM. The temperature was about 22F and it never got above freezing until…
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Leg 2: Thanksgiving & SW US Tour (Superior, NE to Dodge City, KS) November 2023
It was overcast all day, but an uneventful drive mostly. There was no precipitation yet, though it was eminent across most of western KS, western OK, and the Texas panhandle. We were driving right into the core of the winter storm and by the time we were planning on being…
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Moral of the Story: Do you have a “Before You Leave” checklist?
Leg 1: Thanksgiving & SW US Tour (Broomfield, CO to Superior, NE) November 2023 Night 1: Before you set out on the road, especially in the winter months, you really should execute an RV checklist before you depart. It is easier to make sure your propane heater and Wi-Fi…
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Nebraska Trip Day 4 and Return Trip in July 2022
We decided to tell this story in two parts, hence the delay between posts. When we first started traveling in Camper VanWilder, a lot of things were still closed (the marina at Lovewell Lake and a restaurant in Superior, NE to name just two things). We first made it to…
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Nebraska Trip–Days 2 and 3
We woke up to another day of wind and temps in the single digits. The wind chill was slightly below zero at sunrise. At 10AM the “real feel” temp was still only 3F. We moved the van from the RV park over to the McDonald’s on 3rd Street. The McDonald’s…