Recent content by tamewolf

For two weeks, and an air flight, why have more than fits in your backpack?  You are camping, not setting up housekeeping.

Yeah, run away and join the circus!

I spent a winter in Texas with a Canadian whose sub-mission became finding butane for her campstove.  Butane is apparently the favorite fuel there.  She had propane also, but wasn’t happy about it.  I’ve kind of kept my eye out for it since then, and have only seen it at the start of the camping...

I cook many healthy and complicated recipes in a small, inconvenient space.  Stirfrys are quick and and can be made with variety.  Leftovers are good cold.  In a stealth situation, you won’t cook inside the van as the odor of food is quite the giveaway.  Get a one burner propane or alcohol stove...

I have run into them twice on the road.  Both times there were lots of men (traveling as couples) who were quite intent on selling (flipping) the trailers and other mid century junk.  Not quite what I am looking for in a women only recreational group.  I do not know if their other events may be...

Check out Slim Potatohead’s you tube series.  He has many quite short, and to the point, videos spotlighting the beauty and accessibility of the upper midwest as well as many other US and Canadian camping spots that whose climate and nature would be different and interesting for you.  He also...

Is your gf expecting your child soon?  Do you already have a child with her?  If so, you do have some responsibilities to her.  If you are running out on this sort of responsibility then, yes, you are indeed a shitty person.

To begin living free, stop watching tv.  Get a good pair of binoculars.  Learn to cook 1+ weeks worth of meals on whatever your free kitchen will consist of.  For extra credit, get really good road maps and brush up on your topo map skills (pick up the real ones on site).  You will find your...

Being able to curl up with a warm thermos during soup season is fuel well spent, I think.  Soaking overnight always gives me creamy split peas, and also shorter cooking time the next day.  With the shorter cooking time you will break even, or maybe come out ahead on fuel usage.  I mostly make...

Pasta is made with eggs.

Many people come to Quartzite for a few days from Phoenix.  Probably most of them have these apps on their phones.  I would think they and many others would be glad for drop off and pickup in the crowded town center.  You’d be going back and forth like a shuttle bus.

How about a van pulling a cargo trailer?  That could hold a lot of rotating stock.  You could look into the open air markets that are all through the southwest in the winter.  Many people make enough money as vendors at them.  RV clubs welcome vendors at their conventions if the products are...

A little caveat:most apartments at that cost (and blandness) require parking stickers for residents.  Sometimes there are CCTV in the lots, and usually people notice who is parked near them, and how often.  Stealth is kind of a myth, you will need many places to rotate through to pull that off...

Sounds like fun.  You’ll surely have a variety of camping spots to enjoy as you go along through the woods to the rivers to the different kinds of desert.  Hope you make it to the Mohave this year.

Sometimes we can be hobbled by our political or religious viewpoints.  (If myself and my acquaintances are x, then all people know to be x).  This was particularly difficult for me to see when I was first leaving not only the places but the lifestyle I was accustomed to.  The more accepting I...