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Buckle Up for Absurdity: RoadtripMojo’s Terms of Service (Un)Limited

RoadtripMojo has been around for far too long with no terms of service to guide our relationship with fellow roadtrippers – and cover our a$$e$ in case some pansy gets offended. So, lazy meme thieves that we are, we asked Google’s Bard chatbot to conjure some rules of the road. Our prompt: “Write 250 words on an unreasonable terms of service for roadtripmojo website.” About 10 seconds later, it gave us the following semi-legalese, indefensible gobbledygook – plus the image of car-meets-cow, for added import. (I’m kind of expecting a fat bill for this from an attorney somewhere)

Image of car honking at a cow“Welcome, thrill-seekers and wanderlust warriors, to RoadtripMojo, the engine that fuels your spontaneous adventures! By clicking “I Accept” below, you’re not just powering up your RV, hitching up your travel trailer, or even renting a van – you’re signing a hilarious pact with the open road (and some potentially questionable legal clauses). So, grab a granola bar, crank up the tunes, and prepare for the wildest ride of your digital life:

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Roadtrip to the Cosmos: 9 Tips for Camping Stargazing

When you’re roadtripping in search of stargazing, especially to certified “International Dark Sky Places,” the cosmos can come alive with a display of universe of eye candy. Below are a few tips to consider when choosing a place to set up your telescope, or lay back with your binoculars – or bare eyes – and take in the celestial offering.

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Music: Soothing Sounds for the Open Road

“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”

DZ is a veteran traveler who likes to fill his ear holes with tunes. Not just any tunes. But tunes he likes. So whether he’s flying abroad (pre-Covid) or roadtripping across the U.S., he breaks out a couple of second-hand iPod Minis, each loaded with a thousand or so tunes – from RHCP to Beck (and Jeff Beck) to Beethoven. He’ll plug in the pod in and queue up his music.

Which got us thinking: How important is music to the traveler?

Passengers in airports sport their Beats like athletes making the pre-game locker room walk. Wooks and heads heading to a music festival call up the playlist someone’s no doubt curated of the acts they’re gonna see. Heck, the Merry Pranksters took a whole entourage on the road with them on their trips. 

Frankly, it just makes living easier on the ears and soul.

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7 Ways RVs Steer a Home Office to the Open Road

   Ask almost any corporate executive or one of their employees sent home to work during the pandemic and a comment becomes clear: Why didn’t we work from home (WFH) or remotely sooner? Many learned that the corporate hive is an OK place to work. But someplace – almost any place – that’s remote can strike that spark that drives creativity and results, sometimes even better than those expensive corporate digs they’re spending a fortune to run.

What countless thousands have discovered is WFH – or teaching kids from a virtual setting – doesn’t necessarily mean home. And working or learning remotely can also mean logging on from the road. Whether in an RV, a cabin, or some other place that’s decidedly not the traditional office, newcomers and old hats alike have proven “work and education are a thing, not a place.” With the right technology – a smartphone, a laptop, cloud-based services and reliable Internet or Wifi to connect it all – and the right mindset, you can work from almost anywhere. Heck, we’ve even opened the laptop at music festivals to ply a few hours working or blogging during the downtime. 

So why not make your RV your home office?

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Bougie Wooks: The Unapologetic Glampers

One of the early “glamper” tents used by Ottoman Sultan Suleiman.

When hitting the music festival circuit, who’s your crew? Is it the RVers parked in the full hookup sites, with refrigerators and beds and toilets that flush. Or is it the primitive campers who sleep in tents and whose food and drinks are pulled from a cooler that someone damn-well better have remembered to restock with ice.

We usually camp with the glamper set, a relatively climate-controlled world where the elements are left outside – with the $100 zero gravity chairs and shoes all dry and tidy beneath the awning.

But we’ve been known to pitch our tent beside Spirit Lake, digging that primitive vibe with fellow tent campers.

Though the forces of gravity and the corrosion of age have us tending toward glamping’s softer touch, we’re comfortable with our flip flops in both camps.

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