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Home Remedies for Campers

Sometimes there just isn’t else but old-fashion, tried and true home remedies to take care of a problem. Here are some I have found effective. Aching Back – Take a plastic zipper bag of crushed ice applied to the sore area two or three time a day for no longer than 20 minutes. After 2 Read More >>

Food Storage Tips for campers

While the following food storage tips target RV campers, with some adjustment, they should be good for all campers. The bottomline is safe food storage for all. While the following food storage tips target RV campers, with some adjustment, they should be good for all campers. The bottomline is safe food storage for all. Cool Read More >>

Magnificient Ponderosa pine

There are few trees, IMHO, more beautiful than the Ponderosa pine. I have read the Ponderosa pine outlines the “real” American West. If you’re driving through the high desert of the Southwest, the towering mountains of Colorado, or watching an old episode of Bonanza on tv, the tree youare most likely seeing is the Ponderosa Read More >>

Thoughts on national grasslands

I love national forests but national grasslands are special and unique unto them selves. Maybe it’s because they are so open and vast and empty. They are cris-crossed by barb wire fences so cattle can safely graze on the tall rippling grass, so maybe they aren’t really so open. And as to empty? Grasslands are Read More >>

What you can’t see can hurt you

Recently, I read “What you can’t see, you can’t escape” in a motorcycling magazine. I took from this statement that whether a motorcyclist or driver of a recreational vehicle (RV), good mirrors and using them properly is a MUST. Although the statement was directed at motorcyclist, this is a good rule-of-thumb for all drivers, including Read More >>

Camping Family’s First Aid Kit

There are first-aid kits commercially available in drug stores and outdoor equipment shops. These kits tend to be pricey and I’m never sure if it has all I might need in an emergency. The following is condensed from all my readings over the years and provides what I think are must first-aid kit items: Sunscreen Read More >>

What’s a vault?

Once upon a time we were asked, “What is a “vault? Isn’t it where the Forest Service puts important papers?” A reasonable question for someone unfamiliar with the vocabulary used by the Forest Service. For Fred and I it was the question that demonstrated a need for a glossary of terms to go with our Read More >>

Shopping for a tent

Is it that time of year to consider the purchase of a tent? Here is a case study for what you might be getting for a low price a new tent I’ll use an advertisement in a recent newspaper for a tent that looked to be a good buy. This tent had a 9×9 foot Read More >>

Good for How Long?

Time to put of old motorhome away for the winter and that means everything must be moved out. Or does it? Why can’t I leave some of the kitchen stuff in there? It will be good for how long? Well, it turns out a lot of my pantry stuff can stay in the motorhome. Like Read More >>

Taking good photos using a cellphone

Okay! I admit it. I usually go with the old-fashion way of doing things. However, recently I made an enormous discovery – my cellphone takes pretty good photographs. Imagine not having to shlep my big old camera around with me?!?!? How great is that! My camera still takes super photographs and there is no way Read More >>