Travel Trailer Blogs

Our most commonly used tarp is a poly tarp from a discount retailer because it is inexpensive and pretty much disposable. They are tightly packaged and take up little space, while weighing nearly nothing. When you add to them things that are normally found around the campsite such as tent pegs, bungie cords ( tarp straps ), or nylon ratchet straps and poly rope, you can quickly assemble some of the handiest campsite stuff imaginable !

This photo was taken just as the sun was beginning to rise upon Engineer Pass. We had set up our Oliver travel trailer, at an old ghost town above Silverton Colorado. Leaving our base camp OLLIE at 0430 hours in the dark we started our climb up through the next ghost town and continued upward towards the summit to view that very special sunrise at elevation.

Most of the built up campgrounds in the Rocky Mountains are along the water courses, as are the roads. Making access to them as the snow melts off better and better as the season progresses. Normally, elevation is the controlling factor for how late in the year the snow will melt off enough to let us get our travel trailers into campsites.

Camping off the grid is a very satisfying thing for Betty and I. It fits into our out of doors campsite style quite well. Camping off the grid with total comfort does need a bit of thought though, especially when it is at high elevation. Both early and late in the camping season up high, the temperatures will drop below freezing at night for brief periods of time. And yet, just before sunrise each day, the temperature starts climbing to comfortable levels quickly.

You’ve just arrived at your campground in your camping trailer at the Rocky Mountains and as you drove the last few twisty road miles, you thought, “now this isn’t so bad ! What’s up with all of this talk about altitude sickness and vertigo?”

The higher we go up into the Rocky Mountains the thinner the air gets. So, just why would anyone want to camp above ten thousand feet for extended periods of time, especially when you will be off of the grid camping for over 110 consecutive days.

RVer’s are spare part carrying kind of folks, whether it’s a spare tire, fan belt, spark plug or other repair part, we usually got em’.

We have noted that some campers do not want to cook inside their Oliver, and, some do not want to cook outside. We do both. Our Southern mountain culture, kind of dictates how we set up our cook shack, when it is warmer weather.

It is that special time of day on most camping trips, not long after happy hour, when the evening breeze carries the magical aroma of campfire smoke.

Everyone is raving about those beautiful fish fillets that you are turning out while camped out on the lake. Your special spices in the cornmeal, just really gets everyone’s attention. However, your cooking oil really shows it too. When you first started dropping fillets in the cooking oil it was so clear and pretty.

Our campground assignment for the summer was up high, at 10800 ft, and we were arriving early, so the likelihood of the road being still blocked by snow drifts was high. Because we would be passing near by, to get to our staging area, we thought that we would swing by and take a look […]

When we retired from the work a day world we already knew where we wanted to work camp, as a way to offset expenses and camping fees, while we traveled. A land management company out of Utah was the contractor for Trujillo Meadows campground, located North of Chama New Mexico,