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My son has one of those off-road types of motorcycles, that can be ridden on the highway; but is also good for puttering along through the woods and up into the mountains. He just posted a video on Youtube of a camping trip that he took up into the mountains of north Idaho, and it seems to me...

My daughter has been on vacation in Costa Rica this week, and she has been posting some beautiful pictures of some of the places she has been and the things she has been doing down there. The scenery is beautiful, and they are close enough to be wading around in the ocean, and also close enough...

Since I started wearing my Fitbug Orb about a year ago, I really have developed a love for the little critter ! Now, whether I am doing yard work, or shopping for groceries at the local Kroger supermarket, I am also EXERCISING! You know, when you visit your doctor for a checkup, one of the main...

I have discovered something that I just love, and want to share it with everyone. I am not sure if other countries can use this or not; but it is good for the United States, and probably Canada as well. We have Amazon Prime, and order a lot of items from Amazon, and I recently learned about...

I just watched an interesting tutorial video about using fresh-picked pine needles as a survival food if you are stranded out in the woods and have nothing to eat. Pine needles are actually full of vitamins, although it might take quit a bit of munching to keep you with enough calories to...

My daughter came over this last weekend, and she brought me something called a "GoTenna". It is kind a tech little gadget that helps you use your cell phone almost like a CB radio when there is no cell service for whatever reason. I am not exactly sure how to explain it, but basically, it is...

The other day I ran across this video on the internet that seems to show a pteranodon, which are supposed to have been extinct for eons. When I checked out the video, it turned out to have been taken in Idaho, which is where I grew up at. This was taken near Boise, in southern Idaho, and that is...

It seems like most of the Inland Northwest is on fire, and has been for a good share of the summer. I had intended to make a trip out west sometime this year with my friend Ina, and show her how beautiful north Idaho was, and introduce her to my friends and family out there. However, there is...

I had no idea that there even was such a thing as a camping app; but apparently there are. It looks like they could be very helpful if you were going camping at a regular campground, or even if you were going on vacation and planning on staying at campgrounds along the way. Years ago, I had a...

This is a super easy way to shuck the corn off the cob, and you do not even get any cornsilk left on the corn when you do it this easy way. The instructions are for RV campers who would have a microwave in their camper; but the idea should work just as well for corn cooked in a barbeque, or the...

Maybe there really IS a Hollow Earth? This magnificent hidden forest/jungle complete with rivers, beaches, and all the greenery you could ever want is deep inside an 87 mile long cave in the Vietnamese mountains. A river has worked its way under a mountain, carving skylights and valleys as it...

Flying squirrels are totally amazing ! ! I have heard of them before, but I am pretty sure that we don't have any of them around this area. I found this amazing video of one, and it is totally awesome what this little squirrel is capable of, and he just makes it look so easy. If you have...

This is an actual recording of a lady that called in to an early morning radio talk show, to express her concerns about the danger of deer crossing the roads and especially the freeway where traffic is heavier and faster. She relates how she herself has been involved in accidents with deer, and...

I used to always take my camera along when we went camping with the kids. Back then, we had to have film in the camera, and be careful not to get any light into it, and not let it get wet, or even close to water. Now, I have my iPhone, it has what is called a "Lifeproof" case that will protect...

There will be about 45 asteroids coming past the earth this month, another 25 due in February, and 15 in March. We just went through a meteor shower earlier in January, but this is different from that. These are the kind that hit Russia a year or so ago. The largest one, which is due to zoom by...

I was always taught to build a campfire in the conventional manner. We made kind of a little tee-pee with the tinder on the bottom in the center, and then larger twigs stacked up around it like a tee-pee, and then the largest pieces of wood leaning against it from the outside. Sometimes, we did...