JC McDowell and the Family Unit

Time is our greatest asset but it is not necessarily our friend.

We’ve passed through three states now and we’re nestled into Casper, Wyoming for the Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo. The show lasts a total of 9 days, the first 3 days are exclusively the carnival and then the rest of the [read more...]

We’re pulling up stakes again and heading to Casper, Wyoming today. We’ve been in Grand Lake, Co for over a week now and it’s time to head on to the next show. Grand Lake is still a small community and they like it that way. The community works hard to actually limit [read more...]

We’re in Grand Lake, Colorado which is a small town surrounded by a HUGE Glacier Lake. The main source of income in Grand Lake is/was real estate and tourism. A local we talked to at the Lariat Saloon said the businesses here have three months to make their money for the whole year. [read more...]

We just finished two Festivals in the Salt Lake area.  The first was in Springville and it rained basically every day.  The second was Westfest in West Valley City.  Talk about night and day!  The two towns are separated by about 30 miles but the demographic is about a continent apart.

The Springville show [read more...]

We bought our repo-auction 1995 Fleetwood Bounder Motorhome end of January and we’re really enjoying the experience.

Despite it’s rather recent turbulent pedigree as a repo, it has some nice features which make it very livable for a family of four. At 34 feet, it’s about as long as the Suburban and trailer combined. [read more...]

In a panic we finished the trailer as best possible before we basically ‘threw’ everything leftover in the motorhome and the suburban to head out for Springville, Utah for our first show of the season. We were really cutting it tight. The show opened on a Wednesday night and It was Tuesday around [read more...]

We have 10 events that have been confirmed this summer.  They take us through Utah, Colorado, into Wyoming, back to Utah, then to Colorado before we head back to Arizona sometime in October.
View 2010 Summer Concession Route in a larger map

Most of the shows we chose are 3 day or more shows, giving us the [read more...]

My father, who worked for the federal government his entire adult life, said one time that man rises to his highest level of incompetence.  It sounds like a negative comment but in reality there is some truth to the statement.

Growth can only occur through failure.  Like it or not, we learn best by doing.  That [read more...]

Whew, things have gotten busy.

Good news.  My mother has a contract to sell her house in Georgia.  Bad news.  This is the only time we’ll have to get over there and collect what’s left of our meager belongings before we hit the road for the summer season.

Hil, my Dad, and the two kids took a [read more...]

Don’t make any money.  That’s it- pretty simple.

Considering our personal economic fallout was vaguely similar to an asteroid dropping from the sky fully ablaze to shatter into a million little pieces before being burned up in the atmosphere with only small remnants remaining scattered all over God’s green earth to bear witness to the asteroids [read more...]