JC McDowell and the Family Unit

Well, we are almost done with season two on the road. This year we only worked three shows with the food concession trailer and we booked seven shows with the Wild West Fun Park.

The travel part was essentially the same with the grave exception that fuel prices were a buck higher than they were [read more...]

We’ve finished two shows and started our third fair today in Bozeman, MT. So far we’ve gotten rave reviews from parents (and the kids) for the Young Guns Wild West Fun Park. We have three more shows back to back and then the Utah State Fair before the end of the season but [read more...]

We wrapped our first fair in Williston, ND on the 26th of June (2011) to a very favorable response! After driving the 1900 miles from Tucson too get there we worked five days without any major problems while being visited from a thousand or more children and their parents in the Fun Park.

We’ve [read more...]

Why buy new when you can buy the same item for one fifth the price? OK, if you buy it from Craigslist you risk it being scratched, stolen, broken, and worn- but hey! Where’s the fun in buying new?

At a guess, I would think that 80% or more of our recent acquisitions are [read more...]

We can spend up to six months living on our boat in Mexico (as per the tourist visa) but then we have to come back and go to work to earn enough for the next sailing season.  We don’t have a lot of back history to speak authoritatively but our summer season so far consists [read more...]

We’ve been back on terra firma for about 10 days now and I am just wrapping up my annual RV maintenance week on our 1995 Fleetwood Bounder to prepare for our summer season traveling from Tucson, Arizona all the way up to North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and back down into Utah before we wrap it [read more...]

We just wrapped up two shows here in Arizona (the only 2 shows we are doing this year in Arizona) and gross sales are down by about 35% on both shows. There could be a wide variety of factors contributing to lower sales but the only thing these two shows have in common is [read more...]

With only a week before we start our first food concession event of the year, we scored a frozen drink machine off of craigslist for dirt cheap- which is exactly how much money we had to spend.

We picked up a double hopper Bunn frozen drink machine in good operating condition. It can make up [read more...]

We are back in Tucson broke again! Just in time though to get ready for the Quartzsite RV show and the Tucson Gem show! I have about 9 days to get the donut trailer cleaned and restocked before we hit the road for about three weeks selling donuts and coffee. These [read more...]

We wrapped up the conference in Missoula, Mt drove the 1300 miles back to Tucson on Sunday with a overnight stop in Salt Lake City. It was long hours and a lot of work but fruitful.

If you wanted to take a short 4 day vacation and spend $400 on hotel and another [read more...]