I like to think of campgrounds and state parks as my second backyard. If you’re at all like my family, you probably spend a lot of your summer in a tent or camper. Nature can be unpredictable, so check out the tips in the articles in this section to make sure you’re prepared for anything.
In this post I included photos and a YouTube video in which I decided to create a how to for the 2016 (and a few years surrounding it) Shamrock or Roo by Forest River on how to winterize the hybrid camper. This hybrid model camper is a 23IKSS Shamrock by Forest River, but others are…
Although coyotes may seem like nature’s more feral version of your dog, they are actually quite dangerous to have in the area. With their food sources shrinking, coyotes are becoming more adventurous and branching out into neighborhoods. Not only will coyotes prey on livestock such as lambs and chicken, but they have also been known…
You love fishing. It is not just a means of catching food for your family. Fishing is a pastime for many people and a way that generations can spend time together out in nature. Some combine fishing with camping. Others are all about fishing every weekend that they can. For all of these reasons, fishing…
As a family, we were looking for a better way to carry four bikes with our camper but we didn’t want all four bikes hanging off the back. The Jack-It double bike carrier system didn’t only solve this problem but it solved the problem easily. Our only other concern prior to purchasing the Jack-It bike…
Camping in the summer when the days are long and sunny is every camper’s dream. But hot days can also heat up your tent so it’s unbearable during the day and at night, making it hard to sleep. The rays of the sun are absorbed into the tent, trapping the heat. And once heated, it…
Does something seem fishy – or perhaps simply smell that way? Whether you’ve just finished reeling in the catch of the day before cleaning, deboning, and frying it up or simply using some prepackaged fish for your seafood dish, there’s just no escaping the fishy smell that can linger long after you’ve finished handling them…
Unfortunately when we found the camper of choice that we wanted to purchase the one bunk tent had a hole in which the previous owner had a horrible self performed patch job done to it. While it was great because it allowed us to barter the price way down it left us with the repair,…
In 1939, a fishy undergraduate bet at Harvard led to the first recorded “goldfish swallowing.” Goldfish obviously aren’t usually dinner, but the prank caught on, leading to a nationwide college campus craze of goldfish gulping as a popular thing to dare unsuspecting underclassmen to do. Maybe you’re wondering how on Earth someone could ever want…
One of the best ways to enjoy the outdoors is to find the perfect location and set up camp. There’s nothing better than sleeping out under the stars and waking to the sound of birds. But of course, when you’re camping, you can’t always rely on mother nature to behave and put her best foot…
When you think of camping, images come to mind of sleeping in a tent, eating your dinner around an open fire and roasting marshmallows for the mandatory s’mores dessert. A new type of camping has cropped up recently called “glamping” but this is more like a luxury form of relaxing rather than roughing it in…