Travel & Places: Melissa and Doug Sleeping Bags

Melissa and Doug Sleeping Bags

Melissa and Doug have created the cutest two sleeping bags as part of their Sunny Patch range. Augie the Alligator is fun and colourful in green and red. Mollie the Ladybug is super cute in red, black and green. Both are stuffed with comfortable polyester for a great nights sleep whether camping wit

Travel & Places: Camping - An Economical Vacation for Single Mothers

Camping - An Economical Vacation for Single Mothers

Many parents, especially single mothers, struggle to find affordable vacation ideas. Everyone wants to have a great vacation, but many times taking a trip entails big expenses that can be hard to cover. There are many economical vacation ideas for families on a budget, and camping is one of the most

Travel & Places: Five Tips to Increase Longevity of Camp Stove

Five Tips to Increase Longevity of Camp Stove

Camping is an enjoyable past time with family and friends that create memorable experiences. Equally important, is the care of camping gear to increase longevity. Thus, with proper care of equipment the less maintenance the better chances the item will last for years. Here are five tips to care for

Travel & Places: Camps Bay; overlooking the Atlantic…

Camps Bay; overlooking the Atlantic…

Talking of tourism and travel; the first things that come up in our minds are beautiful sceneries, vivid natural beauty and trip full of fun and equal leisure. One may also visualize luxury and glamou

Travel & Places: How to Use a Compass to Make a Geometric Design

How to Use a Compass to Make a Geometric Design

Seeing a compass might induce shivers due to memories of high school geometry class, but you can use a compass to make an intricate geometric design resembling a flower. A compass consists of a fixed point with a swivel mechanism and a pencil used to draw arcs and circles. With the clever use of arc

Travel & Places: How to Choose Your Tent For Camping

How to Choose Your Tent For Camping

People hear the word camping and they think of only one thing: woods. It seems that people have stereotyped camping with mountains and the wilderness which creates ripple on the whole idea of the outdoor adventure. However, this is not universally true. Camping, while most popularly done in the fore

Travel & Places: French Onion

French Onion

French Onion - a camping recipe from Vicki. When you open the foil, the outer part of the onion might be dark. Remove the dark skin, put the onion in a bowl and cut it up to serve. We like it as topping for our steak or eat it like French onion soup. When you are testing for doneness, be careful not

Travel & Places: Planning Your Family Camping Trip

Planning Your Family Camping Trip

Camping is a good way to spend time alone with your kids and to show them how wonderful nature can be. The simplicity of nature can be discovered by children through camping. There are so ...

Travel & Places: Aliner Folding Trailer Specifications

Aliner Folding Trailer Specifications

The Aliner Scout is a two-wheel, A-frame camper designed to be towed behind a vehicle. Aliners pop up from a low-profile, stowed configuration for towing into a roomy A-frame camping shelter with sleeping and dining area, skylights and a full line of options and amenities. They do not require high-p

Travel & Places: Camping Checklist Essentials

Camping Checklist Essentials

Don't many of us delight in planning outdoor camping on occasion and making the best of what mother nature has to offer? Yet even with the most seemingly exhaustive camping checklist we usually build just prior to packaging, there's often that a very important factor we leave out and the o

Travel & Places: How do I Buy a Sleep-Away Camp?

How do I Buy a Sleep-Away Camp?

When the economy falters, many families look for ways to cut back on 'extras', including summer camps for their kids. Many summer camps must close when they can no longer attract the needed number of campers but, surprisingly, new camps manage to open and flourish. Sometimes the new camps have a par

Travel & Places: Love the Outdoors: Camp out and Sleep in Tee Pees

Love the Outdoors: Camp out and Sleep in Tee Pees

People love vacations. Many spend their vacations travelling to other states, towns, or countries, visiting loved ones or just taking in the sights. Going outdoors is another interesting getaway. Sett

Travel & Places: ATV Camping

ATV Camping

Primitive tent camping has been a great outdoor activity for hundreds of years. ATVs have only been around for about eighty years. ATV stands for All Terrain Vehicle and the first ATV was developed back in the 1930's.

Travel & Places: How to Make an Altoids Stove

How to Make an Altoids Stove

Altoids are breath mints that come in a metal tin, which can be converted into a small stove, useful for camping and as an emergency source of heat. The tins can be kept in a pocket and most of the materials are stored inside it. To light the stove all that is required is alcohol and a flame. The st

Travel & Places: Graham Treats

Graham Treats

A camping recipe from David. Here's a simple treat that the kids will love. These can be messy in hot weather, so be ready to lick some fingers.

Travel & Places: The Thrill of Minimalist Camping

The Thrill of Minimalist Camping

Has anyone ever told you that less was more? Well, they were not just telling you some cryptic, sensei type response, they may have been on to something. We are going to talk about just ...