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Tips, tricks, booze, food, entertainment
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Molera State Park, California
Camping and hiking
- Campground showers: how to shower in three minutes
- Finding campgrounds and campsites
- The best camping gear
- Close the lid! Pit toilets explained.
- Moab’s Sand Flats Recreation Area takes the prize for worst toilet in the US!
- Trail booty
- Hiking etiquette
Money
- The best checking account for travelers, vagabonds, and dirtbags
- Tips to save money: open the right bank accounts
- Tips to save money: reduce your monthly expenses
- Tips to save money: at lunch
- Tips to save money: brew your own coffee
- The five fixed costs of our year-long road trip
- Four ways to buy books cheaply
- Our long nightmare of the American Dream is over! Or, why buying a house is not always the best idea for everyone.
The unpack.
Technology
Stuff
- The ultimate packing list — what you need (and don’t need) for a year on the road
- What did you do with all of your stuff?
- Why it’s hard to purge our belongings
- 6 things I don’t really miss
- The serendipitous book theorem
The van
- Adding a platform bed and window screens to our Toyota Sienna
- Meet our Toyota Sienna, Rocky
- Blogging at 70 mph
- Our Toyota Sienna has an identity crisis
You want a piece of the Dollar Knife?
For entertainment purposes only!
- Hooters: the business expense
- Beware of the dollar knife!
- How to prepare for a desert hike
- “At the end of the West is insanity”
- How Raoul Duke would explain our trip to a naysayer
- An ode to Waxie Toilet Paper
- The road crazies
- Getting the road crazies in Kansas
- Travel nightmares
- The Bug Bar at Tate’s Hell
Spirits
- Why whiskey is the best travel booze
- Ancient Ancient Age 10 year
- Beam Rye, utility whiskey
- Edward Abbey’s Magic Tea
- Old Crow Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
- Old Malt Cask Ardbeg 1992
- Old Overholt Rye Whiskey
- Ole Smoky Tennessee Moonshine
- Queen Jennie Sorghum Whiskey from the Old Sugar Distillery in Madison, WI
- Ten High Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey
- Thankful for Scotch
Yum…
Wine
- Boxed wine investigations:
- The $5 California wine challenge
- Paso Robles wine tour:
- Sonoma wine tour:
- Walla Walla, WA
We’re learning: to prevent your camp stove from blowing away, simply place a large rock on the unused burner.
Bars/Booze/Beer/Etc.
Cooking and Food
- Cooking without a kitchen
- Camping recipes:
- How to make motel continental breakfast waffles
- An ode to hot dogs: America’s greatest food
- If you could eat anything right now…
- Unboxing the Taco Bell Doritos Locos Taco Supreme
- The burger challenge: Culver’s vs. In-N-Out
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