I am now officially a Wikipedia contributer. Tonight I submitted my article on popup campers on Wikipedia. I’m surprised that no one had ever written one up until now, but hopefully my submission will be deemed worthy and not deleted. I included a couple of pictures of our popup, since it’s easiest to use your […]
Category Archives: Camping
Camper bunk night light
We like to take our kids camping in our popup, but one problem I hadn’t solved yet was the lack of a night light. Evan likes to have one, and it’s nice to be able to see a little bit when sharing a “room” with kids. What I did was modify an existing light in […]
Guys’ Camping Trip to Starved Rock
A couple of weekends ago some buddies and I took a weekend trip to Starved Rock for a men-only camping trip. There were five of us: me, Jeremy, Dave, Eric and Colin, but the camper wasn’t all that crowded. Parking was, however, since most of us had to drive separately. Jeremy and I headed to […]
Bicycle Camping on the Rock Island Trail
Last weekend, Derrick, Dave and myself finally got together for a guys-only winter camping trip. It was my first tent-camping trip in a couple of years and the first guy time I’d had in quite some time. In the days preceding the trip, we decided to do a sort-of double trip. We planned to camp […]
Colorado Vacation – Closing Comments
Well, we arrived back home shortly after midnight last night after a 800 mile day of driving. Everything seems to be in order (i.e. the house didn’t burn down), the cats are happy to see us, and Evan’s happy to be home. For we adults, it’s back to the same-old-same-old, but at least now we’ve […]
Colorado Vacation – Day 14
Day 14: Packed up the trailer and parked it in DML HQ Left camp at 8:15am Traveled to Pike’s Peak Caravanned up Pike’s Peak Photos at the summit Descended Pike’s Peak Returned to camp Left for home Lunch at La Casita in Colorado Springs Dinner in Limon, CO Stayed at Super 8 in Colby, KS […]
Colorado Vacation – Day 13
Day 13: Took Tom to drop off his truck for repairs Left camp around 11:30am Offroading near camp Lunch on the trail More offroading and geocaching First thing in the morning, I ran with Tom to drop off his truck in Divide at a shop. He had discovered some u-joints that were bad and encountered […]
Colorado Vacation – Day 12
Day 12: Left camp around 9:30 Toured the Coors Brewery Lunch at the Blue Canyon Grill Visited Red Rocks Ampitheater Stopped in Castle Rock for supplies and gas Returned to Camp Today we were supposed to leave camp by 9:00am to be in Golden for our reservations for the Coors Brewery tour, but we finally […]
Colorado Vacation – Day 11
Day 11: Left camp around noon after lunch and a nap Visited the Manitou Cliff Dwellings Went to the Cave of the Winds, but decided not to take the tour Visited the Royal Gorge Dinner in Canon City Returned to camp Today we got a later start since we slept in. After we both had […]
Colorado Vacation – Day 10
Day 10: Left camp around 10am Visited Garden of the Gods Had Evan checked out at a doctor’s office Caught up on some shopping Grabbed dinner in town Returned to camp and hung out by the camp fire Today we didn’t get an awful lot accomplished. Around 10am we left camp with most of the […]