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The Car-Camping Guide: Road Trip Tips and Tricks

August 25, 2014 By Val Weston 4 Comments

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Before I left on The Pacific Northwest Tour, I shared my road trip essentials... the things I do to prepare from a safety standpoint. Now for a random selection of road trip tips and tricks I use … [Read more...] about The Car-Camping Guide: Road Trip Tips and Tricks

Filed Under: Outdoors, Travel, Uncategorized Tagged With: car-camping, Guides, road trip

Rethinking Adventure Food with Fishpeople Seafood

July 15, 2014 By Val Weston 4 Comments

A few weeks before I set out out on the Pacific Northwest Tour, I got a treat. The folks at Fishpeople Seafood contacted me to see if I'd be interested in trying out their products and sharing my … [Read more...] about Rethinking Adventure Food with Fishpeople Seafood

Filed Under: Outdoors, Uncategorized Tagged With: backpacking, camping, car-camping, colorado, dinosaur national monument, fishpeople seafood, gear, great sand dunes, pacific northwest tour, pnwtour, Reviews, road trip, The Pacific Northwest Tour (2014), utah

The Car-Camping Guide: Road Trip Essentials

May 12, 2014 By Val Weston 3 Comments

You've probably figured out by now that I spend a lot of time on the road. There are a great many facets to making a road trip come together and, as you can imagine, there's a method to my madness in … [Read more...] about The Car-Camping Guide: Road Trip Essentials

Filed Under: Travel, Uncategorized Tagged With: car-camping, emergency, forester, Guides, road trip, safety, subaru

A lesson in less

November 18, 2011 By Val Weston 2 Comments

It's always amazing what you find when you clean house, even virtually. I found this little musing buried in my drafts and thought I should finally share it. I originally wrote it a couple of months … [Read more...] about A lesson in less

Filed Under: Outdoors, Travel, Uncategorized Tagged With: camping, car-camping, forester, georgia, georgia state parks, Guides, rv, simplicity, subaru

Car Camping 101

September 19, 2011 By Val Weston 6 Comments

Here in Val in Real Life Land, the outdoor lifestyle— camping, hiking, geocaching, and such—is so normal to us that I forget how completely odd and unachievable it seems to some. I honestly do forget … [Read more...] about Car Camping 101

Filed Under: Outdoors, Uncategorized Tagged With: camping, car-camping, Guides, skills

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