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Well, we didn't buy any chairs for this trip, but I must say the Helinox is the likely choice when we do decide to drop the cash.

Hi all; This year we are flying to our spring break destination area, and thus we have to pack all our camping gear into suitcases for checked baggage. Sleeping bags are already small, we have a backpacking tent & stove/cooking gear and a soft-sided cooler, but we are stuck on what to do for...

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It's in the "Overland Trip Reports" section, called "Old Ladies Overland Adventure Society, or Mom & Me Drive an XJ from NC to Utah". ;-)

So, as a follow up: -- Big Agnes Big House tent was a total winner. I have never loved a tent so much. You can STAND UP in it, it holds up to wind astonishingly well for its height, but it's still lightweight and easy to pitch. Perfect for Mom and as it turns out, perfect for family car...

day 15/16/17: Santa Fe to OKC to Memphis to home Another brief visit downtown... DSC00844 by katuah, on Flickr DSC00843 by katuah, on Flickr On the way out of Santa Fe, we could not resist stopping at the Mexican pottery warehouse on Cerrillos Road, where we bought random items of basketry...

day 14: Aztec Ruins to Santa Fe (repeat) Woke to find the Jeep and everything around covered in a sparkling layer of frost. Beautiful! We rolled into Aztec with plenty of time to check out the Aztec Ruins NM. The reconstructed kiva was fascinating, as I recalled Craig Childs' discussion of it...

day 13: Canyonlands to Durango, better this time Determined to enjoy ourselves even in all the crowds, we drove up to the Islands in the Sky for some short hikes and general gawking. The obligatory stop at Mesa Arch... DSC00728 by katuah, on Flickr followed by a new-to-me trail to check...

day 12: Blanding to Moab: Easter Jeep Safari, Arches With our Maze permits cancelled and the fuel tank O-ring leaking, it seemed to both of us that it might be a good idea to begin making our way home, rather than pushing too much further west into more remote terrain (we’d hoped to go out...

Day 11: Bluff to … Blanding, inadvertently. This day was bookended by broken Jeep parts. It started off really well, when I finally found the source of the popping noises - a missing nut off an engine mount bolt. Apparently the torque of the steering was sufficient to cause popping from the...

Day 10: Bluff Once again, I started the day with Jeep work. By this point I’ve managed to narrow the general origin of the noise to the steering box area, but I can’t seem to pinpoint it any further. I have a tub of spare parts but I didn’t bring a spare steering box (lol), so going down the...

Day 9: Cortez to Bluff This morning we easily find the Sand Canyon trailhead. I have no idea how we missed it the day before. Too busy talking I suppose! DSC00376 by katuah, on Flickr DSC00380 by katuah, on Flickr Never seen this side of Sleeping Ute before: DSC00382 by katuah, on Flickr...

Day 8: Cortez to...well, Cortez-ish (McElmo Canyon). Start day with more work on Jeep. More bolt tightening, more worry. The noise just will not go away. In two more days, we are scheduled to go into the Maze, and I’m starting to rethink the intelligence of this if I can’t find the source of...

Day 7: Chaco to Cortez Hiked Mom until her boot sole came off. Literally! We took the long walk out to see Kin Kletso, Casa Chiquita, and the petroglyphs, and my mom’s boot came apart on the way back. Considering they probably have had hundreds of trail miles all across the Four Corners...

Day 6: SFNM to Chaco. Cold cold morning. I got up under the Jeep and tried to find the source of the popping noise, but the usual suspects all seemed fine. I tightened a bunch of bolts and hoped for the best, since I knew we had a rough road coming up - today our destination was Chaco Culture...

Day 5: Palo Duro to Santa Fe, NM. We started the day with a bit more hiking in Palo Duro. DSC00109 by katuah, on Flickr DSC00111 by katuah, on Flickr DSC00112 by katuah, on Flickr DSC00113 by katuah, on Flickr The trail map wasn’t the clearest, and it took a couple of false starts before...

Day 4: Norman to Palo Duro Canyon, TX Oklahoma, where the wind goes sweeping down the plain - and tries to push your vehicle across traffic. Really unpleasant driving. At last we had entered the Great Plains I remembered from childhood trips cross-country: Flat flat flat, and windy. It was...

Day 3: Hot Springs to Norman OK. After days of interstate driving in the rain, dodging trucks and potholes, we needed something different. We’d originally planned to go all the way to Texas today, but we were both so exhausted by the previous two days that we’d already decided to change that...

At long last, a trip report. I felt like I should do this report not so much because of the places we went (most were not that far off the beaten track) or how we did it (we didn't glamp much at all or use lots of e$oteric gear), but rather because it illustrates the sort of actual "adventure"...