Recent content by Steve Sanford

I use a Blaze Kamado smoker. I wanted a Green Egg but I was worried about bears knocking it over and the Blaze is made out of cast aluminum. After seeing your posts, I decided to smoke a brisket today. It is now in the stall and will hopefully get thru it in an hour or 2. If not I will wrap it...

I have the same Vornado and the low setting has kept us warm down to 23 deg. with 2 people and 2 dogs.

You can recycle water and Joolca has a filter added to the tubing to their heater but I do not want to waste storage space for a hot water heater. I heat water with a pot I am all ready bringing and mix it with cold water in a collapsable bucket. I do tow with a pickup so I do have room but I...

I have been thinking of buying a Joolca Shower Base. I want to add a shower enclosure to a rack on my truck and I was hoping I can get enough slope for the shower water to drain into a jug to dispose of later. The shower enclosure will mostly be used for my wife's night trips to the bathroom but...

I would not take it backpacking! I have a version 1 and a version 2 and it is no bigger than any other camp chair folded up. I do not know the size of the newest version but I do not think it will be much different in size folded up. One of my complaints is the bag could be a little bigger so it...

I was hiking the Appalachian Trail in 1998 and there was a fire tower open in Vermont or Massachusetts. It was getting late so I spent the night in it. It had stairs until the last flight which was a steep ladder. I was hiking with a dog and she went up no problem and then we went down after...

We have 2 stargazer chairs. One chair had a hub break and it was replaced. Hopefully the new design is easier to put the back support rods in. My wife gets frustrated every time she tries to setup the chairs. Most comfortable camp chairs, especially with a stool for my feet...

They are calling for 16 to 24 inches of snow Saturday night thru Monday in northeast PA. I have seen bare ground one day since Thanksgiving. It has been a cold and snowy winter. I added a G-scale train to our backyard last summer and I was hoping to be able to to run a train this winter but I...

We went to Assateague Island in Maryland for Thanksgiving years ago. Last minute trip when the weather was unseasonably warm. It was beautiful and I would do it again. They allow deer hunting on the island so the deer hunters came in the day after but I still think it was one of our better...

I do not do dairy so the paleo diet has worked for me. I am not strict with the diet as I do some whole grains. My sugar level, triglycerides, and blood pressure were all high before I started last January and now all are normal so I do not need to take any medications. I have lost 30 pounds and...

I worked in construction for many years and worked with union and non union steam fitters and electricians and I always preferred union companies. Their training and supervision were always better. A non union company would take their best electrician (or steamfitter) and make him the forman -...

I am not sure Onstar will shut off the car if the key is in the car. It does give you your car's location, I was traveling overseas and got a notice that my oil life reached 20%. I left my truck in the long term lot so I was not sure what triggered the alert but I did check the location and it...

Onstar gives unlimited data and you can add and drop the plan as needed. They usually have some incentive to keep the plan longer than I need and I forget to cancel and pay an extra month. It works but we rarely camp with good cell service and the vehicle battery has to be on to use it. If I...

I have used Onstar when traveling because it offers more data cheaper than my phone plan. I also found that it was not much better than my phone when cell service is weak. Starlink will give you better connectivity in remote areas you have a view of the sky. Onstar uses AT&T so it depends on...

We have had ours for about 15 years and it used to be we could not stop without having to give a tour and answer questions. I think because teardrops are more common we still get questions but not as near as many as we used to get. It seems there are always other teardrops in camp grounds where...