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Boondocking away from others! Most or all the campgrounds I’ve visited require gennies off at 8 or 10.

Paging @Sweeney , paging @Cary Winch , Some time ago there was a page, or maybe a media album, that had graphic badges one could link to for embedding… like in my signature. Or, I suppose you could copy/paste a graphic from somebody’s sig… or download it…

Old and feeble I am, a couple 30Lb cylinders I would mount in the bed and still be able to horse them around. Perhaps you could handle a lot more!

If your TV is a pickup you’d have capability for way more than a 20Lb tank. If it’s not, take a close look at tongue weight vs. your TV when adding stuff to the tongue.

Off grid AC is really a problem! If I ever have to reach for AC in the boonies getting a propane conversion for a quiet Honda or other gennie might make it work. I don’t like carrying gasoline… or dealing with it at a campsite! Even with that I don’t know how many hours you’d get out of a 20Lb...

All else apart, there’s some homework to do to even approach this question: 1. Determine power draw of all loads and their average use hours per day. 2. Do the math, resulting in watt-hours or amp-hours per day each load. Add them all up. 3. I don’t think anyone has figured out a way to stuff...

Baby gets new shoes today! I thank Cary & forum members for sensitizing me to potential tire failures due to age. Date code revealed that the tires on our 2012 560 are originals, manufactured Oct. 2011. (2nd owners) We did OK, but 15 yrs is stretching it too far. And the weather! Climate...

Firewood prep - definitely fixed! I however am using a large Sven Saw and a “boy’s” size axe of 28” and a 2.25 lb. head for splitting. Every price level is out there! Both of these can live in the tongue box of a CI… Batoning with a large knife does look very manageable for splitting, I’ve...

Whelp, the new ukulele hasn’t arrived yet, but here’s a travel guitar from the same company. I don’t think mine will be quite long enough to use as a golf club…

It was suggested to me in another thread that I add a new uke to the camping gear that could survive canoeing. A carbon fiber wonder of musical instrument engineering is incoming! Side benefit; it can be used as a paddle if one is broken or lost!

Great info! Are there standards for center of moment in the EU/UK vs the US? Is it proportional to tongue weight :: gvwr? It seems to me that by the time you need anti-sway, you’re already in serious trouble… but those Santa Ana gusts are radical. What do you think is the best use of sway...

My experience of a weight distributing hitch was pretty different than this blogger’s, but then my situation was different. But I do think the reason he was vulnerable to the dealership’s sales pitch was lack of info about what they’re good for. We had a 10’ box Coleman tent trailer quite a few...

That. Is. Awesome. We’ve got similar coverage… but ours takes setting up so many more independent structures! That have to be individually stored, moved around, packed in the TV or TD, thrown under the TD or in the TV if not used at the campsite. Hmmmmm….

I’ve not tried those brands… though we have used a lot of different canopies over the years! ALL of them need to be guyed for wind! I try to guy to trees as much as possible, they are sturdier than stakes and no one trips over them. If possible I run lines above head height where I expect...

Crater Lake is amazing, to be sure! Waldo is about half the size, and both are in similar surroundings in the Cascades range. Both have exceptionally clear water, in part because neither have inlet streams carrying organic debris. That makes for beautiful color, my Waldo drone footage was just...

The best unpowered craft lake in Oregon has to be Waldo Lake! Highly recommended, it’s in the middle Cascades on the east (Central Oregon) side. We’ve canoed there, but no pix :( But here’s a short edit of drone footage and stills:

Our plans are starting to come together. We’ve owned CIs about 9 years, and don’t often venture out of Oregon & Washington. There is *so much* in the NW we haven’t seen, it’s beautiful, why go further? Last year we did an extended trip in northern Utah, a few years ago in the California coastal...

@madisonmog you could look through the old listings here, maybe your camper is already for sale! You’d get a sense of value, too. My sense is that most are in the range of $18-28,000, depending on options, condition, and age. There have been a few below, and a few above that range as well...

These days I’m singing and playing on ukulele a lot of the pop, rock, folk/rock songs I heard on the AM radio in the 60s/70s. So much fun, and a lot of the music stands the test of time very well indeed!

I’m just fascinated by off-grid and partial off-grid energy solutions. I guess I have dreams of comfortable living away from services, self sufficiency, etc. Thanks for the info on your energy use in the far north!