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3 Ways To Find Free Camping On Vancouver Island Without Reservations

3 Tips To Find Free Camping On Vancouver Island Without Reservations Vancouver Island boasts some of the most spectacular camping spots in the world. The big Island boasts ocean beaches, forests, and mountains dotted with beautiful lakes and rivers. It’s really no wonder that the island’s provincial and national parks fill up fast in Summer. …

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New Article! Heat Your RV Safely, Without Using Propane

https://campersmarts.com/cheap-heat-system-keep-your-rv-warm-this-winter-without-propane?utm_source=CSNEWSL In this new article on Campersmarts, I’ll tell you how you can safely heat your RV with electricity, even if you have a propane furnace. Heat Your RV Safely, Without Using Propane https://campersmarts.com/cheap-heat-system-keep-your-rv-warm-this-winter-without-propane?utm_source=CSNEWSL

Forest River R-pod Chronicles – Waiting

Forest River R-pod Chronicles – Waiting Well, my trusty Blue (the XTerra) hobbled all the way home like the champ she is. Lucky to have a brand new wheel bearing in just a few days on the little XTerra, it was now time to turn my focus on to the Arfpod, the Forest RIver R-Pod …

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RV Travel On Canada’s Secondary Highways

RV Travel On Canada’s Secondary Highways Well, I admit it: I’ve been a crappy prairie travel blogger this year. I only hope you’ve been keeping too busy with your own summer adventures to notice. Haha.. Anyway, I want to start this post off by telling you why I love travelling the many secondary highways around …

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Camping At Manning Park

Camping at Manning Park I’m writing this from beside a beautiful and boisterous creek, full of last winter’s melted snow in Manning Park along Highway 3. After minimal difficulties, I managed to get the trailer backed into the site. I am finally getting much better at backing the Arfpod into the previously too narrow campsites …

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Week 3 Without Facebook

Week 3 Without Facebook I quit Facebook almost 3 weeks ago, as a temporary measure after 15 years to save my sanity when Russia went blitzkrieg on Ukraine. I continue to find life without Facebook just fine, so I will continue for longer out of Meta’s insatiable grip. It’s been 3 years since I settled …

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Chanterelle Mushrooms Pasta Sauce

Chanterelle mushroom season is upon us here on Vancouver Island. That means I am taking my travelling companions into the forest to reap this golden chanterelle bounty. If you need help identifying chanterelles, click here for a great article. You should always double check with someone in the know if you aren’t 100% sure. You …

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Saskatchewan Camping: 3 Amazing RV Campgrounds

Saskatchewan is probably the last province you think of when it comes to truly great RV camping. This is probably thanks to the flat, endless, boring views afforded from the main routes across the province. Saskatchewan actually has some of the most amazing campgrounds I have stayed at. A lot of these are regional campgrounds, …

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The best RV Laundry Hack

I’ve wanted to try this idea I had for an easy, affordable RV laundry hack for ages. Since it works while you travel, I decided to try this hack on my RV adventure across Saskatchewan this week. I have to admit I have never been this excited to do laundry. The initial experiment resulted in …

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Grilled Mushrooms Recipe:

Grilled Portobello Mushrooms I’m excited ’cause it’s almost mushroom season on the coast. This is another amazing vegan recipe that anyone will love, even if you don’t do plant based. This delicious grilled mushroom recipe is made with portobello mushrooms, but trying it with bolete mushrooms is on my culinary bucket list. The secret is …

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Bannock: The Best Recipe Ever

Are you ready to have something better than bread for breakfast or a sandwich?   When you are camping do you want to feed your kids something more nutritious than a hotdog or marshmallow, that can be roasted on a stick or even in a pie iron over a campfire?  Well, don’t panic, there’s bannock! 

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RV LIVING WITH DOGS: 7 tips to make life easy

The Truth about RV Living With Dogs When I first started on this journey, I was warned “those dogs will wreck your trailer”. I thought “what a ridiculous statement”, as I looked at my 4 amazing dogs who had never before shown any aptitude for destroying anything, except maybe breaking some hearts. I realized I …

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Stuff: A Paradox In Drayton Valley

“The robb’d that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.” William Shakespeare, Othello Stuff: A paradox in Drayton Valley When I started this journey a year and a half ago, I did so with the idea that RV living would be a temporary adventure until I found a …

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