News from the backroads, March, 2006:

In other RV news:


RV makers offer 360-degree "virtual tours" of their interiors.
Winnebago      Holiday Rambler        Country Coach

Live webcams. Want to see a live shot of Old Faithful, or Times Square? Find hundreds here, indexed by state. Click here

Good Sam Insurance

More news:

What happened on this day in automotive history? Fun auto history facts, from the History Channel. Click here

Something for everyone on RV driving tour of Oregon. RV Caravan Tours gives active RVers a chance to experience nature hands-on. More here

RV Today - TV show moves to OLN cable network. More here

Fuel price watch - enter your ZIP code and locate the cheapest gas in your neighborhood. Click here

Burma-Shave. The William F. Eisner Museum of Advertising & Design, Milwaukee, WI; salutes the Burma-Shave roadside ad campaign, complete with video and audio clips. Plus, enter their new Burma-Shave jingle contest.
Click here

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Loren's book

No Sleeping on Pavement - Silly Signs and Offbeat Stuff From America's Two-Lane Roads By Loren Eyrich A collection of photos with captions, favorite signs and roadside attractions from 10 years of RV trips on two-lane roads. Retail $10.95 Order the book from our own bookstore  Special $6.95

Preview Loren's first book, "No Sleeping on Pavement"

On the road since 1991

Two Lane Roads magazine features offbeat attractions, museums, funny signs, and other roadside delights, on America's backroads, recalling simpler days, when Burma Shave signs and steel diners lined our highways.  Editor Loren Eyrich enjoys the RV lifestyle in a 5th wheel trailer, avoiding turnpikes & freeways.

Loren Eyrich walked awy from a career as comptroller for America's largest automobile dealer, and hit the road in a RV.  In the first 12 years of publishing, he logged over 160,000 miles, nearly all of it on two-lane roads, in a RV he called the "COW", or Condo-On-Wheels. 

COW II is a 1991 Kountry Star 5th wheel trailer, and pulled with a 1989 Chevrolet dually pickup. Loren hits the road 4 to 8 weeks at a time, updating his computer each night in campgrounds.  He is photographer and writer as he explores the backroads of North America.

Our first 32 issues have covered states from Texas to Maine, and from Florida to Idaho. 

This one-man business operates on one desktop computer and laser printer which ride along in the RV, and voicemail.  Loren's mail is forwarded to him care of general delivery at towns along his route, and E-mail is answered almost daily thanks to a wireless modem.

Our four basic rules:

No Interstates - you can't see anything but the taillights of big trucks whizzing by!

 

No franchised food - two words which don't belong in the same sentence.

 

No theme parks - I love them, but you don't need me to tell you about them.

 

No five-star accommodations - I sleep very comfortably every night in campgrounds.

Shunpiking
The editor eschews Interstates and toll roads, seeking out secondary roads instead.  A major portion of each issue of Two-Lane Roads is Loren's daily journal called, "Shunpiking" - Loren's rambling observations along the road.     

Shun-pike \n (1853): a side road used to avoid the toll, speed, and traffic of a turnpike. 

Shun-pik-ing: avoiding the superhighways, seeking out the scenic route instead.

You can now order books online, with secure server!


This page last updated March 10, 2006.


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