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Mid-February and it was time for our annual trip to the Big Bend area. Our long time traveling friends decided to join us for a long weekend of back country camping in the National Park. We planned to hit some of the places we had seen on an earlier visit with them 25 years prior. On that...

This trip report is a little past being current, but covers a good portion of the park so I thought I’d post it up. We had reserved 4 nights of back country sites in Big Bend Ranch State Park in TX for early February, 2014. It is generally a quiet time of the year in the park. There is a...

After 10 years in a Jeep with an Adventure Trailer “Horizon” in tow we’ve joined the pop up crowd with a Four Wheel Camper flatbed “Hawk” mounted on a 2016 RAM 2500. It’s intended to bring us back to places we’ve been in the Jeep and provide a little more comfort, range, and better all-weather...

We decided to get propane fire pit several years ago after a cold snowy Thanksgiving trip with a burn ban in place. There's nothing like sitting around the flashlight in the cold eating Thanksgiving dinner. Due to space limitations we went with a Quickfire...

We have an Ezi-awn RTT and it is fairly roomy for 2 people even with gear bags lined up down the sides at night. I like to have a clock at hand to check if it is really time to get up because the tent can be pretty dark until the sun is fully up. The pile of clothes is not a good place to rest...

I picked up a new lock 'n' roll hitch to replace the original one I've had since 2006. The vertical axis pin on the old one was starting to show a little wear and while I haven't had any issues with it binding up I've seen a few trip reports here that indicate others have. I ordered mine...

I was looking for a solution to secure an Oz Tent to the top of a side box on our trailer. The tent won't go along on every trip so I wanted something that wasn't too obtrusive sticking up on top of the box. I considered boat cleats and various truck tie-down solutions but settled on bed...

In the interest of removing some of the stress between the spotter (spouse) and driver (me) when trying to back up to the traier to reconnect after we've configured it at a camp site in the perfect position at some odd angle, up hill, on a pile or rocks, between a tree and some other...

A freind sent this link to me. I thought it was a well done blend of photos and video set to music and considered it worth sharing. Well timed ending with a bird landing in a tree as the music comes to a close. Looks like it has been around a while but I hadn't seen it before...

I saw an earlier post from 2008 on bargain bridging ladders made from grating that came back to life not to long ago. http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/17223-Bargain-Bridging-Ladders I guess I missed it first time around. Here's a fresh start along the same idea with a method to...

We've been running around with a trailer behind the Jeep for 5 years now. It hasn't slowed us down much but there have been a few switchbacks that get kind of tight. If only the trailer could swing out to the side on its own. Without getting too crazy I put the following plan together. The...

North Padre Island - July 2012 We missed our annual trip to PINS over Labor Day so we could attend Overland Expo so we decided to try and end of July trip and invited our niece down from the Northeast. She just graduated high school and was up for a camping trip and the opportunity to learn...

We attended our first Overland Expo this year with plans to spend the week following wandering around Utah. After seeing a few other posts here we roughly figured on doing the Maze in Canyon Lands for a good part of the time if we could score campsites. The adventure started on Wednesday...

I've had my 2011 Tacoma for about a year and a half and 30,000 miles so far. It has been mostly a commuter to date. Two things seem like they could have been designed better and possibly changed for 2012. 1. The door access module has one programable feature - beep or no beep. Lot's of...

Second attempt at a trip report, this one from our 4 day Thanksgiving weekend trip. It was just to a state park, but one with a variety of things to do and it is friendly to vehicle based camping set-ups that don’t necessarily want to park on a pavement pad with RV’s on either side. The park...

After enjoying and being inspired by everyone else’s trip reports I figure its time to give it a shot. I wanted to get some current photos up for the members that are headed that way for Thanksgiving week. Here's a summary of our trip. DAY 1 Departure Houston area on Sat. Nov. 5 late morning...

The new style Igloo cooler hinge is just a thin strip of plastic, which of course has a relatively short life. Upon finding a new pair would set me back about $7, I opted for a quick repair by cutting a piece plastic from a plastic jug and installed it behind the two halves of the original...

Spring time and time to transfer 40 gallons of winter stored fuel from the boat into containers for subsequent use in vehicles. Out comes the super siphon but it won't go into the boat tank. The filler hose is an overshot on a plastic tank nozzle and the end of the siphon won't pass the...