{"id":2111,"date":"2008-10-21T06:52:04","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T14:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2008-10-21T06:56:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T14:56:42","slug":"interesting-site-campingbloggernet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/10\/21\/interesting-site-campingbloggernet\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting site: campingblogger.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Silicon Valley techie\/family guy named Roy Scribner been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roy-scribner.com\/\" title=\"this is roy's original blog\">blogging about camping<\/a> for the past couple years. He&#8217;s mainly the tow-behind-the-SUV-camper type because he got a lifetime&#8217;s worth of sleeping on the ground during the army paratrooper phase of his life.  Now he&#8217;s started a blog at its own domain &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campingblogger.net\/\">campingblogger.net<\/a> &#8212; and he has a promotion going to entice folks to stop by: a chance to win a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campingblogger.net\/popular\/win-a-garmin-gps-receiver.html\">Garmin eTrex Summit\u00ae HC GPS.<\/a>  Your chances are pretty good, I&#8217;d think. <\/p>\n<p>He has a great suggestion for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campingblogger.net\/camping\/gear\/how-to-use-an-ice-chest.html\">keeping your ice chest cold:<\/a> freezing gallon bottles of water, because masses of ice stay frozen longer than individual cubes. He even precools his ice chest with a few frozen bottles (a nice trick if you&#8217;ve got freezer space for a half-dozen gallon bottles.) <\/p>\n<p>I know a lot of purists think the only way to camp is with a thin sheet of nylon between themselves and the wilderness, trying to sleep on uneven dirt with creepy-crawlies for all-night company. I&#8217;ve done it enough times to understand the evolution of beds. Frankly I&#8217;d probably own a tow-behind camper if I had a) someplace to store it; b) a car powerful enough to pull it, and c) enough spare cash to buy it. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.campingblogger.net\/popular\/why-family-camping.html\">Scribner&#8217;s main point about family camping<\/a> is one we&#8217;ve touched on here a dozen times: getting the kids out of the house and into discovering nature. And given kids&#8217; innate desire to laugh in the face of the good examples their parents set, the best way to get the kids into backpacking might well be to take &#8217;em out in the ol&#8217; tow-behind, which the kids will inevitably declare uncool and compromised compared to Real Camping.  <\/p>\n<p>(Bonus link: Twitter fans will want to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/campingblogger\">add Camping Blogger to their follow list<\/a>).   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Silicon Valley techie\/family guy named Roy Scribner been blogging about camping for the past couple years. He&#8217;s mainly the tow-behind-the-SUV-camper type because he got a lifetime&#8217;s worth of sleeping on the ground during the army paratrooper phase of his&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/10\/21\/interesting-site-campingbloggernet\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[35],"tags":[143],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}