Life in the slow lane...

[K9Sailors]

I was wondering about RVers of unconventional means taking the slow route. In the vein of bicycle camping, horse wagon cross country, Bumfuzzle, are their any stories/ blogs of anyone traveling in an unconventional style like antique tow vehicle / trailer? Model T, electric vehicle, MG or the like with routes limited to secondary roads?

[sowego]

I hope I figured out how to do a clickable link...

Visit...www.wagonteamster.com

This site shows the travels of a guy who is on his 5th trip around the country with his wagon and teams of horses. Start with trip 1 to see all that they have been through

[K9Sailors]

Fredzo wrote:
When I was a kid in Macon, Ga, in the 50's and 60's, there was a man who came thru town a couple of times a year called "The Goat Man".

It was said that he travelled the country with his small goat herd and goat wagon, living off the land and donations.

Anyone else remember him?

Clicky to The Goat Man

[K9Sailors]

This guy started out near where I live...

Wagonteamster

[Fredzo]

When I was a kid in Macon, Ga, in the 50's and 60's, there was a man who came thru town a couple of times a year called "The Goat Man".

It was said that he travelled the country with his small goat herd and goat wagon, living off the land and donations.

Anyone else remember him?

[rjf7g]

If you haven't read Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon, you should.

[gbopp]

K9Sailors wrote:

gbopp wrote:
Bumfuzzle Yes, I had to look it up. 🙂

This Bumfuzzle: LINK

Sorry, wrong Bumfuzzle :S

[Caveman_Charlie]

My neighbor; Mad Jack Taylor; built a home made covered wagon out of car axels and went across the country many a time being pulled by his mules. He is quite the character. He's quite old now and the mules are dead. But, he would get in a lot of local papers when he rode slowly through town. This was back in the 70's and 80's .

Saw him at the local bar once. The mules were holding the wagon on a hill. A few hours later he staggered out of there, fell into the wagon, told the mules to go home, and they took him home. During the trip home he was passed out in the back of the wagon. They knew the way but, didn't always stay in there own lane. They would always get over to the right when they saw/heard a car though. We learned to watch out for him and give the mules time to get out of the way.

[K9Sailors]

wa8yxm wrote:
Years ago (1984 as I recall) there was a man who had a custom bicycle built and road it cross country, Back then Blogging was not yet the thing to do but he basically Blogged about it every day.. Now, I'm privledged to know how he did it but he wrote a series of articles that appeared in many magazines and news letters, Including AYH (American Youth Hostel) Bicycling magazines, Travel magazines and the magazine put out by H&R Block's Compuserve Information Service (Which is how come I know how he did it) he carried multiple computers and would upload his work to CIS to a private file both he and his secretary had access to.. She'd do the spell check, and H and J and send it on to the magazines for publication.

Some of those publications may still be in Libraries, likely on Microfich. So go fishing in your library's fich pond.

After that trip, he built an even bigger and better bicycle and went tour. That one was like 500 pounds, had built in computers (instead of saddle bagged) pulled a trailer, had solar power, and an automatic jack stand system GPS tracing and alarms. He'd ride that one into campgrounds and such and give lectures/shows and talk about his travels.

Wish I could recall his name.. Scott or Steve or some such.

I remember that guy. Read about his adventures in the magazines of the day. Great example!

[K9Sailors]

gbopp wrote:
Bumfuzzle Yes, I had to look it up. 🙂

This Bumfuzzle: LINK

[kknowlton]

Not a blog, but our nephews were involved in such a ride as a fundraiser for juvenile diabetes several years ago. They also made a rather fun little indie film about it: Adventures for the Cure

The organization of the same name also has a Facebook page.

(Had to boast just a little. 🙂 )

[skipnchar]

I have done quite a bit of long distance traveling/camping with my motorcycle but wouldn't call it the "slow lane" by any means. I usually travel quite a bit faster with the bike then with the RV. 🙂

[wa8yxm]

Years ago (1984 as I recall) there was a man who had a custom bicycle built and road it cross country, Back then Blogging was not yet the thing to do but he basically Blogged about it every day.. Now, I'm privledged to know how he did it but he wrote a series of articles that appeared in many magazines and news letters, Including AYH (American Youth Hostel) Bicycling magazines, Travel magazines and the magazine put out by H&R Block's Compuserve Information Service (Which is how come I know how he did it) he carried multiple computers and would upload his work to CIS to a private file both he and his secretary had access to.. She'd do the spell check, and H and J and send it on to the magazines for publication.

Some of those publications may still be in Libraries, likely on Microfich. So go fishing in your library's fich pond.

After that trip, he built an even bigger and better bicycle and went tour. That one was like 500 pounds, had built in computers (instead of saddle bagged) pulled a trailer, had solar power, and an automatic jack stand system GPS tracing and alarms. He'd ride that one into campgrounds and such and give lectures/shows and talk about his travels.

Wish I could recall his name.. Scott or Steve or some such.

[gbopp]

Bumfuzzle Yes, I had to look it up. 🙂