Recent content by Birddog

Good posts all around.I started with a tent,moved up to a large popup,sleeps 7. Then i got busy with the job and family.Every time i wanted to go out,the popup needed money put into fixing something,Tires,lift system,door quit fitting right,canvas shrunk around areas where it goes in.Eventually...

Welcome Leonard, I am still a newbie here too,and on a lot trying to pickup new ways of doing things more efficiently. I am down in your neck of the woods,Sarasota area,I too car camp and built a small gear trailer I can keep my stuff ready to go I the garage when I get a chance.I still camp in...

I agree,I never go to theme parks,all my time off is going to or preparing gear to go do some outdoor activities. I take my son as often as I can schedule time off from work,hope I can get out the second week of October for a three day weekend.

Glad you had a good time. Long bar pointe is a good spot in Sarasota bay too,you might have fished there.used to be you could keep 10 trout per person,now it's down to four and one redfish a day.hard to justify my fuel for that. Always good fishing in this part of Florida.

They are still popular down here in Florida(scooters,not mopeds),if you get a 50cc they are legal with no motorcycle endorsements,most people get the 150cc that I see,my sister has one she has over 7000 miles on it,her main transportation around Clearwater,fl. I get behind them on the road and...

No I haven't gotten out much still with mine,been busy collecting and fixing up some old coleman one burner 502 stoves just to keep my mind on something different than my job.I'm not sorry I bought it,i have too many hobbies and don't spend enough time at any of them.I got on a lot of metal...

I looked for months trying to find a good deal on craigslist and everywhere,and people wanted more for used rusted 4 or 5 year old trailers than what you would pay for a new one.

this is a picture of the one I built, I keep it in my garage so I will get more years out of it.if it was sitting outside all the time in the weather,the wood would need replacing almost every year with the rain showers we get here in florida.i just bungee a tarp on for a cover and when I get to...

Sorry for the loss of your friend.I had a black lab since he was 5 weeks and had to put him down when he was 14,his hips gave out and he was in alot of pain.I cried all the way home from the vets office,felt like I lost one of my children.He will always be in my heart of fond memories of the...

we have a state recreation area that has 60 campsites along a lake and a mile or 2 away they have a racetrack on Saturday nights that is loud ! I would only camp there during the week.i heard the noise when I was fishing in the lake one weekend and thought it would be hard to camp there with all...

They have a former KOA in the south central area of Florida where they encourage ATV riding and stuff through the campgrounds and trails (noisy all day and late evening)and a friend of mine asked me to come visit them there and I refused. I like quiet camping and being out in nature to hear...

I have been looking at a Moultrie 990i Infrared camera,didn't know what kind you have had good success with.I have heard people being happy with the Moultrie A5 at a lot less money.I'm looking for more of an undectable camera from humans walking around at night as I want to also use this a...

Yep! Some people collect stamps or rocks or knick knacks of one kind or another. I collect tents. Me too ! I have a big cabelas tent I bough two years ago that sleeps 10 I still haven't took out of the box yet.i bought it for a weeks vacation at one site with friends and then my plans had...

From what I read on the reviews on amazon,I knew that coleman was selling the tents without a rainfly.Don't know why but they were selling them separately and it's a big mess.They claimed it didn't need one in the advertising,that their tents were sealed well,but I didn't take a chance.I read in...

I think all of us that camp are preppers to a certain point,but not like the kind the label has meant to imply.I have camped most of my life and have always stored gear ready to go and have used it to get me out of situations where it was mostly just inconveniences.(power outages hurricane...