http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm Go RVing Blog. en-us Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:47:50 -0400 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:49:00 -0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss GoRVing@rvia.org GoRVing@rvia.org http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=DF9665D1-1422-1874-81F87007ACAC01FB Brad Herzog The Emmy Awards were handed out last week, so let’s talk TV: When you’re traveling in a house on wheels, you can immerse yourself in a place by exploring at your own pace. So it is perhaps both ironic and appropriate that one of the best... MY TWO CENTS Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:49:00 -0400 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=DF9665D1-1422-1874-81F87007ACAC01FB http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=C19AD670-1422-17E0-F8F9BE012F7B0EBB Brad Herzog On this day, the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, I’d like to tell you about a town named Triumph. This Louisiana hamlet is one of the last inhabitable communities along the Mississippi River, more than 2,500 miles from the waterway&rsquo... CLOSE ENCOUNTERS Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:58:00 -0400 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=C19AD670-1422-17E0-F8F9BE012F7B0EBB http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=A9F7F35E-1422-17E0-F8FBD7D6B5080513 Brad Herzog Here’s a number for you: 42. That’s how old I am as of today. But I’m not alone. Happy birthday to Sean Connery and Gene Simmons and Elvis Costello and my old pal Regis Philbin. Quite a motley crew. Remarkably, today also happens t... GEOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:50:00 -0400 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=A9F7F35E-1422-17E0-F8FBD7D6B5080513 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=8CF1EFB4-1422-1874-814CF32FC064AD77 Brad Herzog I think this may be my final post dissecting and debriefing about my family’s recently-completed cross-country trek (I’ll be moving on to myriad other insights about the open road). So I’m in the mood for a last meal. Yes, it&rsquo... CLOSE ENCOUNTERS Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:09:00 -0400 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=8CF1EFB4-1422-1874-814CF32FC064AD77 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=723715E1-1422-17E0-F80305E2168B5F5B Brad Herzog As we passed through Connecticut last June, Interstate 91 through Hartford offered a relatively uneventful drive past the city. But I was certainly intrigued by the names of the road. The first sign that we glimpsed, as we headed south from the city ... GEOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:58:00 -0400 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=723715E1-1422-17E0-F80305E2168B5F5B http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=5FA17D46-1422-17E0-F818350CC8B01EBD Brad Herzog This past summer, our RV excursion took us along myriad small town Main Streets and rural highways brimming with establishments attempting to lure passersby. Here follows a list of my favorite names of various types of businesses: Toy store: The Tin... MY TWO CENTS Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:48:00 -0400 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=5FA17D46-1422-17E0-F818350CC8B01EBD http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=53A719F7-1422-1874-810190D00E71EAAA Brad Herzog In my last post, I recalled our recently-concluded summer RV excursion – 60 days, 18 states, everywhere from Wisconsin to Kentucky to Maryland to Maine – in snippets. This time, I’ll do it with some quirky superlatives: Most charmi... FAMILY TRAVEL Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:35:00 -0400 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=53A719F7-1422-1874-810190D00E71EAAA http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=45DDBB87-1422-1874-81036E37A6EE2B82 Brad Herzog The 2010 Herzog Family Summer RV Adventure – our 11th epic summer RV trip in a row – is complete. We started in Chicago, setting off from my childhood home (where my parents still live). And we’re back in Chicago – after a 60-... FAMILY TRAVEL Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:25:00 -0400 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=45DDBB87-1422-1874-81036E37A6EE2B82 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=3372B7CA-1422-17E0-F8F7AB0C0BF45A1F Brad Herzog During my childhood summers, when I was an eight-week resident of Camp Nebagamon for Boys in Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin, I would gather the courage to take one wilderness trip each year. They always took me to some pretty spectacular places like the B... CLOSE ENCOUNTERS Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:32:00 -0400 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=3372B7CA-1422-17E0-F8F7AB0C0BF45A1F http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=21652CC0-1422-17E0-F8B370E1D96D1436 Brad Herzog I can’t seem to see a sand dune without thinking of a philosophy class that I struggled through in college. We explored something called the Continuum Fallacy, which is basically this: If you have a heap of sand – say a million grains of ... GEOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:22:00 -0400 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=21652CC0-1422-17E0-F8B370E1D96D1436 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=11D779A2-1422-17E0-F8DC75B0A0B7CF56 Brad Herzog Today is my wife’s birthday. I won’t give away how old she is, but it’s somewhere between 40 and 42. I gave her a gift that I had ordered online and then hid in the RV for nearly eight weeks. It’s a print that shows a little r... RV INSIGHTS Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:58:00 -0400 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=11D779A2-1422-17E0-F8DC75B0A0B7CF56 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=0A624151-1422-1874-8105C18F20FB13DA Brad Herzog It ain’t Cooperstown. It’s Elkhart, Indiana, the RV Capital of the World. And it’s not the National Baseball Hall of Fame. But it’s still 80,000 square feet of Americana. On wheels. Yes, a couple of days ago, we visited the RV... FAMILY TRAVEL Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:11:00 -0400 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=0A624151-1422-1874-8105C18F20FB13DA http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=FD68D67E-1422-17E0-F8BE4000526245C5 Brad Herzog My kids are not particularly fervent sports fans. Not at all, actually. It’s ironic because I launched my career as a newspaper sportswriter, and most of my children’s books are about sports. But I’m okay with it. My kids are voraci... FAMILY TRAVEL Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:36:00 -0400 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=FD68D67E-1422-17E0-F8BE4000526245C5 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=F2D82C02-1422-17E0-F806CC9859DC3435 Brad Herzog My 11 installments of “Road Royalty” over the past couple of years have been symbolic in nature – photos of the RV in king-for-a-day surroundings. I was speaking figuratively, of course. But this one – a stop we made toda... CLOSE ENCOUNTERS Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:29:00 -0400 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=F2D82C02-1422-17E0-F806CC9859DC3435 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=E13004E1-1422-1874-81DF88A7E06F6D74 Brad Herzog When you think of national parks, you don’t think of Cleveland. But maybe you should. Or I’ll put it this way: In the pantheon of U.S. national parks, there are a few kings: Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon. And a notch below that, at... FAMILY TRAVEL Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:11:00 -0400 http://www.gorving.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=E13004E1-1422-1874-81DF88A7E06F6D74