Year: 2021

Our Spring Start-up check list focus is on our International 25 CCD Airstream to de-winterize and ready for up coming “Glamping” Season. Your list may very depending on your specific trailer. At Our Storage Place: Dump and remove Dri-Z-Air containers Do a walk through and secure for travel Close...

I was watching the News on the telly a couple of days ago.  One of the headline stories was about a wheel falling off a car.  However, the story was really about “The Joke“.  It appears that there were several vehicles at an event where someone had loosened the...

For years we “Walbernized” the exterior of Blue Streak simply because it was the recommended product that “Airstream Inc.” suggested to use on the exterior aluminium panels.  However, I ended up applying the product twice a year just to maintain the shine.  Also, I was never really happy with...

In this Part 2 of Tools For The Road, (If you missed Part 1 Read It Here). The following 4 items below is a list of  items that we carry which we also consider as “tools” . Over the years of Boondocking our Tool Kit has enabled us to...

It has been a long winter, all Covid-19 locked down.  Mo and I basically grocery shop and stay tucked in our cosy townhouse waiting for the Province to schedule our time for vaccination.  Needless to say, it’s been a long year. There is now light at the end of...

I was looking at all the batteries I pulled out of Blue Streak when we winterised and it caused me to think (no, it didn’t hurt) about expiry dates. In all caravans there are item that “expire” and need to be replace as part of our general maintenance. The...

A portable waste holding tank is simply a tank on wheels.  We will often carry ours if we are looking at a Boondock in the range of 20-25 days. This is because it allows us to dump our grey and black water without having to pack-up everything to take...

Well, I spent some time looking at those “Do’s and Don’t On How To Ruin Your Camping Trip” in Part 1 of Opps! I Did It Again.  Here I would like to touch on some common mistakes we can easily make.  Need-less-to-say, these can Ruin your trip as well....

First, I’m going to assume you already have a sewer hose, a hitch, and other obvious items as trailer campers we need to have. It’s also important to realise the 4 items I am going to discuss is not a comprehensive list. For that I refer you to my...

Over the 20 odd years we have been travelling and Boondocking we have learned “what to do and not to do“. I would like to say that the learning has come from our extensive reading and research but the truth is most of what follows comes from “Opps! I...