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Cooking with Grandma’s Cast Iron: Part 3
Cooking with Grandma’s Cast Iron Part 3 Once the cast iron is ready how do I keep it that way? As a child here in these Ouachita mountain’s I discovered that there were some pretty cool secrets to be gleaned from a visit...
Cooking with Grandma’s Cast Iron: Part 2
Cooking with Grandma’s Cast Iron Part 2 Refurbishing, seasoning and maintenance Because of it’s very nature, our much beloved cast iron cookware can get a light haze of red rust on it before you know it. Especially here in the...
Cooking with Grandma’s Cast Iron: Part 1
Cooking with Grandma’s Cast Iron Part 1 I found Grandma’s Dutch Oven in storage all rusted up, now what? Every time you saw it while in storage, it put a smile on your face as you remembered those delicious treats that Grandma’...
Oliver Canadian Tour Update 2015
Oliver Canadian Tour Update The first couple of days out of Hohenwald Tennessee home of Oliver Travel Trailers, we put in some longer days behind the wheel. Our thinking was that we were close enough to the factory that most folks in...
Boondocking Part 6
Boondocking Part 6 Fresh water / Black water handling techniques Use of gravity to transfer fluids under boondocking conditions is not practical in many campsites. A couple of transfer pumps can make moving fresh water and black water...
Boondocking Part 5
Boondocking Part 5 Extended stays and support methods When you are in your favorite primitive campsite and the ranger comes around to say that your twenty eight day stay will be up tomorrow, and you immediately think, “so...
Boondocking Part 4
Boondocking Part 4 USFS / BLM / USCOE and some differences therein Boondocking in these areas is a very cool thing that allows us to enjoy Mother nature’s splendor in a up close and personal way. However each of those agencies have a...
7 Updates for Making Your Travel Trailer Efficient
7 Updates for Making Your Travel Trailer Efficient Living the free life and communing with Mother Nature all seem delectable until you are swarmed with mosquitoes, run out of fuel or fresh drinking water in the middle of...
Solar Battery Charging Part 1
Solar Battery Charging Part 1 After reading Larry Harmon’s preliminary announcement of this upcoming entry on solar, I only hope I can come close to delivering what he deemed it to be worth. As I stated in my introductory post,...
Boondocking Part 3
Boondocking Part 3 Stretching your resources Just suppose that it is a holiday weekend, one of those cool three day holiday’s. You are used to boondocking for Friday night, Saturday and leaving back to civilization on Sunday....
Boondocking Part 2
Boondocking Part 2 Boondocking in it’s strictest form, without support. Many RVer’s perceive that this means staying camped in their chosen location as long as the stuff that they bring with them lasts. And often times...
Boondocking Part 1
Boondocking Part 1 WHAT IT IS AND SOME OF IT’S FORMS Boondocking comes in many forms, so it’s not likely that we will be able to cover them all in this brief writing. So, let’s talk about the most common types of boondocking...
My American Dream Trailer: It’s No Longer an Airstream, It’s the Oliver
My American Dream Trailer It’s No Longer an Airstream, It’s the Oliver For those who don’t know me, I am ScubaRx on most of the travel trailer forums including Oliver’s. Over on the FGRV forum I am Steve Outlaw. I hope to...
Digitally Speaking
Digitally Speaking Sometimes we can get a surprise from the Oliver’s ability to do cool stuff on it’s own ! Well, maybe at first it is a bit disconcerting, enough that we think, what, why did it do that ! It’s like it has a mind...
Oliver Owner Review
Oliver Owner Review A proud new owner has a GREAT REVIEW of their new Oliver Travel Trailer they picked up in February. Check out their review and other post on their Wincrasher’s Travels blog. Wincrasher’s Travels: My New...
Winter 2015 Oliver Tour draws to a close
Winter 2015 Oliver Tour DRAWS TO A CLOSE Lots of miles and lots of weather ! Little did we realize that as we ran ahead of the ice storm when we left Edmond Oklahoma, that wave after wave of winter freezing precipitation would...
Ice Storm Winter 2015
Ice Storm Winter 2015 As Betty and I ran ahead of the ice storm to hole up in our docking port, I thought about how such a serious weather event was handled in different parts of the United States. This week the New England States have...
Island Camping with Ollie
Island Camping with Ollie Absent With Out Leave! As our last appointment of the day was over, at Mathis Texas, and we took measure of what we needed to do next, we came to a startling discovery ! We were ever so close to the...
Sacrificial
Sacrificial Today’s fuel efficient design’s for RV’s and indeed trailer’s in general, are prompting the use of aluminum frames for strength, rigidity and weight reduction, that will result in the owner reaping fuel savings. ...
Decision Making 101
Decision Making 101 Years ago, while back in the “work a day” world, on a day off, I was working my way through a chore list, on the farm. One of those chores was to worm the small herd of Brangus cattle, that included a young Brangus...
