Your actions at the campsite affects everyone in the campground (photo courtesy of pdphoto.org)
With the global economies heading into the toilet (how’s that for drama?) a lot of new people will be camping next summer, instead of jetting off to Andalucia or Boca Chica. Unfortunately, this new generation of economically displaced jet setters is not quite up-to-speed on camping etiquette; those largely unwritten rules that seasoned campers have come to expect from their fellow excursionists.
The BrewFire features a metal carafe and a see-through resevoir
Could this new coffee maker from Brunton® de-thrown my trusty Coleman™ coffee maker that’s been a mainstay at the Scribner campsite for several years, now? I’m not sure yet, since the Brunton does not come out until February, but it does look to have some interesting features over the Coleman. Unlike the Coleman, the Brunton “BrewFire†is self-contained, operating on either 1lb. disposable propane bottles, or butane canisters.
1-gallon milk jugs work great for making your own block ice
It sounds simple; dump a bag of crushed ice into the ice chest, put in the food and drinks and then if you are really serious, layer another bag of crushed ice on top. This works fine if you are going on a picnic, but simply tossing a couple bags of crushed ice into the ice chest is completely inadequate for even short weekend camping trips.
The key to an ice chest is, of course, the ice. But the key to ice is mass, since an object with greater mass will hold its temperature longer than a similar object with less mass. For this reason a big block of solid ice, instead of hundreds of small cubes of ice, will last much longer, even if the block of ice and the bag of crushed ice are the same weight.
10 Must-Have Plugins for WordPress
In the first post of this series I talked about the importance of the Thesis Theme, in setting up CampingBlogger. In this post, I will highlight the ten most important plugins that I used in setting up the Blog. Out of the box, if software were to actually come in a box anymore, WordPress is a robust and capable content management (CM) system that provides you with 90% of the functionality required to setup your own blog. Where WordPress falls short – that last 10% of the solution – is primarily in the user interface, where user is a potential reader of your blog. One of the reasons I switched from Movable Type to a WordPress based CM systems is the abundant amount of third-party tools, called plugins, which extend and enhance the WordPress user interface. With that in mind, and in alphabetical order, here are the ten most important plugins that I used in setting up CampingBlogger.
Camping is better than Pucca
We’ve gotten several of our friends into camping, but it wasn’t always an easy sell. Here are a few of their arguments that I have compiled over the years.