Dale Haven Cox

In the summer of 2012, a husband and wife became camp hosts at Nevada Beach, Nevada and relate their experiences. In this first episode is what it was like to live full-time in a Scamp 5th wheel.

My mother owned an old-fashioned gas stove that she would never let me touch. She feared an explosion. But the day came when I had to learn to light it. What happened after that was almost a religious experience.

Dale made a 5,569 mile motorcycle trip from El Paso, Texas to Holland, Michigan, via Key West, Florida and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In Chapter Five, he rushes through the 5th, 4th, 2nd, and 1st largest cities of Louisiana giving a brief synopsis and history of each. He stops in New Orleans for a couple of days at Mardi Gras and highlights the traditions behind the krewes, the parades, the throws, the food, and the general dissolution that overshadows most everything.

While a student at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Dale met a fellow student preacher who introduced him to an inspirational technique for sermon preparation.

Dale relates an incident from his college days at Chicago's Moody Bible Institute in 1966 when he and fellow cohorts rolled a massive snowball on a dormitory roof during a snowstorm and dropped it for 7 stories.

Dale made a 5,569 mile motorcycle trip from El Paso, Texas to Holland, Michigan, via Key West, Florida and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In Chapter Three, he pauses in San Antonio, hitting some of the highlights of that town and what makes it great in the history of Texas and in America's Manifest Destiny.

Dale made a 5,569 mile motorcycle trip from El Paso, Texas to Holland, Michigan, via Key West, Florida and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In Chapter Four, he explores San Antonio's River Walk before moving on to Corpus Christie, Padre Island, Victoria, and Houston. He pauses for a creative, nostalgic, and humorous look at America's Freeway Restaurant of the South, The Waffle House.

Dale made a 5,569 mile motorcycle trip from El Paso, Texas to Holland, Michigan, via Key West, Florida and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Chapter Two is about a family bus trip that will explain the ethnic makeup of West Texas, finally getting the bike he had bought sight-unseen on the Internet after sending $13,500 to a stranger he had never met, and the daylong road trip across the barren Chihuahuan Desert into central Texas.

Dale made a 5,569 mile motorcycle trip from El Paso, Texas to Holland, Michigan, via Key West, Florida and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Chapter One chronicles how this trip came about, the search for the right bike, and the flight to where the bike was located.

Dale describes some his camping experiences in the rain with a tent as a Boy Scout and as a father. From that experience, he leaped from the frying pan into the fire when he purchased a pop-up camper.