I Remember Charles Kuralt

One of the most exciting things about living a full-time RVing lifestyle is the ability to go places and see things most of us miss as life gets in the way.

When people ask us why we chose to live this lifestyle we tell them how with me growing up in the military then spending a career in the military we got to see a lot of America…with our noses pressed against a car window. It seemed like we always had to get someplace and never had the time to stop and see the REAL America we’d heard about and seen on Charles Kuralt’s “On the Road”.

I remember watching Charles as a kid when he took off to small towns and large cities hunting down the people and things that made America what it was. The magic of traveling the USA in a motorhome (he wore out six over the years he reported) and meeting the people and see the sights, big and small, always played in our minds.

As I sit here writing in a small RV park in York, NE an older lady has pulled up next to us with a small, U-haul sized trailer in tow. From my perch in my 40 foot behemoth I cans see she lives in the six foot by eight foot van. There’s a story there and if we’re lucky we’ll meet her and find out how she can manage in such a small space. If we’re really lucky we may even learn why. That’s part of the fun of being on the road.

Then there’s the magic of pulling into a small town, population less than 900, that has a memorial to a B-24J crew that was killed outside of the small town the day after D-day. A small town that was once on the Pony Express Trail and California Trail.

It’s the people and places, family, old friends and new friends; it’s our country’s history and landscape that drew us to the RVing lifestyle. Who knows how long we’ll be on the road but we can say, as long as we’re having fun, meeting interesting people, and seeing interesting things; it will be a long, long, time.

Safe Travels!