We hope everyone had a fantastic Memorial Day, while remembering those who have fallen for our country.
We spent our time just out side of Big Bear near Rose Mine, with some great friends.
Continue reading “Memorial Day Camping Trip -or- We Forgot Everything!”
Ever had a flat tire? Most people have experienced at least one, and when you are on the highway it’s an inconvenient hassle. Now, when you’re in the middle of nowhere on the trail, that hassle multiplies exponentially. I have always been taught that while off road, you repair your tire instead of using your spare, because once the spare goes on, the day is done, and you head for pavement. Since the last thing I want to do is to have to call a trip early, due to a mechanical failure, I carry a comprehensive tire kit.
Continue reading “Review: Colby Valve emergency valve stems”
If you know us, you know a couple of things. One, we LOVE our Ontario Reign Hockey games (We are … Continue reading Protecting Little Ears
Hard to believe but it has already been 5 months. We have no idea how, or where the time went, but that’s what the calendar says.
To be honest, we know where the time has gone. We have been camping.
We normally take advantage of the long Thanksgiving weekend to head out, and this year it was out to Death Valley with a few of our friends from American Adventurist.
Paige was out of town for a girls weekend and I did not want to sit at home all weekend so we ventured out for our first Daddy Daughter camping trip.
We headed out Friday night after dropping Paige at the airport and made our way to Holcomb Valley just north of Big Bear CA. We did not have much of a plan for the weekend, just enjoy the outdoors. Continue reading “First Daddy Daughter camping trip”
My buddy Dave from American Adventurist has had a faucet set up for his Scepter MWC can for quite a while. After watching how well this set up works in camp I decided to put a marine galley pump on my Christmas list last year. As life goes, things got busy and the pump was set aside until just before Overland Expo West. Not thinking much of it, I had the Scepter can sitting on my camp table next to the truck where it made for easy access, but it also put it into view of those passing by. To my surprise I had numerous people ask about it at the event and have had a few questions since then. There are numerous places around the internet where you can find instructions, but since there seemed to be an interest I thought I would share how I did mine.
I don’t think there are a lot of people in the world that can say they went to a remote part of the desert, with random people from the internet, and came home with a new family. Well, that is exactly what we did.
Continue reading “American Adventurist – Our extended FAMILY”
