JC McDowell and the Family Unit

We are in Maryland visiting family for about two weeks. This time constitutes about the only “down” time we’ll have this season.

We found a 2004 Dodge Sprinter diesel van with a 158″ wheel base and hi top (6′ head room inside) and we are actively trying to sell the motorhome. I have a [read more...]

Nuts! Or rather, DONuts! We decided to market and sell the donut trailer while at the Utah State Fair. What better time to show a prospective buyer how great the trailer is with a line 10 people deep!

We lucked out and sold the trailer by the end of the show [read more...]

We’re loading up getting ready to head out for the Utah State Fair. It’s a 13 hour drive from Tucson in the Landcruiser with the very heavy donut trailer.

We spent about a week working on our 1995 Toyota Landcruiser getting her ready for the big trip. The specifications state the Landcruiser [read more...]

Long title, I know.

We are ecstatically pleased that we have already been approached by several fairs for new and re-booking contracts in 2012! This is both surprising and a good affirmation that we are on the right path. We’ve made improvements along the road this year that have really made the attractions more [read more...]

Wacky. What can I say?

We all live in a box. This box has walls that are subconsciously put into place from a very young age. The size of our box is based on our experiences as we age and/or evolve to the world around us. Pretty simple.

When Emma was [read more...]

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...]