The Best In Tent Camping: Arizona , originally uploaded by Aaron Landry . The latest addition to my coffee table is The Best In Tent Camping: Arizona . Regular readers of this site may think this a strange purchase for me but I’m friends with one of the two authors, Kirstin Olmon. Her and her partner Kelly Phillips got what I’d consider a dream (but unfortunately temporary) job: travel around, camp, and write about it. Being I’ve camped and gone on numerous hiking trips with Kristin be
Backpacking Survival Kit - Some New Ideas By Steven Gillman There are the usual backpacking survival kit ideas that have stood the test of time. Almost everyone agrees that some way to start a fire, some medical supplies and some kind of blade are necessary. Other items, ranging from saws to signal whistles can be very useful, but their necessity in a basic kit are argued. The following are the usual things that survival kits may have. After that you’ll find a few new ideas. The usual surviv
Family camping trips are truly the stuff memories are made of. I regret not wanting to go camping when my kids were younger, but regretting the past isn’t a good way to live. So even though our kids were pretty much ready to move out of the house when we started camping we still invited them to go with us and have been creating family memories for the last 7 years. Better late than never, right? Sadly, all of our children can never make it on the same camping trip but they all go on at least
California Camping, by Tom Stienstra, is our bible for camping in California When we showed-up in California a few years ago, the only thing we knew about campgrounds in California was, well…nothing! One of the first things I did was go onto Amazon.com and look for a California camping guide, and luckily, I stumbled across this book by Tom Stienstra. Now, I know most of you don’t live in California, but there are camping guides that cover other areas of the country - here are a few that I fo
California Camping, by Tom Stienstra, is our bible for camping in California When we showed-up in California a few years ago, the only thing we knew about campgrounds in California was, well…nothing! One of the first things I did was go onto Amazon.com and look for a California camping guide, and luckily, I stumbled across this book by Tom Stienstra. Now, I know most of you don’t live in California, but there are camping guides that cover other areas of the country - here are a few that I fo
