Tag: Camping
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Piccolo Grande Canyon
We’ve not been to Texas in a decade – the last time was a ten day stay at Big Bend – so a detour to what looked like a decent Texas State Park was in order. Palo Duro State Park seemed like a good place to visit. The Park claims that that canyon is the…
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City of Rocks
The days in the Sonoran Desert were really nice. After leaving Organ Pipe Cactus, we spent a few days in the Tucson area at State Park. Like at Organ Pipe, we saw beautiful scenery and had nice weather. But we have commitments in Minnesota, so are starting for home. Our first stop was City of…
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There is something about lava…
We’re back down in New Mexico, spending the night overlooking the lava field in the Valley of Fire National Recreation Area. We didn’t plan to going here – it just happened to be a cheap place to camp close to where we wanted to stop for the night. Seems like we stumbled on to a…
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The Bedding Headache … solved?
One of the downsides to the layout of the Class B RV that we bought is that the lounge/dining area where you eat and relax has to be converted into a bed at night. The back of the campervan is either a combination dining/sofa/lounge or a bed, never both. The process of converting is simple…
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Campervan Mods – Hits & Misses
Like many who buy campers & RV’s, I spent quite a bit of time making the RV more usable by tweaking some of the OEM systems. Some of my tweaks worked out as expected, some did not. Mike’s mods – hits and misses: Partially resolving the power problem by adding the Lithium battery, Redarc charger…
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Travel & Technology – Hits & Misses
I thought it would be useful to enumerate some of the things that worked well and didn’t work well during this last trip. Here’s the first ‘hit and miss’ list. Technology hits: Data plans: We have two ATT phones on a cheap 4GB shared data plan with about 3GB rollover and a Verizon 8800L MiFi…
Michael Janke 