Travel Dates: May 24 – 30, 2014 We spent Memorial Day weekend exploring the beautiful Snow Canyon State Park with Jess’ family, visiting a cemetery where she has ancestor’s buried, hiking, exploring, and flying kites! It was perfect. Sunday the heat kicked in and after a quick stop to meet up with some friends and…
The skies looked threatening. My sister-in-law and I kept looking at each thinking “Should we go?” “Should we stay home?” I’m not one to call it until its raining cats and dogs, so with just a possibility of rain, we packed our kids into two cars (would have been so much more fun had we…
It is now easy to see how stressful it was to always make sure we stayed at campgrounds with electric hook-ups. “Big Sur? Ummm… maybe we could make it one night?” “That boondocking spot looks awesome, but I don’t think we’d last very long.” Some of the best campgrounds we’ve seen or heard about are…
We just had our solar setup serviced, our charge controller was playing up, and I am surprised by just how much power we’re now getting from our old 100 Watt panel. With regular use, the batteries are almost always at 100% on a sunny day.
Of course we are not full timing, so our power requirements are probably somewhat lower than yours and on a rainy day or in the shade all bets are off.
I’ve been thinking about getting a Honda generator myself to give us even more freedom on where we camp. Like you, I think the combination of solar and a backup generator is probably the sweet spot. ReplyCancel
Through Instagram we realized that Heather & Jeff of Audrey Airstream would be in Napa, California the same time as us! After visiting with Sam’s family in the area for almost two weeks, we were just about ready to head back across Nevada to take care of the Utah house. Knowing they were coming into…
**Updated May 2017** When we bought the Airstream, we inherited a set of standard yellow triangle wheel chocks and some spare 2×6 boards to use when leveling on uneven terrain. It worked, and we didn’t give it a lot of thought for several months. Once our set up starting getting on our nerves, we upgraded…
I’m interested in those wheel chocks. My dad had a set of those from the mid 70’s. He sold them with his last trailer. I’ve looked for them and have not been able to find them.
Is there a name brand or something one could use to search?
I was in AZ some months ago and I saw some on a trailer. I wish I would have stopped in and asked the owner about them now. Anyhow, any help you could offer would be great!
What a gorgeous place! I would love to hike the Muir Trail!
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